There's a rat in me kitchen what am I gonna do?

Actually it's a mouse in the logburner.

Or should that be two?

There are in fact three - but you know - never work with children and animals applies especially to photography.  

It proved impossible to photograph them through the front glass, so what's a girl to do but open the door.

Fortunately, this one went back inside and they can't actually exit the log burner.  I'm hoping that they will exit the way they came in, but if they keep getting fed hamster food, I can't see that happening too soon.  Got to love animal loving girlies!

Mouse Trap

If you are a regular reader of my blog, you will know that we have a lot of animals, ponies, dogs, chickens, rabbits etc.  This in turn means a lot of animal feed, which also means a lot of mice, like 100's of mice.  It was time to get tough and a run of the mill mouse trap was not going to work, there were far too many.  Poison was not a good idea, with fed about and those sticky mat things - yuk!!

So, I let it be generally known that I was looking for a cat :-)  One day, these two showed up

They settled into the feed store nicely and not a sign of a mouse.

Then my friend Susana turned up with

He/she joined in with the other two and although they were a little standoffish to start with quickly made friends.  Still no mice and threee kittens, perfect.

A few days later, Saturday morning and I was in the shower, the door bell rang and the girlies went to get it.  A few minutes passed and they came thundering back in - Who was it? I asked - Oh a man in a grey van with two cats for you, we've put them in the shed with the others!!!

 

So, there we have it, me, a completely no cat person, now the owner of five gorgeous kittens and a mouse free feed shed.