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I was at work today. And after my break I made my way down stairs to find 10 women stood on chairs in the reception area.
I stood laughing at them and then pulled myself together enough to ask " what's wrong with you lot??" Apparently 2 little mice had run from under the curtain chasing each other playfully. So all the women decided to jump for cover. Me!! little me said " oh where are they??" so I sat on a chair very still for 5 minutes......then these 2 little cheeky buggers ran from under the curtain. My mum came down and asked what I was watching so I told her.......so me and mum were sat there watching these 2 little mice playing TIG with each other. ( Best bit of fun I have had all day) then one women in a sort of gasp said " OHHHH we will have to tell the handyman so he can lay traps to kill them" ..................oh yeah BITCH!! ya think so do ya.:mad: About 1 month ago there was a little mouse that lived in the staff room.....so they put a trap down..............well lets just say, the trap isn't there any more but the mouse is still living :D Do mice bother you?? or is it live and let live?? |
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Ah... mice are sooo cute. Something similar happened to me in work a couple of months ago.
Went in work at 10.00 to find one of the girls stood on a chair in the kitchen and the other up on the work top. Their faces were a picture. Talk about laugh. Me and my collegue eventually tracked this mouse down in the loo. It was only a baby field mouse. It just sat looking at us with this proper cheeky look. Put it in a jug and let it go out side. How can anybody be scared of a cute baby mouse |
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2 little black mice!!! but they were fast little buggers when they were playing together..:D |
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They dont bother me - when i was a kid we had a mouse that got in and i was sat there watching it running around the living room. Mum & Dad came home and the mouse did a runner just as mum came in through the door and she screamed and rang the 'mouse man' (council) the next day! She hated them. What i dont like are rats - theyre too big and horrible!
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I wouldn't like a Rat running around in my house Jen!! But I can't say that they bother me!! I actually wanted one as a pet once before......but Ginger said " You can have a hamster and that's it" hahaha he isn't very fond of our fury friends you see.:D
But these were baby Field mice!! sooo playful.....and entertained me no end lol..... Just don't think the others girls were too impressed :D |
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it made my day!!!!:D |
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Neither would i - it was bad enough in my back garden! Mind you i was lying on a sunbed at the time and a rat ran underneath it!
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Tame rats are OK. I would have loved an albino one but Mick don't like furry critters.
It's spiders I'm scared of. All those horrid scuttling legs. At mice are cute little things. |
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Can't stand spiders.....ugly little things and if no-one is with me to catch them I don't think twice about squishing them. But mice are adorable!!!! Me and tinks had pet mice when we were kids ( til she killed mine ):o I think that is why they don't bother me........I just find them cheeky but adorable.:D |
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One mouse is all very well, two mice may not seem much worse but two mice very quickly become a great many more mice and I certainly wouldn't want them in the house poo-ing and piddling all over the place. Very unhygienic.
Pet ones are a different matter, they are caged and under control. |
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And your point is?? I work in a nursing home!! what's the difference between a elderly person doing it and a mouse :D:D Oh yeah I know!!! the elderly pee much more and it smells more...............I say rid the elderly.....keep the mice.:D:D |
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Behind my office car park are the backs of several Asian restaurants and take-aways. I would never consider eating in any of them as their back yards are full of rats.
OK, rats are carriers of diseases and when I had one living in my garage a couple of Winters ago I got the Council to dispose of it for health reasons (plus it ate great big holes in my wellies to line its nest). The rats near my office, though, are interesting to watch. I have stood still, many times, in the back alley and watched them. They are fascinating and, frankly, quite cute. Put bushy hairs on their tails and you've got squirrels. They play and fight, they forage for food in dustbins and they bring their babies out when the weather is warm. At least 2 of my colleagues won't take the short-cut through the alley in case they see a rat. I don't know what they think the rats will do to them, when the rat smells a human, it runs for cover. Mice are very similar. The problem is, if they take over a house they leave trails of poo everywhere and it's the hygene problem again. Otherwise they are, like rats, just animals trying to make a living. |
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I'm with you slinky. Give me mice any day.
Your lucky I couldn't get near enough to a spider to sqish it. Not has bad now with them has I was its when they start to scuttle with those horrid legs. Ugh.Ewww |
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We had a plague of mice in our house once, piddling and widdling all over the contents of the cupboards, apparently they leave a trail of urine wherever they go. There was poo everywhere too. They came in from the house next door when we were away one summer and feasted on the dog biccies in our pantry. They had a little picnic site on a ledge behind the fridge.
I got humane traps and released the ones I caught up in the fields up Green Haworth. |
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Sorry i aint a mouse person i do the damsel in distress quite literally - ask the avenue i previously lived in :eek: i woke up the darn neighbourhood when one critter ran from under the pc desk late one night interupting freeserve chat lol. I had all the young chav's in to get shut i shall not say how hehehehe
We have them living here in the attic & as long as they stay out my way & dont make a racket cos if they do im afraid mouseman comes up:D Spiders - now bring em on i like them & protect them from my daughter cos if she spots them then i have to remove them out of her sight & let em back in later - shhhhh lol |
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You did what??? OMG! Willow do you know how many problems we have with them up here!! The little blighters scale my cladding and nest in my loft. NOISY! I've never heard owt like it! They like their early nights but have no respect for the meaning of a lie-in! I can't keep anything up in the loft anymore they nibble and nest on all my christmas decs. I get mouse-man out every year at extortionate prices, they laugh their little heads off and avoid the blue pellets. I'm going to get a big cat to live in the loft ;) |
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Cool :D:D fair swopsies is that u will know when i do cos you'll hear me scream like a major girlpants LOL i've got a loverly big friendly spider thats just come out now daughter is out the way heheheehe daddy spider knows the drill, safe & warm climbing the wall hehehehe |
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Roflmao!!! I taught them well......................keep going lads!!! :D:D |
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Oh yeh tell me about it they sound like a herd of elephants!! now tell mouseman u want the big red balls - they work to keep em from the floorboards bet my bedroom floor & lounge ceiling <touching wood now as my 12mnths is up> |
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yeah that daddy spider would know the safe side of my slipper too :mad: you ever get a little mousy and I will get him and let him free.......they are lovely and cute!! and if you put your legs up and stop fitting.......just watch how cheeky they are!! entertainment for free them little buggers.:D |
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When we had our old (ancient) central heating boiler in the kitchen a mouse once made its home beneath it, behind the pump. We had a ginger cat, called Murphy, at the time. My husband, on discovering evidence of said mouse, picked the cat up and placed him next to the boiler, saying, "Go get him, boy", or words to that effect. The cat gave him a look that said, quite plainly, " Fer gawd's sake don't be so bloody stupid. What do you think I am, a contortionist?"
I solved the problem. I got a wooden spoon and banged it on the side of the boiler, for 5 minutes, with the back door open. The mouse, obviously with its ears ringing, shot out of the tiny gap under the front hatch and disappeared into the garden. :p |
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THAT IS SOOO TIGHT! Spiders have such a cute smile when they've just done Spider v's Wasp ...... and they win :D |
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You lot are just sooooooooooooooooooo UN greatful!!! they only do that so you are awake to enjoy the lovely warm sunshine :D |
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LOL! That's the problem! I've been told that cats don't really like to chase mice or I would get the biggest tabby I could find and put it in my loft in autumn as a doorman (your names not down your not coming in type thing) ...... but I hate cats with a passion so can't see the point if it won't do the job I'm asking of it :rolleyes: |
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I said Green Haworth, not Fern Gore. I put them in a field. :D
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Yep ever since we've had cats there's been no signs of mice around here.
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YEP lol! Yours get into the floor boards, mine go into the bay in my room and the girls floorboards. So i get woke at silly hours by bleary eyed kids saying "mum someones in the loft" |
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HOW VERY DARE YOU!!! (Catherine Tate Show) Fern Gore is across the road! |
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See we should be green howarth really LOL:D |
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Hang on, I'll look for a map. :D
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Thankyou, that would be much appreciated :D |
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me either i swoped a central heated, shower 3 bed new house for this one on top of a hill with the loverly view - specially of the storms:D
Erm so the view definately swung it LOL Least the mice havent showed themselves yet unlike at that ^^ house |
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OMG Willow......you're pointing to their shed!!!! quick change it!!! :) |
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Crikey they don't live in that derelict old chapel do they? :D
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Willow next time a little to the left ....... You don't mind do you ;) :D
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OMG!!! Willow :eek: thats a bit too close for comfort - so me & tinks have become your mices rescue centre by proxy now
Right mouseman!!!!!!!:D |
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Well we haven't had any meeces for over 5 years so any of my releasees will be dead by now. You probabaly have their great, great, great, great grandchildren.
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I don't mind rodents... I wouldn't like them crawling all over me 'I'm a Celebrity Style', but on the whole, I can tolerate them. What I would like to say though is..... there may be mice in your nursing home and you can bet your bottom dollar that there are more than 2. If there were mice, playing visibly in the hospital, there would be a public outcry and it would be front page news in the LET (cos let's face it, they've nowt better to write about). I'm afraid that your boss will have to do something about the mice if he/she knows about them.. It's sad but true, nursing homes have to comply with pretty much the same legislation as hospitals..:( If I were you Slinks, I'd conduct a daring rescue and turn them loose somewhere before they are trapped, poisoned or whatever the pest control people are doing now..:D |
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I had an Albino one a few years back and it was as mischievous as they come. As they can be litter trained love to play (plenty of toys required) they provide hours of fun whatching them. Used to answer the door with them on my shoulders just to upset people who would go nuts untill I explained they were pets and it was no different than having hamsters or gerbils etc. |
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