Chocoholic Vole

[bunn]

Summer time, and the windows and doors are open.  The first time I saw the vole zoom across the floor and take refuge under the sofa, I was a little surprised, but assumed it had been imported by a cat.  Then I thought that it has been a long time since any of our geriatric cats bestirred themselves to hunt, so this seemed odd.

This afternoon, I surprised the vole half-way up our Ikea shelves, tucking in enthusiastically to a small bar of chocolate it had found there that I had put safely out of reach of the dogs.

I now believe it to be not a sad Victim Vole, carried in by predators, but  a bold Raiding Vole, nipping in through the french doors in the hope of finding loot.

Definitely a vole.  Not a rat, not a mouse. Vole: little round face, short tail. 

Comments

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

So basically voles are what animators have always wanted mice to be? I guess "Mickey Vole" just didn't alliterate as well.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Well, it had no trouser on. Animators seem to like to put their rodents in trousers, I have observed.

[seascribe.livejournal.com]

Surely one of the animals in your house is up to the task of dealing with the Raiding Vole!

[bunn.livejournal.com]

You'd think so, wouldn't you? Two large dogs who tell me that hunting is their Destiny, three cats. But no. Useless bunch.

[rabbitica.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh! That is a sneaky little vole.

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

*Hehehe* Cunning vole :)

[island-of-reil.livejournal.com]

D'awwwww, it's cute.