My friend and her mice.

[Plantaholic]

I was in the company of the Treasurer of our WI and she was telling me that she has a lot of mice in her house atm, she will not kill them so sets humane traps and then puts them in cages in her garage and wait for it, she feeds them. The reason for her doing this, she tells me is that you have to take them a distance from the place where you caught them and she will only do that when the weather is warmer!! Unfortunately she doesn't drive so will have to find someone who is willing to give them a lift. I have visions of all the local mice telling each other to go in her house because you get bed and board.

[Oma]

There are probably dozens around is she going to catch all of them they breed very quickly so no matter how many she has caught there will be double the amount running free

[Plantaholic]

They are probably little wood mice , we get those, the cat brings them in. We couldn't stop laughing Oma

[Mimi]

Where we used to live our cat caught a mouse and left it as a present for us outside our bedroom door ! Not exactly the best thing to see first thing in the morning and it was also OH’s birthday. He wasn’t exactly impressed!

[Gemini]

What a lovely lady 😊
Friends of ours did the same, but they can drive them to the country themselves,not having to re-home them in the garage!
Lucky little mice

[Daisy]

I had to smile at that, Plant. I hope she provides adequate bedding, clean water and appropriate food for the little creatures. I'd make sure they start their rehoming journeys with a full tummy so they don't rush back for dinner!

When we extended out kitchen we were getting mice coming in to one particular cupboard, and obviously appreciated the provision of oats, biscuits etc waiting for them. I hate killing them, so we tried swapping the contents of the cupboard and put in plates, mixing bowls etc (washed before each use in case they'd been visited) and the mice just disappeared - no doubt looking for free dinners elsewhere.

[Nanto2girls]

No way would i have put them in the garage,they would have to gone,dead or alive.

[Shemadee]

My friend was selling her house in a very swanky upmarket private road. All seemed to be going well as she showed a couple around the house. Then her five year old piped up “Tell them about he mice Mummy. Tell them about the mice”. It was actually one mouse that found its way in through an open door on bonfire night about six months earlier”.

[Daisy]

Shem - that made me laugh out loud. You can rely on a child to tell the unvarnished truth in those situations. I hope your friend sold her house anyway.

[Gemini]

My DD1, the epitome of tact and discretion now, was always the one to embarrass me with things like that. I could write a book LOL.

[Clover]

In your friend’s circumstances I’d be tempted to do the same

[Gemini]

Me too Clover!

[Plantaholic]

Spoke to my mouselady friend at WI and mentioned the mice, she said they were getting worse so she has had to put poison down and she called in a vet to humanely kill the ones that were not quite dead. I feel sorry for her, she has her principles but this time she realised she was not winning the battle.

[Gemini]

Aww, I feel sorry for her too, but I think it had to be done.

[Daisy]

Oh dear, poor lady. I do think an old-fashioned mouse trap is less cruel than poison, but she must be getting quite desperate to get rid of them.