Food thief!

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My dad emailed me this earlier! I've never seen it myself when I've come to get the rabbit food, but we do have a few opportunistic thieves that tend to get stuck! What is the thief I hear you ask?

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Little field mice! They're so cute!
 
Bailey said:
Cute... but don't mice drip pee constantly?
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Hmm, I've never heard of that... I hope not!

Shall tell my dad anyway and get him to throw the food. The buns aren't eating that anymore though, we've recently moved them onto nuggets in their old age :). Apparently dad just heard scrabbling coming from the food bin. Bless it.
 
Sure I read it somewhere, something to do with the urethra not having the function to "hold" until they are ready too pee. (**** best to check I might have imagined it)

I love his big eyes, they're like berries.
 
Hehehhee awwwwwwww what a sweetie pie x)
 
we had a mouse in our shed the other week. it was coming in and getting the wild bird seed :))
 
Having mice get into your feed store or cages to eat from the bowls is not cute or sweet - it's dangerous for your animals. The list of diseases they can carry is very long. Some are quite common - especially Salmonella as it is passed in the urine which mice dribble constantly. I use live traps and release them a long way from my me and my pigs.

http://www.nomice.com/

Suzy x
 
Suzygpr said:
Having mice get into your feed store or cages to eat from the bowls is not cute or sweet - it's dangerous for your animals. The list of diseases they can carry is very long. Some are quite common - especially Salmonella as it is passed in the urine which mice dribble constantly. I use live traps and release them a long way from my me and my pigs.

http://www.nomice.com/

Suzy x
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What traps do you use?

I totally agree that having them getting into the cages or food is not cute or sweet, and I know they carry diseases. Fair enough I wasn't aware that they wee everywhere. They can't get to the food/treats we use, they can't get in the cages as far as I know (narrow mesh), and I've never found them anywhere apart from the back of the garage or in the bin of old rabbit food.

At the end of the day I just posted a cute picture of a little mouse my dad found, because it is cute. :)
 
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They are sweet, we have one that appears in our yard as we back onto a park. He cant get into any of our piggy stuff though.
 
x)x)x) very cute, when I lived with my parents a field mouse moved himself in with my rabbit though x)x)

I have to agree it's not worth the risk though sweetie, and glad to see humane-sounding traps being suggested.
 
cheeky little mousey!!!

eeeeeeek whee have a mouse **** in Victoria at the moment.........well in NSW too it's the problem with the weather so much rain they're coming out from everywhere, evidently on the back roads of the country it's a 'grey mass road' :{
 
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