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   Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ (christineburns@mastodon.green)'s status on Monday, 17-Nov-2025 00:05:35 JST Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖

   The first time I’ve ever caught anything in one of my humane mousetraps! A very sweet little Dormouse. Liberated him outside.. The photo is as closeup as I could get and is unfortunately distorted by the clear plastic of the trap having gone a little milky. Anyway… I know now that Genoa cake works as a lure.

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     Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ (christineburns@mastodon.green)'s status on Monday, 17-Nov-2025 00:07:43 JST Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖

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     From what I can see, this is a European Edible Dormouse (named because the Romans ate them. They’re apparently common in the south of England but believed less so up here in the North West. I wasn’t setting out to catch one but, as they’re protected, I put him outside not too far from his kith and kin and away from the trails favoured by the cats.