Vegans Love Carnivores

I have now managed to catch five mice and rats in my (humane) mousetrap in my room.   The hole in my ceiling that the pesky rodents have been chewing up is about 10cm long and 4cm wide now, and it’s right above where I usually place my head on my bed.   Fortunately I have the choice of two beds in my room, so I decided to strategically move onto the other bed upon realising that some of the bloody rodents were peeing into the hole!!   Clever things if they have made themselves a makeshift toilet, but goddamn them for doing it above my pillow!   If you believe in divine retribution, a prime example of this may be the following story.   I usually give the mousetrap - complete with caught mouse in - it to the husbandry team, who take it out into the field and release it far away.   However, on Saturday I was going out to do road maintenance so I decided to take it out myself.   Alas, being the forgetful fool that I often am, I didn’t take it with me. ...

I think I can safely say that the land within and surrounding CCF is full of more predators than I have ever lived close to before – and this excites me greatly J   Only last night, whilst walking back to my house from dinner, did I spot a large felid walk in front of me.  My first thought in the low light was that it was a leopard, especially as people had only just been talking about spotting a leopard about 100m from my house on two occasions that same day.  However, upon closer inspection, I realised it was in fact a cheetah.  As soon as I noticed the animal, it stopped in its tracks and stared at me.  I wasn’t sure whether to keep on walking or turn back to tell someone of my finding.  I decided to walk back to the dinner table to tell people, but after 20 seconds or so, started to run as I thought it may have left by the time I got back.  Only in hindsight did I think that it probably wasn’t the best idea to run away from a predator!  Fortun...