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smallholder · Joined: 08 Nov 2008 Posts: 7359

.......in this room is The Invisible Mouse. Shocked

It scuttled across the floor and I tried to head it off at the pass with a tray and hubholder tried to catch it in a waste paper basket....but the little varmint gave us the slip. Its just like Chicken Run in here at the moment as hubholder searches for it with a very powerful torch. Mousey Mousey...we're coming to get you! Laughing

mug! · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 7:00 pm Post subject:

My OH is good at catching them would you like to borrow him? (you can keep him if you like)
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smallholder · Joined: 08 Nov 2008 Posts: 7359

queenlit · Joined: 28 Oct 2008 Posts: 1027

When I was a student I caught one in a bowler hat. Good luck.

queenlit · Joined: 28 Oct 2008 Posts: 1027

Have you caught it yet?

nicolagraham · Joined: 01 Nov 2008 Posts: 3192 Location: North East

Oh I know it sounds irrational but I would be too scared to try and catch it I think. I know they're harmless but I always get twitchy around animals that can move that quickly!!

Good luck!

smallholder · Joined: 08 Nov 2008 Posts: 7359

Nah. Too many books, nooks and grannies in this little old cottage! Will have to set the trap tonight.....Mousie - you have been warned.

choccat · Joined: 03 Jun 2009 Posts: 637

Are you planning on killing it SH? I thought you were an animal lover! We have had a mouse for ages but have yet to catch little blighter, have tried everything in a humane trap from cheese to chocolate, peanut butter to bread and jam and no luck. It has chewed through a cool bag and several other bags, I have never seen it but it makes regular appearnances to OH.
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smallholder · Joined: 08 Nov 2008 Posts: 7359

No. Rest easy choccat. I am still the person you thought I was! It's a humane trap. We do however draw the line at and kill rats ( sorry pink monkey if you are around!)

queenlit · Joined: 28 Oct 2008 Posts: 1027

is there someone else in your relationship who appears when you are not there sh?

smallholder · Joined: 08 Nov 2008 Posts: 7359

Now that is too subtle for me queenlit....me no understandee...I shall fall back on my old excuse and blame my medication!

queenlit · Joined: 28 Oct 2008 Posts: 1027

Sorry smallholder - I should have asked choccat that question!!

smallholder · Joined: 08 Nov 2008 Posts: 7359

IT'S UNDER THE TELLY!

smallholder · Joined: 08 Nov 2008 Posts: 7359

....slippery little b*****!

wotton · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:59 pm Post subject:

we bait our humane traps with peanut butter gets them everytime.........unless it's a shrew!

Andrew Jeffrey · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:25 pm Post subject:

All of which reminds me of the old saying about the wisdom of not always rushing:

'It may be the Early Bird that catches the worm, but it's the second mouse to the trap that gets to eat the cheese.'
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choccat · Joined: 03 Jun 2009 Posts: 637

smallholder · Joined: 08 Nov 2008 Posts: 7359

Well. Mousie lives to scuttle for a bit longer.
Forgot to get the trap out of the barn and I'm not going in there now. There be monsters in the barn! Shocked

Time for bed.
Night all.

wotsitagain · Joined: 28 Oct 2008 Posts: 3911

gorgeous51 · Joined: 28 Oct 2008 Posts: 1945

Good luck with mousey today SH. OH and I were standing in the utility room last night watching a little mouse sitting on our garden table nibbling some breadcrumbs. He was very cute - strangely I wouldn't have liked him quite so much if he had been our side of the door!

Laughing