On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 12:03:20 -0000, Mary Fisher wrote:

When I showed my grand daughter, 8yo, the paper that had been used
by our "visitor" and the gnaw marks in a mars bar she took fright.

I wonder why? Such a little thing compared with even an eight year
old.

Most odd, maybe she hadn't realised that mice have teeth and very
effective teeth. Or perhaps the nibbling of "human food" rather than
"mouse food" upset her, young children can have a very black and white
world view.

yet are happy enough to walk alongside or cross a busy road risking
several hundredweights of metal hitting them.

Make that over a tonne for the average car, 20cwt+...

A house mouse was killed in our Ratzapper last night. I'm not
frightened of mice but don't want them in the house.

I don't want them in the house because of the damage they cause.
They'll nibble anything, cables, pipes you name it. I also don't want
them wandering over the kitchen worktops where we prepare food, they
leave a urine trail or finding their way to our food stores...

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Cheers
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