Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Vermin!!!
We have mice. They are always plural, I’m told – the only reason to have a singular form of the word is for fantasies like Mickey. Haven’t seen the mice themselves, but they’ve left little mouse turds all through the kitchen drawers. Blech.
We’re pretty sure they’re coming up from the basement. Despite all my caulking and re-pointing the mortar and so on, it is probably about as permeable to mice as an indoor-outdoor shopping mall is to us.
Now I know they’re just trying to make a living like the rest of us, but I’d just as soon they did it somewhere else.
We have a trap set, of course, and it’s one of those humane ones. If it works, which it hasn’t yet, it sweeps the mouse into a holding container, then we take the whole thing to a patch of woods a few blocks away and release it. Of course, a few days later, it’s likely to be back, at least according to research.
The mice, and the ivy that’s growing through the dryer vent, make me realize how little time it’s going to take after our species is gone for the whole thing to be completely transformed. And we’re not even in the fecund tropics, fa cryin out loud.
We’re pretty sure they’re coming up from the basement. Despite all my caulking and re-pointing the mortar and so on, it is probably about as permeable to mice as an indoor-outdoor shopping mall is to us.
Now I know they’re just trying to make a living like the rest of us, but I’d just as soon they did it somewhere else.
We have a trap set, of course, and it’s one of those humane ones. If it works, which it hasn’t yet, it sweeps the mouse into a holding container, then we take the whole thing to a patch of woods a few blocks away and release it. Of course, a few days later, it’s likely to be back, at least according to research.
The mice, and the ivy that’s growing through the dryer vent, make me realize how little time it’s going to take after our species is gone for the whole thing to be completely transformed. And we’re not even in the fecund tropics, fa cryin out loud.
