I have a mouse problem in my back yard. At least I think they’re mice. I don’t know how to tell the difference between a rat and a mouse. Anyway, I’ve tried poison but I don’t know how effective it is. Even after I put the poison out, I continue to see evidence of the mice.
A week ago, there was a dead mouse in my back yard. I’ve seen a cat around, so I wondered if that’s who got it. Then a couple of days later, while I was drinking my breakfast, I saw the cat out my window. It was carrying another mouse in its mouth. And yesterday I found a second dead mouse. Yay! I think the cat has declared my yard its territory and is now regularly hunting there. But I wish it would take the dead mice with it instead of leaving corpses strewn about my garden.
I took a wide angle picture of the two mice because they aren’t very pleasant to look at. Actually, the old one’s fur is coming off by now, so it doesn’t look so bad, but the newly dead one is just starting to lose its shape because of all the bugs, so it’s kind of gross right now. Anyway, the mice are in the white circles in the picture below.
Um, perhaps you should should consider putting some benches in your garden, since it’s turning into a cemetary for animals. Yeah, some tiny little benches for the families to come and remember their loved ones.
What do you mean you don’t like corpses strewn about your garden, you MAKE the corpses!
(Yes, I took the bait.)
Post a picture of the cat!
My thought exactly!
MORTUARY! MORTUARY!
(poor meeses)
(… said in a Quasimodo voice)
Wait a minute – who doesn’t know how to tell a mouse from a rat?! But in case you do need help telling them apart, note my abbreviated dictionary of reodents below:
Rats – bigger, uglier, not so fuzzy and cuddly…like mice on steroids
Mice – smaller, cuter, occasional cartoon heroes (cite the Tom and Jerry series)
Voles – pointy-nosed with tiny eyes, teenier than mice overall, front paws angled and clawed like moles
Your new best friend neighbor feline is surely carrying dead mice or voles TO YOU (dead rats would be too big and heavy for its jowls, nicht wahr?)out of honor and respect and FEAR. It must have heard about all the deceased lagamorphs and is paying homage to avoid a similar fate…like throwing a virgin into a volcano to appease the gods, I think.
i HEART cats! They always save the day!