little mouse
By Rita
United Kingdom 
hi everyone
tonight after putting my child to bed; and before getting dark I thought i'd go out into the garden to check to see how everything is coming on (or not?). I was standing at the bottom of the path admiring the weeds when i noticed this something out of the corner of my eye scurry towards me - god, I must have jumped six feet! which in turn, give this thing a fright of its life too... i realised it was a tiny field mouse - anyway, instead of it legging it... it came over and started hanging around my feet looking up at me for about 20 seconds or so... i even said "hello you" to it and it just scurried up the path between pots and shrubs... disappeared and came back again to have a look... then the garden light outside the house came on as it was getting dark and that was it - gone - I thought these things were shy creatures?
20 Apr, 2008
Answers
this one lives under the shed (I think?) - i woldn't like them in the house either
20 Apr, 2008
How sweet sounds like uv made new friend there ;)
20 Apr, 2008
Hi Rita we get loads seen my pics?
20 Apr, 2008
hi rita, guess he just wanted to say hello
21 Apr, 2008
I accidentally bought one into the house last summer. I had picked a few salad veg from the garden and left them on the draining board in the kitchen. The next morning I went to maky hubby's sandwiches ready for lunch when I noticed the bread bag had a hole in and there were crumbs on the worktop. Suddenly I noticed something moving out the corner of my eye. I jumped and gasped. Hubby had just left for work so decided to investigate myself. When I lifted the toaster, there, with it's wide eyes stairing right at me, was a gorgeous little field-mouse. At first it startled me. I lowered the toaster gently and reached out to the 'phone. I phoned hubby and he came straight home. I couldn't just leave him in the house, as we have 3 cats and they would have enjoyed chasing it around the house! He managed to catch it gently in a tea-towel. As the little mouse poked his nose out through the cloth, I could see how cute it was and thought how lucky it had been in the house overnight with the cats. Hubby took it to the end of the garden and let him disappear underneath the shed to relative safety......never to be seen again....ahhhhhh
21 Apr, 2008
awwwwww what a lovely story and with a happy ending
21 Apr, 2008
hi greenfingeres - that's lovely - glad the cats didn't get him!
21 Apr, 2008
Pretty little things, aren't they! I like to see them in the garden around the bird feeder, but one came indoors last year - I wasn't so keen on that and I thought Henry might catch it...He didn't, luckily.
20 Apr, 2008