Deb Lewis

***If you get mice in your kitchen will you decide their right to live
there is as great as yours?
If not, what will you do?***

Two stories! A woman on the MontanaUnschoolers list (who might be here
too?) found that a mouse her cat killed had babies under her sink. She
tried to save them, fed them breast milk from teeny little bottles. I
they didn't survived, but not for lack of trying.

My sister found a frost bitten mouse in her shed and moved it into her
house, in a box, and nursed it back to health She now has quite a
lovable pet mouse with a peg leg. Not really a peg leg, just a little
stumpy leg where it's frost bitten foot fell off.

I think mice have as much right to live as I do, but I don't think they
have as much right to live in my house as I do. <g> I've only had one
mouse and we caught her in a live trap and let her go in the field across
the river.

We're the people take spiders outside so the cats won't eat them, or to
the basement in the winter so they won't freeze. (So they can grow huge
and come back upstairs later)

When my husband cleaned the basement I told him to be sure not to vacuum
in the corner where the funnel web spider lived and to watch out for the
little camel cricket that always hung out by the dryer. He said , "You
know honey, most people clean their basements to get rid of those
things." <g>

What was my point? OH! That if mousicide is distasteful there are
other (very strange) options. <g>

Deb L

Kathy

We, too, do not kill insects that we find in the house. In our
bathroom cabinet we have two Dixie cups labelled "Life Preservers,"
and we use them to capture our unwanted guests and transplant them
outside.


--- In [email protected], Deb Lewis
<ddzimlew@j...> wrote:
> ***If you get mice in your kitchen will you decide their right to
live
> there is as great as yours?
> If not, what will you do?***
>
> Two stories! A woman on the MontanaUnschoolers list (who might be
here
> too?) found that a mouse her cat killed had babies under her sink.
She
> tried to save them, fed them breast milk from teeny little
bottles. I
> they didn't survived, but not for lack of trying.
>
> My sister found a frost bitten mouse in her shed and moved it into
her
> house, in a box, and nursed it back to health She now has quite a
> lovable pet mouse with a peg leg. Not really a peg leg, just a
little
> stumpy leg where it's frost bitten foot fell off.
>
> I think mice have as much right to live as I do, but I don't think
they
> have as much right to live in my house as I do. <g> I've only had
one
> mouse and we caught her in a live trap and let her go in the field
across
> the river.
>
> We're the people take spiders outside so the cats won't eat them,
or to
> the basement in the winter so they won't freeze. (So they can grow
huge
> and come back upstairs later)
>
> When my husband cleaned the basement I told him to be sure not to
vacuum
> in the corner where the funnel web spider lived and to watch out
for the
> little camel cricket that always hung out by the dryer. He
said , "You
> know honey, most people clean their basements to get rid of those
> things." <g>
>
> What was my point? OH! That if mousicide is distasteful there are
> other (very strange) options. <g>
>
> Deb L