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Sadly, a lesson not learned!

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  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,352

    This thread is ever so slightly freaking me out .... image. Mice, rats, rotting rats - can't really deal with any of them - bad news for a country girl!

    Definitely a trap for the one in the car - imagine it running over your shoulder whilst you were driving - aaaargh!!

    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • I freaked once when I was being driven and I pulled the sun visor down to find a HUGE spider image I tried to jump out of the car while it was still moving 

     

    I think I'd die if a mouse popped up while I was driving. I know you said you like mices but my attitude would be that one less in the mousey population won't hurt 

  • GemmaJFGemmaJF Posts: 2,286

    A mouse wouldn't bother me too much, a spider though, now that would be truly scary, can't stand being in confined spaces with spiders. image

  • Lupin 1Lupin 1 Posts: 8,916

    Vermin image destroy. Boris the spider image

    I'll get my tin hat.  

  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,352
    I'm with you KEF - no question what-so-ever image
    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,617

    The big cheese mouse traps, ready baited with peanut butter. Irresistable to rodents.

  • Zoomer44Zoomer44 Posts: 3,267

    We had a lizzard in the car last year, it crawled into my rucksack when we stopped for lunch in a cafe in France...image...and then...back in the car and sat in the back..it decided to venture out and ran up my leg but because no one else had seen it, I was told not to be so soft it's only a lizzard, I don't think anyone believed me...

    The following day I was driving and it ran across the dash board... there... now do you believe me....there's a lizard in the car...I've never seen people exit a car so quickly  image ...needless to say I'm not allowed to leave my bag on the floor anymore when stopping for lunch... image

  • DorsetUKDorsetUK Posts: 441

    Parked my car in the Somerset countryside some years ago. Man in a car nearby came across immediately and said a snake has just got in your front wheel.  He was right, an adder was just making itself comfortable in there.  Took me quite a while, using a walking stick, to persuade it that wasn't a good idea but eventually it came out underneath the car and headed for the other front wheel.  I managed to fend it off and out into the open and it was not amused.  I rolled it across the short grass, under the wire fence and into the long grass the other side.  Hopefully it not only survived all that trauma but learned a useful lesson in the process.  I wouldn't have seen it of course if the man in the other car hadn't seen it and said so.  I would have driven off and the poor thing would have had no chance.

  • Topbird, I am going into town today with only one thing in mind - to buy a mousetrap!  

    Mind you, I have just read on another thread about Aldi having lots of plant bargains, and there is an Aldi right opposite where I intend to buy the mousetrap. . . so maybe it's mousetrap plus plants.   Very exciting!

  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,352

    What happened to my last post? image

    Anyways - enjoy your shopping - hope mousey doesn't eat the plants!

    Can hire you my cat at decent rates image

    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
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