Heroic deeds

[Paolo]

Well, yeah, I get the occasional wood roach (or water bug as they call 'em) here, and I've also got smoosh marks on the walls and rug, too...damned if I'm gonna feed 'em!

hehe

[JesusA (imported)]

Well, yeah, I get the occasional wood roach (or water bug as they call 'em) here, and I've also got smoosh marks on the walls and rug, too...damned if I'm gonna feed 'em!

hehe

Yeah! But should a stray kid show up, you know who's gonna care for it and feed it.

We'll probably be visiting the Mall of America during the Minneapolis MOM. I fully expect to turn around at some time and find a dozen or more kids following Paolo. They all understand....

[jemagirl (imported)]

I really like mice, but I worry our cats would love them

The poor little critters would most likely die of fright before the cats actually get a chance to finish them off.

Once there was a lizard in the house, but all they got was the tail, which they were both afraid of and fascinated by.

Jema

[wolfpuck (imported)]

i remember those lizards that would drop their tail behind and run, leaving the lil tail wriggling around. i don't mind killing those water bugs though. they look too much like oversized roaches.

[markdf (imported)]

I really like mice, but I worry our cats would love them

The poor little critters would most likely die of fright before the cats actually get a chance to finish them off.

Once there was a lizard in the house, but all they got was the tail, which they were both afraid of and fascinated by.

Jema

A zoology student I know once gave a mouse to the class python. They would catch wild mice, right, so that they could stuff them (apparently stuffing a mouse was part of the curriculum). One day they had an extra mouse, so she gave it to the snake.

The next morning, the snake was dead and the mouse was running around in circles, trying to get escape and get away from the dead snake. Turned out it had bitten off the snake's nose (which is fatal for many snakes).

No doubt, mice are much more clever and tough than people give them credit for. Not that I'd bet on a mouse versus your cat -- even the tamest housecats are still phenomenal predators when they feel inclined to try.

[wolfpuck (imported)]

true, cats are might hunters. i had a few cats i raised from kittens. tricky buggers. if i ever locked them outside they'd find a way in. i'll never forget the first time one came in through the air vents... i heard the scuttling in the vent and was thinking that had to be one big rat, then when the vent cover was pushed up i freaked out and jumped atop the bed in a panic, when Willow popped her head through i called her a bitch and petted her, gave her a treat or two.

[wolfpuck (imported)]

A moment of Silence for the dearly departed. i awoke this morning and wandered into the bathroom. to my horror, there sunk to the bottom of the water was one of my three mice in the toilet. I knew from the lack of movement that it was deceased and scooped him out. he was burried today at 1:10 pm behind the trailer and named "krull the destroyer" his partners Whiskers and Snuffles still roam the trailer. I believe it was the same one i pulled out of the water a while back, they seem to stick to their territorial areas in the trailer. whiskers is still here by the computer desk and spare room, and snuffles still wanders the kitchen. Krull... you will be missed, even if you used to wake me up every morning with your chewing in my room and occasionally darting acrossed my back while i slept. the times i rescued you out of the wooden hamper because you couldn't jump that high to get out... i should have woken up early for a morning leek and discovered you treading water but no, i slept in till 11 and you slipped away. may the mouse gods grant you joy in wich ever afterlife mice have.

[jemagirl (imported)]

I'm so sad to hear Krull hased passed away. I hope he is in mouse heaven.

Hugggggs

Jema

[wolfpuck (imported)]

thank you Jema, but now whiskers has passed on. i came home from work and there he was laying by my computer desk dead. i burried him outside under a tree. havn't seen Snuffles for quite a while either. i think i'm alone now, maybe i should get a gerbil or a hamster.

[Paolo]

Looking through some old pics, I once had an obese pet-shoppe rat; a large hooded rat. She was even housebroken. She would go back to her one corner of the cage to potty every time. I used to let her run loose in the bedroom, until she chewed up a good blanket. She died of a heart attack about 5 years ago during a thunderstorm that sent a non-touchdown tornado overhead.

My condolences on your mouse dying, even though I think wild rodents who "come in" aren't good pets.