Sue thanks for posting regarding the photos!! Very cool!
Sorry you're having varmit problems!
I'm repeating myself here, so if you've heard this one before skip it
I bring my tender succulents out for the summer and back indoors for the winter - this last autumn I noticed one of my pots felt "light" it had a large aloe in it, and so I lifted it up and looked at the bottom (which for some reason, this particular pot has a larger than normal drainage hole...anyway, it looked like something had pushed the roots up into the pot, so I (carefully) shook the pot, and used a chopstick to dig around trying to see if anything came out...nothing did. A few days later in my apartment I was still moving plants around, needing to help them find the perfect location, and I lifted up that same pot, and something fell out of the bottom - I didn't have my glasses on, and it just looked like dirt so I didn't give it a thought. A couple days later, while I was watching TV I thought I saw something scurry by along the baseboard of the wall. A few days after that a little mouse came running across my living room floor, I (not loudly) screamed and it stopped and turned looked and me and took off, just as scared as I was!
I told the building manager what had happened, and he said he'd trap the thing - I thought he meant a live trap, but no, that isn't what he meant, and sadly I went along with it, since I was nervous having a new roommate (who wasn't paying rent and who was startling whenever I'd see him! I finally agreed to setting the trap, and sure enough a few days after that I was successful - but its sad to kill something just because it happened to be munching on some aloe roots at the wrong time!
