A Maine man is engaged in a battle of wits with a mouse. So far, the mouse is well ahead on points. After the man captured the mouse – on three separate occasions, mind you – the mouse was able to escape unharmed. After the last daring breakout, the mouse also took along a souvenir.
(Bill) Exner, 68, said he and his wife Shirley scoured his bedroom after the dentures disappeared from his night stand.
"We moved the bed, moved the dressers and the night stand and tore the closet apart," he said. "I said, 'I knew that little stinker stole my teeth' — I just knew it."
They found a small opening in a wall where they suspected the mouse was coming and going, and their daughter's fiance, Eric Holt, stepped in to help.
"He brought a crowbar and hammer and he sawed off a section of wood and pulled up the molding and everything," Exner said. "It was quite a job."
They retrieved the dentures, and Holt suggested his future father-in-law boil them in peroxide and whatever else he could find for to disinfect it.
So, to retrieve the teeth, they had to demolish part of their home. Offhand, it appears to be time to take a completely different approach to the problem. We'd suggest that the couple try adopting the ravaging rodent before it ransacks again. Just start feeding it pet food.
