This is next-door's cat Jester catching a few rays in a sunny corner of our garden this morning. This was as close as I dared get as Jester is not the friendliest of cats and can be easily scared. However, as I mentioned the other day, he is a demon mouser and has 32 'kills' to his name already, and those are only the ones that we know about.
Having discovered that some little rodent git had chewed through the packaging on an unused silk pashmina which P brought me back from Hong Kong last year, and has caused all sorts of damage, I'm really hoping Jester can up his kills considerably in the near future. This is the second mouse evidence we've discovered in the last few days - the first was mouse dirts under the cushion of the settee. I'm hoping that all damage was done by Mistress Mouse before she was caught and packed off to live near the turkey farm in a local village. We know there is another mouse that comes in to the house on occasions and he can be heard gnawing away on the bottom of the kitchen shelves from time to time. We've called him 'Maurice Le Souris' and, despite three or four evictions with a pointy stick, the little blighter keeps coming back in. We identified a couple of weak points near air bricks where we thought he might be sneaking in and have blocked those off but he's still getting in as we've both heard him gnawing away with gusto this past weekend, the sneaky little swine. So come on Jester stop lying about in the sun, the neighbourhood needs you to get mousing ASAP.
The question is can Jester be tempted to visit your house to catch Maurice? My two are pretty good mousecatchers but unfortunately they bring them in rather than drive them out!
Posted by: Gill | 12/12/2007 at 06:42 PM
No chance of getting your own cat? You obviously love them (as do I) and they say that just the smell of a cat in the house puts off the mice! we never have a problem thank goodness having 1 tortie cat and 1 mad 6 month old puppy! enought to make any decent mouse run for the hills! lol
Posted by: Heather | 12/13/2007 at 11:58 AM