> I wasn't talking about rats...I was talking about mice... The article said > they were mice. > > Cearbhael I understand. I agree. To my knowledge, our mice (whitefoot) only steal food. However, some people(unlike you and I, <vbg>) do not know the difference between mice and rats, and the pack, or wood, rat does collect shiney things. So I just thought I would mention it. I notice someone else thought of them also.
Louise in Central Virginia [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Angel Skubic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Louise Hume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 7:06 PM Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Unusual thief > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Louise Hume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Arachne Lace-chat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 4:14 PM > Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Unusual thief > > > > >...but mice? Since when did they like nice shinies? > > > > The indigenous rat in North America is the wood rat, sometimes know as the > > Pack Rat. It does collect shiny things, and sometimes exchanges one it is > > carrying for a better one it finds. > > > > The skinny tail common rat is an immigrant that came over on the first > > ships, and all subsequent ones. > > The wood rat is brown, a little larger than an eastern chipmonk and has a > > bushy tail. > > > > Louise in Central Virginia > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > > unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
