Mice - again

Oh I think that's so funny - I can just picture you trying to look all innocent talking to your neighbours, "who me? feeding the mice?" while trying not to let them see the rising tide of mice hiding behind you!! LOL LOL

If you look up GoY member Bonkersbon and look at his pictures page you'll find lots of super shots of mice and other wildlife that lives in his garden, which might interest you. He's also done some wonderful blogs.

You could have put your above comment on your other blog - where it says 'comment on this blog entry' you can just join in the discussion there - you don't have to do a new blog each time ;-)

My daughter had mice in her first home the mess/damage was unbelievable it was really difficult to get rid of them, expensive and very distressing. I feel very sorry for your neighbours. Why are you feeding them?

She's not - they've eating from her bird feeder - see her other blog for pic.

Thanks Sid

Do your neighbours know that the mice are eating from the bird feeder Helen?
I would find it odd that they were being overun by mice when the mice had a perfectly good supply of food outside.
Tell them to get a cat....LOL.

We had them too when we built our house, before we'd got round to putting skirting board on, the thought of them running round the house weeing everywhere gave me the willies, had to have the mouse man from the council out, he said they get in the cavities when you're building,so in before you even move in, he had to come three times to fill up the poison, every time it was empty, so must have been loads, keep a tray of poison down in the loft just in case,but luckily no sign of anymore, used to hear them stratching in the walls, its winter time, they become a problem,which is when we built our house, looking for somewhere warm for the winter, and if there's a food supply nearby like your feeders all the better. Fine outside but not in my house thankyou very much.

....I think traps must be more humane than poison.....but I've never had to use either.

Sorry to hear of your mouse problem. I try and rescue them from my cat and take them to the field. I think they come back though.

Poison may go through the food chain and kill the animal that eat mice such as cats? so traps may be better?

Did ask the council man about that Drc, as worried about birds etc but he said the poison makes the mice cold so they find somewhere warm to curl up, and the poison makes the bodies dry out, so they don't smell, so probably hundreds in walls of house, never seen any dead ones outside, don't think humane traps where really an option in this case, as the amount of poison that had gone must have been a heck of a lot of mice, he'd have to set a lot of traps, probably breeding all the time the house was being built,and of course we didn't notice till we moved in, and when he said there could be rats too well that did it, having children in the house couldn't risk it, the diseases rats carry, and he told us mice wee all the time on everything.

That's very interesting Simbad. I remember when I was at college, the college had a bad rat problem. There was poison being used to control them and I did see dead rats from time to time. One day, I was walking through the campus and a rat almost bumped into my ankle! I'm not scared of rats/mice, but I must say that did make me jump about 6 ft in the air!! It had obviously had some of the poison, as it was wobbling along and showed no fear of the passers by, so I don't think your council man can be 100% right - but maybe it's different with rats, being a bigger creature?