lol...

Wawawaaaaa the wild mouse (Ruban) has killed my hamster!! He attacked him yesterday night and now he's dead!!! I've just buried Pebbles (who was 2 years old when he died) and I'm gonna make a mini gravestone for him soon!!! I'm not sure if I should get a new hamster though... hmmm... at least the mouse is gone I think now though I'll try not to leave the back door open now!!! And as for cats... I've seen one killing a bird and a frog but never a mouse!!! I have seen a mouse being eaten by hundreds of red ants though...not very pleasant to see... especially when the mouse's eye juices are being sucked by the ant...ewwww lol

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cant believe Pebbles is gone....<EVIL MOUSE>> GRRRRRRRRRRR

Noooo, how awful!!!

I know!!! I'll have to change my signature too I think... I didn't know wild mice were vicious!!!

Kind of backs my 'mice and rats are evil i hate them' theory...Pebs was so sweet!!!!

Anything wild can be vicious.....it's survival, and they don't like being cornered.

Unfortunately a domestic hamster would have no idea how to defend himself.

What about the whole 'gut instinct' thing anyway? Dont cats fight all the time?

Despite their best intentions, I suspect a nice domestic moggie wouldn't really stand a chance in a full-blown scrap with a feral cat: they hunt for fun, not so much to kill and eat, so I doubt they quite as well practised.

Actual only domestic cats play with their food like this. Ferrel (sp?) cats will pouncy bite and swallow.....

1) Dont put the mouse in with hammy. Hammy will kill it or it will die of shock.

2) Humane traps are the best simple to operate and use. Dont use cheese as bait they dont really like it. Bacon is best!

LOL i dont have any pets so i would know...

poor Pebs though...<sniff>

Bad mouse at least he's gone now anyway. Pebbles is buried under the rose bush!! That's my 4th pet now I think... I've had tadpoles, a dog, a gerbil, 2 turtles, fish and a hamster. Poor Pebbles... ahh well... I've seen cats play with those balls of wool or something and they look cute!!

Your next pet perhaps?

Not all of them are DEAD are they? I mean, Chips still ok isnt he??

My turtle (called turtle!!) is in China he's very big and green!! and my dog is in China with another owner and chasing lots of slippers lol. My friend had a random cat who never ate fish or caught mice but just ate Beef (whiskas)!!

True - and also even the nicest domesticated moggie is not as domesticated as dogs/hamsters/gerbils are, in that they still tend to be fairly independent and prowl their territory etc - so I don't think you can compare a cat to a hamster in that respect!

Cats!! Yay!! I still prefer dogs though they're my all time favourite animals! I didn't put the mouse in my hamsters cage by the way, I'd never do that! The mouse was rrreeally tiny (smaller than an egg) and that's how it attacked Pebbles. He's still here as well my dad just saw him!! CPPF said something about ringing the council...

Unfortunately we once had a mouse in the house - it was under the stairs and had chewed its way into a sack of dog food so after several unsuccessful attempts to trap it in a humane trap - i.e. one that would catch the mouse so I could release it later - I had to resort to a proper mousetrap.

Yay!! Got a mousetrap from B&Q it's one where the mouse doesn't get harmed...hope it likes peanut butter!! On the back of the pack it says mice normally live in families... does that mean there might be more than 1??

they like little pieces of fried bacon (serious)

so if you have a moos loose aboot this hoose....!

Oooh grrr, hate wild rodents! My guinea pig's head was decapitated by an evil rat when I was 12. Poor lil Pebbles!

Wasn't that an advert for something....ah, someone was doing an impression the other day....what was it an advert for? I'm not going to sleep tonight, this'll be bothering me too much:(, hehe

EDIT: And the moose was headbanging!! Argh, what WAS it???????

Maynard's Wine Gums

Ah yes!! That person asked my to do an animation of a moose doing that.....which I might do at some point actually..

i think the moos loos aboot this hoose was a bite from an instrumental number from way yesteryear, music hall days or around then. a scotsman delivered the line.
the fifties?

Sorry...what does decapitated mean again? Poor guinea pig! Evil rat!!
I've never seen winegums being advertised before...but it sounds like a groovy advert!! Hmm the mouse hasn't gone in the mousetrap yet... I'm sure all mice like peanut butter...

Hello, Walking Dictionary is back!

Decapitated
To cut the head of; behead

Car Expert

Thanks! Poor guinea pig.... ewww got a vision of a headless guinea pig... well it's not as bad as the headless chicken i saw in china that was freaky!!!

Bet no one can beat my mouse problem!
We caught a whopping 26 mice in my BEDROOM CUPBOARDS (!) last winter and 12 in the loft! I've got cupboards under the eaves in my room so the mice used to just slide down into them from the roof. We started off with humane traps and bought a cat, then progressed to normal traps when the cat got bored off mice and moved on to birds, then we evenutally gave in and got the council round with a rather large tub of poison.
Thankfully we have now fully renovated our house so unless the mice are carrying pick axes with them this winter, they sure as ###### aint getting into my bedroom cupboards again!

apparently the opposite word to heaven is a bad word? oopsi!

Bet I can.

We helped a pet shop out when it was closing down, by offering to take the mice. Ha! What we didn't realise was that some of the mice were small enough to be able to get out through the bars even of a mouse cage.

That was nearly a year ago.

Now, we have three multi-catch live traps permanently set, and every few days we manage to catch a half-grown litter which we transfer to cages. So far we have been able to supply a local pet shop but now it is beginning to look as if we are running out of places to take the youngsters. I am constantly putting food and water down in the rodent room (we keep hamsters too) and they certainly get through a lot. I guess we have about 40 cages in there. Cages with baby mice in have to be kept in the bath because the babies can get through the bars. Right now there are three mouse cages in the bath and another two cages that really do need to go in the bath as soon as I can possibly move some out. All this would not be quite so bad if male mice would live happily in groups but often they fight.

There has been a mouse loose in the office for several weeks, often he runs out from under the clavinova and across the room, sometimes he comes onto the desk and runs in front of the PC monitor, but we can't catch him. Quite often we get one in the bedroom. There is also one loose in the bathroom.

One cage we have in the bathroom probably has about 40 young mice in it - I haven't counted but they get through a full bottle of water every day. Once they are a little bigger that will be a major problem - we are hoiping the pet shop might be able to have a few next week.

Liz

I hate all rodents apart from hamsters and rabbits i think!Rats are evil, i had a panic attack last year when we were downstairs in my aunties apartment and it was night time and really dark and she , not knowing about my phobia and the fact that i was wearing flipflops, casually mentioned that a family of MASSIVE rats lived there and would come and scamper over your feet...i literally RAN down the stairs and outside!

Elidatrading:can't mice climb out of the bath?or is it too slippery?

Rabbits aren''t rodents are they????

I cant remember who told me cute lil bunnies are classed as rodents but someone definitely did!

They're Lagomorphs, an order of mammals.

oh...

The ones around here are andropomorphs, I'm sure. Awwwww what cute little bunnies

Wabbits!! I like most of the rabbits but I don't like the albino ones that much and I don't know why. I love lots of rodents!! Chinchillas!! And not sure if squirrels are rodents, think they are but I like them too. Just not when they attack our bird feeder... hmmm okay the mouse doesn't seem to be going in the mouse trap...that could mean it's gone!!!

It didn't actually have no head, lets just say it's head had a much larger surface area.



Squirrels!! (they're rodents aren't they YAP?)

Yes, they are. And they're great; especially red ones

I've never seen a red one, just grey ones. I don't live in quiet areas. But I hat squirrels, they keep eating my mums fruit trees, in the summer it was the strawberries now it's the apples.

I saw a red squirrel in the North of Scotland. It was very beautiful and just stayed sat on a branch of a Rowan tree while we admired it.

Too slippery.

The funniest thing we saw was when we cam back from shopping one day and saw a mouse literally climbing the stairs. We were both so flabbergasted that we just stood there and stared at it.

Liz

Aww wicked! Red squirrels are groovy i've only seen one in america, never in england because they're too rare I think... I've had a squirrel climb on my arm before that was weird! The rarest wild animal I've seen before... would have to be... emm... I don't know!! lol well I've seen a wild gecko randomly stuck in a window... and I saw a wild pigeon giving birth to a baby pigeon, well laying an egg rather!

Only grey squirrels round here..

don't you like them?

I dont mind them...but they've driven all the red squirrels away and i like red ones better!

My mum has squirrels regularly tearing apart the birdfeeders in her garden

Does anyone remember those programmes on TV when they used to make obstacle courses and the squirrels learned to get to the food past all sorts of clever barriers?

We sometimes get red squirrels round here - admittedly not many, as there are definitely more greys than reds but there are certainly areas of the woods where the odd red squirrel can be seen.

Hehe we had rats in the hedge near us,, eeeew!!