You’re about to see some ookey photos; you might want to just skip this post unless horrifying mouse death doesn’t bother you. Zick, you’ll probably be happy just to see mice anywhere but your dryer....
I warned you...
Yesterday I was getting some birdseed for the babies when I noticed a grotesque site: there were (gulp) two dead mice in the feeder! I didn’t take a picture of this (didn’t have the camera) until after I dumped them out and washed out the feeder:
What the--? The birds must've just eaten the seed as it came down, and these guys were just trapped in there. EEWWW!!!
Then I looked at the birdseed I'd scooped. That's when I screamed a little and dropped the scoop. There was another dead mouse in the scoop!
It didn't take a Science Chimp to figure it out: There are mousies dying in my birdseed bag.
EEWWW!!!!!!
Hello? (icky!) Hello in there?
I don’t see any holes in the bag; did they just climb in and then couldn’t get out? It’s like when I found that mouse trapped in the empty beer bottle! EEWWW again!
(I’m shuddering as I type this. I warned you it would be el creepo.)
I’ve put the seed in plastic containers before, but the mice always graw their way into those. I think I’ll have to buy one of those shiny metal trashcans; that might keep them out.
EEWWW!!!!! Has this ever happened to you?
9 comments:
I don't have quite that disgusting a story, but we have a little raised bed we made in our back yard, where last year we grew tomatoes and cucumbers.
I was cleaning it out this past spring and found three dead mice. One mouse had a quarter-sized hole in its head.
We didn't plant tomatoes this year.
Eeew is right but such are the ways of nature.
Thanks for presenting it in all its raw and often gross beauty.
One must take the eeew if one is to take the ahh fully!
After all, to just take the ahh would leave the glass half empty.
At least INMO.
Peace to you. And no more eew for awhile, you've done your good deed.
Aaack! Get yourself a metal can :o/
We keep both the birdseed and the dogfood in a metal trash can. Some one left the lid ajar once and I scooped a dead mouse into the dogfood bowl! EEEK!!
Glad to see I'm not the only one who's encountered this (ahem) problem. Splotchy, why did it have a hole in its head? No, wait--don't tell me!
I think the metal trash can will do the trick.
I'm freaking out. Rodents scare the wee out of me.
Any chance that the mice were in the bag when you bought it?
Big question, what killed them?
I had a bag of corn for the squirrels and opened it the other day to see it crawling with bugs. Now that grossed me out.
Happily mice are not a problem here. They live in the fields and allow me to live without them.
Wow, Beth, I never thought of that... but I think these mice were probably hanging out in the basement. Maybe they died of thirst? (ew) Now I know why Clawsie, my mouse-loving-killer-cat, has been trying to escape down to that part of the basement. She must hear them down there or something.
I've never tried to serve my birds long-dead rodent. What an innovation, D!
You might start a trend! The "Mouse-O-Matic"!
Go with the metal cans...they work.
: )
Post a Comment