Last thursday I was sick at home (stomach bug) so I was in the house rather than at work all day.
In the afternoon I was feeling a bit better but I heard some running around and clanking of glass in the kitchen. I thought it was Nikita just being hyper and ignored it, I mean no crashing noises!
Then she came trotting in and she had this really focused sort of way of trotting around through the room. I twigged and though, hmm, the last time I heard her trot around with this style of moving she had a mouse in her mouth and was surveying the area to find the best place to 'release' it so she could hunt it again.
I went and had a look and well enough, there was a mouse tail hanging out of her mouth. I grabbed the camera and took a pic
She then decided that my bag was the best place. I got a plastic bag and got the (by now dead) mouse out of the bag and then stumbled outside to throw it in the trash outside.
Nikita was still searching for it when I came back. Sniffing at my bag going: "I know it's here, I put it there! where's it gone? it has to be here!!"
She didn't even start whining at me to find the fun mouse toy again because she was so puzzled that the mouse had gone when she'd put it Right There Herself! (she hadn't been paying attention when I took the mouse away)
So yeah.. I've not seen any mice here for months but they clearly haven't all gone away.
In the afternoon I was feeling a bit better but I heard some running around and clanking of glass in the kitchen. I thought it was Nikita just being hyper and ignored it, I mean no crashing noises!
Then she came trotting in and she had this really focused sort of way of trotting around through the room. I twigged and though, hmm, the last time I heard her trot around with this style of moving she had a mouse in her mouth and was surveying the area to find the best place to 'release' it so she could hunt it again.
I went and had a look and well enough, there was a mouse tail hanging out of her mouth. I grabbed the camera and took a pic
She then decided that my bag was the best place. I got a plastic bag and got the (by now dead) mouse out of the bag and then stumbled outside to throw it in the trash outside.
Nikita was still searching for it when I came back. Sniffing at my bag going: "I know it's here, I put it there! where's it gone? it has to be here!!"
She didn't even start whining at me to find the fun mouse toy again because she was so puzzled that the mouse had gone when she'd put it Right There Herself! (she hadn't been paying attention when I took the mouse away)
So yeah.. I've not seen any mice here for months but they clearly haven't all gone away.
