Monday, February 26, 2007

There's a moose loose aboot the rabbits hoose

I haven't told many people this but this strange event occurred last year one day when Phoebe was cleaning out the rabbits hutch. She gave a tremendous scream and said there was a huge spider in the rabbits bed. I dashed down the garden to take a look and there I found the cutest little brown mouse with huge brown eyes. (everyone go awwwwww). I chuckled and told Phoebe it was just a wee moosey hiding in the straw and he obviously liked it as there was plenty of free food from the rabbits dish. Anyway after cleaning the rabbit out we all thought that we would no longer see our dear little moose. But he's amazed us even though the rabbit is cleaned out once a week he never fails to return at some point and make a little bed for himself. So on Saturday when we were cleaning Peter's hutch once again we came across our wee moosey. This time I felt that he was so determined to have a bed in Peter's hutch that we should ought to do something about it and hey presto I had an idea. We had a bird's nesting box that GrandadH had made for Phoebe to put up in the garden a couple of years ago. This was still hanging around in the shed so I thought we could put this inside the rabbit's hutch, with some straw and sawdust inside, then our wee moosey could make a nest for himself and we wouldn't have to disturb him every time we cleaned out the hutch. To enable Mr Mousey to climb into the box we turned the bird's nesting box on its side and then put some straw and sawdust in, voila one mouse nest.

Next time we clean Peter's hutch I'll try to get some photos of our Mr Mousey. :)


No comments: