{"id":4143,"date":"2010-05-01T23:38:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T05:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=4143"},"modified":"2010-05-01T23:38:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T05:38:28","slug":"itty-bitty-squeakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=4143","title":{"rendered":"Itty-bitty squeakers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, Mark, you&#8217;ve done it again.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t thought much about harvest mice since my college mammalogy class, and probably only then because they are the smallest types of mice (only a little bigger than shrews). But not only do I mash on you:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4144\" title=\"new-mt\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/new-mt.jpg\" alt=\"new-mt\" width=\"985\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/new-mt.jpg 985w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/new-mt-249x91.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 985px) 100vw, 985px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>but I look up photos of the sweet little things (even if that&#8217;s a bunch of very large berries, that&#8217;s still one very small mouse):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4145\" title=\"harvest-mouse-and-berries\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/harvest-mouse-and-berries.jpg\" alt=\"harvest-mouse-and-berries\" width=\"650\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/harvest-mouse-and-berries.jpg 650w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/harvest-mouse-and-berries-250x173.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and find out, with the intensive farming methods used today, the British harvest mouse lives in a very dangerous habitat, its round ball of grasses that serves as a nest no match for machinery.\u00a0 Fortunately, clever Brits have discovered that old tennis balls from Wimbledon make sturdy manufactured housing for the wee ones in various wildlife preserve areas:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  size-full wp-image-4146\" title=\"harvest-mouse-nest\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/harvest-mouse-nest.jpg\" alt=\"harvest-mouse-nest\" width=\"506\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/harvest-mouse-nest.jpg 506w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/harvest-mouse-nest-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of course, there are always a few that are somewhat more militant in defending themselves (&#8220;That&#8217;s no moon&#8230;&#8221;):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4147\" title=\"harvest-mouse-death-star\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/harvest-mouse-death-star.jpg\" alt=\"harvest-mouse-death-star\" width=\"365\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/harvest-mouse-death-star.jpg 365w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/harvest-mouse-death-star-165x250.jpg 165w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, Mark, you&#8217;ve done it again.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t thought much about harvest mice since my college mammalogy class, and probably only then because they are the smallest types of mice (only a little bigger than shrews). But not only do I mash on you: but I look up photos of the sweet little things (even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mark-trail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4149,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions\/4149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}