When visiting the residence of a friend,
we entered a small building next to his house to take a look at his
office and workshop. Several books were strewn about the top of a
workbench. Mice had taken over the place
and chewed up many of the books including a very expensive dictionary.
Looking around the room, I saw one of them on the top of the wall looking
down at us. It was making no evident effort to hide and seemed intent
at drawing our attention. I was puzzled by this behavior and started to
look around to see if I could find out what it was that was making the
mouse behave in such a strange way.
Just then I spotted a small ball of fur next to one of the roof rafters.
At first I could not make out what it was.
And another mouse appeared next to it.
I realized that the little ball of fur was in fact one the baby mice and
that the two other mice were the mother and father of the little one.
Both the mother and the father were making all kinds of attempts to
draw my attention from the baby and were quite bold doing so.