Those thieving, pesky little rodents have been chowing down on my store of apples in the shed. I knew there were mice about in the shed as Jester (next door's killing machine cat) has been known to show an enormous amount of interest in that area, and has actually been seen with a 'kill' from behind the shed too. When I stored the apples away I fully expected at some point in the winter to find the odd tooth-mark or two, or even a few nibbles out of the apples, what I didn't expect was that they were chomping away with such gusto that the whole apple would disappear, just the apple-shaped newspaper being left (and a ton of mouse poo!)
I hope you can see the evidence in the photo above.
I find it all somewhat disturbing as this was by no means the only apple to have totally vanished - I should think the little swines have got through at least a dozen, maybe more - God knows how many mice are actually calling our shed home. And, more worryingly, how long will it be before they look for pastures new and follow Maurice into the house!!
As Topcat probably would have said "don't you just hate those mieces to pieces!" What a shame to lose so many of those lovely apples.
Posted by: Heather | 02/26/2008 at 12:31 PM