those damn mice

Hello well now that the trouble with man he thinks he can control everything he'sa controlfreak, and these mice have a right to live just as you have and there doing there best to survive in man's society we have taken their world over by plundering nature and their habits mice are only being mice like anything that lives on this planet is try to survive the best way they can its just that your box withyour silencer in them made the best home for them, but you cannot blame the mice, the blame is on man ever time , try working with nature not againstnature this time that all men woke up to this fact before Nature bits him in the posterior hard , now think on this one yours Anna J

I left my Frank Thomas rain gear in the garage for a few months & when I retrieved it the littlebastards had chewed a lot of the collar away so I had to fix it with gaffer tape.

You were relatively lucky, another neighbor got them in his car which was not used very often (he was over 80) & they completely wreckedthe wiring in the engine compartment!

I hate them, had a massive infestation when living in a pakhuis in Amsterdam, used to catch 5 to10 at a time in the swing top bin in the kitchen (there was a big bar on the ground floor that had free popcorn) thoughto be fair, cockroaches are even worse (every so often we all hadto vacate the premises so the gemeente could spray the building from top to bottom) - ah, happy days!

If you have cats as we do you do not have this problem as mice will not go into a house that has cats living in them. They can smell the cats so they stay away. Our ones do catch mice and then bring them in to play with them, but I suspect they must have over the years as well as with the other cats of my neighbours wiped out the mouse population.

Sorry Anthony, at one stage I had 2 cats, the mice would come out & eat the cat food whilst the cats were lying around the fire at the other end of the flat. I guess Dutch mice are just tougher!

Not in my house would a mouse dare to do that are my three cats are all very good mousers.

Previously mike_sullivan wrote:

Sorry Anthony, at one stage I had 2 cats, the mice would come out & eat the cat food whilst the cats were lying around the fire at the other end of the flat. I guess Dutch mice are just tougher!

Your cats are too fat!

I have a dog, a Boxer/Lab cross, she disposes of mice in an instant, her speed is amazing. She has also disposed of 5 squirrels. She's earned her black belt!

Mike:

Quit feeding your cats so much.

When they get hungry they will turn into mousers.

Michael Sullivan

Previously richard_woolnough wrote:

trying to get the commando complete, won't be running though, for display at Ardingly, I retrieved the brand new peashooters one still boxed up nicely one opened at the end, purchased around 16 yrs ago from the loft of the workshop, the boxed one is perfect, the other? well those damb mice had made a nest or two in it chewed up all the wrapping for nest material and in the manner of incontinent beings pee'd over the chrome resulting in quite a bit of pitting and even some rusting grr grr, took the thing to the local platers, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! how about £250 to replate? having a laugh don't think he wanted the job, Moral of this tirade if you store items in the loft especially in the country suseptible to thes varmints make sure you keep the package secure, I shall put it on the bike for the time being but what an expensive mistake. kind regards

Those mice are obviously PEE Shooters!! That's enough,i've EXHAUSTED myself thinking of CHEESEY jokes!

My dogs spend all day out and about hunting out mouse and vole nests (they are particularly fond of the pink wriggly jelly babies) and still there are plenty enough of them left to nibble my Land Rover seats and HT leads and nest under the Yamaha saddle. I did discover that if you lovingly cover your bikes etc. they become even more of a des res for mice. I now have a stack of redundant bike covers but less of a mouse problem.

They are very cute though and I do leave out a drinking saucer for them in the polytunnel - much better than finding them drowned in a watering can. And yes, they did eat all the peas.

Mice? No problem, but, my dogs ate my best riding gloves!

Previously richard_woolnough wrote:

not gonna reply at length to your posting Anna, suffice it to say I have no issue whatsoever with wildlife or domestic animals, in fact I will only shoot a 'charlie' if it should have one of my chickens in it's mouth, I do not take life anymore 'tis to valuable, and I do not take exeption to them damn varmints making a home in my silencer box, However just for good manners they should wear nappies! and I also have to say if one bit my arse he/she would find 5 lace holes heading for theirs. kind regards

Hello well Richard I can see your frustration with this the possibleanswer to put a box with shredded paper in to so they go for this and not your silencers box, I my self-do have 5 cats that catch rats and mice but I do not get to see them doing it, thankgod there was a wildlife case, some time back were a lioness fort off a male loin from killing a female monkey with it's young and she protectedthe young monkey as the male Lion had killed its mother , it was closelyfilmed and studied by wildlife scientists and put on youtube she did not kill the young one but took it to a pace of safety were other moneys could then retrievethis young one , this shows that wildlife is not all about kill or be killed for the strongest to survive, in some cases predator speciesdo protect other lower class species and were one of these predators species, yours anna j

An old Norton man called Woolnough

stored some new Norton bits in his loft

But some mice screwed his plating

and now he is hating

for costing him dear

Fair enough.

I have a feral cat, has access to as much food as it likes but in 18 months it has successfully rid the lawn of a mole infestation and it likes the odd mouse too, caught it just looking at one mouse that just fell over dead before the cat had touched it.