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Default Mice like avocados!


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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
>>> from the basement.
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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?'
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> You mean like this: http://i41.tinypic.com/23hoq2u.jpg
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Close. But they were both outside.