Manky Monkey Motors

Sat at the computer, about midnight last night. Taz had gone to bed & I wasn't far behind. I suddenly spot something move out of the corner of my eye. It's O.K, it's probably the cat  ...hang on, we haven't got a cat. Bugger, if it was a spider, it must be bloody huge.
Then it moved again. I turn to look & there's a ...mouse. Bold as you like, running from the kitchen door, across the living room carpet, straight towards me. Argh! I'm a recent convert to this country lifestyle thing, having been a townie all my life. What are you supposed to do? Grab something big & heavy & whack it? the telephone & computer monitor were the only things to hand & neither looked like they'd be particularly effective, besides which, squished mouse on the carpet wasn't a pleasant thought. Trap it in something? like what? Jump on the chair & scream like a girlie? I considered this, but Taz was already fast asleep upstairs, beyond screaming range.
In the end I stamped my foot & it darted under a cupboard. 2 minutes later it was back out again. Sat there, just watching me. I stamped. It hid. It came back out. I stamped again. We continued this stand-off for 10 minutes or so until we both got bored with it. Eventually I admitted defeat & backed off, running up to bed & hiding under the covers.
Love watching the wildlife outside in the garden, but not so keen on sharing the living room with it. So somewhere, lurking in a dark corner, watching, he's waiting for me. EEEEEEEEK!!!!!   :o

wuss

Waiting with all his mouse pals,untill you are alone in the house.................................y' gert big girl  ::) ;D

omg pmsl reading that  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D hahahahahahaha

Get a shotgun. ;D

put a bit of chocolate out,i know its a huge sacrifice,but they love it,then beat it to death with a shovel ;D

You dont want a "Chocolate Moose" running round the house  .......... their fattening  ...........    ;D


  ..  Hagar  ..   ;D

When I lived in a 17th century farmhouse I had mice in my bedroom - they ate my melon-seed necklace!  So I borrowed a mousetrap from me boss's wife and set it at night and caught a mouse.  Every night for 10 nights.  Dunno if there was any more cos she wanted it back again for the ones in the kitchen!

Be a man Mr.M and ask tanya to 'shoooo' it out, then spend some of your hard earned cash and buy her something nice, like a new seat for YOUR trike.
Should we change your name to Brave Sir Robin?

( Girlie, Girlie, Girlie ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D)

Regards
K ( The not so brave)

It's a killer I tell you! Great big slobbery fangs. Huge claws. A real nasty look in it's eye. I was lucky to escape with my life.
Taz donned protective clothing & managed to corner it by the kitchen door this evening, but it leapt at her, knocked her to the ground & trampled over her to escape again. The monster's still on the rampage, but Taz has set an electronic mouse trap, baited with peanut butter, under the kitchen units. If it enters the trap it'll be toast. Peanut butter & toast.
If we survive the night we'll check the trap in the morning. Watch this mouse space.  :o

leave the poor little bugger alone it has to live some where    so why not youre house




 after all a     manky monkey live,s there    ;D ;D

There's an 800 acre country estate outside the back door -it's very welcome to live there.

Its a vole. Not even a mouse.

weve normally got two or three in and around the house  but there,s none at the moment  mile,s and mile,s of open farm land around us but they seem to come in when the weather is bad

O.K, so it's a vicious vole then.  :o

Oh how I've just laughed reading all this. Well the little beast has now been zapped. I don't like the snappy traps as I remember as a child my mum setting those sorts of traps and unless they snap on them properly it doesn't always kill them straight away and can be messy so as Manky wimpy Monkey has said we have an electronic trap and put a bit of peanut butter in it. It as a metal plate which they walk on and are instantly zapped clean simple and quiclky with no mess. You just open the lid, shake the body out and done. I used to have the live traps and let them out on the estate but they kept coming back. I don't mind them outside but pooing allover the house is not my idea or fun. I've re-set the zapper just in case he has any friends.

peanut butt voll on toast  :) save me sum  :-*

She killed Vernan!  :'(
Manky's trying not to upset her & sleeping with one eye open from now on.

I'm so sad for you Mr.M, look out for peanut butter sandwiches, or should I say jaffa cakes. Check the area thouroghly for metal paltes. Don't forget to look under the carpets.
Regards
K

P.S Don't tell Tanya that I tipped you off (I value my neck too and she just might gang up on me with Mrs.K)

i had a spider problem until puppy decided actually there quite tasty...  ;D

our dog/s  chase fly,s thay have allready smashed a window trying to get to a fly on the other side of the glass

We were at Tino's Rod & Custom in Mitcham the other day. He's got a yard full of old cars around the back of the workshop. His big ol' dog chases the rats round & round between the cars. One of 'em's got a huge dent in the door. Apparently the hound was chasing a rat at full pelt & it dived under the car. The dog's huge & just ploughed head first straight into the door. Tino said the whole car shook, & he thought his mutt must've bust his neck at least.
He just got up, shook his head & carried on chasing.

TUT TUT TUT!!!!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/may/22/water-vole-release-devon

I just had an emergency shout from Mike - Bob!  Chester's got a mouse!

It had disappeared behind the chest in the hall but Mike said it had been sitting up on its hind legs and boxing at Chester with its paws before it ran behind the chest.  So I got out my patent home-made mouse-catching box and put it in place then started moving stuff from behind the chest, only to find it was an ex mouse!  It had expired and was lying there on its back with its paws in the air, bit sad really after standing up to the cat!  We reckon maybe it had died of shock....

I catch them live and let them go where they can get under the garden shed, I'm a softy, me!

Water voles TB. Ours was a common Surrey garden vole. We've got lakes here on the estate, but it'd be a long hike for a vole from there to our kitchen. I was secretly hoping we could catch it live & release it -it was cute. Taz was right though, couldn't let it stay on the loose in the hoose house. The harsh reality of country life.  :(

Ah but i remember the days when we had common garden beavers...sadly they too became extinct and are currently under going a re-introduction programme  ;D ;D ;D

And the great British aardvark of course. When was the last time you saw one of those in your garden.

Would that be a cross between a Vixen and a Mole then?