My daily life is definitely full of experiences......not always as cute or with as wonderful of endings as my mouse story......I defnintely have enough stories to fill several childrens books.

I loved your suggestion of loaning me your dog Sky, but mind you, this mouse boldly walked through my kitchen which has 3 dogs in it & even walked under the grating in the puppy pens where the dogs are laying to get to the pieces of dog food that were laying there......don't think Caleb would have much better chance of scaring off the mouse than my Destiny, Chinook, & JoGI.......I know that had to have been what would set them barking in the middle of the night....bold little mouse.

He/she.....lol.....hasn't come back yet. I am sure it will find it's way back from across the street & the field I dropped in into....pretty hard to disorientate a mouse I'm sure, but will see how long I am mouse free.

I love all the mouse experiences everyone has.....mice are definitely good for many experiences & stories.

My first mouse experience was with a mouse where I worked as an engineer......very very late 2am.....I was sitting at my desk, trying to solve a problem......all of a sudden, I heard a munch, munch, munch.......I looked where the sound was coming from in back of some boxes I had sitting in my office......there was a little mouse with a cheeto that I had dropped earlier in the day, eating his little heart out on it.......he took one look at me, threw down the cheeto & ran behind the door, then out into the hall just as the cleaning crew came by.....a couple of screams from them & the mouse ran under the vending machines down the hall.

Another mouse experience was also in another office I was in...during normal working hours. I was walking over to my secretaries desk & several of the guy engineers were hollering about a mouse in their office. I told them to get out of my way & I took an empty trash can with the plastic liner in it. Held it up to the back of the book case. Another person tapped on the other end of the book case with a ruler & the mouse went flying into my trashcan. I took him in the plastic bag, way outside the building & into the bushes & then came back it to finish what I was doing........one of the managers took the plastic bag I had the mouse in & opened it over his secretaries desk....hollering mouse.....got a scream & jump out of her. When I went to pick up the papers I had been holding....I realized the mouse had taken my attention away from a classified document I had been holding & wasn't supposed to let out of my sight without locking it up......oh well, as you see, critters have always had my minds priority even when I was an engineer.

My favorite experience was when I was in my second NO PETS appartment. Then said I could have a pet rat & the previous manager had a hamster that I adopted when she moved out. I let the hamster run around the appartment in one of those huge plastic balls & I let my rat (Gus) just run around the appartment free while I was watching him. Well, I had a problem with my stove & the new manager came to the door. I let him in & he looked at the stove. On his way out, we were standing in the frontroom talking & down the hall came the plastic ball with the hamster in it........he had a bit of surprised look on his face. I just chuckled & said....it's only a hamster in there.......a few seconds later, out ran Gus from under the TV & under the tables I had along the wall. Talk about surprised......."what's that???" That's only Gus....my pet rat........with that, he could only whisper out....."you got any more of them running around????" We had a good laugh over it especially after I told him the hamster came from the previous manager & that my critters had been ok'ed.....& no, there weren't any more little critters running around.....wasn't what I had enough????

At the end of my living at that appartment, I had added a daughter & 2 kittens to my rat & hamster family in a no children, no pets appartment.
Debbie