A mouse in the house

One of the cats brought one in the house one time. We had to cover it with a wastebasket and kind of shuffle it out of the house.

Another one was lying on its back the brick wall outside our garage. I thought it was dead. To my surprise, when I nudged it with a stick it kind of flapped around and hissed. I guess cold weather can make them sluggish, so sluggish they can't fly.

that is pretty cool! pls hi5 yr cat for me

did you tenderly nurse the chill bat back to warmth, and did it then grant you 3 wishes or come back later to help you out of a jambeaux? wish i cld find a bat

I did not want to go anywhere near that bat. It was creepy af, especially the way it hissed.

u lost out bro bats have mad magical properties probably

I've always thought it would be cool to have vampire powers.

vamp stylee is perennial for sure. imagine going around with a lil bat dangling from your earlobe, you would be the baddest mfer!

oh shoot i just had a great idea for earrings

🚨2 of the suspects have been apprehended 🚨

https://i.imgur.com/sW5TN9e.jpg

above: le garçon du fromage
below: benevolent despot

they frolic with the goats now. shameless beastlings! how dare they look up at me all cute and helpless with their shiny eyes and delicate ears!

One ran out of my bathroom the other morning. I tracked it down and smashed it with a small bookshelf I had handy

As one does.

dang did a mouse like murder your whole family or something

how u smash things with a bookshelf

a bookshelf fell on me one time when i was sleeping, i was quite startled

cat I just bought two of those green traps on your recommendation, but I haven't had any recent visitors to test them out on

what ya gotta do, see, is rub cheese over your entire house so the neighborhood mice know where the party's at

but seriously, good luck Andy! hopefully you won't get any more visitors but if you do, may they blithely waltz in2 their guest quarters with a minimum of dallying/poop.

Benevolent Despot doesn't look so benevolent.

tim scurry finally had enough of my nonsense babytalk

https://i.imgur.com/mXlFWOS.mp4

moose & mousse & mathilde have all 3 gone to live at the cow shed by the creek, where i wish them many happy moons.

but why, one begins to wonder. why try to hold back the mousy tide? i could start a circus. i could start a mouse zoo & charge people admission. when it's cold out why not sleep under a heaving blanket of mice. perhaps this is how stockholm syndrome begins.

oh happy day, i've been blessed with a visitor 🐭 welcome little friend, hope you like peanut butter! 🥜🥜🧈

they'll piss in your pantry and eat your grape-nuts, get him out of there

do not listen to grasshopper, listen to me

start a mouse farm

swim in mouses

profit

i'm housesitting across town for the summer again, leaving mr. cat to his own messy devices, which in short order = more mices

he's caught a half dozen or so since i've been away 😑

Lemme come over, I’ll bring my little bookshelf and have a fuckin’ stake out

sorry, i can't hear you over the pitter-patter of little feet ♥️♥️♥️

calstars mousebane, slayer of rodents, wielding their dread bookshelf for the glory of lord orkin!

anyway here's gerald jr. from last week

https://i.imgur.com/TVyPK96.mp4

o hai 💗

i always thought if i received a little visitor i'd call him Gerald but i'm liking Amos.

o dag Amos is a gr8 mouse name

yeah, cause Amo(u)s(e) 😍
pairs well with my first name too, i didn't even think of that.

adorable mouse alert!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLDPzQ42kws

<3

in defiance of the warnings of my youth, i have given cookies to mice.

a new brood has appeared so i busted out our wee guesthouses and slathered the far interiors with peanut butter + parmesan, but the very first night we had any takers the weather decided to snow!! intolerable. it's bad enough i'm exiling them from their home; kicking them out to make their way through the freezing streets like fuzzy little matchgirls is too much.

(or, idk, freezing could be a more merciful end than most mice meet? i feel obliged to give them some chance at life. wish i could offer them a haven but there isn't any way afaics? they're sociable, so can't be kept in isolation, but if kept in groups they'll breed themselves to ruin! plus our lease probably says something about not harboring vermin or whatnot)

right so anyway. the temps rise tomorrow and sally & sue are tucked in their adjoining capsule apartments for the night. i'll not have it said on mousebnb that i am an ungracious host, so in addition to the peanut pâté & fromage i have slipped them each wisps of apple and pea-sized chunks of a cookie that expired last year, which they both set to busily nibbling at once.

poor pitiful morsels, they're free now. sally leapt forth the moment i lifted the doors but sensible sue preferred to stay put and needed a few minutes of whispered encouragement before darting away (around and behind me, opposite the direction of her companion & my scatter of fancy granola, oh well). if they follow the smell of the goats they should find food and shelter. also i knelt in deer crap.

Karmic payback for helping the little monsters

well maybe i enjoy kneeling in deer crap, did you ever think of that mr. mouse murderer! maybe i did it on purpose! maybe i'm bragging about it and you're just jealous that you don't have any nice mushy deer crap to kneel on!!!!!!!

that's quite the feast! i keep peanuts and sesame seeds on hand for smol visitors but cookies are a special treat! you were so sweet to put them up and give them a fighting chance, it's what we all would want <3

this hero built them a village on his property
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-TDyQ7K5O8

Deflatormouse in the deflatorHAUS

subscribing to george mouse w/ very much passionate commitment, thanking u & parrying thus:

https://recordart.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/ricotta-shopfront.jpg

amazing, where did you find that?!

kisses incoming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBQTHRLLn7U

hamster kisses >>>>>>>>>>>> hipster kisses

once i started watching tiny mouse house videos the algorithm suggested one on ANONYMOUSE and a new passion was kindled! the cover story is they're an anonymous collective of artists who install exquisite mouse-sized shops/bistros/hotels throughout (usually) sweden, but imho this is clearly the work of fairies

https://100bookseverychildshouldreadbeforegrowingup.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/1_vn3xaog1tm8ol_mbmxn5mw.jpg

^from the indian in the cupboard?

uh ANONYMOUSE rules, holy cow 🐄♥️♥️♥️

clearly the work of fairies

otm

endpapers of the edn of “the borrowers” that i had as a kid