It’s now 11.40 pm and it happened 10 minutes ago. I was sitting at my computer desk as I am now typing this and I glanced down to see a tiny field mouse on the floor at my feet. Something caught my eye a short while before but something larger, more like a cat but only for a split second and I thought that I was imagining things.<\/p>\n
I thought that the little mouse was dead but when I looked at it more closely I could see that it was still alive but was struggling to breathe and although it could kick its legs intermittently, it was unable to walk. I could see that it had two puncture wounds on either side of its body which I surmised had been caused by something like a cat or another animal that had caught it earlier but then left it to die.<\/p>\n
My neighbours have cats but I don’t and I checked through the house to ensure that one hadn’t found its way inside, but sure enough there wasn’t one. I don’t have mice in the house and I’ve no idea where this little one had come from as there are no holes that it could have come in through, as far as I’m aware anyway. And the other strange thing was that an hour or so before I’d dropped something on the floor, which I’d bent down and picked up and the little mouse certainly wasn’t there then.<\/p>\n
I couldn’t leave the little thing to suffer as it obviously wasn’t going to recover so I took it into my wood store and despatched it quickly with my sharp little axe. Since my recent health issues I have a great aversion to killing anything that I don’t need to, even flies and spiders, but I think that what I did was for the best.<\/p>\n
The whole episode is a total mystery to me. I can’t understand it at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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