Urban Legends: Mice don't like Cheese
You'll not believe this, but is actually true! In fact, as many mice owners or pest exterminator knows, mice don’t like cheese at all and they’re even disgusted eating certain types, due to their excellent sense of smell that permits them to identify repulsive smells given by some kinds of cheese. According to Dr. David Holmes of Manchester Metropolitan University, who recently did a study on whether mice liked cheese or not, mice will pretty much eat anything if hungry enough. Most type of mice mainly prefer grains, fruits, and sweet things ; certain types of mice will also eat insects and other small animals. Basically, they like to eat what they've learned eating since before humans started making cheese around 10 thousands years ago. Nobody knows how the myth that mice like cheese got started. It’s been around for a long time, even being mentioned by philosopher Seneca about 2000 years ago: " Mouse is a syllable. Now a mouse eats its cheese; therefore, a syllab