Oh! How sweet! Little micey poppets!

I love field mice (couldn't eat a whole one though). I wonder if you could train them to eat at the table, sew buttonholes and do the washing up.

Alternatively, if the "little micey poppets" bother you, you could get a cat and watch the local rodent population plummet!

At least they aren't shrews. Don't like them.

Aw, they look just like the ones that live(d?) in my house in Fridley, Minnesota USA. I also chose the route of humane trapping and releasing ALL winter long last year. A hint with that: mice dehydrate VERY quickly so you have to check your traps 3-4 times a day otherwise you will have thirsted them to death while trying to rescue them…AND if you get two or more in there that are having a bad day you might just have mice sushi by the time you find them. One day on the way to work I took two lovely little poppets for a car ride in an attempt to find a forest wonderland for them to relocate to. They almost made it to work with me that day because I felt so responsible for their happiness, until the sun shone through the trees in the woods across from my office showing me the way. By now I am sure their grandchildren are having grandchildren. So sweet.

Those humane mouse traps work very well. Just make sure that when you catch the mice you take them at least a mile away - otherwise they will come straight back. It took us three weeks to realise that the mouse we found every morning in the trap, and that we popped over the garden wall into the field, was the same one as the day before.

Thanks, mice fans. I've just this minute come back from the humane trap shop. As far as relocating them is concerned, I can either take them to London with me (on the train) or drop them off at Em's house. Or when Em comes over for Movie Night and we go for our walk, we can head off with our pockets stuffed with mice.

The phrase 'cute as a button' really was created for mice. I once rescued some pet mice that had been abandoned outside the vet's. Shirley and Maisie, I called them. They were adorable, all peachy and inquisitive. I love the wild ones just as much - those faces come straight from heaven's sweetie shop. I wonder if mice have a website and a blog with a special estate agency page on how to be humanely trapped and relocated for free. If so, they'll no doubt be commenting on the appropriate ways to get liquid refreshments in those circumstances and how, if you're really lucky, you can get taken along to a Movie Night...