I remember back when I was a young beginning hunter, as I was wandering through the woods, I happened upon an old abandoned shack. It was just about lunch time and I decided this old shack would be a neat place to have my lunch - at least it would be out of the cold wind and snow. I entered the old shack and sat down in a well-used old wooden chair to have my lunch. As I looked around, I noticed there was a 1950 calendar on the wall, what was left of an old pot belly stove, and a few empty tin cans strewn about, but not much of anything else.
I was pretty hungry, so I took my lunch out of my backpack and started eating. It was then that I realized I wasnt alone in the old shack - as a hungry little deer mouse must have smelled the food and ever-so-quietly, he peeked out from a small wall hole.
He was such a cute little feller I couldnt resist sharing a bit of my lunch with him. I tossed him a tiny piece of my sandwich. He came out from his hiding place and now I had a friend and we had lunch together.
Deer mice are a more attractive type of field mouse with large bulging eyes, larger ears and are bi-colored, having a darker upper body and white undersides and a long tail. The deer mouse is about seven inches long, which includes the tail. The body col ...
