A Better Mousetrap
Umbra on live trapping
Q: Dear Umbra,
In discussing potential remedies for a mouse problem with a fellow congregation member, I recounted how I recently trapped four mice in our home and transported them gingerly to fields and parking lots a couple of miles away. To my surprise, she expressed dismay ... Isn't it better to give mice a fighting chance to reestablish themselves in the wild than to break their backs or necks in those time-honored, spring-loaded Tom and Jerry devices?
Didi
Harvard, Mass.
A: Dearest Didi,
I'm with you. A tough transition to a new environment is better than death by mousetrap. This is not only my personal opinion, but ...
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I wonder if the Air Force would be willing to lend us a jet for about 10,000 rats; and who is short of rats and would like a few?
Actually we could just relocste them about 500 miles in any direction and see how well they swim.
I sent your song to Meghan (to give toio her colleagues at the Smithsonaian Ocean Initiative. Here are her comments
Are you KIDDING?!!!)in response to, do you know this song..._ I hear that song all the time at Utrecht! (the art store where she works
As for the more marine version, it's good, but I think some of the rhyming needs
to change a little and perhaps be a little more like the original song.
for example:
When you think it'd be great to swimming in French Polynesia,
Then return as an amputee with no knee and no real anesthesia
when you swim and you scream and bubbles come out a-streamin' Senore,
pardon me but you see deep down there in the sea, that's a Moray
....or maybe not.
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