She would capture wild mice and let them run loose.
Potter kept a whole host of pets in her schoolroom at home-rabbits, hedgehogs, frogs, and mice. Riversdale Estate, Flickr // Public Domain Beatrix Potter’s house was essentially a menagerie. "The consequence being that when I wanted to draw him next morning he was intoxicated and wholly unmanageable," she later wrote in her diary. In 1890, after a publisher purchased some of her sketchers of Benjamin, she decided to reward him with some hemp seeds. Potter's first pet rabbit, Benjamin Bouncer, was the inspiration for Benjamin Bunny, Peter's cousin in her books. Peter was modeled on Potter’s own pet rabbit, Peter Piper-a cherished bunny who Potter frequently sketched and took for walks on a leash. Peter Rabbit and his friends were partly based on Beatrix Potter's own pets. She later asked to borrow the letter back and copied the pictures and story, which she then adapted to create the much-loved tale. Potter’s most famous book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, was inspired by an illustrated letter Potter wrote to Noel, the son of her former governess, Annie, in 1893. Aleph-bet books via Wikimedia // Public Domain
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