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Oly Oval sets traps for mouse in house
By Stephen Speckman
Deseret News staff writer
KEARNS — Any mice who have taken up mouse-keeping at the Utah Olympic Oval are skating on thin ice.
To make sure the little rodents aren't a problem during Olympic events, pest control specialists have been hired to strategically place 50 small bait boxes around the oval environs.
That may be 49 bait boxes too many.
"Someone saw a mouse," said Linda Capson, owner of L.A. Capson, doing business as Mouse Lady.
One mouse doesn't necessarily mean the building has a big problem, but when you've invited the world in for the evening, it's no time to find there's a mouse in the house.
The Salt Lake Organizing Committee asked for a discount on the $11 traps, but Capson stayed firm.
"I told them, 'Well, we don't give discounts to the housewives, and they're probably tighter for money than you are,' " she said.
Upon delivery of the boxes, Capson's husband, Gilbert, was met at a gate but not allowed inside to place the bait.
Mice go into the boxes for poisoned food, then normally leave the building to die. In the 20 years Linda Capson has been peddling bait boxes out of her Salt Lake business, she's had problems with only five boxes — otherwise, they're effective. So if any mice are hoping to make their mark as mice on ice, they probably won't squeak by.
Linda Capson said the problem most likely is a few displaced mice looking for food and a warm place. Construction and winter weather often send mice indoors.
E-MAIL: sspeckman@desnews.com
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February 17, 2002
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