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>>> "Jean B." > wrote in message
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>>>> Andy wrote:
>>>>> Mice like avocados!
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>>>>> 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.
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>>>>> Why couldn't it walk onto the mousetrap that was right there?!? Maybe
>>>>> I should add a bit to the baitless trap.
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>>>>> 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!!!
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>>>>> Andy
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>>>> Interesting. My squirrels and raccoons don't seem to like vegetable
>>>> matter. I might have been tempted to extrapolate tio mice.
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>>> 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.
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>> Probably not, but I'll bet you get some from the fields around you that
>> get brought home as 'presents' from some of your cats.
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> Nope, my cats never go out. But ever so often they'll gift me a corpse
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I wish I still had the picture. Mom's cat got out. He met a deer. Just the
look of each animal was priceless-about 6 inches apart-looking at each other
like 'WTF are you?'