Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Little mouse!


An usual Tuesday evening and I was trying hard to teach S to learn his spellings. Suddenly S jumps up and screams pointing at the shrine room.
I look up, great that the reflexes are still in working order although I am pretty much exhausted these days. There is a tiny mouse by the shrine room and he runs in.

By then both the kids are on top of their chairs not sitting but standing on them. So rush up with the maid who is even more scared than me. The Mouse is inside the shrine room, seriously he picked the wrong time to go in for a prayer.

S starts screaming " mummy don't hit him he is Ganesha's ( the lord Ganesha) friend" and now there is some major crying involved.

The Hindu god Ganesha has a mouse who is with him. You can see it in the picture.

The strange thing is I was at the entrance and I could see the little mouse under the statue of Ganesha. He was looking at me. Well I was looking right back at him. Lets face it we were both very scared. So here I was with a smart idea i knocked at the door. He quickly ran out and ran into the TV room. There was a load of screaming again from the kids, me and the maid. I am sure the mouse was even more terrified.

I locked up the room to come up with an idea. Seriously the rat and my TV, and computer all in the same room is not a good idea. Who else to call but mum, and explaining briefly.

Mum: Well does it have a face like your mother in laws

Me : Mum what kind of a question is that (well i had to sound offended although secretly mum seemed to be spot on)

Mum : its Ganesha's rat we have to let him be its good luck

So i hang up to listen to more raving about Ganesha's friend and we cant kill him or hit him from the kids. But of course they were terrified to sleep now.

I called DH and as useful as he is going to be, he was at a meeting and just said OH NOO.
I called my neighbour, and a friend, but nobody could come up with a solution except sympathetic murmurs.

Time to get into action I decided to get a ARS rat glue trap. After much discussion about keeping a cheese and a piece of coconut. Mum called back to give her insight into this dilemma and told us that the mouse has not come from Europe and probably wont have a liking to cheese.

anyways the rat was caught in the glue trap and disposed by mum, who was called in for the special operation. He was alive when he was rushing off into the streets of our neighbourhood.

9 comments:

Amila Salgado said...

Haha...what funny adventures you have! Very nice of you not to kill it, although I smell a rat :)

ViceUnVersa said...

I would have let him stay. Anyway it's really good luck so best wishes!
Please remember me when you win the lottery. The new AUDI A3, 1.9TDI station wagon is really nice.
Next time leave a trail of honey soaked bread crumbs that they will follow. End trail with piece of wood angling to bucket. You get the picture?
But hard no? When I was on hols this time, one night I just sat by my mates window sill that overlooks Tasty's. This was about midnight, I was horrified by the mice I saw.
People here have them as pets. Harmless no?
xxx

ViceUnVersa said...

PS:

Gnanapathi Om Jaya Gnanapathi Om!

~ lo$t $oul ~ said...

ARS works almost all the time... :D.. hehehe bagged out about 3 of them in the last few weeks!!! with my annoyance from mom!!

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Serendib_Isle said...

ROFL @ “...the mouse has not come from Europe and probably wont have a liking to cheese.”

That’s a gem!

Lady divine said...

Maybe next time you should get one of those rat cages so that they can be caught and released somewhere else.

I've seen what glue does. I hate rats and mice too...but I would never recommend things like glue and poison and all that..

We have a cage..and let them get caught in the night and release them about a mile away from home..

And the drama you always face in life is just SO hilarious!! :)

santhoshi said...

Galicissa- haha no rats or mice they are all free

Vice - no lottery in sight men. would love some

lost soul - ARS is kind of ok if they are small. Heard does not work for the big guys

Serendib - :)

LD - I am scared of the cage, bet u if i try to set it up i will get my finger caught.

Scrumps said...

How have I just seen this?!

We apparently have a mouse who's scurrying around our back garden - my sister has named him Jerry! It's funny because yesterday she said "Jerry's getting a bit too comfortable!" and it took a moment for me to register who the hell Jerry was. But we also have the same "It's Pillaiyar's friend" saga! :)