Re: vacation.....HA!

I agree Marge...I think they're cute too...around here they call them "deer mice" because of the fawn color and big, big black eyes. I've caught several in my house and we kept them over the winter cause there was no place for them to go in the ice (we had three months of solid ice). I have a cockatiel and I fed the mice the same bird food and Cheerios. They loved it. When spring came, I released them. I was sad. They are so darn cute.

Jesse Rene' Bell
Claremore, OK
Zone 6


From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt@hort.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Subject: Re: [CHAT] vacation.....HA!
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 01:34:06 -0400

Actually, I think field mice are cute as all get out.  They're the
ones with huge black shoe-button eyes and little pink rubber eraser
noses - fawn color with lighter tummies.  Raised a couple of babies
once and hated when it came time to release them....voles are NOT
cute.  I have never had any plant damage from field mice and there
are tons of them around here...voles is another story; many a tulip
gone; many a lily lost; many a hosta with the guts eaten out of it,
etc., etc.   Field mice eat mainly seeds and some insects and
possibly some fruit, I think - of course, if they get in the house,
they'll eat bread crumbs and other stuff if they can find it.  Voles
eat roots, bulbs and rhizomes.  I have NOTHING good to say about
voles...

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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> From: Donna  <justme@prairieinet.net>
>
> Hum.... will have to check out the tail. Once it stop raining, I
will go
> out and see if I can have her move the family again... this time I
will
> be ready with a camera:)
>
> Guessing I will be heading to the store for some mouse traps...
what do
> you bait it with?
>
> Donna
> >
> > It your cute critters have long skinny tails and are small- they
are
> mice
> > If they have short stubby or no tails- they are voles.  Major
varmits.
> > Mice
> > traps kill both.  My husband was so upset when I was setting
traps for
> > these
> > at our old house.... until they devours, killed his favorite
plants.
> Then
> > he started resetting the traps too.
> >
> > (P.S.- they multiply like rabbits...)
> >
> > Theresa
>
>
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