Delilah brought a vole in yesterday — it was lightning quick, but she was faster, and she was really beating it about (spots of blood here and there). I grabbed her and shut her in a room. I couldn’t think where it had gone meanwhile, and Mum said it had probably wriggled under my bedroom door. Looked under my bed (glad I hoovered out the dust bunnies…) saw a lurking vole shadow. Ah ha.
We hoped it might find its own way out when the coast was clear. Today we saw it running around downstairs, so I left two doors open so that it could run out the kitchen door into the garden… so it ran into the kitchen and then dived behind the boiler!
Sigh. Hopefully it’s just being cautious, and will go outside when it’s sure there isn’t something lurking just round the next corner.
June 24, 2009 at 7:26 pm
It probably thinks it’s onto a sweet thing. Out of the rain and away from the sparrowhawks…
June 24, 2009 at 10:41 pm
…into a nest of sparrowcats!