Today is Thankful Friday, and I am thankful that my parents are some of the few people I can still hear on the telephone.
And here’s why…
Regular readers may already know that I have an unwelcome housemate living with me at the moment – a mouse!
Now, not wanting to kill it, I wondered if I could drive it out with a special humane mouse repellent kit, which included a powder that the mouse didn’t like the smell of and an Ultrasound Mouse Repellent thing that plugs in and emits a high-pitched noise that mice apparently hate.
Well, get this – it appears I have a deaf mousemate! This is no joke because this mouse shows no sign of disappearing. And last night, it was almost as if it was trying to prove a point about this, because while I was in bed reading my new Katie Fforde book, which is splendid by the way, the mouse brazenly scurried into my bedroom!
And what did I do? Well, I screamed of course. And that was when I realised that this mouse cannot be profoundly deaf, just hard of hearing, as it turned on its heels and legged it under my wardrobe!
Oh joy!
And then, I did what any considerate human being does at 12.30am on a school night – I rang my parents!
Actually, I don’t know why I did this – they live 100 miles away from me, so are hardly handy for mouse catching. Call it reflex, call it needing to share my fear, call it these are the only people in the world who are likely to not kill me for calling them at this time, call it what you like, but call them, I did!
And, of course, they were asleep but thankfully, (phew!) saw the funny side to the fact that I felt the need to share with them my evening of mousecapades…
So then, what of the mouse? Well, he clearly doesn’t have an aversion to high-pitched noises, which I guess makes two of us, but seriously, there is no room for him in my house. He’s very badly behaved and keeps pulling tufts of carpet up for his bedding.
If he really is a hard of hearing mouse, maybe I should get a low-frequency repeller and see if that works…
Otherwise, there’s only one thing for it…
I’m getting a cat!
5 comments:
Yay cat! I love kitties =) You should get one from a shelter (not sure exactly what they are in the UK but we have Humane Societies here), it's cheap, you just have to pay for shots, and you save a kitty from unwantedness!
Deafinitely (see what I did there??? lol) take pictures when you get one! =)
(long time reader but I think this is my first comment =)
Oh yay, get a cat, get a cat!! x
Hello Dreaming Iris!
I would deafinitely get a rescue cat if I got one – problem is I don't have a garden, so it would have to be a house cat – which means if it caught the mouse, I'd have bits of mouse everywhere!!!!! eek!
Ah well! Thanks for your 1st comment. DG
Haha! I would love a cat, but it would have to be a travelling one so I could take it away with me at weekends if I went somewhere...
The other option is to get a man/male housemate or just a housemate in general who can deal with the whole mouse disposal issue without screaming like a banshee like I do!
Borrow neighbours cat for a few hours while you are at home! Kidnap it and shut it in bedroom with deaf mouse. Let cat sneek around and end of mouse!
PS i survived the day in school!
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