Recent events including, but not limited to, the repeated sighting of our enemy in the occupied zone have forced me to reissue the following declaration.  My apologies to the oldies (but goodies) who saw this post a few years ago, in its original form.

For more than a decade, the Learys have pursued patient and honorable efforts to defend ourselves against our enemies – The Mice – without war. In those years we have used various nonviolent efforts to reinforce our boundaries, while sending clear and indisputable signals that we will not tolerate their threats of invasion. These efforts have included completely reinforcing our basement walls and packing steel wool into every hole we could find, no matter how small. These nonviolent efforts to disable the rodent forces have failed again and again. Why? Because we are not dealing with a peaceful, law-abiding species. We are dealing with vermin.