House Mouse

[Jennywrenny]

I have today bought a feeder to hang in the garden - I have put some hay in to start off with and I am going to add some dog hairs to it when I have combed the dog for the birds to use as bedding as suggested in another thread.

Anyway, I went outside to the box where we keep the bird food and the guinea pig wood shavings, hay and straw etc. and found this little chap trapped inside a bag of muesli...



I quickly took a couple of pictures and my son took him down to the bottom of the garden (still inside the bag) and we let him go down there

Jenny

[Lincs Yellowbelly]

Excellent, we have one that uses the peanut feeder every night you can get within about a foot of it without scaring it

[demicav]

Cute

[Fourwings]

Originally Posted by Jennywrenny

and found this little chap trapped inside a bag of muesli...[Jenny

Hopefully he got in and did not come with it when you bought it

[galanthus]

He is gorgeous, how on earth can something so cute provoke the proverbial screaming and leaping on chairs scenario

[Jennywrenny]

Originally Posted by galanthus

He is gorgeous, how on earth can something so cute provoke the proverbial screaming and leaping on chairs scenario

I couldn't believe how small he was - he was tiny! I think it's the tail that might put some people off - I don't know why really. I suppose I'm a bit like that - I prefer hamsters to gerbils - it must be the tail - it gives them a rat-like appearance, I suppose.

Originally Posted by Fourwings

Hopefully he got in and did not come with it when you bought it

Oh he definitely didn't arrive in the bag. We've been using it a while now - Dave fills the dish up for the birds every day. We even cleaned out the box the other day - took everything out completely and swept it all out. It must have been sometime after tea-time yesterday because that's when Dave last filled the dish up.

Originally Posted by Lincs Yellowbelly

Excellent, we have one that uses the peanut feeder every night you can get within about a foot of it without scaring it

Poor little thing was jumping as high as he could trying to get out of the bag! He didn't seem scared by us either. As you can see from the picture he seemed to be looking as if to say 'Are you going to help me out of here, or what?'

[Adam Cheeseman]

Don't wish to seem pernickety but that's a Wood Mouse aka Long-tailed Field Mouse

Cheers,

Adam

[mrs fish]

I thought it was a wood mouse, we have them live under the shed. The cat must of brought one in and it got away because it was hiding in my bins case, my daughter found it and screamed, the case was moving so she opened it to check why

[oceanroc]

It is absoutely lovely but where is it's fourth leg??

[Jennywrenny]

Originally Posted by Adam Cheeseman

Don't wish to seem pernickety but that's a Wood Mouse aka Long-tailed Field Mouse

Cheers,

Adam

We're not doing very well on the mammal identification tonight are we?!

Thanks Adam

Here's another picture of him - just to put Oceanroc's mind at rest - you can just work out his fourth foot on this shot



Thanks everyone.

Jenny