Evening Ena....

[micmak]

Have you found your mouse yet? This reminds me of a story that happen about 30 years ago. We had 5 cats and one of them brought a mouse in and dropped it at Jezas feet. We tried for hours to catch it but gave up in the end thinking one of the cats would get it. About two weeks later I heard very loud squealing coming from the back of the fridge. The mouse was caught by one of his claws in the grill thingy. He was as thin as a rake. I unhooked him and took him outside. I was full or admiration for the little feller. For two weeks he had evaded 5 cats so I figured he deserved his freedom.

[ttfn]

Bless you mic ♥

Big Sis is worried in case this the kind of mouse that likes electric wires!

[boxtops]

Aw micmak, that's a nice story! Many years ago we had a mouse lived in the bathroom, with a metal bath. I was in the bath one day when I heard a loud eek! - I reckon the mouse had leaned on the hot metal of the bath by mistake! (that was the mouse who later made a nest in my woolly hat...)

[ttfn]

I had an uncle who lived in Snowdonia. He discovered mouse droppings and bought a mouse trap. The first victim made him very upset. He was a retired engineer so he built a little cage trap in balsa wood. His first success found him driving to Bangor to release it. After the 3rd successful capture and long car journey he decided ' sod this for a game of toy soldiers ' and just took the cage to the end of his 3 acre garden and released it. He reckoned it was back in his kitchen before he was :)

[micmak]

That's a nice story. Where we live now there is all sorts of wild life. I don't like leaving the door open for fear of what may come in.

[askyourgran]

We had a mouse when my daughter was small, I was scared out of my wits with it and couldn't catch it. One night it ran under the firegrate (real coal fire in those days) MrAsk built up the fire and it was burning hot all night. Thinking that would get shut of it. The next morning there was a trail of ash across the hearth, it was still alive and kicking, don't know how it survived the heat.

[ttfn]

Indded mic. There are rats, grass snakes, adders and badgers just beyond the country hedge ;) Oh yes, and the odd deer, but I reckon that has espied the lurcher! Wild birds have ventured through the open doors from time to time.

[annie0000]

If you are trying to catch a live mouse and keep it alive, you can try putting something tasty (peanut butter/chocolate) at the bottom of a bottle and lie it on it's side propped up. When wee mousy goes into the bottle to get the tasty stuff, he cannot get back out because of the sloping slidey sides.:o) You just then need to take the bottle outside and tip him out or prop up the bottom and leave him to venture out on his own.

[ttfn]

The bottle aint empty yet, annie ;)))

[Psybbo]

it is now ...............x

[annie0000]

then get a move on woman - sun is long past the yard arm!!!

[ttfn]

annie, you are not encouraging me to get imbreviated?
sog it
inevriarted
fust it
drunken?

;)

[annie0000]

...you could probably just breath on wee mousey and take him outside while he is overcome by the alcoholic haze :o)

[ttfn]

Tell me you are kidding, annie?

Never in a million years.

I would sooner kiss a frog (or that mad man from Salisbury Plain?).

Guess I must have had a few, in that case ;))))))

[micmak]

I like mice, but not scuttling round my kitchen. I had a pet one as a child.

[annie0000]

lol - not kidding about catching him in a bottle - am kidding about breathing alcoholic fumes on him :o)

[ttfn]

Thanks for the tip, annie. When I return home I will dig out one of the really old glass sweetie jars - you used to see them in sweet shops. This little mighty atom seems to love plastic of any kind, but I think glass will conquer him (if the 3 Little Nippers do not work tonight. The lurcher is in the dog house ;)

[ttfn]

mic - I never had a mouse, hamster or guinea pig, always preferred something a little larger :)

You may have noticed I own a lesser spotted Bug Whiskers - stands 6' 2" ish, but he is safely kennelled in Wiltshire :p:)))))