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Subject: Re: [FOLKS] Thoughts on scampering
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 10:49:45 -0400
In-Reply-To: <001101c26cdf$c9381d80$657ef50c@attbi.com>


> YES!!!

> But for any of the rest of you who would like to read my Mouse Saga in
> installments, it will take only two of you to let me know and it gets
> posted to the whole list! :-)

I'll second that motion.. <g> I'm in Michigan too, Jo, and at our old house -
AKA "The Zoo" - we had raccoons in the attic, ground hogs under the
foundations, possums in the dining room and skunks with bladder problems
in the crawl space - that was on top of mice & chipmunks!.. The raccoons
dug their own way into the upper reaches through one of the unused
chimneys, but everyone else got in through the ground hog tunnels.. The
possum, who we named Pogo, showed up one evening in the dining room
eating out of the cats' bowl. When discovered, he ambled back down the
basement stairs, jumped across into the crawl space and we quickly shut
the basement door and kept it shut from then on.

Before that happened, the cats were allowed the run of the basement
because of the mice [this was an old farmhouse - probably built over 125
years ago]. Sparky, our younger cat, got out through those same ground
hog tunnels and brought live chipmunks back into the house. You haven't
lived until your cat drops a very active chipmunk almost in your lap!..

The skunk was another story - she denned up for the winter under our
bedroom and every once in a while let loose.. We tried everything to drive her
out.. mothballs down the access hatch, ammonia poured down there, but
nothing worked until the spring thaw when the tunnel access flooded and she
emerged with about 5 babies.. I'm happy to say that the house we moved to
soon after that didn't come with any wildlife other than the occasional field
mouse out in the garage..<g>

Jane Devlin
Lake Orion, MI

Records from CT, MA, & MI + family lines:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/

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