zzaaaaapp!!!!! an update!

ding! dong!
one mouse dead. probably about two hundred more to go (i wish i were joking).

rat zapper's online support was wonderful: after the one who got away (as mentioned in my previous post) i contacted the fine people at rat zapper and have been emailing with a nice woman named cathi for a larger part of the day. she was asking me questions like,

"Was the red light flashing as well as the bait missing with your missed kill?"

"Was this your only missed kill?"

"Could the back of the unit have been touching anything metal?"

and then she got ever-so-gradually more personal with her correspondence:

"I use four Rat Zappers as well as 10 lazy cats and am well aware that those of us who battle rodents want them gone yesterday."

and

"There is a possibility that the metal contact could have an effect. I occasionally get this sort of grounding with my electric horse fencing which is lots of fun when the horses figure it out and escape.

Regards,
Cathi"

i love people like cathi. they are the types of peeps that make me want to leave new york and relocate somewhere where people just want to interact kindly with each other...where people actually give a shit about customer service and other people's problems. but i digress....

i moved the zapper a little further away from our metal metro shelving, threw in a couple of wheat thins and flipped the switch.

lucky for me, after the deed was done, i called our sweet landlord and he was here in a jiffy to dispose of our dead friend (bdub is out of town for the next two days). i fear that for the next kill, i am on my own! eek!