What's My Rodent?

[redcogs]

...And so the trap was sprung

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It looks to have settle in outside DaveC! A lesser person would have executed the poor creature. Was it grateful for the peanuts?

 

[WouldBe]

i also had heard the rumour that the Wallaby has become a UK resident, possible that it entered on a small boat. Discounted it because Wallaby usually wear boxing gloves and live only in Australia.

Ones in Derbyshire escaped from river zoo. There are other populations elsewhere.

 

[redcogs]

Wildlife can be adaptable given the chance. i wish bears still roamed free.

 

[maomao]

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It's your tiny six inch tiles that confused me. All my kitchen tiles are twelve inchers. It that was four times the size it'd be a rat.

 

[DaveCinzano]

It's your tiny six inch tiles that confused me. All my kitchen tiles are twelve inchers. It that was four times the size it'd be a rat.

I think we've all got a handle on what "twelve inches" means to you

 

[bimble]

Not laughing now eh

#callmethemousewhisperer

I still don't understand, am impressed obviously but, did you lift the chopping board up very gently and carry it outside with the mouse happily snacking away on it?

 

[maomao]

I still don't understand, am impressed obviously but, did you lift the chopping board up very gently and carry it outside with the mouse happily snacking away on it?

There's an anvil dangling from the ceiling that you can't see.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I still don't understand, am impressed obviously but, did you lift the chopping board up very gently and carry it outside with the mouse happily snacking away on it?

Once it was on the board I slowly raised it to eye level so that I could have a rational tête-à-tête with it and explain that a mice does not belong in a hoose. I then employed some techniques adapted from danny la rouge's dog-wrangling repertoire to keep the rodent calm whilst I took it up the garden on the board to the designated release point.

 

[danny la rouge]

took it up the garden on the board to the designated release point.

It’ll be back in already then.

 

[redcogs]

Maybe locate its tunnel and block with concrete before evicting it next time.

 

[bellaozzydog]

If you have a cat it might be a shrew


Having googled shrew I will rescind my post immediately

 

[Thora]

Very sweet of you Dave, but clearly the mouse was already dazed from the cat bringing it in, and you've just released it back into the garden for the cat to torture/murder (and bring in again) later.

 

[friedaweed]

It's definitely got the look of a vole but that's a mouse all day long. If you want to catch it try peanut butter over cheese.

 

[cupid_stunt]

If you want to catch it try peanut butter over cheese.

Surely cheese over peanut butter?

Let the debate begin.

 

[friedaweed]

Surely cheese over peanut butter?

And we're orf

 

[Voley]

It's definitely got the look of a vole but that's a mouse all day long. If you want to catch it try peanut butter over cheese.

Excuse me! It's the magnificence of a vole if you don't mind.

 

[friedaweed]

Excuse me! It's the magnificence of a vole if you don't mind.

Quite right. I've got bank voles in the garden. They are magnificent but the fuckers ruin the lawn every year.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Very sweet of you Dave, but clearly the mouse was already dazed from the cat bringing it in, and you've just released it back into the garden for the cat to torture/murder (and bring in again) later.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Once it was on the board I slowly raised it to eye level so that I could have a rational tête-à-tête with it and explain that a mice does not belong in a hoose. I then employed some techniques adapted from danny la rouge's dog-wrangling repertoire to keep the rodent calm whilst I took it up the garden on the board to the designated release point.

You threw the poor thing out in the rain? Monster.

 

[DaveCinzano]

it coud be a hamster? We lost ours about 10 years ago. Before then it had taken up residence in a biscuit tin.

I remember a few years back when they were making The Dark Knight at Pinewood that there were rumours about one of the film's stars going full spectrum erotic Freddy Starr on a night off in London

 

[geminisnake]

t I took it up the garden on the board to the designated release point.

Mmm, I hate to point this out but you take mice several miles away if you don't want them back in the house, and I do mean miles

 

[DaveCinzano]

Mmm, I hate to point this out but you take mice several miles away if you don't want them back in the house, and I do mean miles

 

[hitmouse]

That's a long way to keep it balanced on that board without it falling/scurrying off though.

 

[bimble]

I took some mice from my flat in a box on the overground train once, about 4 stops to a nice park in s. London.

 

[DaveCinzano]

That's a long way to keep it balanced on that board without it falling/scurrying off though.

The Tao of Murine-Taming is all about balance

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Mmm, I hate to point this out but you take mice several miles away if you don't want them back in the house, and I do mean miles

Which is cruel. It isn't actually kinder than killing them.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

I took some mice from my flat in a box on the overground train once, about 4 stops to a nice park in s. London.

Into an area they weren't established that was full of predators. I bet you felt good about it though.

 

[bimble]

Into an area they weren't established that was full of predators. I bet you felt good about it though.

I put them out near some nice big houses, the kind that might have larders. Felt a bit shifty but ok. I don’t think killing them would have been better, unless I ate them which didn’t fancy.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I took some mice from my flat in a box on the overground train once, about 4 stops to a nice park in s. London.

Completely plausible until you just went too far

 

[Magnus McGinty]

I put them out near some nice big houses, the kind that might have larders. Felt a bit shifty but ok. I don’t think killing them would have been better, unless I ate them which didn’t fancy.

Oh idk, it's sort of like me taking you to a place you've never been and expecting you to make it home only you don't have bank cards or a phone and maybe your family are where I took you from.