So it was interesting to me that this year Ethan found a garter snake and managed to capture it and the very NEXT day Savannah finds and catches a little brown mouse. This is all find and dandy, I suppose, but they each brought them into my house! I will NOT allow reptiles (mostly snakes) to live in my house. A wild mouse is just as bad...they can both escape! I don't want the job of finding either one of them!
Ethan held onto the snake for about 20-30 minutes before I told him to let it go by the garden boxes, near the empty field mentioned earlier. Savannah, however, gets waaaay more attached to things much quicker. Well, I don't blame her since the mouse was quite cute. BUT! She found a cardboard box, an empty Puffs tissue box placed upside down for shelter, ripped up toilet paper, found little plastic objects to hold water and cheese, within 1/2 hour of capturing the cute pest. To top it off the mouse was given the name Chester.
The evening was approaching as well as a rain storm so guess where I found out the mouse was moved to? That's right. Her bedroom closet downstairs. Oh! But she closed the lid on the box! It's not like a mouse can't chew through cardboard right? Well, I explained how easy it is for mice to escape and suggested putting the mouse in the window well, right outside her bedroom window so it would be protected from the wind bringing the storm. She could even use the screen from the window to put on top the box.
The next morning we realized how talented mice can be as it had escaped both the box and the window well. Savannah was NOT happy. She thought for sure her parents had let the mouse go and staged the whole scene it had left. I told her I was way too tired to go out in the rain after she had gone to bed to do such a thing and how happy I was with the decision of making her put that thing outside!
Here are some photos of our adventure with the creatures.
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