Since I've been so mean to the fuzzy little rodents...

I'll be nice and post this cute video.... until they eat my tomatoes and apricots again then I'll post recipes for squirrel stew...

Now you will never be able to keep them out of your pants

We are doomed:

Scientists have created a real-life Speedy Gonzales by genetically engineering a mouse which can easily outrun its natural cousins.

When let loose on a treadmill in the laboratory, the mouse ran for up to six hours without stopping, covering as many kilometres before finally taking a rest. Normal mice gave up after covering just 200 metres at the same speed.

The souped-up rodent consumes 60% more food than other mice, but remains fitter and leaner. Surprisingly, the species also lives longer and is able to breed until a later age.

Richard Hanson and Parvin Hakimi at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, created the mouse by altering a gene that controls a key enzyme called PEPCK-C which is involved in energy metabolism.

The genetic tweak directs energy production overwhelmingly to the animal's skeletal muscles.

The researchers have now bred nearly 500 supermice which are instantly recognisable by the amount of time they spend running around their cages.

Wait until the squirrels get wind of this....

The new weapon against terrorists!

Fermented pumpkins! Via Sorghum Crow of Sorghum Crow's General Store:



Twirl yourself right over to this trap, you evil rodent!

Small terrorists finally make their move

Could this herald a larger coordinated attack?

2 Billion Chinese Mice Overrun Lake Area

The mouse invasion began on June 23 when the Yangtze River flooded, raising the water level in central China's Dongting Lake and submerging mouse holes on lake islands, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

Now, an estimated 2 billion mice are ravaging crops in 22 counties around the lake, and authorities were rushing to construct walls and ditches to keep the rodents out. Residents have killed more than 2.3 million field mice - or 90 tons of the rodents, Xinhua said.

In Hunan province's Yiyang County, a ditch along the lakeshore was filled with mice. Residents were using clubs and shovels to beat them to death, while others scooped the furry animals out using fishing nets.

Mice have already damaged dikes and ruined crops in areas where authorities were slow to build walls and ditches, Xinhua said.

90 TONS? Are we talking about this size?

or this?


Either way, that's a lot of pissed off Chinese mice.

Ssssh, I'm hunting wabbits

Do not claim to be a hunter if all you shoot are rodents. It really doesn't make you one of the guys:

Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts, was dogged last week about his hunting activities after he remarked at a campaign stop that he has been a hunter nearly all his life.

The next day, his campaign said Romney had gone hunting just twice - once as a teenager in Idaho and last year with GOP donors in Georgia. Officials in the four states where Romney has lived also told The Associated Press that he never took out a license.

Romney explained later that his staff was wrong and that he had hunted rabbits and other small animals for many years, mainly in Utah. Hunting certain small game there does not require a license.

Unless..... the rodents can fight back....