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Default Mice like avocados!


"Jean B." > wrote in message
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> Andy wrote:
>> Mice like avocados!
>>
>> One chewed through the netting and ate up a a large marble sized hunk of
>> avocado. This was the second time in about five years.
>>
>> Why couldn't it walk onto the mousetrap that was right there?!? Maybe I
>> should add a bit to the baitless trap.
>>
>> So I lost an avo. I put the others in the bread box drawer AFTER making a
>> green death tuna salad sandwich with potato chips and a tall glass of ice
>> cold milk. I will not be outdone by some slick country mouse!!!
>>
>> Andy

>
> Interesting. My squirrels and raccoons don't seem to like vegetable
> matter. I might have been tempted to extrapolate tio mice.
>
>

last I checked peanuts and all nuts are vegetable matter.. so is bread.
Mice will eat avocado because of it's high fat content. And I always
thought Andy had cats... obviously not mousers... no mouse would live long
enough to take two breaths in my kitchen.