Gibberings CIII: A New Hope

[Mailmonkey]

I just dunno where to go from here?

WTF?????? How old're you?

Either give it to your cats to "play" with.

Or take it a good distance from your house and put it in a ditch..

ffs.

 

[knock]

Damn Snolly, your quoting of marmalade's mushroom talk has pushed me over the edge. 1g down the hatch :D

Cornish: Is a vole like a mouse?

MM: Lasercat loves to "play" with mice, but it's not very nice to watch. She leaves them lying about half dead, then comes back and batters them about the room like tennis balls.

Fortunately I've yet to see a mouse back home in Scotland. Our house in London had loads of them.

 

[Mailmonkey]

its just a little twat of a rodent like a mouse

 

[knock]

its just a little twat of a rodent like a mouse

you say that as if you have some kind of a problem with mice

 

[koneko]

Our cats like baby voles the best, they say they are tender and juicy.

Afternoon troops - what's happening?

I'm stuck indoors, had planned to garden but its bucketing it down with thunder and lightening

Went to the supermarket earlier and bought a huge shop only to find I'd lost my credit card major embarrassment as there was a long queue behind me. Had to come all the way home to get another. Luckily a quick ring round and the card was found again. Phew.

 

[Cornishman]

WTF?????? How old're you?

Either give it to your cats to "play" with.

Or take it a good distance from your house and put it in a ditch..

ffs.

Haha

I just dunno what to do with regards to catching the critter.
Because of my height I'm liable to get outran, out-handled & out-nimbled by the small agile rodent.

Back when I were knee high to a grasshopper, mouse catching was a piece of proverbial piss.

The cat was a second thought. But I put myself in the Voles shoes and decided against it.
Imagine being mauled to death by a giant creature. Wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Man or mouse.

EDIT: Knock, here's a vole..

NSFW:

 

[Mailmonkey]

Went to the supermarket earlier and bought a huge shop only to find I'd lost my credit card major embarrassment as there was a long queue behind me. Had to come all the way home to get another..

That happened to me at a petrol station recently. A supermarket petrol station.

I asked the cashier if I could phone me missis and get her card details, cashier said fine and manually input the details.

Cats love voles the best for some reason, we just find the nose, the gall bladder, and occasionally a toe, they always leave the gall bladder, with seemingly surgical precision....

 

[knock]

Why don't they eat the nose?

EDIT Sorry they probably don't share that information.

 

[Mailmonkey]

Haha

I just dunno what to do with regards to catching the critter.
Because of my height I'm liable to get outran, out-handled & out-nimbled by the small agile rodent.

Back when I were knee high to a grasshopper, mouse catching was a piece of proverbial piss.

The cat was a second thought. But I put myself in the Voles shoes and decided against it.
Imagine being mauled to death by a giant creature. Wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Man or mouse.

There cant be many hiding places in a fucking bathroom...

you are letting a twat like a vole outwit you mentally and physically???????

Set the cats on it. They love it, the cat's will chuck him around for a while, cripple it in some way, and generally the little fella will think he's at a theme park or something for the remainder of his life

 

[koneko]

They said its practically an everyday occurrence, folk losing / forgetting cards / money. All I was worried about was my ice cream melting!

Aye vole feet and gall bladder...they're left here too. Odd one. Cats are weird. I like vole snouts, they're cute. Alas not for long.

What's the weather like down south? It's so warm here but you really couldn't go out in it unless you want a soaking. It smells great though, I'm sitting at the kitchen table with both patio doors open - Felix has already complained haha

 

[Cornishman]

I got alot of respect for Voles MM.

Thus any vole in my house is my friend. (I wanted to give it some cheese but we've ran out).
So in my eyes, the Vole isn't a twat and he/she's not outwitting me.

That Vole has got soul dontcha know. %)

 

[knock]

EDIT: Knock, here's a vole..

NSFW:

Looks friendly enough!

Nice boots btw.

 

[koneko]

^
I missed that pic - that's not a vole! Voles have very long pointy snouts.

EDIT - my mistake I'm talking rubbish, I mean SHREWS have pointy noses.

Bloody hell my cats eat a lotta shrews...

EDIT EDIT - as in

 

[Cornishman]

No Kate that's a shrew. :D

 

[koneko]

No Kate that's a shrew. :D

Yep, I'm slow, I'm old Cornish....it is indeed a shrew lol

Great noses mind, really cute

 

[Cornishman]

Yes they're like a half mole half mouse.

(Should be called a 'moo'). V cute.

 

[Marmalade]

I got alot of respect for Voles MM.

Thus any vole in my house is my friend. (I wanted to give it some cheese but we've ran out).
So in my eyes, the Vole isn't a twat and he/she's not outwitting me.

That Vole has got soul dontcha know. %)

I LOVE you Cornish

Don't listen to any naysayers telling you to set your cat on it.

Get a see-through tupperware box and try to place it on top of the Vole. Slide a magazine or piece of cardboard underneath underneath it and take it outside that way. If there's any chance you might drop it, try to find a bucket deep enough so it wont be able to jump out, and pop it from the tupperware box into the bucket and take it out that way. Put it near a field, preferably with a ditch or pond nearby

Vole fucking pwn. water voles are beautiful. I watch them in various rivers near here, and they swim like theyre on a mission, and with tons more grace than rats.

pls don't kill it or set a cat on it.



[edit] if it's still in there, leave it with some dried nuts ... or currants or something .. it'll probably eat some of that

 

[koneko]

Moo - I'm liking. The have very sweet tiny beady eyes. Obviously they don't rely on them as much as they do smell.

Moles are odd creatures, maybe I just have a poor perception of them due to mole hills ruining lawns. My dad used to flood them out of their burrows, which is quite cruel really, not like the mole knew it was burrowing under his immaculate lawn.

I'm very fond of rodents - my youngest son had pet rats for years and I adored them, they were as clever if not more so than cats.

 

[Mailmonkey]

Eat it!

(I'm sad to say my cats have been killing shrews, not voles for years...I'm sure they'd have a vole if one was passing, and probably have, but I'd have assumed it was a mouse...thanks Kate and Cornish for clearing up my confusion)

 

[Allein]

Juts to share one of my silly songs made up for the entertainment of my kids:-

I am a mole and I live in hole

Which I share with a vole

He's name is Noel


....there were more verses but you get the idea

...I'll get my coat