On 7/22/2014 5:39 PM, Christina Websell wrote:
"toci" wrote in message
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Maybe if there's one mouse, there are more. Toci

He caught it in the garden and brought it in through the open back door..
There are lots of mice out there but even he cannot catch two at once;-)
No chance of house mice here.

I didn't have a cat at the time, but I once lived in a house where there
was some construction going on a couple of streets over. (New home
building.) This drove the field mice out of their usual habitat right
into the existing houses. My bag of cornmeal was eaten through; pretty
much any dry goods, in fact. The kicker was when I found one climbing
the shower curtain in my bathroom. I knocked it into the tub and
managed to scoop it into a shoe box and toss it outside. I'm sure it
came right back in. They find ways.

One night I was sitting in the den watching television when I saw
something out of the corner of my eye. There was a teeeeeeeeny tiny
mouse sitting on the fireplace hearth. It was so cute! It ran off
through a tiny hole in the panelling on the wall. I promptly blocked
that off.

Still, I couldn't have mice in the house. I set traps. In one night, I
heard the traps snap seven times in a row. It wasn't pretty nor was it
particularly humane, but I refuse to live with mice in the house.

Where I live now there aren't any mice. Marsh rats, yes. But they
don't come inside. The hawks and other predators catch them.

Jill