[TowerTalk] critter comments

[Jim Jarvis]

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 at 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 at ieee.org