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Cookie Thieves

12/7/2014

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Last week I needed some fancy little cookies for my Kaye Wiggs dolls for their 'party' photo shoot. As luck would have it, I have several kinds of small cookies in my cupboards, but they weren't fancy enough, so I mixed up a little bit of icing and decorated them up. But then I came down with the flu, and the KW photo shoot shrank to the bare minimum, and the cookies were never used. 

So there they lay on a tiny cookie sheet on the toaster oven, until yesterday, when I noticed most of the really tiny cookies were gone.  "Jan!"  He must have helped himself to them.  So when he came into the kitchen, I gave him my accusatory glare, "Looks like some 'mice' have been into my doll cookies..." fully expecting him to confess. But no, he hadn't taken them, and he was as surprised as i was.  It really had been the mice!

We've been having ongoing issues with mice of late, but the thought of a mouse making off with an entire cookie - even though they were very small - gave me an idea for some photos......
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I still find it difficult to imagine a mouse making off with a whole cookie, even if it was a very small one - like the two my brown mice are holding. That would have been most interesting to see!

Anyway, the remaining cookies went into the garbage, and next time I make some real cookies for doll props, I'm just going to have to store them better so the mice can't get at them.
13 Comments
marianne
12/7/2014 01:17:58 am

did you have the girls over yesterday?

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Martha
12/7/2014 03:53:09 am

No. I was way too sick, so we cancelled. It really was mice.

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marianne
12/7/2014 06:16:22 am

WOW, big mice to carry that clean away

Martha
12/7/2014 07:14:41 am

Well, they either carried them off or ate them up completely. But would mice just eat one whole cookie at a time until it was completely gone, or nibble on them all indiscriminately? The cookies that were gone were the 'pepernoten', and my little resin mice are about the same size as real mice, so that would have been quite something.

Jane
12/7/2014 01:32:01 am

Real mice?! What a bother, they are so difficult to get rid of *humph*
But the photoshoot was a brilliant idea and I laughed out loud to see them scaling the heights to get to the prize!

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Martha
12/7/2014 03:59:57 am

Mice are very hard to get rid of! Fortunately most of my pantry cupboards are mouse-proof, from the days we were overrun with them. They seem to like it INSIDE our oven. INSIDE! I have no idea how they even get in there. I keep my frying pan inside my oven, and every now and then, when I fry my morning eggs, they look like they are covered with 'sprinkles'. So into the garbage they go, and the pan gets a good scrub. Nowadays I check the pan every morning.

Jan put out the traps last night, and we did catch one, but there’s never just ONE.

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Charie Wilson
12/7/2014 01:53:04 am

Your wee mice can raid my tiny kitchen-net anytime they are so darn cute.
Hugs Charie

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Martha
12/7/2014 04:00:58 am

They are, aren't they? Unfortunately they don't get out very much.

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Donna
12/7/2014 03:19:40 am

They certainly are determined little critters (both these and the real kind!). Your mice's antics make me smile... a lot!

Hope you're feeling better soon.

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Martha
12/7/2014 04:02:42 am

Real mice are such a pain! I'd rather have a house-full of the resin variety.

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Donna
12/8/2014 03:29:03 am

No argument there :o)

I've seen a tiny little chipmunk carry off a whole slice of bread, so I guess a mouse can handle a cookie, especially when you're kind enough to make them just their size!!

Saraquill
12/8/2014 01:26:52 am

I saw a mouse try to abscond with a hard candy wider than the whole it snuck through. It kept candy-butting the whole for ages before giving up and leaving the food behind. It tried again the next day with the same success.

Cookies are more favorable to crumbling into easier to manage sizes, I guess.

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Laura J. Underwood
12/8/2014 04:34:02 am

This time of the year, the mice are moving into the house here as well (and I am well south of you). I discovered a bag of instant potatoes nibbled away at a month or so back, and of course, the tell-tale trail of mousie droppings. But what flabbergasted me was to find a bag of instant oatmeal (one of the individual servings) stuck in a crack in the wall. Apparently, they could not get it through and may have fled (we have a cat) without taking their treasure.

In a week, I captured 9 of them. Have not seen one lately (though my mother did discover more droppings in a place I had not seen them before).

Mice are vermin. I am not happy to have them in the house.

But your mice are adorable. Too bad we can't all have resin mice instead. ;-)

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