[AG-EQ] Don't be so hasty JB!

[dogwood farm]

Jewel,

You need to let your rodent friends know that you will set up a
feeding station elsewhere if they will agree to stay out of your
house!

Susan

On 7/6/20, Tracy Carcione via AG-EQ <ag-eq at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> That's a great answer!
> Tracy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AG-EQ [mailto:ag-eq-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jewel via AG-EQ
> Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2020 9:51 PM
> To: Agricultural and Equestrean Division List
> Cc: Jewel
> Subject: [AG-EQ] Don't be so hasty JB!
>
> I was lulled into a sense of false hope when, for the first two nights of
> putting the scrummy blocks
> out for my uninvited and unwanted guests, and having them wolfed down, and
> then for three nights,
> said yummy blocks were left untouched, I got the impression that they: said
> lodgers  were gone, but
> last night, without touching the food I had, so thoughtfully, put out for
> them, they had a right
> royal dash and bash on the table, and the kitchen bench:  at long last,
> Pearl has found small
> droppings indicating that they are mice or baby rats.  The lidded plastic
> salt container was on the
> floor:  a tin of ointment was on the floor:  mixed vegetables were on the
> floor:  goodness knows
> where they got hold of them as the only mixed vegetables that I am aware of
> having are, safely, in
> the fridge.
> I had doubts about the effectiveness of the KiwiCare product from the very
> first time I used it.  I
> said that being "Kiwicare" if the rodents brandished valid Kiwi passports,
> they would be given the
> freedom of the tabletop, and now, it seems, the kitchen bench without any
> threat to their
> wellbeing!!!
> I rang Mitre10 to exchange the new box of KiwiCare bait that I had just
> bought for a different sort,
> so tomorrow night:  M10 only deliver on Tuesdays and Thursdays, we shall
> see
> what the outcome is.
> When arranging the swap, I asked Andrew, without expecting that he could
> give an answer:  why was it
> that I was surrounded by intelligent animals?  firstly, Guideon and now a
> horde of unnamed rodents.
> To my surprise, he was able to answer my question:  "Perhaps, they are
> attracted to intelligent
> people!!!"
> How was that for an "off the cuff" answer?
>          Jewel
>
>
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