We have been getting quite a few mice arriving since the weather warmed up. We have a neat little wire cage trap with a spring loaded door which catches them but doesn’t hurt them. We then release the little suckers in the bushes up the road. A couple of the fatter ones looked extremely familiar on the 4th and 5th catch and we suspect that they were the same mice come back again.
Cunningly we marked their tails with Tippex white out to track them if they came back. Five mice in a couple of days and now not a single one since the Tippex program began. I reckon the little blighters are a good deal smarter than we give them credit for. Cheeky little mongrels are probably waiting for the Tippex to wear off before coming back.
Despite numerous attempts to capture them with various types of cheese, salami, and raisins we discovered in the end that as soon as we put freshly shelled walnuts in the cage they turned up one after the other. Looks like we have discovered the ultimate mouse bait.
The cat from next door, Ganja, had a spitzen Maus in its mouth the other day which is quite a rare type of field mouse that we get here. They have a long and very pointy snout which has a nose resembling a miniature red cherry on the end. Really cute. Quite the Walt Disney door-mouse doppelganger. Thomas had quite a time getting the mouse away from Ganja but eventually succeeded. Needless to say we were instantly relegated to the bad books by Ganja who failed for three days running to make her customary morning and nightly house inspections. Really had her own nose well out of joint. Normally she will be on the prowl anytime there is something fishy smelling on the cook but even a tuna salad wafting on the breeze from the garden table failed to break her out of her snoot. C’est la Guerre !!
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