Hamsters

[Pedro]

My daughter thought it would be nice to let her hamster have a run o/s his cage in the bathroom. Unfortunately she didn't spot the hole around the soil pipe, the bloody hamster did though

That was 3 weeks ago and in the meantime they've been feeding "Horace" various *** bits, but have been unable to capture the elusive swine. We've even tried a humane trap, (rubbish!).

Yesterday things took a dramatic turn for the worse, (for my pocket anyway). It seems the little ****** has chewed a wire somewhere and now we've no electric :yp:

Hopefully the bloody things dead somewhere having been electrocuted :yp:

 

Angry of Chelmsford

[Mungler]

That is well funny.

[Teal]

Set your normal mousetrap, just make sure you get a new horrace from the petshop before she gets back from school.

[magman]

fancy a brew :yp:

[fiiish1987]

Stuff the mouse trap, it sounds like you could do with some target practice!

[Cranfield]

Another benefit of owning ferrets, they are great at removing hamsters, mice or rats from behind panelled baths.

I have personal experience of this.

[ziplex]

My daughter thought it would be nice to let her hamster have a run o/s his cage in the bathroom. Unfortunately she didn't spot the hole around the soil pipe, the bloody hamster did though

That was 3 weeks ago and in the meantime they've been feeding "Horace" various *** bits, but have been unable to capture the elusive swine. We've even tried a humane trap, (rubbish!).

Yesterday things took a dramatic turn for the worse, (for my pocket anyway). It seems the little ****** has chewed a wire somewhere and now we've no electric

Hopefully the bloody things dead somewhere having been electrocuted :yp:

 

Angry of Chelmsford

Sympathise Pedro............our daughters 'fat rat' got down the back of the desk her cage is sat on sometime ago, was found quite quickly by one of the springers and rehoused without problem. I noticed one of the rear speakers on the surround was not working the other day and after hours of mucking around and thinking the amp was faulty, (I even connected different speakers to that channel), decided to check all the wires... LASTLY coming to the ones that run behind the desk and sure enough the little mare had chewed right through one of the two cores and partly through another. Was relieved as all is well now but they do like wire for sure. :yp:

[Pedro]

I have no sympathy, apparently it would have been a fairly slow death. Unfortunately not £100 worth of slowness

Check out the result in the pics section

 

P.

[Devon Fox]

Ingredients needed ...... 1 hose pipe, 1 car (running) ........... remember to get the family out !

[Ferret Master]

Another benefit of owning ferrets, they are great at removing hamsters, mice or rats from behind panelled baths.

I have personal experience of this.

 

I agree!

 

Our cat is useless, she catches about 2 mice a year, no birds purely because she is a cat and thinks she should catch mice despite being secretly terrified of them. Anyway, Echo has been used to bolt mice under my Mum's bed before to great success into a shoe so it was a simple matter of putting the alive mouse outside the house.

 

The most recent mouse was a tad more difficult... Around midnight one Friday night after I had crawled into bed I heard the cat chasing a mouse downstairs, I thought sod it, the cat is useless and will chase it into a hiding place and stay with it so we can remove it in the morning.

 

Anyway Dad comes downstairs Saturday morning and opens the dining room door and sees the mouse scuttling around... I am rudley awoken at 7am having enjoyed my first lie in in a week. I remove all items that could harbour a mouse under the cabinet in our dining room... and alas no mouse to be seen. I got the 3 jills in and while Echo could smell it and went all bottle brush tailed she couldn't find it. Meanwhile Nippy and Grace thought it would be a great lark to dig up and topple over the plant... We went to rugby on Saturday and the mouse was not found despite a couple drunked abortive attempts by Dad trying to pull the fridge back to see if it was there. :o We now move onto Sunday evening where I was sitting quietly doing a mountain of homework left to the last possible moment as per usual in the 'playroom' when I hear a slight scratching and scuttling every now and then. The mouse was obviously only feet away from me and despite searching well it couldn't be found. :yp:

 

I finished my homework and picked up the cat and unceremoniously dumped her in the room to double check that the mouse wasn't there. Anyway about half an hour later my Mum had just gone up the stairs to go to bed when she shouted "MOUSE DEAL WITH IT!" The cat had evidently found the mouse and chased it upstairs into my brothers room and as my Mum came up the stairs she saw it beetle across the landing and into her room with the cat in half hearted 'puursuit'. I ran up and looked under the bed and there it was, just where they normally hide. I ran outside to grab the first ferretly smelling thing that came to hand while Dad and brother pondered about the mouse. The ferret when I came inside and it was light enough to see turned out to be Echo. I put her at the end of the bed and after a stretch and a yawn she bumbled under the bed after the offending mouse.

 

She bolted it out to under a bedside cabinet and when I peered under I saw the cheeky rodent nibbling on what looked like a dry garden pea. :yp: Anyway I put my hand under and tried grabbing it and the bloomin' thing shot out and Dad observantly pointed out (while jumping up and down as he is also secretly scared of mice) it had gone under the bathroom door. :yp:

 

I opened the door and I saw it run down a small gap behind the toilet and underneath the floorboards. Echo has also got underneath the floorboards there and Dad had blocked it sufficiently to prevent ferret shaped things getting down there (after luring Echo out with chicken) but there was still a mouse shaped hole which our fugitive used to it's full advantage.

 

A mouse trap was deployed by the hole and in the middle of the night a snap was heard and the mouse was trapped by it's back and still very much alive. :o Dad just snapped the trap down on it again.

 

I doubt this method would make you very popular with your daughter so I'll just lend you our cat as she will relocate it to somewher slightly more accessable.

 

FM

[lurcherboy]

LMAO @ FM

 

 

 

LB

[pin]

Cracking little story that mate, made me chuckle! You have a future in storytelling methinks

[browningstalker10g]

i agree with cranfield, a spot of in house ferreting may be on the cards

[Ferret Master]

Sorry to dig up an old topic but my ferrets 'in the house' ferreting prowess shined through again this morning.

 

I walked into the kitchen and my Mum announced that Hairy Mc Maisie whos face is quite scary also known as Fat Cat had obviously had another mouse in the night as she was marking our fridge with great interest. I threw the cat out of the door as she would be no use. The mouse had obviously gone underneath the fridge and was now sitting behind it in a hollow between the fridge motor and wall. Mum retreated to on top of the sideboard. I pulled the fridge out and saw a rather startled mouse look at me which then zipped into the actual back of the fridge.

 

I opened the door to go and get some ferrets to deal with the problem and the cat ran back in. She walked back in and peered into the fridge... Then joined my Mum on the sideboard as the cat is also scared of mice.

 

I went outside and got a net and then went to the ferret cub and Grace was sitting underneath the hammock looking fat and Nippy crawled out of the nestbox when I opened the lid. I checked on Echo who was still sleeping. I got Nippy and Grace and brought them into the kitchen and after turning the fridge off at the mains, put them by the fridge. Nothing much happened to start with and Grace tried launching herself at the cat several times who was still high up on the sideboard with my Mum far away from nasty mousey or ferrety things. Nippy kept sniffing around the fridge.

 

After a few minutes Grace plodded over to inspect the fridge (full marks to her for ignoring the dish of cat food the other side of the kitchen as she would have normally eaten it by now) and after a few moments thinking somehow squeased into a space in the back of the fridge. :o This is rather a feat for a jill the size of Gracie! Anyway 20 seconds later a mouse was ferreted out from the back of the frdge with Nippy who had stayed outside of the fridge pelting after it. We cornered it by some coke cans and I swept it up in the net only for the damn thing to jump out and run over towards the cookery books. This time it was well and truely cornered and I caught it in the net and took it outside the back door. It then jumped out of the net and sat underneath our wall mounted hospipe. :(

 

I went back inside and got the ferrets. By this point Grace had discovered the cat food and was making great inroads in the jellied meat. As I walked back out the back door the mouse was still there. :( I put Nippy a ft away from it and it soon took off at the speed of light.

 

When I lifted up the lid Echo who has single pawedly ferreted all previous 3 mouse escapees was lying in the nest box with her head hanging out upside down with an expression on her face which pretty much said where have you been?

 

FM B)