|
Post by sweetpea on May 21, 2019 13:44:05 GMT
Yesterday one of the cats had brought a mouse in and it was somewhere in the bedroom. I baited the live capture trap and set it at side of the bed. Later when I went to check it I saw the mouse sitting on top of some folded blankets so rather than try to pick it up I fetched a jug and gently pushed it in there and then took it to the far end of the garden to release it. When it slid out of the jug it started heading in the wrong direction so I just went to give it a little nudge to make it head for the mesh fence and the the ungrateful little sod bit my finger Being on blood thinning tablets it didn't half leak some claret. Still it might have been worse like an adder or scorpion. ps Over the years I have been bitten by many creatures but not complaining as I just never learn
|
|
|
Post by SueA on May 21, 2019 14:11:54 GMT
Hope you've had a tetanus sweetpea! It was probably upset that you disturbed it from the comfy blankets, or maybe thought you were the cat come to have another go.
|
|
|
Post by sweetpea on May 21, 2019 14:55:38 GMT
Hope you've had a tetanus sweetpea! It was probably upset that you disturbed it from the comfy blankets, or maybe thought you were the cat come to have another go. Had plenty of tetanus but not recently. After nearly 80 years I think I will survive a wee bit longer SueA I think the last time was when I was lorry driving and jumped off the trailer onto a board with a large rusty nail which went through my boot and foot. Couldn't drive as my foot swelled up. Silly thing to do I guess.
|
|
|
Post by grindle on May 22, 2019 6:45:13 GMT
you just can't be nice can you I was clearing out duckweed a couple of days ago and found a dead field mouse in the pond I imagine it probably had something to do with the local moggies, as there are plenty of places to get out if it had fallen in by mistake
|
|
|
Post by SueA on May 22, 2019 8:15:30 GMT
I think one of the local cats may have got our woodmouse too as I haven't seen any on the night camera but have seen a cat nosing around the box & lavender plants around the sundial where I assume the mouse used to hide before grabbing food from the trays.
|
|
|
Post by grindle on May 23, 2019 2:51:44 GMT
shame isn't it
|
|
|
Post by Geumlover on May 23, 2019 7:38:58 GMT
Remember that their life span is naturally very short as well. Most of them do not survive for more than a year in any case. That is one reason why they have so many quick maturing babies.
|
|
|
Post by Cherry on May 23, 2019 8:17:20 GMT
Well, I don’t know what to say about that sweetpea. That is a good one. At the farm, Geoffrey put his boots on and felt some wriggling in one of them. He got a shock when he shook a field mouse out of the boot.
|
|
|
Post by roofgardener on May 23, 2019 9:58:42 GMT
Suddenly he bumps into fur, that's very unwise, A cat is much quicker than men and their eyes. The chase that ensues can have only one end, Unless outside help steps in for our friend in need. But now the cat comes in for the kill, His paw is raised, soon blood will spill, yes it will.
Hard luck mouse, this is the end of your road. The signpost says inside me, let me bear your heavy load. But it's not to be, that final pounce Knocks a jar upon his head, and lays him out.
But it's all in a mouse's night To take on all those who would fight.
There I was with my back to the wall, Then comes this monster mouse, he's ten feet tall, With teeth and claws to match.
It only took one blow.
From "all in a mouse's night, by Genesis.
|
|
|
Post by sweetpea on May 23, 2019 18:16:37 GMT
To a mouse by Robert Burns link
|
|
|
Post by Cherry on Jun 3, 2019 6:01:04 GMT
I really like this Burns poem sweetpea. One of my favourites.
|
|