Topic For Debate

[Wilma]

Resolved:  That it takes longer for a long, lean mouse to get through a hole than it does a short, fat mouse.

[Judy Harder]

Probably depends if  cat is chasing him...........and You gotta do what you must to survive.

[larryJ]

Also depends on what you are using for "de bate."

(Sorry...........couldn't let that one go by without a witty retort.)

Larryj

[Wilma]

I fiigure that the short fat mouse gets stuck in the hole and the long lean mouse has to find another hole so they both get through at the same time.

[W. Gray]

When I lived in Mulvane, south of McConnell AFB, many years ago, I had a mouse invasion one year. I trapped 24 mice in a very short time before calling an exterminator.

He found a colony living under the air conditioning slab and they were somehow getting into the house. He told me that a mouse could maneuver itself through a quarter inch size hole. I have always doubted that but maybe it is true.

One of the 24 mice I caught was running in the basement. I was on my way to spend two weeks in Indiana on reserve duty. I took after it with a broom but he was to fast. I then dropped a bucket over it and then could not figure out how to lift the bucket and capture him. So, I just left the bucket where it was and left for those two weeks. 

After I returned, I went to the basement. Right away I could tell from the odor that was a bad mistake to leave a bucket over a live mouse. Even had to throw the bucket away.

After the exterminators visit, though, I never had another problem.