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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: plumseverywhere on January 22, 2012, 05:32:20 pm
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So...snowball the made siameseX cat decided to bring us the usual live offerings and as usual i tried to lift it by its tail into a box as provided by nearest child who is sent to get one where we go and release it ::) .
today though this one turned, jumped, screeched and jumped at me and bit me on the thumb knuckle!! and it really hurt. currently sporting a brown patch where hubby decided I might get an awful disease and made me douse with iodine 10% ;) 8 year old scooped rabid rodent into a sylvanian families box and bunged it into the sheep.
not a happy bunny as had I left it in the house there was a good chance it would have got under a skirting board and died leaving the awful aroma we currently have in the office where a dead critter is stinking and we can't find it aaaaaagh!!
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No good deed goes unpunished ;D
Hope your thumb doesn't drop off :o
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oh no......
i hope the mouse is OK ;D ;)
iodine can sting just as much
luckily our cat used to eat eveythin it caught
;D
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Vicious little mouse...not at all grateful for your help!!!
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sometimes, there's just no helping some things!
Smiled at the image of daughter with sylvanian families box ... you know the girls are country dwellers, she didn't want to put a waistcoat on it and move it into the Gypsy caravan!! :D
be thankful you've got iodine, in our house it would have been gentain violet livestock spray! ;)
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Get well soon, to your thumb :-*
Good luck to the mouse :thumbsup:
All our vermin are discounted we always get 50% off ! tails and back legs usually. It seems heads are a delicacy.
Our cat (who cannot be named for legal reasons) says ferrel means peril, a mouse in time saves Iodine.
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Smiled at the image of daughter with sylvanian families box ... you know the girls are country dwellers, she didn't want to put a waistcoat on it and move it into the Gypsy caravan!! :D
haha! there's an image!! scarlett was given a little family to move into her caravan today - thankfully it was rabbit sylvanians not mice, I might have sworn ;)
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Cheeky little mouse, there's you rescuing it and what's your thanks! Hope the thumb's fine :-*
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I will take with me to my grave the image of my now ex-hubby laughing but also screaming as a mouse released by his female SiameseX cat made a dart for an appealing dark hole - and ran straight up inside his trouser leg! :D
(He might have preferred a bitten thumb! ;) :D)
Hope yours heals ok plums :bouquet:
That particular cat used to always bring live 'presents' ::) When we had her and her brother it was no problem; Bro caught and ate them all. When Bro was gone, we found we had a mouse problem in our house because we had a cat! New baby Jacob made friends with one of these, so much so that we named him Bertie and regarded him as Jacob's pet. Then, as Jacob grew and developed adult skills - one day, he killed and ate Bertie. Brutal, eh?
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;D ;D ;D
That's so funny....
Your tetanus up to date?
But more seriously, I would have put some anti-bug stuff on it too... They can carry some nasties with them...
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It was the next generation in mouse evolution.
Human killers ;)
Sure you'll survive, even if it does mean supporting a brown iodine stain for a while.
funny :) - never can trust any of these little critters :) bless
Baz
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Your braver than me, they might only be tiny but theres no way I could bring myself to pick one up, not even by the tail. :o. Hope the thumb knuckle gets better soon. :bouquet:
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Ouch ! Hope it heals up soon and that our messages make you smile :D
Our Westie goes for the lizards but they are soon out of her reach when they run up the wall. She had great success one day though and, full of pride, brought her half into the house. The tail ! - it kept wriggling for ages and we watched the other half (Stumpy) grow a new tail throughout the summer. One of Stumpy's relative got revenge on Maddy by sacrificing itself on the back step. Maddy was sick as a dog (actually really ill )for 3 days !
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The tale (excuse the pun) is told in my family of my great-grandmother (a Victorian lady) spotting a mouse in her house and clambering onto the table where she yelled (in a genteel Victorian fashion) for the cat to catch the mouse. The cat just stood and looked up at her.
"Stupid cat. YOu're supposed to catch mice. Don't stand there looking at me." she is reported to have said, just before she felt something scrabbling at the top of her leg. Yes, the mouse has run up the inside of her long skirt. NO wonder the cat was watching her. ;D
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I had my thumb bitten by a bloody SPIDER that I was rescuing from the bath!! It drew blood and left two puncture wounds in the ball of my thumb :o :o
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I hate it when Freddie brings in live presents. However, it does keep the other two girls occupied for hours, just sitting and watching waiting for it to make an appearance. I usually find it dead a day or so later. Only twice in six years have I had to put poison down for one, usually behind my oven. Lovely!!!!!
Ive had a couple of small birds these last few months, dead, which I have no problem with, I just dread the day that Fred brings a frog in. Then I will have a problem on my hands as Im scared stiff of anything reptilian, especially frogs and toads, no matter how small they are.
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And the frogs scream so much. I know from experience when ours bought one in. Each time she pounced on it it screamed like a baby.
Sally
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Ooo ungrateful little mouse ;D hope your thumb is better soon
Sylvia, I knew spiders were dangerous (http://www.cosgan.de/images/smilie/konfus/a010.gif) (http://www.cosgan.de/smilie.php) and my hubby says they can't hurt me huh please tell me you don't live in Britain
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Years ago, we used to find dead, dried up, frogs in all sorts of new 'hiding places'. Once or twice I put them out on the front wall to freak the kids out on their way to school. Then one day I saw a young lad pick one up and sneakily pop it into the schoolbag of one of the girls in front...........
I soooooo would have liked to have been in the classroom when she reached in and pulled that out!
I know, mean, but funny.
:o ;D
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you should have used the wellie trick!!
hope the thumbs ok.
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fab stories, did make me smile!!
thumb is better thanks - just bruised. This morning hubby got up to find snowball lying on the kitchen floor 'hugging' a HUGE (decapitated) rat. lovely.
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When I had a cat flap - thankfully new doors put paid to that - I was on the phone one morning when the catflap flapped and in walked Rio with a junior rat hanging from his jaws. I told my friend nonchalantly what had just happened - HE screamed and told me to get off the phone and bag it and put it in the bin. (a full grown, 6 footer, married, with dogs - and he SCREAMED)
As I put the phone down, Rio put the rat down - and I screamed! It was still very much alive and started to box Rio with it's front paws.
Just then the phone rang, Peter came back on, and I said, 'it's still alive and they are play fighting' 'OK,' he said, 'keep talking and keep an eye on it. if it comes near you just hang up and run.' They ran all over the kitchen, well the rat did, Rio just sat on top of the dog cage and watched it. Then he pounced.
'Peter?'
'Yes'
'The rat is dead'
'Thank goodness, now what were we talking about'
'He's eating it'
'Oh for goodness sake, Annie, stop watching the bloody thing'
All was devoured before my very eyes except the tail! ::) ::) ::)
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OMG :D
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OMG too, I would have been dead of a heart attack ::)
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I have had baby rabbits and junior rats running bout the place courtesy of my cats. Plus shrews, which they caught but didn't like to eat, so they released them, shrews then ran into gaps in the house stone walls and just added to the livestock I can hear walking about behind my bedhead when I'm trying to go to sleep! :D
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Mice, frogs, rats, I'm not freaked out by them and would rather remove it than have it running around my kitchen.
I don't leave the cats to eat rats, any poison digested by the rat which may not have quite had the desired effect could in turn be ingested by the cat - not a risk I am willing to take (I don't use poison, but I know others do).
Least pleasent rat experience I had was when moggie came home (via catflap) during the very early hours, trotted into the bedroom, and gave a hello meow (which woke me up) - at which point the very large and very angry rat took it's chance to jump out of his mouth - onto my head and through my hair...........
Apol, bit off topic.
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When I was moving our chickens out of the end stable I had to move a load of last years hay which was being used as an area for them to lay/get on top/get into the rafters. When I got down to the second to last layer I found the nest. When I got down to the last layer, above a couple of pallets, two of the biggest rats I've ever seen scrabbled like hell to get underneath the pallets. I spent the next few minutes doing the crazy 'quick, grab and drag' of the bales off the pallets. Then, with shovel at the ready, I moved the first pallet, nothing. I then moved the second one and they both scamplered past me, and straight up the wall and out underneath the gables with me squealing/ screaming/ shouting/ bashing at nothing with the shovel.
I'm the Captain, and I'm a 6ft 1" wuss!!!
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Ooo ungrateful little mouse ;D hope your thumb is better soon
Sylvia, I knew spiders were dangerous (http://www.cosgan.de/images/smilie/konfus/a010.gif) (http://www.cosgan.de/smilie.php) and my hubby says they can't hurt me huh please tell me you don't live in Britain
Yes, Daisy, I do live in Britain ;D It was a wolf-spider, the kind you usually see in baths, and,I think had been poked about by a nervous grandson, he was trying to get it to go back down the plug-hole. They don't usually bite! I've always just picked them up and put them outside(I don't now ;D ;D I trap them in a glass)
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My eldest is terrified of spiders after being bitten by one, much likes yours, in the bathroom a couple of years ago. Nasty little b$£%ard, I swear it was wearing Doc Martins!
Ooo ungrateful little mouse ;D hope your thumb is better soon
Sylvia, I knew spiders were dangerous (http://www.cosgan.de/images/smilie/konfus/a010.gif) (http://www.cosgan.de/smilie.php) and my hubby says they can't hurt me huh please tell me you don't live in Britain
Yes, Daisy, I do live in Britain ;D It was a wolf-spider, the kind you usually see in baths, and,I think had been poked about by a nervous grandson, he was trying to get it to go back down the plug-hole. They don't usually bite! I've always just picked them up and put them outside(I don't now ;D ;D I trap them in a glass)
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Sorry for your pain but it is funny ;D
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This is fun -
When we moved here the estate agent told us about the snakes. We asked how bad their bites are and he showed us his anti-venom pack. Well he said "there are 2 types and one gives a bad bite that the anti-venom pack is for and the other - well you have 30-40 minutes to get to hospital".
In August - after having had a nasty spider bite that I kept showing off and describing the pain to the OH ( as only a man would) - I saw a snake outside the kitchen door - it slid into our fantastic herb bed. All summer I cooked with dried herbs and I plan to dismantle the rockery when we have snow or -15 degrees that ensures the snake is frozen.
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My eldest is terrified of spiders after being bitten by one, much likes yours, in the bathroom a couple of years ago. Nasty little b$£%ard, I swear it was wearing Doc Martins!
Sylvia, I knew spiders were dangerous (http://www.cosgan.de/images/smilie/konfus/a010.gif) (http://www.cosgan.de/smilie.php) and my hubby says they can't hurt me huh please tell me you don't live in Britain
Yes, Daisy, I do live in Britain ;D It was a wolf-spider, the kind you usually see in baths, and,I think had been poked about by a nervous grandson, he was trying to get it to go back down the plug-hole. They don't usually bite! I've always just picked them up and put them outside(I don't now ;D ;D I trap them in a glass)
I haven't been bitten by one but have had one come at me when I was trying to vac it up! (Sorry, don't like to harm them, but at the time was recently ensingled and still very very uncomfortable with spiders rampaging around the house, so did what I had to do. I hated the guilt so much I got help with the phobia and can be a bit more live and let live with them now!)
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I've been chased by a wolf spider. I have to get my OH to hoover them. I can't get that close. Trouble is he is blind so I am standing outside the door peering round and saying, "Left a bit, right a bit. Now!" and screaming and running if the spider moves.
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I've been chased by a wolf spider. I have to get my OH to hoover them. I can't get that close. Trouble is he is blind so I am standing outside the door peering round and saying, "Left a bit, right a bit. Now!" and screaming and running if the spider moves.
I can just picture it!! ;) :D
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Trouble is, he can't.
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Jay says he wished you lived closer - he's terrified of spiders & could do with your husband & hoover!!
(and also that "there's not much that man can't do!" :) :wave:
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Jay says he wished you lived closer - he's terrified of spiders & could do with your husband & hoover!!
(and also that "there's not much that man can't do!" :) :wave:
He has his uses.