'supporting each other through really tough times'

CRANKY40

Our cats are hopeless compared to the ones described here. They only catch bluebottles...and then they eat them. They must have impressive digestive systems as it doesn't seem to do them any harm. Mind you, one of them eats fleece blankets as well if she finds any.

Kidcat, I'm glad today went well. Do you have any biker friends, or friends of friends that would be prepared to call round? Five minutes of a large bike engine revving next to where ds is standing should fix that one.

For what it's worth, I too appreciate the support that is so freely given on this thread even though I don't post often. I still know it's there and I do read every day. I suppose people would disagree with how I live too. Just me and a small boy in a big old house. It was never meant to be this way though. Sometimes things happen that are out of our control. I often think how nice it would be if I had a Fuddle family to share with, or maybe some Stiltwalkers. My house is for sale in the hopes that we can move somewhere smaller. Fingers crossed huh?

Take care all of you

mcculloch29

At the risk of stirring things up again, can I just say that having seen the exterior of Pops' place, it is clean and tidy, with high hedges shielding it from the road. The garden could therefore be a dump and nobody would know, but it isn't.

Incidentally, I always thought those houses in Pops' road were 2 bed ones as they are quite small, smaller than the usual 3 bed houses of similar vintage.

I have laughed like a drain over the mouse tales, having suffered similar. No live mice in clothing, but adventurous pet gerbils down the cleavage on more than one occasion. Those little claws really scratch and tickle.
We haven't had any mice invade for years, ironic as we have two snakes that get through half a dozen defrosted large lab. mice a month.
Just this afternoon, I was wondering if mice were hypersensitive to the smell of enemy creatures and therefore were giving the snakes and us a wide berth. Given the story of mice invading a room with a cat in, clearly not.

RosiePuddingPaws

Cranky40 My naughty tortie is the fly catcher. Watching her throw herself up the conservatory windows is very amusing - much better than the tv.

Mouse is no longer in the house. I was woken this morning, way to early, by naughty tortie under my bed. Yep, she had found the mouse and brought it in to share with me! So, usual regime. Dressing gown, slippers, beer glass/scraper. Eject cat from the vicinity and catch perky mouse and put it outside under the shed. No doubt it will be back in soon!

RPP

nuttyp

Hi everyone,

Jackel heron is a cheaper version of say Iceland. Lots of frozen bits and bobs but as a rule they often come in clear packaging called iceage, a sort of seconds for frozen food. I shop there lots like pops does at times. When a new product is launched it is often in there before the big supermarkets, yogurts are like 40p for a 4 packet. HTH.

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McCULLOCH you have the solution to Byatts mouse problem, get a snake!!!!!!! Now I don't have any problems with non venomous snakes, I even quite like how they feel which is not at all how you would expect them to be is it? I have a feeling that for most people however, that the cure might be more unacceptable than the problem. Actually suggesting a snake as a cure for mice might make us feel a lot less iffy about the Mickeys, yes? have that as thought for the day??? SORRY!!! Cheers Lyn xxx.

nuttyp

Well finally caught up with all these mouse tales, they are so funny. When we had MR BEN our doggy he use to mouse chase, strange one really watching a greyhound size dog leap around after alittle mouse.

Well I have finally packed, I know the weather doesn't sound good for the next few days. Oh well the break will be good. A few days with nothing to do.

I hope everyone has a nice week, stays healthy and happy. I will catch up Saturday. Best wishes x

GreyQueen

Mrs LW, slightly off-topic but still in the verminous range, rats apparently loathe the smell of guinea pigs and will avoid areas where they are kept.

This was told to me by a boat-dwelling pal who always keeps a piggie aboard for that very reason. They've been on moorings where every other vessel has had rats bar theirs.

Our family cats used to be very funny with the g.ps. Seems that the piggies are very short-sighted and go right up to the cats and sniff them. Cat doesn't know what to make of this as their instinct is that the piggies should be prey but they don't behave like it.

I can still see the look of bafflement on one particular mog's face, and his subsequent confusion. He coped, as cats often seem to to with anything which involves infringements on their dignity, by pretending the cause of it doesn't exist.

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I'm not too hot about smelly Guinea Pigs myself GQ, mind you lurchers can pack quite a smelly punch on some days, especially when they've found a nice long dead fishie on the beach - I won't go into detail, but you catch the drift, but only if you get close enough to him!!! The guinea pig solution to rats in towpath moored boats is clever, it must be an ongoing problem as there are always rolands about near water, well found as a solution. Cheers Lyn xxx.

fuddle

I heard a story a few weeks ago about a lady who had a snake (big one, that can eat people... Ignorant about snakes sorry) she let it roam the house on occasion and allows it to sleep round her bed post. The snake decided that it would lie next to her in bed for a few nights until she talked about it at the pet shop. The snake was sizing her up to eat!!

How true I don't know.

Morning, Lyn I feel you're taking the Mickey! Boom, boom! Sorry

A day of quaring round the bomb that is the weekend then I've a job application to fill in.

The sun is shining but the weather said expect winters showers, Ho hum.

Tea is frozen pizza, scraping the barrel now. Cheque got another day or two but tomorrow is child benefit day so can top up the fridge and cupboards a little.

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Squeak, squeak, squeak!!! My best snake story is that when DD2 was on work experience at school she was with a friend of hers at our local Vetrinary Hospital for a couple of weeks. I dropped them in early in the morning and technically picked them up at the end of the day, but as it was the Hospital the pick up time was a bit random. One evening I waited and waited in the car park and about an hour late they came out actually holding each other up laughing. DD2 had been in theatre, surprising on work experience but they had to operate on a fairly large snake that had been left for a couple of weeks whilst its owners were on holiday and they had come back to a dark vivarium and a snake with a bulge in the middle - yes, it had eated the light bulb!!! Why DD became involved....... well, having anaesthatised said snake half way through the op it developed a twitch and none of the nurses would handle it , so in goes DD and has to hold down both twitchy ends of hissing sid while the vet dealt with the bulgy middle!!! It actually made the local rag, and put DD off vetrinary medicine for good as she needed patients she could communicate with which is why she read Medicine - however her friend is now a senior veterinary officer specialising in small animal orthopeadics, funny old world isn't it? Cheers Lyn xxx.