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luvanddaisies
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Kitten Day has arrived, and Jasmine & Daisy are now in residence. They're a bit wary of us and their new surroundings, but after a brief explore of the living-room, they've both conked out fast asleep together, hidden behind an armchair.
Jasmine seems a bit less worried, and keener on being handles and stroked than Daisy, but they've only been here an hour or so, so it's early days. So tiny, sweet, vulnerable and fragile!
If anyone's got a suggestion for where is a good place to post photos I can link to here, I can post some.
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Kelly Alves
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That is so hard, Judy.
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Piglet
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{{JJ, Daughter-Unit and Snickerdoodle}} ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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Boogie
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Gypsy has been with us for a week today - it's been great fun! I have loved every minute.
I have started a blog about her - in my sig.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Snickerdoodle is taking his journey to the Rainbow Bridge this evening. His very kind vet is opening his office after hours so both D-U and her hubby can be there. I will be, too.
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ElaineC
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For Snickerdoodle and all who will miss him.
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Piglet
Islander
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{{JJ, D-U and Mr. D-U}}
RIP Snickerdoodle.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Thank you all for your kind thoughts and love. D-U says to thank you, too.
Even though this was heartbreaking, it was the right thing to do. Snicks had to fight for each breath and had no strength. God bless his very kind vet.
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Kittyville
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So sorry to hear, jedijudy. RIP Snickerdoodle.
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St Everild
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I am so sorry to hear about Snickerdoodle, JJ.
Sometimes it is the kindest thing, but knowing that doesn't make it any easier...
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Sipech
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Found a visitor this evening. I thought I heard the tap dripping so went to the kitchen to have a look and it turns out some plastic packaging that had fallen on the floor was being rustled by a murine guest. The little blighter ran through a small gap between a cupboard and and the washing machine before I could get near.
Should I go looking for a little nipper mousetrap do you think?
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ChastMastr
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quote:
Originally posted by TheAlethiophile:
Found a visitor this evening. I thought I heard the tap dripping so went to the kitchen to have a look and it turns out some plastic packaging that had fallen on the floor was being rustled by a murine guest. The little blighter ran through a small gap between a cupboard and and the washing machine before I could get near.
Should I go looking for a little nipper mousetrap do you think?
A humane one that doesn't kill him, please.
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daisydaisy
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Over a week ago a dog got into my garden and spooked my 2 cats, and then got into a neighbours garden and spooked their black cat Charlie even more, so much that he disappeared. Today, on my drive to the allotment, I saw a black cat that hissed at me when I went up to him (Charlie's usual greeting) and attacked me when I managed to get hold of him (I have old scars from this particular cat), and together with the tell-tale gash in his ear this all confirmed it was him. I got him into the car (onlookers must have thought I was cat-napping!) and got him home to a very relieved family who he greeted much more calmly than he did me. I'll be glad to see him tomorrow when he calls in for his 2nd breakfast.
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Originally posted by daisydaisy:
Over a week ago a dog got into my garden and spooked my 2 cats, and then got into a neighbours garden and spooked their black cat Charlie even more, so much that he disappeared. Today, on my drive to the allotment, I saw a black cat that hissed at me when I went up to him (Charlie's usual greeting) and attacked me when I managed to get hold of him (I have old scars from this particular cat), and together with the tell-tale gash in his ear this all confirmed it was him. I got him into the car (onlookers must have thought I was cat-napping!) and got him home to a very relieved family who he greeted much more calmly than he did me. I'll be glad to see him tomorrow when he calls in for his 2nd breakfast.
Like!
Mrs. S, who has known cats like this ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
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Piglet
Islander
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Good on you, Daisydaisy!
CM, I can understand your squeamishness/soft-heartedness regarding Little Visitors™, but we get them all the time* and much as we'd rather not harm them, we've found that they just jump over the humane traps (and sometimes the spring-loaded ones too).
* Our next-door neighbours have three fairly evil-looking cats, and there are several others in our road, so the mice look at our house and think, "Ooh - cat-free zone!" ... ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif)
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ChastMastr
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Indeed, I wish there was a way to magically teleport them to a grassy field far away or something, where they could cavort appropriately.
I thought no-kill traps pretty much were one-way boxes that one could then use to safely release them elsewhere (or keep them as pets in their dedicated Habitrail, or raise them into one's own army of mice AND TAKE OVER THE WORLLLLD ahem sorry)... ![[Confused]](confused.gif) But I know little of the ways of controlling mice and of course you don't want to have then being pests and getting into cupboards and things, so I shall try to understand.
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Lamb Chopped
Ship's kebab
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If you have one, you have five (at least); and I'm told there's no mercy in taking them out into a field etc. because they are house mice and don't really know how to survive there. (Someone can tell me I'm wrong!) But I fear you'd just be getting them right back in the house again (no house so tight a mouse cannot get in), or else an owl would thank you for a free dinner.
and since the cute wee things are incontinent (like, everywhere and at all times), you really don't want them running over your countertops etc.
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ChastMastr
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Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
and since the cute wee things are incontinent
Adding new meaning to "cute wee things" (he said, abruptly snickering like a six-year-old you said wee ha ha ha etc.). ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
I wonder if there could be some sort of contraption that would give mice a nice home to live in contentedly and would keep them from infesting a house. Maybe this is one of those "not till the New Creation, alas" situations.
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Piglet
Islander
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We once had one land in an open, unused tall spaghetti jar that was standing on the floor in our kitchen and couldn't get out.
In instances like that, and if we catch them in humane traps, D. takes them and releases them near the house of somebody we don't like ... ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
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Originally posted by ChastMastr:
I wonder if there could be some sort of contraption that would give mice a nice home to live in contentedly and would keep them from infesting a house.
There would very quickly be a population explosion. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
Moo
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ChastMastr
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quote:
Originally posted by Moo:
There would very quickly be a population explosion.
Poor babies. This may be something that won't be right until Heaven, then. (Where I trust they, too, will wind up.)
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Sipech
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Update: I bought one of these on Saturday afternoon, baited it with a chocolate hobnob and left it by the gap next to the washing machine where the mouse disappeared to.
So far the only to spring the trap was me, forgetting it was there. Thankfully, I was wearing trainers at the time. Otherwise I might have lost a toe.
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
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Years ago when I had field mice in my basement, I set spring traps, and the mice carefully removed the bait without getting caught. I then resorted to tying the bait to the trap with dental floss.
I caught quite a few mice that way.
Moo
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Piglet
Islander
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Originally posted by ChastMastr:
... This may be something that won't be right until Heaven, then. (Where I trust they, too, will wind up.)
Really???
I'm rather hoping that there won't be any mice in Heaven - at least not in my bit of it. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Nicolemr
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Chastmastr, you're the C S Lewis fan, don't you know his bit about mice in That Hideous Strength? "People want crumbs removed, mice want to remove crumbs" The idea being in the perfect world we will work together like that.
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ChastMastr
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quote:
Originally posted by Nicolemr:
Chastmastr, you're the C S Lewis fan, don't you know his bit about mice in That Hideous Strength? "People want crumbs removed, mice want to remove crumbs" The idea being in the perfect world we will work together like that.
Absolutely, but I didn't want to derail the thread into "CM frets about mice," so I let it drop. And yes, I imagine something like that. <3 mousies <3
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Nicolemr
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Ok was just worried you'd missed out on it somehow.
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Huia
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Today Georgie-Porgy fat'n'fuffy is behaving as though she doesn't know me. Won't come in, even to eat, runs away when I come close and struggles if I pick her up.
She doesn't look sick, maybe she's just messing with my mind
Huia
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St. Gwladys
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I'm sorry to say that Gwenny, our Aby kitten, was killed by a dog this afternoon.
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ArachnidinElmet
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Awful. So sorry, St. Gwladys.
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Chocoholic
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Oh St Gwladys, I am so sorry.
Love to you all.
[ 12. August 2014, 19:15: Message edited by: Chocoholic ]
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Horseman Bree
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piglet:
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In instances like that, and if we catch them in humane traps, D. takes them and releases them near the house of somebody we don't like ... [Devil]
Be very careful about that. Not so long ago, there was a guy downriver about 15 km., who got rid of visiting raccoons by catching them in live traps and transporting them up the valley.
Oddly enough, there was another guy who found he had too many raccoons, so he (rimshot) caught them in live traps and drove them down the valley.
I think there were actually only about two or three raccoons, who must have enjoyed the scenic drive every so often.
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daisydaisy
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So sorry St Gwladys.
I've heard from a hosta-breeder of homing snails - bucket loads were taken to a wood a few miles away on a regular basis. After a while she wondered if she was imagining that they looked familiar, so she put a dab of nail varnish on some of the shells. And found out she was't imagining it - they were getting home.
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ChastMastr
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Originally posted by Horseman Bree:
I think there were actually only about two or three raccoons, who must have enjoyed the scenic drive every so often.
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quote:
Originally posted by daisydaisy:
homing snails
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Piglet
Islander
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St. G., so sorry to hear about Gwenny.
RIP
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Taliesin
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Me too, it's horrible to lose a kitten like that, we lost our cat to a dog when I was a child
So sad.
Today we pick up our dogs after our holiday... So looking forward to seeing them, they've been spoiled rotten by my sister's family. Then tomorrow fetching ferret.
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daisydaisy
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Originally posted by Taliesin:
.... Then tomorrow fetching ferret.
Oooh - I love ferrets and hope to have some soonish (not sure if cats and ferrets can co-exist). A neighbour uses his for rabbit hunting, but mine would have a much lazier life. I had a long chat with some ferret racers at the New Forest Show and realise it's a distinct possibility now, rather than a dream.
Any ferret tips, Taliesin?
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So sorry to hear of your loss St G.
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jedijudy
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(((St. Gwladys)))
I'm so sorry. That's so horrible.
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Kittyville
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St Gwladys, so sorry to hear your awful news. Poor Gwenny. And poor you.
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St Everild
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Oh St Gwladys - I am so very sorry to hear this. My thoughts and prayers are with you.
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St. Gwladys
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Thanks for all your concern. We've been in touch with Gwenny's breeder and have been told that Gwenny's big sister is expecting kittens in September, so we are expecting that we will be making a trip to the Forest of Dean again before Christmas.
On the subject of ferrets, we once had a semi-tame ferret - Sam would bite as soon as look at you, but was great fun, and left us with a great fondness for ferrets.
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"Careful what you say sir, we're on board ship here"
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Darllenwr
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As an additional snippet on Sam the ferret, he managed to co-exist with the two cats we then had, so it is possible. Mostly the cats kept out of his way.
And to be fair to Sam, I don't think he was malicious - just didn't know how much damage his bite could do!
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Taliesin
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regarding my ferret, does anyone want him?
He is so terribly lonely now, without his friend, the older ferret we got him to be a friend for.
He is only 3, lively, full of fun, litterbox trained and very people friendly. I would travel anywhere in the uk to bring him to the right home.
He needs either other ferrets, or other small furry animal - he'd be fine with a small dog I think - or a human who wants to take him out his cage most days. My son has turned 16 and discovered a world beyond his bedroom...
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BessLane
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When my big spoiled neutered male cat doesn't think I'm wathcing, he plays with the kittens....bless his fuzzy thumping little heart...
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