Carolyn CordonMousey, Mousey, Oh So Sweet
March 30th 2009 01:24
I never thought the mouse population would be of such interest to people out there in the internet world.
Morgan Ball sent me a message on Facebook, which led me back to thinking about the time, about fifteen years ago when we had an actual mouse plague. There wasn't just a mouse in the kitchen now and then, there were mice, five or more running across the floor in front of the TV at night, or even sitting on top iof the TV sometimes.
The dogs were had back then started out as keen hunters, but by the end, they ignored them as much as we did. Except, my husband couldn't ignore them completely. It was his task, every morning before work, to clear out the dead mice from the swimming pool. He was getting about fifty mice, every single morning when the plague was at its worst.
He couldn't just leave the mice in the pool because the pool filter would/could have overheated, leading to something bad burnt out motor or worse. I'm trying to remember exactly when the mouse plague in the mid-north of South Australia happened. I think it was around 1992/1993.
I do know why it happened - there had been a good year for the crop farmers, and then there were huge damaging rains. The grain crops were pounded down to the ground, and they couldn't be harvested. The farmers had to just leave it all on the ground, and the mice had a feast and then an orgy, resulting in many, many baby mice being born.
Then the weather got cold and the mice looked for warm places to live in, so they moved into people's homes in huge numbers. My husband and I had only lived out in the country for about five years then, having moved out to the sticks from a suburb of Adelaide. The mice in that numbers were only legends as far as our experience went. They were more than legends when they moved in to our home in such numbers, they were the ENEMY!
So anyway, when I ramble on about the cute little mice in the kitchen now, I do think of them as cute little creatures, not the enemy. If they ever come back in plague proportions again, at least it would have meant the farmers have had some good rains.
Mouse plagues have come and gone, I can remember a school trip back in about 1973. I was from the suburbs and the trip was to a pig farm out Woop Woop, and there was a mouse plague happening then. Picture a busload of squealing schools kids, trying to get over the terrible smell, and leaping over scurrying mice. What fun for us all!
Ya gotta look at the bright side.
Morgan Ball sent me a message on Facebook, which led me back to thinking about the time, about fifteen years ago when we had an actual mouse plague. There wasn't just a mouse in the kitchen now and then, there were mice, five or more running across the floor in front of the TV at night, or even sitting on top iof the TV sometimes.
The dogs were had back then started out as keen hunters, but by the end, they ignored them as much as we did. Except, my husband couldn't ignore them completely. It was his task, every morning before work, to clear out the dead mice from the swimming pool. He was getting about fifty mice, every single morning when the plague was at its worst.
He couldn't just leave the mice in the pool because the pool filter would/could have overheated, leading to something bad burnt out motor or worse. I'm trying to remember exactly when the mouse plague in the mid-north of South Australia happened. I think it was around 1992/1993.
I do know why it happened - there had been a good year for the crop farmers, and then there were huge damaging rains. The grain crops were pounded down to the ground, and they couldn't be harvested. The farmers had to just leave it all on the ground, and the mice had a feast and then an orgy, resulting in many, many baby mice being born.
Then the weather got cold and the mice looked for warm places to live in, so they moved into people's homes in huge numbers. My husband and I had only lived out in the country for about five years then, having moved out to the sticks from a suburb of Adelaide. The mice in that numbers were only legends as far as our experience went. They were more than legends when they moved in to our home in such numbers, they were the ENEMY!
So anyway, when I ramble on about the cute little mice in the kitchen now, I do think of them as cute little creatures, not the enemy. If they ever come back in plague proportions again, at least it would have meant the farmers have had some good rains.
Mouse plagues have come and gone, I can remember a school trip back in about 1973. I was from the suburbs and the trip was to a pig farm out Woop Woop, and there was a mouse plague happening then. Picture a busload of squealing schools kids, trying to get over the terrible smell, and leaping over scurrying mice. What fun for us all!
Ya gotta look at the bright side.
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