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Mouse in the house!
10 minutes ago Boyfie caught a mouse, brought it to show me and let it go
alive. He caught it again and let it go alive for the second time; he rarely plays with his prey like this. It made a run for it and made it under my kitchen trolley (I keep spare egg cartons and trays under there) so I had to move them all. He caught it again but the silly boy is crouching next to the trolley peering underneath with cocked ears and twitching tall with the presumably now deceased mousie *in his mouth* !! This is after insisting at 10.30 pm he hadn't had his 10 pm sprinkles tonight (he had). Hmm. It's bit worrying. Either he is losing his marbles or it's two BCT's in just over an hour..and I just checked, no mousie in mouth now and he's refusing to stop peeping under the kitchen trolley. So make that 3. Tweed |
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Mouse in the house!
On Monday, July 21, 2014 5:41:43 PM UTC-5, Christina Websell wrote:
10 minutes ago Boyfie caught a mouse, brought it to show me and let it go alive. He caught it again and let it go alive for the second time; he rarely plays with his prey like this. It made a run for it and made it under my kitchen trolley (I keep spare egg cartons and trays under there) so I had to move them all. He caught it again but the silly boy is crouching next to the trolley peering underneath with cocked ears and twitching tall with the presumably now deceased mousie *in his mouth* !! This is after insisting at 10.30 pm he hadn't had his 10 pm sprinkles tonight (he had). Hmm. It's bit worrying. Either he is losing his marbles or it's two BCT's in just over an hour..and I just checked, no mousie in mouth now and he's refusing to stop peeping under the kitchen trolley. So make that 3. Tweed Maybe if there's one mouse, there are more. Toci |
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Mouse in the house!
"toci" wrote in message ... Maybe if there's one mouse, there are more. Toci He caught it in the garden and brought it in through the open back door.. There are lots of mice out there but even he cannot catch two at once;-) No chance of house mice here. |
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Mouse in the house!
On 7/22/2014 5:39 PM, Christina Websell wrote:
"toci" wrote in message ... Maybe if there's one mouse, there are more. Toci He caught it in the garden and brought it in through the open back door.. There are lots of mice out there but even he cannot catch two at once;-) No chance of house mice here. I didn't have a cat at the time, but I once lived in a house where there was some construction going on a couple of streets over. (New home building.) This drove the field mice out of their usual habitat right into the existing houses. My bag of cornmeal was eaten through; pretty much any dry goods, in fact. The kicker was when I found one climbing the shower curtain in my bathroom. I knocked it into the tub and managed to scoop it into a shoe box and toss it outside. I'm sure it came right back in. They find ways. One night I was sitting in the den watching television when I saw something out of the corner of my eye. There was a teeeeeeeeny tiny mouse sitting on the fireplace hearth. It was so cute! It ran off through a tiny hole in the panelling on the wall. I promptly blocked that off. Still, I couldn't have mice in the house. I set traps. In one night, I heard the traps snap seven times in a row. It wasn't pretty nor was it particularly humane, but I refuse to live with mice in the house. Where I live now there aren't any mice. Marsh rats, yes. But they don't come inside. The hawks and other predators catch them. Jill |
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On 2014-07-25 11:44 AM, jmcquown wrote:
On 7/22/2014 5:39 PM, Christina Websell wrote: "toci" wrote in message ... Maybe if there's one mouse, there are more. Toci He caught it in the garden and brought it in through the open back door.. There are lots of mice out there but even he cannot catch two at once;-) No chance of house mice here. I didn't have a cat at the time, but I once lived in a house where there was some construction going on a couple of streets over. (New home building.) This drove the field mice out of their usual habitat right into the existing houses. My bag of cornmeal was eaten through; pretty much any dry goods, in fact. The kicker was when I found one climbing the shower curtain in my bathroom. I knocked it into the tub and managed to scoop it into a shoe box and toss it outside. I'm sure it came right back in. They find ways. One night I was sitting in the den watching television when I saw something out of the corner of my eye. There was a teeeeeeeeny tiny mouse sitting on the fireplace hearth. It was so cute! It ran off through a tiny hole in the panelling on the wall. I promptly blocked that off. Still, I couldn't have mice in the house. I set traps. In one night, I heard the traps snap seven times in a row. It wasn't pretty nor was it particularly humane, but I refuse to live with mice in the house. Where I live now there aren't any mice. Marsh rats, yes. But they don't come inside. The hawks and other predators catch them. For many years, I lived in an old wooden house of a type that was generally reputed to have a problem with mice, partly because it wasn't as solidly constructed as newer ones (and mice need a very small hole to enter through) and partly because it was one of a number of row houses, and even if I'd managed to find all the tiny holes in a very poor foundation, I couldn't count on someone down the road having done so. The previous residents had had constant problems with mice, and had trays of poison everywhere. I got rid of all the poison and moved in with my two cats - Mandy and Betsy, both now RB. Mice are less stupid than I had realized. They almost never entered the house afterwards (although God knows what they were doing in the walls). There was never any evidence of droppings. Once I found the cats harrassing a very scared mouse, which I caught and released. Once I found half a mouse. Not bad for well over a decade in an area with lots of mice! -- Cheryl |
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On 7/25/2014 10:23 AM, Cheryl wrote:
For many years, I lived in an old wooden house of a type that was generally reputed to have a problem with mice, partly because it wasn't as solidly constructed as newer ones (and mice need a very small hole to enter through) and partly because it was one of a number of row houses, and even if I'd managed to find all the tiny holes in a very poor foundation, I couldn't count on someone down the road having done so. The previous residents had had constant problems with mice, and had trays of poison everywhere. I got rid of all the poison and moved in with my two cats - Mandy and Betsy, both now RB. Mice are less stupid than I had realized. They almost never entered the house afterwards (although God knows what they were doing in the walls). There was never any evidence of droppings. Once I found the cats harrassing a very scared mouse, which I caught and released. Once I found half a mouse. Not bad for well over a decade in an area with lots of mice! Not bad at all! Mice are interesting creatures. If they can fit their heads through an opening they can compress their bodies and just slide right on through. I saw one flatten itself and crawl under the door from my bedroom (in the aforementioned house) when I didn't think even a cricket could crawl under that door. I was amazed. OB Cats: I've read this is one of the things cats use their whiskers for. They are sensors. Can I fit through here? If the whiskers say no, don't go. Jill |
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jmcquown wrote: Where I live now there aren't any mice. Marsh rats, yes. But they don't come inside. The hawks and other predators catch them. Jill I used to relegate the cats to a screened porch at night - until one bedtime when I found a little grey and white California fruit rat curled up under the pillow on my night clothes! (If I'm going to wake up to something warm and furry in bed with me, I prefer it be a cat!) |
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