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.