Have you seen field mice scurrying across the floor in the 5 / 6 hallway? If you were going to Art or any other classes, you probably have! When you see the mice do you run and panic or try to walk up to them? Even though they may seem cute, they are making messes and eating trash from the floor. 

The school is handling this by putting traps near the dumpsters and making the teachers take extra precaution with keeping doors closed.

“It enables me to release them outside far away from the building so they can live their little mouse lives,” Mr. Jim Gregg, art teacher says about his no-kill mousetraps. These mouse traps work by having a chute that you put food in, then you lock that in. Next, you open the door on the other side and a mouse will wander in it, smelling the food. As they walk toward the food the weighted trap will close the door, trapping the mouse.

The no-kill traps may work temporarily,” but we need a long-term solution, but traps will almost definitely work.

“You don’t know what germs they’ll bring in,” Mr. Griffith says about the mice regarding health concerns. Even though they mainly only stay in the 5/6  hallway they are still causing a lot of trouble. 

Because they are always hiding, the janitors have been helping by trying to fill holes in the wall. It seems that everybody has to do a part to fix this mouse problem!  The school has been incorporating snap traps in places with little to no traffic so that the mice can be taken care of and nobody gets their fingers trapped. In conclusion there are a lot of mice in the 5/6 hallway and there are many different ways the school is working on it.