Homestead mailing list

[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On May 30, 2008, at 5:08 PM, Lynda wrote:

> C - A - T - S !
>
> They keep away the mice, the rats and those nasty, evil, *#&$^%#  
> ground
> squirrels which do even more damage to wiring than the mice do!

Yeah, lots of cats. Alas, I can't get cats until someone is here full  
time.

This reminds of our animal protection progression here: I was bitten  
by a rattlesnake, so we got cats to keep down the mice, which keeps  
down the snakes. Then a cat was taken by a bobcat, so we got the dogs  
to protect the cats. The bonus was that Dax and Benny tag-teamed the  
armadillos and Dax one-crunched them to the tune of forty-five of them  
before I stopped counting. With Dax now gone the armadillos are back  
in force.