1. About a week ago while Tia was out on an errand with the kids (I was home alone), I crossed the hall into the kitchen, and when I arrived, I heard a small, high, but loud “EEEK!”, and in the same instant a smallish brown blob (for all I could see) darted from the wall above the stairs very fastly past my boots and made a BANG sound thumping into the folding door in front of the dryer – but that was the last I could see of the mouse.
When I told Tia, she made sure the traps were still set (they needed resetting). We caught the mouse a few days later, and released him the same as the first. I was going to bring the video camera for this but discovered its battery needed recharging, so I couldn’t capture the event. However, it wasn’t as exciting – the mouse was larger, dark brown, and moved more like a squirrel – again past my boots on escape, only much more slowly. Since it was slow I wonder if it was the same mouse I heard shriek ..