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From: "Josephine Grieve" <>
Subject: Re: [FOLKS] Thoughts on scampering
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 04:15:30 -0400
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Jane, that's hilarious. I can't top it but the house I am in now has a
wrought iron fence to keep the dogs in. The house come with squirrels who
come up to the fence, sit on their haunches, put their hands on their hips,
stick out their tongues and do raspberries to the dogs, who , of course, go
wild with frustration and bark their heads off, much to my dismay. This
has nothing to do with genealogy other than I'm in a huge old house built in
1904 that I am restoring to its original condition :-)

Jo in Michigan
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Subject: Re: [FOLKS] Thoughts on scampering


>
> > 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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