On Wed, 1 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Matthew unfortuately wrote:
> >We use cats as target practice,
>
> Matthew, dear, as a person with a mouse problem, I think you'd better
> reconsider your attitude and adjust accordingly. Most of us GIT's
> like cats and keep several. Something *could* be arranged.....
Traps work. Of course, you really want to check on the traps at least
weekly, or you can end up with dead rodent odor, which is rather
unpleasant. And there are few things worse than coming home for Christmas
and being sent down to find the dead beastie that's been stinking things
up for the past couple of weeks. (I think it's worse than finding the
dead mouse in the TV box you're supposed to pack a TV in that evening, and
*that's* pretty bad. At least on the TV box, I'd developed a bad enough
rodent allergy by that time that I could make other people deal with
disposal of the corpse.)
Aside from my mouse horror stories at my mother's old house, the only
really bad rodent problems I've had involved squirrels. One of them was
brought in dead by a dog that didn't understand why my sister and I didn't
appreciate it.
Julia
