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Murders in the Rue Cuisine, Part 2
Oct. 7th, 2020 07:48 amFollowing up on this post...
Two or three days ago I opened the dog food barrel to give the dogs their dinner, and found a dead mouse on top of the dog food. This is at 5 PM; it hadn't been there at breakfast time. Which means the incident took place in daylight (when we don't normally see mice at all). And whatever phenomenon put the mouse in there left the lid on the barrel. (The lid is just a sheet of thin plywood placed on top, not fastened in any way, but it still needs to be positioned.) I guess the mouse could have chewed a new hole in the side of the barrel, then in the plastic liner, then swum up through six inches of kibble rather than just eating it, then reached the surface and died of exhaustion....
I threw out the mouse and a scoop of kibble from where it had been. Haven't gone so far as to throw out the whole barrel full of kibble.
Two or three days ago I opened the dog food barrel to give the dogs their dinner, and found a dead mouse on top of the dog food. This is at 5 PM; it hadn't been there at breakfast time. Which means the incident took place in daylight (when we don't normally see mice at all). And whatever phenomenon put the mouse in there left the lid on the barrel. (The lid is just a sheet of thin plywood placed on top, not fastened in any way, but it still needs to be positioned.) I guess the mouse could have chewed a new hole in the side of the barrel, then in the plastic liner, then swum up through six inches of kibble rather than just eating it, then reached the surface and died of exhaustion....
I threw out the mouse and a scoop of kibble from where it had been. Haven't gone so far as to throw out the whole barrel full of kibble.
