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update on my "mouse in the loft"
"Rodger Whitlock" wrote
snip My guess is that either they crawl under the door (perhaps 1/4" clearance) or up the outside of the building and in through an open window. Since the outside of the building is rough cedar and shingles, this isn't impossible. snip Comments? Reducing the gap under a door to 1/4" or less is the textbook recommendation for proofing against mice. They wriggle under doors etc. by flattening their ribcages, BTW. I've seen film footage this and of a mouse scaling a 20' vertical brick wall in remarkably quick time. They are also very adaptable to new environments. There is a fascinating account of a colony which established itself in a very large freezer store (in London, England, I believe). Within a very few generations and living solely on frozen produce with no free water present, the mice had adapted to their surroundings. They nested in the packing material and grew longer and denser coats than normal. (The infestation didn't say much about the vigilance of the staff who worked at the freezer store, however). - Tom. |
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