Sammy7
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Isn’t @selectedgrub building a mousetrap
I use milk bottles in my garage..have done for 40 years....put a bit of bird seed in them.......the mice get in and cant get out.........I tip them in the woods at the bottom of my garden....theyre probably back in my garage before I am......strangely Ive never had any in any of my shedsI came accross a milk bottle on its side in my field few years back ,some one had chucked over the hedge, inside 3 dead field mice , although I am a country guy born and bred hate to think of them dying slowly , obviously the glass was too slippery for them to climb up out of the neck.
so might be worth a try as a trap, maybes take them over the woods and let them have half a chance rather than just do them in though if it works for you.
I tried the humane approach first time I got one in the bin, I reached down tentatively with an empty box with a view of collection and then release into the wild when I took dog a walk into fields. However mouse was ready and just ran up my arm onto my shoulder and legged it in the junk piled up in garage. Trap reset and no prisoners next time. I quite like wildlife, probably more so than humans. It’s just the damage they cause ( mice) which is unmeasurable in comparison to humans
Absolutely as per end of my earlier postI think us humans have done far far worse than mice ever will.
This can kill someoneView attachment 204128 View attachment 204128 Trap armed, note laser trip wireaimed at about 11.00 on inside of bin. For health and safety reasons used armoured cable don’t want them chewing through power cable. Also only set on reheat Chinese 3 minutes medium high
Only a jokesadthat's all I can say
I obviously mis read that then![]()
if the lodger is feline, we had one must be related ,years back, used to come in with half grown rabbits sit in front of you and let them go.
Caught mine trying to pull a fully grown seagull in the xatflap had a few pigeons tooI had another cat many years ago who did that. Rabbits, moles, voles, rats, and one time, a chicken. The living room in the morning was like a reenactment of the Somme.
Never met a cat with such a high kill score.
This is the ‘lodger’.
Caught mine trying to pull a fully grown seagull in the xatflap had a few pigeons too
What type of cats? Tigers?
Best one was her and her brother in the field next door, stalking the donkey.
Had this image of them trying to get it through the cat flap “you push, I’ll pull!”