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House Mouse

I like mice.. really. I think they are cute. I do wish I could have some rat companions someday but right now I don’t have time for them, plus my dogs and cats would probably think they were part of their raw diet.

Our house has mice. We try to not have food accessible to them, all our dried beans and stuff are now in bins they can’t get into. But sometimes I leave mostly empty bags of chips (I know I’m not supposed to eat chips!) on the upper shelf in the basement and they get the crumbs. Or they carry off ice cream sticks (my husband saw one carrying one off a bit ago) into the nooks and crannies of our house.  Our cat, Phoebe, stares at the walls a lot. And once we heard some scurrying in the ceiling in the basement, and something fell.. it was a half eaten almond. I’d bought some nuts in the shells and apparently the mouse dropped it while fleeing. Our cats are not, apparently, very good mousers!

We have a ton of nooks and crannies.  Our entire basement has holes into the walls. We need to finish it up but it’s one of the zillion things we need to do with our house and it’s not going to happen anytime soon.

I don’t really mind living with mice. However, I don’t like that they might carry disease. And I don’t want them eating all of our food. But I’m not willing to put down horrible mouse traps. We have a live trap but so far no little mousy has wandered into it. Oh well, not sure what we’d do with the little guys anyway.

So mice, please go away.. even though it’s cold outside.