But some mistakes, having been survived, are just clearly there to be learned from. Like, beware of humans giving away free peanut butter.
Here we have the (rather fuzzy, sorry) south end of a very dead three-legged mouse. On a couple of occasions I’ve had mousetraps tripped with no mouse in them, and on at least one tripped trap there was a bit of a mouse that had a very bad night, though not quite as bad as they get for mice around here lately. I’d say chances are it was this mouse right here.
Tell me true: Having survived that, would you ever look at another mousetrap as anything remotely like an opportunity? I mean, given that you weigh less than an ounce and have no thumbs and so ten-foot poles are out of the question?
Seriously. Despite clear objectives, adequate resources and overwhelmingly superior numbers, there is a reason mice do not rule the world.
Indeed… I guess the same could be said for various other critters… but I have no intention of going into any details on line anywhere, for obvious reasons. sigh
think of it as evolution in action……
It’s funny to me that animals that theoretically are no smarter than a mouse are much, much harder to trap, because they have not become habituated to people the way mice have, and therefore seem to consider anything with human scent on it very suspect.
Martins, minks, weasels, beavers… all of them will avoid a trap with human scent on it like it was contaminated with bubonic plague…
They are ruling your world. And the world of anyone who has to deal with rodent damage. The time you spend on rodent control is time you can’t spend on life improvements (making a vegetable garden, building safer steps to your door, reloading). The money you spend on peanut butter and traps is money you don’t have for food and ammunition for yourself. The food waste alone they cause worldwide in a year would feed starving and dying millions. The cost of the deaths and disability from the diseases (including bubonic plague) they carry and the damage they do to wiring and wood would fund massive infrastructure improvements like clean water and medical care. And the cost of repairing the damage they did that you know about just to the JEEP could have funded the needed siding and other improvements for The Lair. Ruling the world can take many forms – anything that diverts resources from maintenance and improvements to that world rules it (for example the costs associated with dealing with Muslim issues and illegal immigrant issues). Just because rodents don’t hold a gun to your head doesn’t mean they aren’t ruling your world.