wee mousey

[annie0000]

cat brought me a lovely wee present last night, a live mouse that disappeared under the fridge while the cat just went and ate her dinner!! Left traps and the cat out last night but no body this morning.

Anyway, the wee mousey has now made it's way into the study and is hiding behind the desk!!!

Great!!! thanks cat!!...........again!!

[joggerjayne]

Not a wee, sleekit, cowering, whotnot beastie ?

[annie0000]

timerouse - yup that's the one JJ. bleedin fast it is too. no way to catch it manually i think, though i did manage to get the last one out alive - this is probably it's grandson...

[daisya]

Poor wee mousey...please don't let the cat get it again....please put him/her outside away from the cat...aww.

[joggerjayne]

Mousetraps?

Apparently they like chocolate.

[annie0000]

i'd love to daisya - chances of catching it and releasing it are remote and cat seems uninterested now - out looking for fresh victims I think - last time i tried everything and then caught it alive after 4 days and a fair bit of nibbling - I think I'll just need to stick out a proper trap this time. :o(

[annie0000]

yup JJ it'll have to be - we tried to catch it in a bottle the last time - I eventually caught it inside a shoe which it had chewed the inside of!

[joggerjayne]

(tries to visualise the process of catching a mouse in a bottle)

[daisya]

JJ - hopefully not quite as difficult as getting a ship in a bottle lol.

[annie0000]

You put it on it's side with tasty stuff in the bottom and make the way in accessible - however, the inside of the bottle is slippy so it can't get back up the slope to get back out!

[annie0000]

didn't work the last time though.

[RATTER15]

I wonder if its a pregnant female mouse?

[annie0000]

lol Ratter, it better not be!!! - I am not scared of mice in the slightest but i'd rather not have my house chewed and pee'd on by an army of small creatures!

[micmak]

We had a mouse for about two weeks. We also had three cats. After hearing a squealing we found the mouse had it's claw caught in the back of the fridge grill. Said mouse was released back in to the wild, starving hungry, whilst three cats were dossing about having eaten their fill.

[annie0000]

Aww micmac - at least you got it though. Cat seems to like bringing the stuff in alive to then kill at leisure in the house.......or just go for a kip instead!

[joggerjayne]

Can I just say that I did NOT think that you had to chase the mouse, and scoop it up in the bottle.

Okay, maybe i did just a little bit.

[annie0000]

lol JJ - it's a lot faster than me - I wouldn't stand a chance in a race with it.

[SpikeyBush]

Many years ago a cat of mine brought a mouse inside and was having the time of her life playing with it even after she had killed it. Tossing it all over the place. Then all of a sudden the fun stopped, none of us could work out why.

Over the coming days a horrid stench started filling the room responsible for such joy, and it was getting worse. Then at the weekend it was raining, so my father took his raincoat down from the hook on the door and as he put his keys in the pocket, found out what had happened to the dead mouse.

Than about 10 years later we had such a lazy cat, the only creature she ever caught was a bird that knocked itself out cold flying into the kitchen window. She was so pleased she came trotting up the garden path, not looking where she was going. She tripped up on the back doorstep dropping the bird, by which time had started to come round and took it's chance and flew away.

[annie0000]

lol spikey - i wish my cat was as inept. she was eyeing up a seagull today but god knows how she was planning to get it through the catflap...