I saw a mouse! Where? There on the... er, carpet...

[moonlettuce]

Picture the scene:

Walking into the kitchen and noticing the cat is crouching over something. 'Bugger,' comes the thought, 'looks like she's hacked up a hairball.'

O_o

The hairball is moving...

o_O

The hairball has a tail...

O_O

The hairball is a little fieldmouse...

*cue flurry of action*

*scoops cat away from small ball of rodent*

*covers small ball of rodent with an empty tea caddy*

Some skilful manoeuvring later and I have one small fieldmouse in a tea caddy.

Oh. My. God.

So small!

So furry!

So unbelievably adorable!

*fights against urge to feed him chicken and call him Hubert*

*avoids death glare from cat who is well aware what I'm thinking and will bitch!slap me for the chicken if it becomes necessary*

*releases small furry rodent (now totally thought of as Hubert) in the front garden*

* watches Hubert saunter away into the garden, most likely bemoaning the lack of chicken*

*goes back inside to find cat eating chicken and still giving me death glares*

And the more things change, the more they stay the same...