The mice make cameo appearances in the comic strip. They are often portrayed as living their own social lives in their mouse holes. Although Jon wants Garfield to get rid of the mice, this never happens. This is either because Garfield is too lazy to chase them, considers the act of eating them to be abhorrent or actually even befriended the mice living in his house. Jon always blames Garfield if he sees any mice or holes in the wall, such as one time, there were so many holes on the wall that it was extremely easily-recognizable. On at least four occasions, the mice have been given names: Squeak appeared in the mid-1980s,Tommy in 2009, Stretch in 1983 and Herman Vermin in the late 1990s.