TMN's Magdalen Powers, finding a mouse in her apartment, grows attached to it, and it apparently dies before the exterminator arrives. Powers writes, "So yes, he probably had fleas. Maybe worse. But still, he was such a nice tiny bit of outdoors here in bulky, brickish Brooklyn." Yeesh. This is what happens when you live in a city where a 3' x 3' plot of grass is considered a "garden." Rodents are considered "a nice tiny bit of the outdoors."
Mus on the loose [TMN]