Mice!

[beccatoria]

We have a mouse.

Last time we had a mouse we named it Love the Mouse.

This time we have named it Chairman Mouse.

We'd put down traps or poison or something, but it seems sort of mean, not to mention futile since it's not an infestation (and never seems to have developed into such in our two years of living here) and we live in crummy old terraced housing so the mice have, basically, the run of the whole street.

In other news I am crap at keeping up with the internets these last few weeks. Hopefull this will soon change.

Soon I shall leave Chairman Mouse with the run of the kitchen and go buy the new Harry Potter book. For yes, I am going to a midnight opening for the first (and obviously last) time.

Comments

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Indeed and as fun as it sounds to capture them, release them, and then watch them run back inside to start the cycle again, it seems rather cheaper to simply leave the bugger and go AWWW! every time we see his little tail disappearing behind the cooker.

I'll get worried if they start showing up more often, but so far, it's infrequently, and they don't seem able to get up onto any of the countertops or appliances or cupboards, so our food is safe and there shouldn't be an immediately dreadful hygiene problem.

Plus the other problem is, like I said, even if we get our house well and truly trapped-up, unless the rest of the houses in the row do so (and at least some of the houses/flats are empty/abandoned at the moment) it's an exercise in futility as they'll just keep moving through. *sigh*

At least I'm not afraid of mice? Unlike my 6'2" 16-stone flatmate?

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

I saw a little mouse in the garden today chomping a really long length of grass. You know the old cartoons with the carrots that vanish into the ground when a rabbit comes along? It was almost exactly like that.