To any who have read the "dog in elk" classic -- this one is comparable -- had me rolling.

Like they say, it's funny because it's true...

http://www.news-information.muskoka-ontario.com/so-muskoka/mice.htm

-- Tracy (trimmer31@hotmail.com), November 04, 2001

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Great reading! Thanks for posting it, Tracy. Very funny!

-- Cheryl in KS (cherylmccoy@rocketmail.com), November 05, 2001.

I laughed so hard I had tears rolling! We grew up in an old farmhouse that was infested with mice. We had rats and possums, too. Oh, the stories I could tell about mouse hunting!

-- Jo (mamamia2kids@msn.com), November 05, 2001.

That's really funny cause I was just watching my two inside cats walk around the kitchen "listening" for mice. I know we have them in the walls cause we hear them. One year, a mother mouse gave birth somewhere. She couldn't get in the kitchen but her babies did! I had five little buggers running around. Now, Tippy the cat never saw a mouse before so he laid down by the table to watch them play! Oy vey! DH was gone for the week and regular mouse traps didn't work as the babies were too small. What a week that was!

-- Ardie/WI (ardie54965@hotmail.com), November 05, 2001.

I have a little terrier that is a great mouser...except when there are baby mice. She loves babies of any kind, and that includes mice. With over a dozen cats, we don't see mice too often, but down in one barn we occasionally get a mouse who will have a litter of babies in a place inaccessible to the cats. I call my dog and open the "mouse house" up to her, then she sits and whines and licks the babies. Argh!

My funniest "mouse" story was not actually a mouse, but a little shrew in the yard. We came home from town one afternoon to find our one house cat out in the yard playing with this TINY shrew. As we came over to see what was going on, this little shrew stood up on it's hind legs, spread out it's little arms and THREATENED the cat, even jumping toward her. Well, the cat more or less laughed at the idea of this shrew attacking her.....until the shrew jumped up, bit her on the nose and hung on for dear life. The cat went nuts, trying to shake this little godzilla off her nose, but to no avail. We finally had to rescue the cat! (Yes, we did reward the shrew for it's bravery and turn it lose.) Cat has never recovered from the humiliation.

-- Lenette (kigervixen@webtv.net), November 05, 2001.

Ahh Soo . . . the mouse hunt. Am a long time veteran of these campaigns; fight them nearly every time I go to the ranch house to spend the night. Snake skin, obtained naturally or possibly at a pet shop, nad left near their 'runs', works for mouse free environments for quite a while. In my experience, anyway.

Great story, Tracy, thanks for the link!

-- j.r. guerra (jrguerra@boultinghousesimpson.com), November 05, 2001.