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What's outside of your picture window today?
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Brrrr! Wishing you some warm weather! Good plan on enjoying the feeder next door!
I hadn't seen a mouse in the house in 40 years. When they invaded during the rains, I didn't have the heart to use snap traps. I bought catch and release plastic cages 6" x 3" x 3". I caught 8 all together and haven't seen any since not even in the garden. I didn't want them to be scared while waiting till nightfall for relocation so I put their little cages on the kitchen floor and dropped in a variety of snacks so they could fill up before their big adventure.
I friend started laughing when I told her that. She said they are now telling all their mouse friends: "I found this great new hotel! The rooms are little small, but the food and service is first rate!" LOL
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I had to laugh when reading about your mice adventures…catch and release! I did the same thing several years ago. My husband discovered mice in our garage which was attached to the house. We’d never had any mice in the house but didn’t want to take a chance. While my husband was at work, I bought a couple of Havahart animal traps…couldn’t bring myself to kill the little critters!
The first day, I set the traps with peanut butter. For ‘containment’ if I caught any, I had a 5 gallon plastic pail outfitted with a screen on the top. Filled the bottom with cedar chips, bird seed, sunflower seeds and chopped apples. 😂.
One by one I put the mice in the bucket and caught 8 the first day! Then drove to a nature preserve forest a few miles from us and set them free! Next day I had about 10 more…did the same thing. Always releasing them in the same area. Can’t remember how many times I repeated that over the next week or so. Finally there were no more mice in the garage. I felt good that the family and all the kin were in the same place!☺️ My husband and friends had the same reaction your friend did! LOL. But I could sleep at night knowing I didn’t kill something needlessly. ❤️🐭