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Default Mice like avocados!

brooklyn1 wrote:
> "Jean B." > wrote in message
> ...
>> 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.
>

Point taken. How about greenery? That doesn't cover it, but I am
out of time tonight.

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Jean B.