>...but mice? Since when did they like nice shinies? The indigenous rat in North America is the wood rat, sometimes know as the Pack Rat. It does collect shiny things, and sometimes exchanges one it is carrying for a better one it finds.
The skinny tail common rat is an immigrant that came over on the first ships, and all subsequent ones. The wood rat is brown, a little larger than an eastern chipmonk and has a bushy tail. Louise in Central Virginia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
