That conjures up an amusing mental picture:
Teddy sitting there with mice crawling all over
him! It puts me in mind of one of those old
Warner Bros. cartoons where some poor cat had to
watch a whole gang of bad mice raise h*ll in the
kitchen! They also had a funny commercial awhile
back for kitty litter---some mice came out, and
didn't smell a cat around, so they started dancing
and whooping it up---then, HERE CAME THE CAT!!!