Things I did today: Outwitted a mole.

[Vieste]

GTIR said:

This is a toy one...

I say the op faked this whole episode you try and woo some of us animal lovers. (No, not those sort of animal lovers.)

Sure i have seen this thread before lawnmower/animals?

[Mobile Chicane]

I couldn't have killed it either.

Not that it's 'fluffy' and 'cute', but because I believe that every living thing has a right to life. It may be annoying me, but that doesn't entitle me to kill it.

I open the window for flies.

[Mobsta]

elspoon said:

Well done OP, the mole was only living his little life unaware of the devestation he was causing to your lawn. Did you give him a tickle? They're very velvety!

If I was a mole, I'd hope to live under NDAs garden. It's the only way to be sure...

[Jasandjules]

Mobile Chicane said:

Not that it's 'fluffy' and 'cute', but because I believe that every living thing has a right to life. It may be annoying me, but that doesn't entitle me to kill it.

Us too.

The only time I've killed anything in our garden was a hoglet that was being eaten alive by magpies on our lawn. That was not pleasant to find, or to have to do. Did manage to save the other two mind.

[VinceFox]

Mobile Chicane said:

I couldn't have killed it either.

Not that it's 'fluffy' and 'cute', but because I believe that every living thing has a right to life. It may be annoying me, but that doesn't entitle me to kill it.

I open the window for flies.

[Butter Face]

Mobile Chicane said:

I couldn't have killed it either.

Not that it's 'fluffy' and 'cute', but because I believe that every living thing has a right to life. It may be annoying me, but that doesn't entitle me to kill it.

I open the window for flies.

I saved a woodlouse (or gramersows as we call them, or chucky pigs!) from the bath yesterday.

God knows how he got in there but he's got a nice home back in the garden now.

[Mobsta]

Jasandjules said:

Us too.

The only time I've killed anything in our garden was a hoglet that was being eaten alive by magpies on our lawn. That was not pleasant to find, or to have to do. Did manage to save the other two mind.

A hoglet isn't a baby pig. Is it. ?

[Nightmare]

Or, and more likely here, baby hedgehog?

Great story OP and top marks to you

[Mobsta]

Nightmare said:

Or, and more likely here, baby hedgehog?

Great story OP and top marks to you

The bit I didn't like was the spade going in.
What if OP chopped its backside off.

[omgus]

Mobsta said:

The bit I didn't like was the spade going in.
What if OP chopped its backside off.

I refuse to believe you don't have half a mole stored cryogenically somewhere in you menagerie just for occasions like this Mobsta.

[Jasandjules]

Mobsta said:

A hoglet isn't a baby pig. Is it. ?

Hedgehog.

[Carthage]

Mobile Chicane said:

I couldn't have killed it either.

Not that it's 'fluffy' and 'cute', but because I believe that every living thing has a right to life. It may be annoying me, but that doesn't entitle me to kill it.

I open the window for flies.

I'm the spider and wasp catcher/liberator at work. I like wasps.

[Mobsta]

Jasandjules said:

Hedgehog.

Like omgus said. I don't store baby piglets. They fall over when you stack them up.

[PaulG40]

Nice write up and a good outcome, I did think for one moment you'd done the 'deed'. I remember one blighter at my old house, he destroyed the front and back garden, never did get it.

[Pat H]

NDA said:

Good post. Nice looking lawn too - what's beyond the low hedging?

I am told that there is a herb garden and vegetable patch.

But the garden is a strange and foreign land to me, strictly the preserve of Mrs H, in the same way that the garage is my members only gentlemans' club which she enters at her peril.

I am occasionally called to deal with unwanted creatures.

The last time resulted in us adopting an abandoned rabbit which we still have almost a year later, eating us out of house and home.