We be Smarter than Mouses

This morning I brought the mouse traps that I bought yesterday after seeing the mouse mocking Petey. I'm not sure about the one in the house, but there is one in the garage and Petey and Gypsy are after it now. It took them all day yesterday to notice it and they've been tearing up the garage looking for it ever since. I put one trap under Leroy's EZ-chair in the living room and the other in the garage near the stairs. The traps have been smeared with peanut butter and are ready for neck breaking. Its not so much the damage that mice can do, but the damage the dogs can do looking for the mouse. Yesterday Howard moved the horses to the back field behind the stables, between the lake and the ravine. When I got there last night, all the horses were hanging out in the corral next to the gate going to the front field, though. I walked them around the lake to the back field and saw some snarling grey wolves waiting for them. Maybe they weren't really wolves, but they were sneaking through the bushes looking like they were up to no good. I'm not sure what they were, but the horses didn't seem too worried, so I left them there. This morning the horses ate quickly and then hoofed it to the back field, but later they all came back to the stables...maybe to avoid the rain, or the wolves. Tonight I'll check the traps to see if I got any mouses. Mice are smarter than cats, especially the Tom Cat, so it might not be so easy. If anything though, it has given Petey and Gypsy a common interest so they can work together, and taken the boredom from them for awhile with Leroy being gone.