Mary Fisher23/2/04 9:25
"Jack Hammer" wrote in message
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On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 22:10:28 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:
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(Always set mousetraps facing the wall too.)
Why trap them? It does not cost much to feed them well and they do one
hell
of a lot less damage than cats.
I've had a box of rare books trashed by the little *******s......
They spread crap everywhere and thereby, diseases.
Try keeping your house a little cleaner then. Most of us would spot
mouse shit long before the messies started chewing our books.
I must admit that I thought the same ...
Mary
Did you? Well then I will you that this is a particularly silly remark,
frankly. Our house is as clean as human habitation can reasonably be, so is
that of our elderly neighbour-across-the-churchyard, who is also our only
close neighbour.
I will admit that neither of us actually go into our attics with the bleach
and the vacuum cleaner twice a week - in her case this might be because
she's 86 - in ours it's because nothing in the world would get me up there
but nonetheless, both households get mice in the attics and it is those we
deal with. We've had mice die underneath floorboards (this is a Victorian
house of substantial construction so there's plenty of space down there) and
no, I don't bleach or vacuum the space under the floors, either. Tut.
Books, any papers or fabrics stored in a box anywhere suggests they are not
often looked at or easily accessible and to insult someone by suggesting
their house isn't clean is a pretty low way to score a point. Actually, it's
an exceedingly low way to score a point but perhaps not surprising.
We are in the depths of the countryside and surrounded by farmland, with a
farm and its buildings not far away. We have mice and rats on the Nursery
because they just love the shoots of young plants (very recently we lost 4
seed trays of tomato plants) and we have a company that comes in every 6
weeks during the breeding season to put down bait. Perhaps you think we
should bleach and vacuum the Nursery tunnels and glasshouses, too - perhaps
you think we don't keep them 'clean enough'?
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Sacha
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