Not mentioning the T word at all

Memory_Girl

Erm !!! Mice totals for the day - four. With the six yesterday that's ten this weekend - eeep!!!

Mouse chilli anyone ????

MG

GreyQueen

Memory_Girl wrote: »

Erm !!! Mice totals for the day - four. With the six yesterday that's ten this weekend - eeep!!!

Mouse chilli anyone ????

MG

Softstuff once posted a recipe for Mouse Meatballs (can also be done with lamb) after she'd had an problem at her homestead..........

rising_from_the_ashes

Jo nice to hear you're all settling in well and learning about the joys of living in the country!;)

CCP wrote: »

My mog used to be a pretty good mouser and rid a previous flat of its rodent inhabitants for me, although I quickly learnt to stay out of the way while he was eating his daily catch. _pale_

:rotfl:Oh boy, I know that all too well!

One of mine is a brilliant mouser - I've come home to find up to 14 of them lined up perfectly at the back door_pale_ so I hate to think how many he does actually manage to catch!

Like many felines, he's a very fussy eater and I've often wondered why pet food companies haven't hit on this and done mouse flavour food - I'm sure it would solve a lot of our problems!:rotfl:

ifonlyitwaseasier

if you are blocking up mouse holes get a metal pan scraper (aka brillo type but without the soap) to put in the hole first and then use builder expanding foam squirted all through it. they'd chew through the foam but they won't chew through the metal as it hurts their mouths

lostinrates

rachbc wrote: »

Hmm I love chilli - I use cayenne for heat, dried ancho chillies for heat and pasilla chillies for sweetness and some chipotles if I fancy it smokey. Cumin and a bit of allspice plus some dark cocoa!! I use mince, diced or have s Thomasina Meirs recipe that used big bits of beef that she slow cook then shred into the sauce. That's my favourite way

Your spicing sounds most like mine, but I use cinnamon too, rather than all spice and cubed bef rather than a shredded big piece, but I think I'll try that.....what piece of beef do you usually use for the ''big bit''?

Mrs_Chip

I think one of the funniest things I have ever seen was whe I found our cat sitting in the garden with a very fat baby rat stuffed in his mouth. He looked as me as much to say 'Err... what do I do now' and the ratling looked at me as much to say ' Not sure what I'm doing here?'. Now being a big softie (and ex rat-keeper) I did not have the heart to kill it, so just made him let it go, and it scuttled off unhurt.

We have got rats in the loft here in Wales :eek::eek::eek: . It sound like we have got wombats, but it is rats. The problem is that the loft is quite low and has been insulated (they must be running about under the fleece), and there are no boards so even if I wanted to it would be really tricky to bait or put traps down or even find out where they are getting in. The problem with bait is that they go back to their nests to die, and if the nest is in the house you end up with foul smells. Anyway I do not agree with anything that causes a long lingering death so it's either the OS rat trap or gentle persuasion to move out. Rats don't like the new, so I have got to work out a way of introducing lots of new smells and sounds to the loft!

GreyQueen

Mrs_Chip wrote: »

I think one of the funniest things I have ever seen was whe I found our cat sitting in the garden with a very fat baby rat stuffed in his mouth. He looked as me as much to say 'Err... what do I do now' and the ratling looked at me as much to say ' Not sure what I'm doing here?'. Now being a big softie (and ex rat-keeper) I did not have the heart to kill it, so just made him let it go, and it scuttled off unhurt.

We have got rats in the loft here in Wales :eek::eek::eek: . It sound like we have got wombats, but it is rats. The problem is that the loft is quite low and has been insulated (they must be running about under the fleece), and there are no boards so even if I wanted to it would be really tricky to bait or put traps down or even find out where they are getting in. The problem with bait is that they go back to their nests to die, and if the nest is in the house you end up with foul smells. Anyway I do not agree with anything that causes a long lingering death so it's either the OS rat trap or gentle persuasion to move out. Rats don't like the new, so I have got to work out a way of introducing lots of new smells and sounds to the loft!

This reminds me of a story from a friend who was sitting in the back garden of one of her friends, a lady with one of the fattest, laziest never-been-known-to-catch-anything-in-her-life cats.

It was early Sunday afternoon and the cat came in from next door carrying some prey proudly in her mouth and laid it at their feet.

It was an intact Yorkshire pudding, complete with gravy in the well. They laughed until they burst and couldn't look the neighbours' in the eye for a while. The cat was bursting with pride at her "kill", too.:rotfl:

The old tom cat wooing his way into my Nan's household with various kills presented on the back doorstep (mainly mammalian but the odd bird) also offered her the fatty rind from someone's boiled bacon joint.........it took several years of effort and waiting for the incumbent cat to pass away but he got his way in the end. Bless!

short_bird

I'm sure I've said this before on another board but my mate's cat bought in half a slug once and deposited it on someone's lap. He was so proud of himself:rotfl:

ETA: the slow cooked shredded beef chili is the preferred method in Mexico and the best burrito shops are the ones building your burrito in front of you like an assembly line. Nom!

SDG31000

My living room is now full of skulls, bones, skelingtons, 7 tomb stones, bats, spiders, various !!!!!s, shunken heads, black roses and a rat of the plastic variety I love Halloween. I really like the pink sparkly skull.

I must remember to move them all to one place before we go shopping as I don't want to risk treading on anything with my hands full of shopping bags.

Bye for now everyone, I promise to share any leftover sweeties

CCP

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

Like many felines, he's a very fussy eater and I've often wondered why pet food companies haven't hit on this and done mouse flavour food - I'm sure it would solve a lot of our problems!:rotfl:

I'm sure if they did mine would take one mouthful then refuse to eat any more as it was flavoured with the wrong species of mouse.

As we're on the subject of cat stories: when I was a kid I had a tiny little tortoiseshell cat - when she was a few months old she just stopped growing - who was a seriously devoted hunter. One day she laboriously climbed over the garden fence and dropped a fully-grown koi carp (longer than she was) at my feet, with great pride. :eek: Amazingly it survived its journey from wherever she found it (we never did find its owner) and it was eventually re-homed with one of my DF's friends.

Re chilli: I tried making a Jamie Oliver recipe one a couple of weeks ago, which sounds like the sort of thing short_bird describes. I assume the ones in Mexico are tastier, though - the JO one proved rather disappointing, which is a shame as I've still got three tubs of it in the freezer.