On Sep 8, 2005, at 2:53 PM, Jim Jarvis wrote:
> For the next 4 years, we were overrun by field mice, and had
> to have an exterminator treat the place with poison baits each
> year. Often wished I'd have been more hospitable to the snake!
> Or knew where to get a replacement.
Get a cat. They eat a lot more than the snake (snakes only need to
eat every 1-2 weeks), will catch rodents just for the sheer joy of
it, and are much nicer as pets.
Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
-- Wilbur Wright, 1901
Jeez, Bill, NOW you tell me!
'course, my labrador retrievers might have objected to the cat,
but you're quite right about the need-to-feed for snakes. The
apparent saving grace was....there was a family of snakes...and they
readily went through the mouse-holes in the basement walls. Cats
couldn't go there.
Water over the dam, in any case. And the labs were but spectators
in the adventure. I particularly enjoyed it when they chased one
of the snakes down the hallway to my office, off the entrance foyer.
:)
n2ea
jimjarvis@ieee.org
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