April
2008
Hoggle 1 - Kelly nil
Hoggle the spiny mouse outsmarted me yesterday! He occasionally gets a bit of a run round the living room but is such a nutter it can take a considerable length of time to shepherd him back home again lol. Yesterday I cleaned out the spiny tanks but only had half an hour until I needed to pick my daughters up from school so decided to put them straight back (they spend clean out time in a carrier). Hoggle however had other ideas!
With the tank ready and waiting I opened the carrier to move Hoggle and Grace back. Gracie let me pick her up and move her without any problems but as I turned back round to get Hogs he leapt out of the carrier onto the floor and instantly darted behind the sofa! What followed next was me trying to coax, catch or otherwise persuade one very excited and bouncy spiny mouse that it wasn’t play time during which I somehow got a chomped finger and moved most of my living room furniture! With about 2 mins to spare before I had to leave for the school run he finally ran into one of the many tubes and boxes I’d put around the room and I was able to put him in the tank. The thing is now he keeps giving me this very knowing look and I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find him in his wooden house leaning over a map with a glass cutter in one paw plotting his escape! 
In other news some of you won’t be at all surprised to learn, given my last post, that I decided to offer a permanent home to my 5 foster boys. 
I have therefore spent the last couple of days deciding on suitable names for them all and am pleased to properly introduce Timmy (the little black recently neutered one), Bobble (runty boy), Ollie (the splodgy faced one) and Jake (who has the white stripe down his nose). This does however leave little twoface boy currently nameless and I can’t find anything that suits him. I keep thinking it should be a ‘p’ name but have already dismissed Pickle, Patch and Percy as they just don’t seem quite right. This his photo again…
If anyone has any suggestions please feel free to leave them in a comment. 
go hoggle!!! hehehe.
i know what you mean re. knowing you need a name begining with P - i was like that with M and merc.
yay for admitting your badness publically; i’m assuming nick knows now?
errrm the first thing that came to mind was porcupine as first photo and the whiskers looking spiney. then pirate re the patch, but that’s a bit deathly boring. Then came paulo andpapoose erm. well. you were never going to get normal ones from me!!
know’s what?
*pets nick*
y’know, parsnip is still free
*has hysterics*
Hey there, I’m totally new here, just wanted to let you know i really love this site, you’re so right about there not being enough info on mice on the net
I’m a mouse lover and have a couple of name suggestions if you’re interested
Dallyo ( Pronounced Dal-ee-oh)
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Panda ( Starts with ‘p’
Puddle
Potion
Potpie
lol these are pretty poor…
Ok well congrats witht he site, see you later
Jenn
I suggest Peek. Cos in all the photos he seems to be peeking out! He’s so cute. I really like the nam e Peek as well.
Go hoggle. My mice LOVE to run around! All of them have escaped (mad and totally adventurous mice!) and im pretty sure they all will be leaning over maps with wire cutters (i keep them in cages) in paws, ready to strike. If I catch them that is!
I suggest Perkins. Don’t know how that name got into my head tho! I think cos because in all his pictures he is confined, just like a butler whose name is Perkins. Hehe!