tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771539132515843977.post3246283176814048183..comments2023-10-14T12:22:12.267+02:00Comments on Chez Charnizay: Gourmet scroungerNiall & Antoinettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699304108340257145noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771539132515843977.post-22937640891435080042013-03-20T10:17:37.937+01:002013-03-20T10:17:37.937+01:00@Vagabonde - so far so good, fingers crossed. We d...@Vagabonde - so far so good, fingers crossed. We did get either the returnee or a second one the next night but since then it's been quiet.<br /><br />If you have to munch on soap then French lavender would be my choice ;-)Niall & Antoinettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12699304108340257145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771539132515843977.post-48800364306340484482013-03-20T00:28:00.979+01:002013-03-20T00:28:00.979+01:00That is a cute mouse. We trapped one not long ago...That is a cute mouse. We trapped one not long ago, it was a black mouse – don’t know its name. I hope you took it a long way away as they will come back – ours did, 3 times until we drove it to the mountain. It had been munching on my French lavender soap from Provence…Vagabondehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10774109692564954568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771539132515843977.post-84386059597313147292013-03-17T17:57:52.469+01:002013-03-17T17:57:52.469+01:00@perpetua - LOL! well they were MY biscuits!! ;-)
...@perpetua - LOL! well they were MY biscuits!! ;-)<br />It's only been the second time we've had a "visit" since we moved here but we may now pop some more stuff in containers.Niall & Antoinettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12699304108340257145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771539132515843977.post-30376077423885053802013-03-17T16:16:38.535+01:002013-03-17T16:16:38.535+01:00A mouse with exquisite taste. ;-)
We get occasion...A mouse with exquisite taste. ;-)<br /><br />We get occasional field mice venturing indoors here in Wales, but none have yet acquired a taste for chocolate biscuits to my knowledge. But they do squeeze through the tiniest of gaps, so we now keep the bread in the breadbin and biscuits in the biscuit barrel, just to be sure. ....Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771539132515843977.post-47605935477593582332013-03-17T10:40:22.938+01:002013-03-17T10:40:22.938+01:00@Elizabeth - totally agree. Urban rats = not nice;...@Elizabeth - totally agree. Urban rats = not nice; they're often agressive & carry nasty diseases. <br /> <br /><br />Pet rats are actually quite nice and they do make intelligent pets.Niall & Antoinettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12699304108340257145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771539132515843977.post-11711738380616645452013-03-17T10:30:55.069+01:002013-03-17T10:30:55.069+01:00@Gaynor - temptress! A roll of milk chocolate hobn...@Gaynor - temptress! A roll of milk chocolate hobnobs as a treat would be lovely! :-DNiall & Antoinettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12699304108340257145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771539132515843977.post-16676520174923139242013-03-17T10:28:41.316+01:002013-03-17T10:28:41.316+01:00@Jean - they can certainly cut a swathe of destruc...@Jean - they can certainly cut a swathe of destruction! <br />Rodents of any kind are amazing in what they will chew. I once had a pet hamster which ate a complete plastic bag--it pulled it into its cage. The vet told me to be prepared for the worst but it seemed unaffected and lived to a ripe old age.Niall & Antoinettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12699304108340257145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771539132515843977.post-27474718197047598062013-03-17T08:25:22.433+01:002013-03-17T08:25:22.433+01:00Field and wood mice are definitely high on the cut...Field and wood mice are definitely high on the cute scale. But urban rats............intelligent, nasty creaturesElizabeth at Eiffel Tellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11054977148823539576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771539132515843977.post-29667862774960710422013-03-17T01:09:02.695+01:002013-03-17T01:09:02.695+01:00Would you like me to add choccy biscuits and Mars ...Would you like me to add choccy biscuits and Mars bars to the 'list'?<br /><br />;o)GaynorBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12971753467966206018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771539132515843977.post-82642696190650869912013-03-16T20:56:35.226+01:002013-03-16T20:56:35.226+01:00I think I read somewhere that they like peanut but...I think I read somewhere that they like peanut butter, too, if you wanted to sacrifice something other than choccy biccies for the trap !!<br /><br />I was not best pleased when mice ate their way into our brand new sofas when they were stored in the garage here for two weeks before being transported to LGP. They made huge holes in the cushions and the inner covering, even though they were still well wrapped in polythene and bubblewrap - they just ate their way through the lot to get at the stuffing !!<br />Luckily we had kept the outer covers in their wrappers and brought them into the house and the repair work can't be seen once the covers are on.<br />I'm afraid we used the other sort of mouse traps to get rid of them - especially as they also nibbled Nick's fishing chair !! They can do a lot of expensive damage in a very short time.Jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726164724131916224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771539132515843977.post-3837294530846546912013-03-16T20:03:32.225+01:002013-03-16T20:03:32.225+01:00@Susan - we'll remember that for future refere...@Susan - we'll remember that for future reference.<br />Didn't know you could have yellow necked mice :-).<br />Niall & Antoinettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12699304108340257145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771539132515843977.post-21115852337272798652013-03-16T20:00:58.290+01:002013-03-16T20:00:58.290+01:00@Tim - thanks for the ID :-) Learnt something new ...@Tim - thanks for the ID :-) Learnt something new --it was quite cute and has been let loose in the woods.<br /><br />We've set the other larger humane trap you lent us as a f/up.Niall & Antoinettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12699304108340257145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771539132515843977.post-59479594748950856102013-03-16T19:56:44.011+01:002013-03-16T19:56:44.011+01:00@Broad - the previous time there were two and they...@Broad - the previous time there were two and they were much more indescriminate. <br /><br />Drowned in olive oil -- definitely not as nice as 'a butt of malmsey'Niall & Antoinettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12699304108340257145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771539132515843977.post-70442680894231002512013-03-16T19:09:17.391+01:002013-03-16T19:09:17.391+01:00I'm glad Tim has IDd it as a yellow-necked mou...I'm glad Tim has IDd it as a yellow-necked mouse. I took one look at and that's what I thought it was too. You see them much less frequently, and I think they are in fact less numerous than their ubiquitous cousins the Wood Mouse. The other thing mice love is peanut butter, and that is so much easier to bait a trap with than cheese or chocolate.Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06472449597146519943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771539132515843977.post-62804662827860532852013-03-16T18:50:37.631+01:002013-03-16T18:50:37.631+01:00Just looked at your photo of it in the trap... giv...Just looked at your photo of it in the trap... given the extent of yellow at the shoulders, you actually had one of my favourites visit... a <b>Yellow-necked Mouse</b> <i>[Apodemus flavicolis] <b>Mulot à Collier</b></i>... both occur around here... but the Yello-necked is more of a woodland species than the Field Mouse [Wood Mouse]... which lives anywhere.<br />I'll need to set the traps around yours one Summer to check... but the <b>Field Mouse</b> <i>[A. sylvaticus] <b>Mulot sylvestre</b></i> doesn't have the yellow coming from the shoulders... but can have quite a big yellow patch between the front legs... it just doesn't reach the shoulders.Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16439261142732764451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771539132515843977.post-82727890009885347402013-03-16T17:51:15.486+01:002013-03-16T17:51:15.486+01:00It astonishes me what the little critters will mun...It astonishes me what the little critters will munch on. I lost my favourite basting brushes to the blightersj -- they had nibbled away all the rubbery bristles and then scattered them throughout the drawer. Biscuits we keep in a cupboard they cannot access. One morning we discovered the butter dish had it's lid removed and one year we discovered a mouse had nibbled the top off the olive oil and was drowned inside the bottle:-(The Broadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04976467218216864644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771539132515843977.post-48673205901811136522013-03-16T15:14:07.561+01:002013-03-16T15:14:07.561+01:00@Fly - LOL! Love image of you crossing the border ...@Fly - LOL! Love image of you crossing the border loaded down with humane traps!Niall & Antoinettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12699304108340257145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771539132515843977.post-38791776621683212342013-03-16T15:11:52.763+01:002013-03-16T15:11:52.763+01:00@Pauline - away beyond the NW corner, in the adjoi...@Pauline - away beyond the NW corner, in the adjoining woods. So well away but nowhere near that far ....Niall & Antoinettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12699304108340257145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771539132515843977.post-43355055031496280752013-03-16T15:11:21.110+01:002013-03-16T15:11:21.110+01:00We couldn't find humane traps here, so seeing ...We couldn't find humane traps here, so seeing them on sale from a street seller in Nicaragua we bought his stock, giving the customs officer pause for thought as to the madness of all gringos on our return to Costa Rica.<br /><br />We need them for 'sorro' - local equivalent of polecats - which go for the hen eggs and baby chicks.<br /><br />The dogs had the sorro....but had it been a wood mouse I would have released it elsewhere...as we used to do with ragondin.the fly in the webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771539132515843977.post-48933756026454277892013-03-16T15:01:55.911+01:002013-03-16T15:01:55.911+01:00Glad to be of help! How far away did you release i...Glad to be of help! How far away did you release it? They can find their way back at least a mile given enough of an incentive, and yours is clearly addicted!Pollygarterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10519711639714303756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771539132515843977.post-18443315381020789572013-03-16T15:00:20.864+01:002013-03-16T15:00:20.864+01:00@Craig -
Very but....
I was outraged as they we...@Craig - <br />Very but.... <br />I was outraged as they were MY choccie biscuits!! <br /><br />Yep, Niall says they have shrunk.Niall & Antoinettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12699304108340257145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771539132515843977.post-2857846573203393762013-03-16T14:57:46.910+01:002013-03-16T14:57:46.910+01:00@AJ - it was a new one on us.
We've had a m...@AJ - it was a new one on us. <br /><br />We've had a mouse once before about 1 1/2 yrs ago [same drawer] and it did the usual of a nibble here [bread], shredded bit of plastic there, but not the biscuits. It also tried a Senseo coffee pad--don't think it liked that! We baited a trap with a bit of cheese and immediately caught it so that one did like cheese.Niall & Antoinettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12699304108340257145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771539132515843977.post-66502352117534484382013-03-16T14:53:37.820+01:002013-03-16T14:53:37.820+01:00@Martine - both cats present, lazy so and so's...@Martine - both cats present, lazy so and so's! We had stern words with both about slipping standards! ;-)Niall & Antoinettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12699304108340257145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771539132515843977.post-72540685551367472322013-03-16T14:48:09.120+01:002013-03-16T14:48:09.120+01:00Very cute. But if I had been staying at your house...Very cute. But if I had been staying at your house that mouse would have been required to wrestle me for the chocolate biscuits. There can only be one chocolate winner! Have Mars bars in France shrunk as much as they have here? Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14034726832462755283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771539132515843977.post-24715112782756078212013-03-16T13:09:20.876+01:002013-03-16T13:09:20.876+01:00I thought it was common knowledge that mice like c...I thought it was common knowledge that mice like chocolate. I learned years ago to bait traps with it because they can't resist. (Humane traps, of course.......)<br /><br />They actually don't like cheese. No idea where that idea came from. MorningAJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04719744167307369768noreply@blogger.com