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To not want to keep them?

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FearsomeNasalHairs · 16/03/2016 13:33

Background - roughly 2 weeks ago my dd who is 3 started talking to some imaginary friends, Zoe and Chloe. All quite sweet and nothing harmful, we often hear her talking to them in the living room if we are in the kitchen.

This morning I was making a cup of coffee whilst DH takes ds to school and I can hear dd saying here Chloe have some toast but share with Zoe.
Thought I would go and film her (bribery material for when she is older ) only to find to my horror that there are two mice sitting on the floor in front of her and she is hand feeding them toast!

General panic and screaming from me and then dd as I have scared her friends!

Anyway DH has just got in to find me bleaching and scrubbing everywhere, he's had a listen and decided we should catch them and cage them as pets!

I'm not being unreasonable to say no fucking way right? I feel sick at the thought of mice breeding and loving in our house, and he is merrily looking at mouse cages on eBay.

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Chinks123 · 16/03/2016 14:29

Vastras idea of the mice getting her an Easter egg to say Thankyou for toast is such a cute idea

Notso · 16/03/2016 14:30

This thread is hilarious. Keep them OP mice are cute as long as they are not living in my house

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FearsomeNasalHairs · 16/03/2016 14:35

Yes Easter egg and thanks for the toast but we've had to go back home now note are definately the way to go with dd thanks

Can mice really travel miles to get back home? We're in quite a built up area, if I let them go wouldn't they just become someone else's problem?

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middlings · 16/03/2016 14:36

OP, I have to be honest. I'd be having serious words with the dog. What kind of Alsation does it call itself!?

Oh and you can't trust cats. I love cats and grew up with them. One of them used to bring mice into the sitting room so he could chase 'em and "play" with them where it was warm. My parents current one will quite literally sit and watch them. Could not be bothered. Plus side, he's never been one for bringing presents but honestly, he ought to be ashamed of himself. Makes no effort.

This is hilarious by the way.

Buzzardbird · 16/03/2016 14:37

at your DH thinking they are both females because of their names.

Ceeceecee · 16/03/2016 14:57

I love this OP

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FearsomeNasalHairs · 16/03/2016 15:00

Had a cat when I lived with ex about 15 years ago... It liked to hunt (a lot) and was forever bringing half dead animals and stuff back. My hallway used to resemble pet cemetery. One day I was cleaning the kitchen and pulled the bins out and there was a pigeons head behind it like something out of the cat mafia... Then there was the day a lady down the road knocked in the door and demanded £500 as the (neutered) cat had got her cat pregnant turned out she had knocked on every door in the row so although the cat was entertaining I'm not keen to get another.

Yes to the dog as well, considering he has eaten my shoes, make up brushes, the plaster off the wall in the room where he sleeps, the whole Kong toy thing, a pint glass (that was a fun trip to the vets) plus various other kids toys etc you would think he would have got the micee probably too lazy when there are easier things to chew

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Kpo58 · 16/03/2016 15:04

So what do the mice look like? How do you know that they are wild ones compared to released pet ones?

I once had a wild mouse as a pet. She lived a really long time.

RubbleBubble00 · 16/03/2016 15:09

Omg no no no. My worse nightmare when I discovered furry friends in the kitchen. Poison in sealed box's only mice can get to. We did traps but then my dc didn't think k they were pets blahhhhhh

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FearsomeNasalHairs · 16/03/2016 15:13

They were very small and brown, about the size of a hot wheels car roughly.. Do you think they might have been escaped pets? Maybe that's how she has got them to hand feed, didn't think about that...

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MartinaJ · 16/03/2016 15:47

I had the best of fun reading the thread. Your poor daughter, barely had a chance to get some friends and you are depriving her of them now .
We have two fully functional cats (in the hunting area, fortunately surgery took care of their breeding abilities) so the last two mice I saw were too frightened to stay at our house (one of them even died in the process, the other one was released outside under the watchful eyes of her captor). I too agree that wild mice are not the best pets. They may have lots of parasites and even fleas and aren't really ready to be tamed so they are best disposed of. How would your DD feel about having a sweet little cat?

Kpo58 · 16/03/2016 15:50

Do they look like a Woodmouse? (Brown with white belly and huge ears!)

I'm pretty impressed that your daughter has tamed 2 animals (even if they didn't start off fully wild).

CatThiefKeith · 16/03/2016 15:56

Can't you just rub along with them? Mice are only small, and since you've only seen them once in a fortnight they shouldn't be too much bother.

user838383 · 16/03/2016 15:57

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Paperchaserr · 16/03/2016 16:00

Wtf - are you nuts? You don't get two mice wandering around the living room in the middle of the morning without the rest of their (probably very extended) family also living in your house. Where do you think Zoe and Chloe came from - the Mouse Fairy? Get some poison down. Now.

Alexa444 · 16/03/2016 16:09

If they are that friendly they could be escaped pets. Normally mice won't come anywhere near humans, would run a mile at the sound of a voice.

CatThiefKeith · 16/03/2016 16:15

Nooo! Please don't poison them. Can't you get a humane trap for them? They do sound strangely tame for wild mice though. What colour are they?

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FearsomeNasalHairs · 16/03/2016 16:16

Right, plan:

Rename dd 'dr Doolittle'
Send dd to my friends house for tonight
When ds in bed lay down traps
Bait traps with Nutella toast (as they seem to like it)
In morning remove traps and hopefully problem solved.

Now to get DH on board, who is now wondering if we should knock on a few doors or put some notes through letterboxes to ask if anyone is missing their pet mice?
Truthfully I may fucking kill him!

I have no idea what he thinks putting a note through neighbouring houses will achieve... Dear neighbours, we have mice do they belong to you or would you like them? Regards me and Mrs nasal hairs?????

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MissBianca · 16/03/2016 16:16

Love this thread.

Though am most concerned at the thought of poison...

Mouthfulofquiz · 16/03/2016 16:17

That's the best twist in a thread ever!!! Hahaha. I don't think you can keep them though.

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FearsomeNasalHairs · 16/03/2016 16:20

Thanks to everyone for their comments too, they have managed to keep me sane

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Paperchaserr · 16/03/2016 16:22

Fearsome, your plan sounds good, but add a repeat loop at 3-5 so that you kill off the rest of the family too.

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FearsomeNasalHairs · 16/03/2016 16:25

I think they looked a bit like this one, but they were very fast when I screamed so I'm not 100% sure

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Paperchaserr · 16/03/2016 16:27

(I meant the family of mice not DH) although I'd be tempted

bluespiral · 16/03/2016 16:29

Very unusual for a wild mouse to hang around letting humans feed them. The only time I've ever seen a mouse not scarper it was found dead the next day so was obviously ill. She couldn't have tamed two mice, they must be escaped pets

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