RIP Ickle mouse

[Kev Pugh]

A follow up from my 366 same shot added pp..

He had a good life scurrying around the garden, pinching the grain and seed from the birds, he will be sadly and deeply missed....


RIP ickle mouse by Kev Pugh, on Flickr

RIP ickle mouse.........

 

[Pete Askew]

A fitting tribute Kev. We should all hold a 1 seconds silence in remembrance.

 

[Lesley Jones]

Oh bless! We get wood mice in our chicken run and I can get within a few inches of them. Sometimes they move into the house (it's a very old house) and the cats can hear them under the floorboards. Our lights went out before Easter and after moving the bed and taking up the floor, my husband found a deep fried mouse attached to the wiring

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Awwwww, nice shot though Kev - very moving

 

[Brian Moore]

Poor wee moose! Never again to be loose aboot the hoose.

Nice shot, though, Kev! Very poignant. (In the 1800s post mortem photos of the were quite common. Deceased children, for example, would be photographed in their finery and the images saved for the family to remember their deceased loved one by. Never saw a deid moose one, though, so you've set a precedent.)

 

[Allan Batchelor]

Sorry Kev couldnt resist

Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi' bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee,
Wi' murd'ring pattle!

I doubt na, whiles, but thou may thieve;
What then? poor beastie, thou maun live!
A daimen icker in a thrave
'S a sma' request:
I'll get a blessin wi the lave,
And never miss't!

Thou saw the fields laid bare and waste,
An' weary winter comin fast,
An' cozie here beneath the blast,
Thou thought to dwell,
Till crash! the cruel coulter past
Out thro' thy cell.

But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang oft a-gley.
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain
For promised joy.

 

[Hamish Gill]

We have mice in the shed where I keep the chicken feed ... I quite often out my hand in the bag and find a mouse jump at me ...
I leave feed on the floor of the shed for them now ... Probably a ba idea as its encouraging the nice into the territory of my cats ... ... I can see why Attenborough insists on not interfering ... It's a mine field

 

[Lesley Jones]

Well the fried mouse under the floorboards wasn't alone. For the past two nights we have heard them thundering around the walls of the study. My husband even heard them from the other room with the TV on. I reckon they must be the little mice with clogs on...

 

[Hamish Gill]

thems be dutch mice

 

[Pete Askew]

Where? Not on the stairs again!!

 

[Kev Pugh]

Got clogs on they have,