A live mouse in our bed!

[carlt]

A girlfriend, many years ago, brought a box round with "a blackbird" she'd stunned with her car.

 

I opened the box, preparing to grab a thrush sized bird, but was unprepared for the, now conscious, fully grown Raven, launching itself at my face.

 

I was understandably more cautious when she brought round a "grass snake" she'd found. It wasn't a grass snake but, fortunately, a friend at the local museum identified it as a harmless, escaped "Darter snake" (iirc).

[RupertG]

A girlfriend, many years ago, brought a box round with "a blackbird" she'd stunned with her car.

 

I opened the box, preparing to grab a thrush sized bird, but was unprepared for the, now conscious, fully grown Raven, launching itself at my face.

 

I was understandably more cautious when she brought round a "grass snake" she'd found. It wasn't a grass snake but, fortunately, a friend at the local museum identified it as a harmless, escaped "Darter snake" (iirc).

 

Probably a Garter Snake (no relation to the Trouser Snake, as far as I know). Not indigenous to the UK but popular among snake fans (the Garter, rather than the.. oh, never mind).

 

If you did have a snake onboard, it could eat the mice after they'd eaten the spiders after they'd eaten the ants.

 

R

[JohnSallyCharlie]

Our cat used to jump on the bed in the mornings and rub her nose against mine.

 

She did it one morning only for me to find out she hand a mouse in her mouth

[Griffindale]

I know someone who was once presented with a live 8" goldfish on their pillow in a similar fashion.

 

David

 

My daughter-in-law, some years ago, opened her front door one morning to find their big bruiser of a tom cat (who'd gone walkabout for several days) grinning up at her, looking very proud of his catch, a big, beautiful Coy Carp worth, it turned out, a couple of hundred quid!

 

Who's a clever boy then?

 

D-in-law hasn't to this day, as far as I know, owned up to the puzzled neighbour who had had his precious specimen fish "stolen".