I Woke Up With A Mouse In My Bed

[dangerouschicken]

Maybe if it was alive, I might not be so icked out, only because it was kinda cute. But dead I think of rotting flesh, and that goes above and beyond cute. :: shiver ::

My cat DOES sleep on a pillow above my head. I can bet there will be one there in the future. I'll let you know

 

[JennsPeeps]

A few years ago my parents' cat started her own personal cache of mice in a spare tire in the garage. By the time my folks found the stash, it was a pulsing mass of goo.

Yeah, totally nasty.

Oh, and the chooks would LOVE a dead mouse!! Try it... they'll liiiike it.

 

[BearSwampChick]

The other day one of my chooks found a dead mouse that Tobey, my barn/house cat, had killed. It was mostly intact with some middle parts missing.

Said chicken pecked around on it a few seconds and before you could blink, she went slurp and down it went, head, tail and all!

One time when DH was traveling, I was lying in bed just drifting off, when I heard this little scritch-scratch somewhere in the air near my head. I leaned over and turned on the bedside lamp and, lo and behold, there was a wee mousie clinging to the top of the lamp shade!

Now I'm not really afraid of mice, but it startled me so much that I screeched and scared the poor mouse. He skittered off and after a few wakeful moments of wondering where he had gone, I went on to sleep.

Imagine my surprise when I got up the next morning to use the bathroom, and there was the poor little mousie floating inside the toilet. I always claimed that I scared him so much that he drowned himself!

ETA: And, Laurie, I love your blog and writing style, too! Big fan here!

 

[punkin]

DangerousChicken, I know how you feel. Except with us it's our minnie doxie, Maggie. She is tirelessly (sp) prey driven. So far she has brough us 2 blue tailed skinks, 1 blue tail skink tail, dead kitten, 3 dead birds (babies from nests in their yard that have fallen out), 2 mice, half a chipmunk (found laying on my bed

), several large grasshoppers, a few large beetles, lots of the big white grubworms and a cicada or two.

Maggie is unbelievably patient when stalking any kind of prey. The other two usually lose interest. They (we have 3) have a doggie door to an enclosed yard so they can come and go as they please.

 

[dangerouschicken]

Oh Punkin, you are much more patient with the doggie door antics than I would be. I'd have it nailed shut by now

What is a skink? A cross between a skunk and a mink?

BSC, thanks, sugar. I think it is funny he drowned himself. Is that wrong?

Okay... next dead mouse goes to the chooks... and I will be taking pictures!

 

[chickiebaby]

We have caught a mouse a day for DAYS nw. Last night one of my kids was sick so we slept downstairs so as not to keep everybody up all night with coughing . . . you would not BELIEVE the noise those crazy beasties were making, partyin it up all night long.

We stuck with tthe humane traps for a while to please my yongest but they just don't work as well, so now we are back to plain old mouse death. Sigh.

 

[JennsPeeps]

My parents' 18 lb sheltie female is deadly to oppossums. I've lost count how many she has killed over the years.

And my mom swears that the dog wouldn't hurt my chooks. PFT.... riiiiiiight.

 

[mrsengeseth]

If i remember right a skink is a variety of lizard??

My dogs don't bring me anything...'cept their slimy gooey racket balls.

 

[Ugly Cowboy]

Quote:
Neat! Now thats just flat out cool!

 

[eggzettera]

Didn't bother reading any of the posts.....just want to know....



What were you drinking last night?