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Mouse Resort
“A few weeks ago, I decided to clean out some drawers. My son’s desk was the first target, because I had no idea what was in there. I opened the first drawer with a flourish and was surprised to find a pile of shredded newspaper. And, hey. There was the slipper I’d lost. And a mitten. And a Twizzler. And, peering out at me from a nesty place in the paper, two bright little eyes,” says Heather Heath Chapman for the Ann Arbor News.
“It turned out that my son had hidden some Halloween candy in his desk, and the mouse had been enjoying a resort-style life deep in the drawers. When we evicted him, we found a tiny toy bunny stashed among the sweets and shreds — a mouse’s little friend, perhaps.”
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Unlikely Friendship
Despite people commenting on the use of cats to scare away mice, one person replied to the Ann Arbor News article saying, “Cats? My two boys think mousies are their friends. I was vacuuming and scared up a mouse who jumped *out of the cats’ toy basket* where it had been snuggling in amongst their playthings. A welcome house guest, no doubt. So when I see the two of them closing in on a spot in the kitchen I know they aren’t hunting. They are eagerly awaiting their next play date.”
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A Cup of Poisoned Tea Anyone?
“Our mice would store acorns under pillows and in shoes. One year Dad got tired of the mess and put out d-Con. When we returned there were few signs of mice and there was no d-Con left,” begins Margaret Berg, commenting on an article in the Chicago Tribune.
“We had a big old-fashioned tea kettle with a spout. I made instant coffee in the morning and tea for the thermos. Later in the day, I went to put on the kettle for more tea. Something rattled. Lime deposits? I swished out the kettle to find what looked like puffed wheat. The mice had stored the d-Con in the tea kettle. I had made coffee and tea, twice, from poisoned water.”
“We got in the car and went to the emergency room. They were experienced with kids sampling mouse poison. Blood tests showed we were all OK, but we should avoid dentists for a few days and go to the doctor if we started to bleed. The emergency room nurse asked, ‘Don’t you rinse out your tea kettle before filling?'”
“We went back to traps. This year they shredded six rolls of toilet paper and left acorns in the medicine chest.”
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