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| | (Original Message) | Sent: 11/16/2008 6:59 PM |
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| | | From: STAR | Sent: 11/16/2008 7:02 PM |
...deleted due to tooooooo many typoes... lol Mice! They were so prevalent here when this place was 1st hacked out of the woods that we lost a lot of sleep and I live trapped them by the sheeer hundreds, to take far away & release: then 3 summers ago, thrifty adult mice were observed staggering around in bright sunshine ( not a mouse's favorite thing, dontcha know ) and dying of a seemingly neurologic condition. This summer, for the 1st time ever, no mice stormed the camp, trying to break in. I got to sleep every night during the usual mouse wars week.... no mice. No mice at all. I couldn't interest any biologists in my observations... so I just watched & worried about the foxes, coyotes, owls and all else that depend on mousie parts for their existence: the food chain was broken & it frightened me some. But then in October, I saw a few young ones.. today, I'm seeing hordes of them again and there's mouse doo in my storage boxes that are kept on the enclosed back porch... mouse doo, mouse piss, mouse nests in everything and everywhere!!! Yesssssss! Things are back to normal and the rest of my woodland critter neighbors will fare well this winter. |
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been there done that got the tshirt lol lol went around the house with a huge box of steel wool and filled in every dayum hole........usually this time of year I'm seeing droppings in all my drawers etc.........havent seen one not one!! their favourite place of entry was the dryer vent.........seems they can squish their little bodies into any holes!! |
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| | | From: PeeJay | Sent: 11/16/2008 8:16 PM |
I'm not nearly so glad to see mice as you are. |
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lmao star!  Did you ever figure out what was going on w the mice? Glad to see them back! mw |
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| | | From: STAR | Sent: 11/16/2008 9:46 PM |
lol There are no mice in our house! Never have been. I live trapped them on the porch and there is one week every late August when they make me crazy & 'sleepless in Maine' trying to GET in... they swarm all over the building, chew, scritch, run & rattle... They ARE however, in the back porch, the tool shed, the wood piles, the generator.... lol No, MW... never did. |
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| | From:  Byondb1 | Sent: 11/17/2008 2:30 AM |
lol Are they on the ice cube trays? |
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to my way of thinking its a sign of an early and cold winter better double up on your wood there StAr |
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We don't have mice round here durin the summer month's...the skitter's tote'em off...now bout the time the temp drops they start showin up cause the skitter's is gone...makes sense don't it?  ...I feed'em peanut M&M's and they get fat and can't get in the house!!! |
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| | | From: STAR | Sent: 11/17/2008 11:09 AM |
lol @ Gr! I couldn't afford the ammount of peanut m&m's it would take! lol Not yet Anna, not yet. Next month, when I set the cube trays on the porch table to freeze, they'll begin their sliding parties, dragging their lil mouse hinies and skillery skallery tails across the cube trays... h'mmm... shall I allow them bonfires this year? |
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| | | From: STAR | Sent: 11/17/2008 11:11 AM |
Never been more ready, Witch... let er come! |
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Never seen anyone so happy to see mice around the house...cept maybe the cat.  ...buuuuuttt...if it makes you happy Starry, it makes me happy. Hell, maybe I can send you mine. |
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Yeah, they are prolific little critters aren't they Star. I'm not sure but what I may have had to sit and count my blessings in their (mice's) absents...would have considered their lack of signs, sights and sounds to be a bit of a god-send.lol |
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| | | From: STAR | Sent: 11/18/2008 7:03 PM |
It's not for them that I'm ecstatic that their numbers are recovering... they bother the hell outta me! ...their dying off was scary as it wasn't anything I could understand and they are a HUGE link in the food chain.... something in nature was sick, it seemed... but now I realize it wasn't a man-made cause, I'm feeling much better about it. |
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