Ruminatorial

Friday, January 06, 2006

Zombie Rats!

Spy photo from noon today.

Take heart, rodent lovers, it's not a single mouse that can be eliminated, but a horde of mice!

Yesterday, after sending mouse #1 on to the next world, I sensed another furry presence in my pantry. Yes, the "mouse" I've been battling is actually "mice". The natural assumption was a pair of mice, happily raising mouslings in a nest somewhere.

When I got back from practice, mouse #2 was dead, horrifically smashed in a trap. Whew!

But, as you know, there is at least one more mouse yet at large in my pantry. And this one is the bold, not very afraid of me mouse. Time to buy more traps!

However, I ask you, are those mouse ears? Please tell me this isn't a rat infestation! Edit: I have often been told that round ears means rat, and pointy ears means mouse (thus Mickey, living in Orlando, is a...) but this is apparently false. Indeed, large round ears are a trademark of the house-mouse.

posted by Jeff @ 12:23 PM

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Previous Posts

• RIP, little grey mouse.
• Close Encounter of the Rodential Kind
• Box Wine
• Rodent Update
• Albuquerque and the Mouse
• No Results
• There's a Mouse in the House
• Dinner
• Building the Floor
• Another place I'll miss

PS, don't you think everyone's blog needs to have those little + and - signs to turn on and off different moods? If someone who normally blogs clear, intelligent, insightful posts suddenly feels the need to be maudlin, they can't do it without being "out of character". And some people might like to know what you're reading, while other people can't read. So I propose little buttons labeled things like "literary", "work", "happy", "pathetic", "left brain analytical", "right brain wacko", etc., that the viewer can click to turn on and off posts in those categories. Turn them all on, get a view of the person's whole life. Or turn on only your favorite aspect and get the lovely person you wish they really were.