Posted: 11 Mar 2007, 23:40
Time for a break at learning flams?boudicca wrote:MOUSES
Just a wee one? can you?
It won´t hurt, I promise!
Just a wee one? can you?
It won´t hurt, I promise!
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Just a wee one? can you?
It won´t hurt, I promise!
Posted: 12 Mar 2007, 01:25
<----Given his complete indifference to his previous owners' rats, I suspect Dale wouldn't be much use as a mouser, although he did manage to trample a pigeon till it's wings broke and then play football with it on the balcony where I couldn't get at it to put it out its misery. He brought it back indoors as a present for me 3 days later 
Who says cats are selfish? 
Who says cats are selfish? Posted: 12 Mar 2007, 02:05
Well hung game Andrew,
I hope you fried the breasts in lard with a mashed tattie and raspberry jus condiment.
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I hope you fried the breasts in lard with a mashed tattie and raspberry jus condiment.
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Posted: 12 Mar 2007, 02:06
A triumvirate of HL Cool Cats... Remind me again why exactly this thread is called MICE?
Posted: 12 Mar 2007, 02:15
No but Jurgen! It's the proper name for them. I don't care what The Man down at the Oxford English Dictionary Department Of Telling Me What To Call Little Scurrying Rodents says. IT'S MOUSES DAMMIT!eotunun wrote:Time for a break at learning flams?boudicca wrote:MOUSES
In much the same way as the plural of sheep is sheeps
Posted: 12 Mar 2007, 02:16
'cause this place is full of feckin' Gothics (in denial, of course) Raf
am them sheeps furry black sheeps, Claire, we need to know?
am them sheeps furry black sheeps, Claire, we need to know?
Posted: 12 Mar 2007, 02:22
By the way I've restrained myself remarkably well up to now in replying to this thread, I love mouses almost as much as I love pigeons... 
COME ON NOW!
COME ON NOW!
Posted: 12 Mar 2007, 02:24
The colour of the sheeps' FUR should be irrelevant in this day and age JamesJames Blast wrote:'cause this place is full of feckin' Gothics (in denial, of course) Raf
am them sheeps furry black sheeps, Claire, we need to know?
Posted: 12 Mar 2007, 02:29
I just wanted to know if they were Gothics, not friends of Koen, like y'kna Mon?
Posted: 12 Mar 2007, 02:39
You mean, was their fur backcombed and hairsprayed to within an inch of its life, as opposed to dreadlocked...?James Blast wrote:I just wanted to know if they were Gothics, not friends of Koen, like y'kna Mon?
Either way there's gonna be some deeply alarmed elderly couples out for a Sunday drive in the country
Posted: 12 Mar 2007, 02:47
yeah, especially with 'furry' sheeps
Posted: 12 Mar 2007, 02:50
Pffft!
Ah luuuurves 'em all: kittehs, puppehs, bunnehs, mousies, cowies, horsies, fishies, lambiepiekins, and BUDGIES!!! Better than people, you bet!
Ah luuuurves 'em all: kittehs, puppehs, bunnehs, mousies, cowies, horsies, fishies, lambiepiekins, and BUDGIES!!! Better than people, you bet!
Posted: 12 Mar 2007, 03:48
Tell it, Sinsister!SINsister wrote:Pffft!
Ah luuuurves 'em all: kittehs, puppehs, bunnehs, mousies, cowies, horsies, fishies, lambiepiekins, and BUDGIES!!! Better than people, you bet!
Posted: 12 Mar 2007, 11:25
The plural of mouse is meeces, surely?boudicca wrote:No but Jurgen! It's the proper name for them. I don't care what The Man down at the Oxford English Dictionary Department Of Telling Me What To Call Little Scurrying Rodents says. IT'S MOUSES DAMMIT!eotunun wrote:Time for a break at learning flams?boudicca wrote:MOUSES
In much the same way as the plural of sheep is sheeps
As in I hate thothe meethes to piethes.
OK, it's just me.
Posted: 12 Mar 2007, 11:43
Mouse-Miceboudicca wrote: In much the same way as the plural of sheep is sheeps
Sheep-Shice
..okay, mouses.
Posted: 12 Mar 2007, 12:16
Blimey, I thought it was only me that remembered them (Trixie & Dixie)markfiend wrote:
As in I hate thothe meethes to piethes.
Posted: 12 Mar 2007, 13:31
limur wrote:Blimey, I thought it was only me that remembered them (Trixie & Dixie)markfiend wrote:
As in I hate thothe meethes to piethes.
Posted: 12 Mar 2007, 13:40
Hmmm... I would not be surprised if they call this one 'Fernandez' or 'Luigi'... looks more like a Sicilian Maffia Boss to meBadlander wrote:Some of them look more like Charlie Chaplin than Hitler.
This little dude doesn't look like the Führer, but he's quite scary nonetheless, isn't he ?
IZ.
Posted: 12 Mar 2007, 13:45
boudicca wrote:In much the same way as the plural of sheep is sheeps
According to the Nac Mac Feegle Dictionary of Crivens Language, the plural of sheep is ships...
A Hat Full Of Sky wrote: ships: woolly things that eat grass and go baa. Easily confused with the other kind
IZ.
Posted: 12 Mar 2007, 14:26
Where's My COW?Izzy HaveMercy wrote:According to the Nac Mac Feegle Dictionary of Crivens Language, the plural of sheep is ships...
Posted: 12 Mar 2007, 14:40
Izzy HaveMercy wrote:Hmmm... I would not be surprised if they call this one 'Fernandez' or 'Luigi'... looks more like a Sicilian Maffia Boss to meBadlander wrote:Some of them look more like Charlie Chaplin than Hitler.
This little dude doesn't look like the Führer, but he's quite scary nonetheless, isn't he ?
IZ.
He's more Al Pacino than Marlon Brando tho.
Re: MICE
Posted: 12 Mar 2007, 16:52
I used to catch them into the bucket filled with a thin layer of bread crumbs (so that they could jump in it but couldn't get out) and carry them out to the garden. That was useless and a waste of time as they always seemed to be back inside the house within the same day.EmeraldSignal wrote:We have mice, they have suddenly appeared.
Ive put down traps with cheese, bread, jam you name it! Got one but the rest dont seem to take the bait. Apart from nuking the house anyone got any ideas.????
So, I decided to learn to live with them and here's my advice:
Keep the food that's meant for humans in close containers, so that the mice can't get to it.
Every evening leave some chocolate, or walnuts, or sausage in the same place (for example, in the corner on the floor). They will learn the place very quickly, and when they get used to finding something delicious there every night, they won't look anywhere else anymore.
That's what I do. I have about 5 or 6 mice all year round in the house, but I can't tell the difference between them so I name them all Jerrys. Sometimes when I sit still for long enough I can watch them eat the walnuts. It's a beautiful sight that brings peace to the mind.
I have cats too, but they get whiskas to eat and artificial toys to play with, so luckily they don't seem interested in chasing the Jerrys.
Posted: 12 Mar 2007, 18:05
Go out buy yourself one of those big catapaults , the type that has the wrist strap. Some giant ball bearings. A large cup of coffee and some fig rolls.Sit on the sofa and just let the fun unfold before your very eyes.
Make a game of it like your at the fair. if you can scuttle the little bleeder a certain distance then you hand yourself a prize - lash him right across the room and win a chocolate digestive!!
Mice have no purpose on this earth except to p*ss other animals off and give ctas something to toy with- vermin the lot of them! Like Man Utd fans in little fur coats!!
Gertcha!!! 
Make a game of it like your at the fair. if you can scuttle the little bleeder a certain distance then you hand yourself a prize - lash him right across the room and win a chocolate digestive!!
Mice have no purpose on this earth except to p*ss other animals off and give ctas something to toy with- vermin the lot of them! Like Man Utd fans in little fur coats!!
Gertcha!!!
Posted: 12 Mar 2007, 20:54
Or that bloke out of SparksBadlander wrote:Izzy HaveMercy wrote:Hmmm... I would not be surprised if they call this one 'Fernandez' or 'Luigi'... looks more like a Sicilian Maffia Boss to meBadlander wrote:Some of them look more like Charlie Chaplin than Hitler.
This little dude doesn't look like the Führer, but he's quite scary nonetheless, isn't he ?
IZ.
He's more Al Pacino than Marlon Brando tho.
Posted: 12 Mar 2007, 20:54
A friend of mine decided to dispose of a large resident rat in his flat with an air rifle. After a 4-hour vigil with gun pointed at the rat's favourite spot, not a sign of it. Of course, as soon as he put the gun down, it appeared! He gave up after that