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Default No mice for breakfast!

Andy wrote:
> gloria.p said...
>
>> Stu wrote:
>>> On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:56:24 -0500, Andy > wrote:
>>>
>>>> No mice for breakfast!
>>>>
>>>> Left a hunk of cheese in the mousetrap. No takers!!!
>>>>
>>>> I'plaletm beginning to wonder if they're smarter than I am!
>>>
>>> Try foie gras, they may have a more discerning palate.
>>>

>>
>> Peanut butter works fine when we get "visitors". I've caught them in as
>> little as 10 minutes after the trap is set.
>>
>> Last fall when it first got cold we had quite an infestation. When we
>> cleaned the garage shortly after, we found they'd eaten an entire 5# bag
>> of sunflowers seeds we keep for the birds. No wonder they were so
>> prolific! Within two days our dainty Tonkinese cat had caught 2 and the
>> trap caught 8 more. No sign of anything since but the trap remains set.
>>
>> gloria p

>
>
> I once put a big squirrel (rat) trap in the driveway and guess what? I
> trapped a tiny field mouse!
>
> Andy


Not exactly a mouse meal
But this just in as reading the NG
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...section=justin