Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for September 23, 2017

Little fool, this is why we have cats!

Snap, Crackle, Pop, Rice Crispy Cereal Killer.

The Man in the Moon Cracked a Smile!

I see two meeses, mices, mouses.

That’s not a mouse trap. It’s an abandoned flea circus. See the trapeze?

I guess the world isn’t beating a path to anyone’s door.

Four out of five mice recommend going into the trap for their patients who take the bait.

How this portends for Ed Meese, currently eighty-five, one hesitates to venture a guess.

I coul dread the tea leaves, but the Church Lady takes offense when I do that, saying that augury is the Devil’s Province and the Church alone has that authority. I’m not sure, really, what to take from that.

Prof. Rodent perfects his weapon of mouse destruction.

One day at the mouse genocide museum.

Only Ratbert would fall for this.

The use of some bait would help. The concept would be a breeze, but first you must cut the cheese..

These are really interesting traps, though. The bait is in the center, and the mice enter from one of the six openings. You actually can get more than one mouse in the trap. The presence of a dead mouse in one of the other openings is no sort of deterrent. In this case, we see that two of the traps have been sprung and four remain armed. These were quite common when I was a child. Construction methods on older houses left a bit to be desired in terms of mouse-proofing. Newer buildings are sealed much tighter, with overlapping construction and moldings, not to mention Tyvek® wraps and such.

Look what happened to that guy! Free food!

Looks like the old Monty Hall problem here. Which door do you choose? You get either a piece of cheese or dead.

I think that you are not taking into account today’s Bing image of a bunny, or the fact that I just put up a new WBU EcoClean® Dinner Bell™ Feeder for safflower seeds and today have seen two titmouses, which is rare for me, being a total of three I have now sighted.

(It’s National Rabbit Day…)

Like moths to the mousetrap, so are the drains of our lives.

Boy this brings back memory’s

One must admire a mouse smarter than a sadistic engineer (if that’s not redundant). This hexa-trap seems particularly deadly, a kind of reverse-guillotine.

I score it, nonetheless, “not a better mousetrap.”

Just don’t gloat too much, my little friend. There’s always another inventor….

The rat takes the cheese

Oh the rat takes the cheese

Hi-ho, the derry-o…

The rat takes the cheese