Wednesday, January 09, 2013

If You Give a Mouse a Muffin

If you give a mouse a muffin, he'll come back after the bananas.

We've had mice several times through the years. A few years ago one had taken to traipsing through our dish cupboard each night and leaving unmistakable evidence of his travels. The only thing edible in there was a stick of butter on a saucer, and we quickly learned to keep it covered with a glass bowl until the eventual purchase of a handy dandy butter dish.

Now that our butter is safe, the resident rodents must find other victuals. Since there were no cookies to be found on the trafficked counter top, the most recent visitor helped himself to a hefty portion of pumpkin muffin. The ziplock bag was no deterrent. Hannah was bitterly disappointed when she found her breakfast tampered with, and I removed all food sources from said counter.

A former blog friend had mice earlier this year and the intruder had a banana fetish. Well, guess what? This mouse also likes bananas. I think perhaps he has an Australian accent.

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  1. Oh dear. We've been there before...two families at one time when we were catless. ha. What a mess to catch them. We didn't have any banana lovers, though!

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    1. I guess having a live one (He'd dead this morning...) isn't any worse than fining heads and innards left on the carpet by a cat.

      I've never had a banana loving mouse either. Maybe it's the same one who got into my apple box back in the fall.

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  2. HaHaHa...that's sure one advantage of having cats. We never had a mouse problem up North. So far, we haven't had any here either.

    Muffin and banana...that mouse has good taste!

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    1. Knock on wood. ;)

      We have two cats and two dogs, but every once in a while there is a mouse who thinks he can outsmart all of us.

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  3. Freeze, mister mouse! Now place your hands where I can see them and slowly back out of the banana.

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  4. Can't outsmart me haha right Marty

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  5. That was me by the way

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  6. We too had this problem a few years back...
    We finally had someone in who put professional traps...within a few weeks they were gone...
    The funny thing is...we have NEVER had any at the cottage, altho our neighbours have...

    Cheers!
    Linda :o)

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    1. They probably either have better access to the interior of the neighbor's place, or a more readily available food supply. We have cats and every so often we still have a brave mouse or two who takes a chance and makes himself at home anyway.

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