Tuesday, July 22

Save the mice?

"Dear Editor:
"Are we on the verge of losing our collective minds in America? First it was save the whales and then the bobtails. Now someone has come up with a plastic water bottle gizmo that humanely catches and holds "the live mouse until you release it." (Home and Garden Section, pg 1D, July 13 Post & Courier).

"What do we do with this probably disease-carrying live mouse? Take it to a neighbor's yard or to the waterfront and put it on a container ship headed for the South China Sea or the Adriatic?
"And what does this mean to the role of cats in our lives?"

(My Ltr to the Editor, The Post & Courer, Charleston SC, published July 22, 2008)