{"id":27,"date":"2008-04-27T19:09:25","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T00:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yul\/bbl\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2008-04-27T19:09:25","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T00:09:25","slug":"librarian-battles-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.library.yorku.ca\/web\/bbl\/2008\/04\/27\/librarian-battles-mouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Librarian battles mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><strong>Librarian battles mouse - Mouse wins round one!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\">I am an animal lover and fond of mice who know their places.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>However, I am also Head of the Library and it is my sworn duty to uphold the honour of the library against all comers, human or pawed.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\">I ignored the little blighters in the winter months because I felt sorry for them but spring is here and it is time for them to go outside and enjoy nature, as should we all.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Hence I have told them they are no longer welcome but they have chosen to ignore me.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I say they but in truth I have only seen one very cute brown mouse but Savi tells me that one of them is enjoying eating the white blossomed plant that resides on her window.<span>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The chewing can be heard by staff sitting desks away from Savi and I myself have heard the relentless chewing.<span><font style=\"overflow: hidden;height: 0;width: 0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.videnov.com\/\">??????<\/a><\/font>\u00a0 <\/span>How the plant has survived this onslaught is beyond me.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>So you can see why I have pitted myself against the mouse.<font style=\"overflow: hidden;height: 0;width: 0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.videnov.com\/\">??????<\/a><\/font>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\">Now comes the humiliating part.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I purchased the superior trap (I tried the humane trap but the mouse refused to be civil) and baited it with peanut butter thinking it would be difficult for a mouse to eat sticky peanut butter and escape unscathed.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Sadly I misjudged the mouse.<span><font style=\"overflow: hidden;height: 0;width: 0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.videnov.com\/\">??????<\/a><\/font>\u00a0 <\/span>Thrice now he has eaten the peanut butter and the trap has not been tripped.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I thought there must be something wrong with the trap and tapped it gently with a spoon handle and it clamped violently shut on the handle.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>My worthy combatant is clearly a mouse of great skill and acumen.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><font style=\"overflow: hidden;height: 0;width: 0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.videnov.com\/\">??????<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\">It has now gotten to the point where a staff member was enjoying her lunch and the mouse came to within a short distance of her and looked at her. We think the mouse was expecting to be fed, perhaps as a reward for having won the battle.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\">I cannot give up\u2026. it is as I have said a point of honour.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I am reminded of the keeper in a poem I read many years ago - <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.rice.edu\/%7Essiyer\/minstrels\/poems\/766.html\">The grey squirrel<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\">The bell has sounded for round two. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Librarian battles mouse - Mouse wins round one! I am an animal lover and fond of mice who know their places.\u00a0 However, I am also Head of the Library and it is my sworn duty to uphold the honour of the library against all comers, human or pawed.\u00a0 \u00a0 I ignored the little blighters in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Librarian battles mouse - Bronfman Business Library<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.library.yorku.ca\/web\/bbl\/2008\/04\/27\/librarian-battles-mouse\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Librarian battles mouse - Bronfman Business Library\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Librarian battles mouse - Mouse wins round one! 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