Happy New year hmmmm
To start happy New year to all.My new year morning started exactly the same as every other morning, half asleep kettle on, feed the cats to shut them up and testing bloods, nothing different. With my first cup of tea I plonk my Arse on the sofa and before the cup can touch my lips all hell breaks loose. I feel a slight movement on my shoulder and hair and flicked my hair of my shoulder and heard a delicate thump and scratching omg a mouse somehow it had slipped onto my shoulder when I sat down. Now the fun and games began trying to catch it, round and round the sofas and chairs until it leapt into a slightly open drawer. Gotcha. No it then starts running between the drawers as everything is tossed out of them. I will not be beaten so the front door is flung open and the chest of drawers put out on the step, yes its cold what does the mouse do, it plays peeppo with me. I'm pleased so say after about an hour it decided to live ourside and not in the drawers.
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After awhile, they began to look, well ... Familiar & he suspected he was catching the same critters repeatedly.
He marked 'em with small dots of paint & kept taking the beasties farther & Farther away.
They'd return from at Least 1/4 mile (400 m) away.
Kinda remarkable, really.
I used to live near a river and get all sorts of creatures in my garage. I had to postpone a clear out one spring/summer so as not to disturb a dormouse. I thought it might nesting in a mattress I'd put in there in late winter.
I wasn't too happy abut having to keep the mattress for over a year, but frequent appearances from a protected species more than compensated for that.
When I eventually thought it was okay to move the mattress, there were no signs of a nest in it. In fact there were no signs of a nest anywhere in my garage. I kept dried dog food out there in a closed container, but maybe there were crumbs on the floor I couldn't see, or fully sweep up.
It did not state how far from other people's homes.
There are hay bales near by and i some time get few mice so i take then for a drive and let them go elsewhere
You'll need bigger traps for your cats but these are the three mouse traps i use. Try eBay...
The smaller trap with glass window recently caught three mice at the same time, they now reside elsewhere
happy mousing
Your cats bring you gifts and food. They are very caring.