Though originally calling it forgettable and “not very funny,” Don Squigley has developed a stronger appreciation for the movie Moust Hunt after spending 
several frustrating weeks trying to deal with his own mouse problem.
“It’s been almost a month now since I first heard scratching behind my fridge and but no matter what I do, I can’t seem to kill this mouse,” said Squigley, adding: “I really have a new found empathy for what the characters in that movie went through.”
According to reports, Squigley has spent over $86 on various rodent traps, ranging from the iconic spring-loaded-bar model, which featured heavily in the 1997Nathan Lane vehicle, to more advanced sonic-based devices.
“I have this one where you put some peanut butter inside this little dome and when the mouse goes in to get it, it supposedly gets trapped inside. And I’ve got a whole bunch of these sticky-tape pads, though I hear they aren’t very humane because the mouse will chew off its legs to escape. I just don’t care anymore though. I’ll do anything to get rid of this god-damned mouse.”
Though the 38-million dollar, Gore Verbinski-directed film wasn’t a hit at the box-office and failed to win over critics, Squigley suspects it would be a different story if more movie-going audiences knew first hand how plausible the films plot really was.
“Remember in the movie where they have mouse traps literally covering the entire floor and the mouse sets them all off with a cherry — well, it’s not that far off. Seriously, I have so many mouse traps set up I don’t know how it could possibly avoid them all. And sometimes one or two of them I find discharged with the food gone.”
Four of Donly's ineffective mousetraps.
In the film’s climax — which at the time seemed silly and lacking any real laughs but now packs an emotional whollop — Nathan Lane’s character ends up levelling his home in a last-ditch effort to kill the mouse. When asked if Squigley would go to similar extremes, he responds:
“No, I’ll probably just tell my landlord to hire an exterminator. But wouldn’t it be amazing if it turned out to be a real weird guy like Christopher Walken’s character in the movie?”
