The mouse adventure

I was raking the yard this morning, and Suzanna came to me, garden gloves clasped, saying, "I caught a mouse!" It had been running on the street in front of our house, and she decided to save it from Cloë, one of the neighbourhood cats who keeps our mouse population down to a dull roar. When I peeked into Suzanna's hands, this is what I saw:

Suzanna called Julia, and Julia found a shoe box... but the mouse found a hole in the end of it and escaped. The next five minutes were captured on video by Christina... and consisted of Suzanna and the rest of us chasing the tiny little critter around the back yard, then under the fence and into our neighbour's yard, where he was recaptured. The shoe box was replaced with a gardening bucket, and the mouse had no choice but to stay put while we looked him over.

A pretty healthy looking little character. He was offered a piece of apple for a snack, then paraded over to Mikayla's house for show-and-tell, then shown to a dog-walking friend, Brian, and finally, set free in our back yard. "Good bye, Jeremy," said Julia, who names everything.

I guess that since we don't have a cat, Suzanna is our number one mouser!