h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Success - caught the mouse. The trap was sprung this morning. I put it in the cage for release this evening. Releasing a mouse in broad daylight is a bit unfair. I felt a bit mean capturing it!! Not for long though. Stupidly I let it escape again whilst trying to encourage it out of the trap into the cage. God what an idiot I am! The thing is... it's been a mouse sort of day, because going to put the rubbish bag out I noticed that it had the signs of mouse activity and sure enough when I looked there was one inside. Now how it got in there is a mystery. I must have put it in there. Which leads me to wonder if there had been a youngster which I had inadvertently bundled up when cleaning out the cage!!! It was still alive and happily living off bits of bread etc whilst nesting amongst the plastic shreddings. I say "happily" but it can't have been that happy trapped inside the bin! That one is now somewhere in the garden. You may wonder if I'm worried about being infested, but I'm not. These are woodmice not house mice. They don't live in houses normally. It's entirely my fault for bringing the first one home.