09-14-2013, 05:05 PM
RB, funny story about the mouse. They get smarter through the generations and may rule the world someday since it appears that mankind gets a bit dumber as we go along....
Not to top your story, but when we lived in Wickenburg, mice weren't a problem but pack rats were. We had put out bait and they would take it and store in under the hood of the truck. Rattlesnakes were also a problem and one day we came home to be greeted by a rattler that didn't look too well. We could see a lump about halfway down it made noises but couldn't move fast enough to do us any harm so I was able to chase it away with a hose spray. It got part of the way down the hill and that was it. Our conclusion is that the pack rat ate the poisonous bait and the snake ate the rat. Now the kicker to this story is that when we went down to pick up the snake a few hours later, the only thing left was it's head and rattlers. It was food for either the coyotes or the turkey vultures. If it was a coyote, then the vulture would have gotten it and we would have wiped out a while food chain. :o Now you know why we don't live in Wickenburg anymore.
Not to top your story, but when we lived in Wickenburg, mice weren't a problem but pack rats were. We had put out bait and they would take it and store in under the hood of the truck. Rattlesnakes were also a problem and one day we came home to be greeted by a rattler that didn't look too well. We could see a lump about halfway down it made noises but couldn't move fast enough to do us any harm so I was able to chase it away with a hose spray. It got part of the way down the hill and that was it. Our conclusion is that the pack rat ate the poisonous bait and the snake ate the rat. Now the kicker to this story is that when we went down to pick up the snake a few hours later, the only thing left was it's head and rattlers. It was food for either the coyotes or the turkey vultures. If it was a coyote, then the vulture would have gotten it and we would have wiped out a while food chain. :o Now you know why we don't live in Wickenburg anymore.
Don (ezdays) Day
Board administrator and
founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD
Board administrator and
founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD