A moose, loose, aboot thas hoose.

Rainmaker

Rainmaker

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Bloody thing. The kids just came in to say the eldest 'thought' she saw something run under the couch. "Naaa" says I. You'll be imagining things. I went to move the chair to show her, and nothing.

"See?" :D

My grin quickly turned to a bit more like :eek: as a black/melanistic adult mouse ran between my legs lol Little sod. I missed it by an inch, and my terrier came running in (the youngest had the brainwave to let her loose lol). Cue mouse bolting again, and the terrier grabbing for it. Too slow.

It disappeared behind the TV stand, so we had all that out. No sign. I've spent an hour, pouring in sweat, emptying the living room, moving furniture etc and I can't find the little blighter anywhere. There are no obvious entry or exit points, the air vent has (intact) fine steel mesh inside the cover, and there are no holes or gaps in the carpet that I can see.

Rats, I don't mind. They're big, they're slow(er) and they're easy for a terrier to sniff out and catch. Stuart Little's black cousin on the other hand, is a bit smaller and faster. It's gonna be a long night. I'll have plenty of poison down by tomorrow, hopefully that'll nail the little sod(s). One of the downsides of the rear of your property looking over nothing but a huge great farmer's field lol

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Thinking back, I'm wondering if the terrier bitch didn't actually catch and eat it. There's literally nowhere it could have escaped from out of that room. Wall-to-wall fitted carpet with no gaps, no air vents, no holes. Even the little drill hole carrying the cable wire is silicone-sealed in.

She did, half way through, dive under the coffee table and start "pushing on"/jerking and growled at our other terrier, her son as if to say "get away". She then joined me and sat next to me, no longer all excited. I'm wondering if she wasn't growling to say "my food" and she's swallowed it. She's eaten rats a few times after catching them so a little mouse is nothing to her. That'd explain her calming down and sitting next to me instead of going nuts still looking for it as she normally would.

It's the not knowing that's doing my head in. :p
 
I was expecting something exciting with a moose and all we get is a mouse. Hope it stays with you for a few days. :p:D
 
This reminds me of when one of my friends phoned me up in the middle of the night screaming that a mouse was under her fridge.
Luckily I had my trusty spy cam with me and caught it all on video. It took us over an hour to catch the sod even though we knew exactly where it was.
We kept putting cheese under a bowl and it would run under the bowl and grab the cheese before you could even react.

This is when we finally caught it:


It was released unharmed. :)
 
joey1211 said:
You'd prefer a rat to a mouse!!! Good god, i'd probably sleep in the car.
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In normal circumstances I'd agree. But I keep and work terriers, and 90% of their bread and butter is finding and catching rats. So in my case a rat's easy peasy to find and get rid of in less than a minute. A mouse on the other hand is much more of a headache. :)
 
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