[lace-chat] Invading hordes...

[Martha Krieg]

A slight exaggeration ---- I hope.  For the past six weeks or so, 
I've been aware of mouse-in-the-house syndrome (and it hadn't even 
started to get cold yet). I first found them in the 5-gallon plastic 
bin in the basement with the cat food; a yard sale provided a 
stainless steel breadbox, which laid on its back with the shelf 
scooted down made an effective place to keep that.....  In the past 
couple of weeks we've now caught six of them - four quite small, two 
much larger. I don't know whether we have two varieties, just natural 
sex differences in size, or grown-ups and children.  The open cereal 
is now in Boy Scout popcorn tins (no sign they'd found it, but it was 
only a matter of time)... they seem to like the cozy dark spaces 
under the refrigerator and the stove, but obviously roam the counters 
and stove top as well...  Clearly, the 21.5-year-old cat is no 
deterrent at all, as I've seen them flit from one place to another 
while she was in the same room and neither of them seemed aware of 
the other. Can't get another cat until this one dies - it would be 
just too traumatic for the old one....
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Martha Krieg   [EMAIL PROTECTED]  in Michigan
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