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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:33 pm Post subject: The Spider Season
I was just going to bed and I found a huge spider, drowning in the washing up water, I don't know how long he's been there. I'm trying to resuscitate him, he might be ok.
It's amazing how spiders and other insects look as though they've drowned but are fine once they've dried off a bit.
I'm always rescuing beatles from our storm drain, they look dead for ages but I leave them on the windowsill for a while and they're often as right as rain!
Like I say it's the spider season here, we're surrounded by fields and they've just started the harvest, so we'll be overrun with big hairy monsters now.
We had 5 in one night once
I used to have a terrible spider phobia but managed to overcome it as it was ruining my life! So now I can happily catch the hugest of spiders and put it outside.
I've just found an enormous one in the bathroom, I've put him outside, well in hubby's shed because it's raining and I feel mean
Anyway, I'll have sit up with my poorly spider for a bit and see if he recovers, he seems to move when I touch him,
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:28 am Post subject: Re: The Spider Season
suejoe wrote:
I'm always rescuing beatles from our storm drain, they look dead for ages but I leave them on the windowsill for a while and they're often as right as rain! Sue
Dear me, I do hope you get a cut of the royalties.....
I don't mind spiders and always try and rescue them. Daddy Long Legs are a bit of a struggle (they seem really thick somehow), but I usually get em with a cup and a bit of paper.
What really threw me the other day was a mouse scrabbling about in my toilet bowl. I made a couple of feeble attempts to scoop it out, but it wasn't co-operating. I thought I was quite a calm and level-headed person and certainly not scared of mice, but the sight of its horrible beady rodent eyes and disgusting thrashing tail really turned my legs to jelly and made my hands shake. I was on the point of phoning my dad and begging him to drive up from Dorset to deal with it.....
Can't believe what a safari park my modern top floor London flat has become, after the all-night squirrel parties in the loft earlier this year. _________________ Known as the catch of the camp.
What did you do with the one in the loo?? I'd have been so tempted to flush _________________ Cocktails may not be the answer.... but they help you forget the question Vodka... Cheaper than B otox and paralyses more muscles!
Last November a plumber removed an old boiler from the back of my house and left a nice large hole, not long after a mouse appeared in my living room.
Forget about any humane ways of killing them, get a load of good old fashioned Tom & Jerry mouse traps down (peanut butter is better than cheese though). I removed 19 over the next 6 weeks before they were finally gone. Also, if you have to handle mice wear gloves - most have fleas.
I phoned my old flatmate for help- he assured me it wasn't a moral dilemma if it involved a mouse, and that if it was stupid enough to fall into a toilet then Natural Selection had already issued its P45. So I flushed.
There'd been no evidence of mice before or since, so I'm hoping it was a freaky one-off. I don't ever leave food out, so there's nothing to tempt them.
I'd run out of milk so couldn't even make myself a calming cuppa... _________________ Known as the catch of the camp.
My niece and nephew have got pet mice - they're ever so cute.
They had three up to a couple of weeks ago when the cat decided to have a quick play with one of them - my nephew was distraught and made my sister give him a proper burial in the garden.
One of my friends at uni used to have a pet rat too that ran around her room - massive thing it was with big red eyes! It wasn't quite as cute as the mice but I didn't mind sitting and stroking it.
One of my best mates had pet rats when we were teenagers. They're actually very good pets as they're not nocturnal and are quite intelligent, and trainable (up to a point). Hers were a very pretty champagne and white colour with dark eyes and were good fun.
I draw the line at wildlife invading my home uninvited however. Go and live in the countryside where you belong! _________________ Known as the catch of the camp.
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:02 am Post subject: Re: The Spider Season
jennywales wrote:
suejoe wrote:
I'm always rescuing beatles from our storm drain, they look dead for ages but I leave them on the windowsill for a while and they're often as right as rain! Sue
Dear me, I do hope you get a cut of the royalties.....
I see you spotted my deliberate mistake, well done
So Sue, did he survive with your resuscitation efforts?
No Chewster, sadly he died
But I found another one this morning floundering around in half a mug of tea that hubby had left outside overnight, luckily I found him just in time and after a few minutes recuperation he was fine
So Sue, did he survive with your resuscitation efforts?
No Chewster, sadly he died
But I found another one this morning floundering around in half a mug of tea that hubby had left outside overnight, luckily I found him just in time and after a few minutes recuperation he was fine
I remember visiting a work colleague in Geneva, and as I was a bit early, I sat on the terrace with my host's daughter aged about 10 and she introduced me to her mice. They were tiny and very sweet and all different colours and patterns, and I let them scamper up and down my arms and so on.
When a group of other visitors came round the corner of the terrace and saw me covered in mice they all did a runner!!
Step grandson had rats for a while (two) and we boarded them while he was on holiday. They were the white ones but very clever and good fun. We quite enjoyed having them and were sorry when they left.
Anyone with mouse problems, get a cat (if practical!) They don't have to catch the mice, but the scent of cat (if you can bear to have a tray indoors for a while, for example) will drive mice away. Our cats are encouraged to hunt, obviously, because all farms have both mice and rat problems. I always make a great fuss when one of them comes in with a rat - but I draw the line at live rabbits, which does occasionally happen!
So Sue, did he survive with your resuscitation efforts?
No Chewster, sadly he died
But I found another one this morning floundering around in half a mug of tea that hubby had left outside overnight, luckily I found him just in time and after a few minutes recuperation he was fine
Hubby has just come home with a poorly Harvest Mouse, it was wandering around aimlessly by a barn he is renovating. He'd been watching it for a while thinking it didn't look right, it doesn't seem obviously injured. The fields have just been harvested nearby so perhaps it's home has been destroyed.
I've made it a temporary home in a big water filter jug, I've shredded some kitchen paper for bedding and given it some fruit cake and sunflower seeds and some water. It's eating away quite happily.
It's eyes are shut and I'm wondering if it's blind, I don't know what to do, most small animals I rescue either recover and are released or they don't make it. But if this mouse is blind, I can't release it as it wouldn't survive.
I've done a google search and read that harvest mice make good pets, but I think wild animals should live wild, we have lots of wildlife in our garden that I feed but I try not to encourage them to become tame, it doesn't seem fair.
But if all that's wrong with him is that he's blind then I'd be prepared to keep him as a pet, would it be cruel and would keping one mouse on it's own be unkind. I know I could give it a good quality of life.
I'll let him go in the garden later, or tomorrow, when he's built his strength up, and if he runs off, which I hope he does, then I'm sure he'll be ok.
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- my nephew was distraught and made my sister give him a proper burial in the garden.
