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Post by Harold Smith on Mar 29, 2020 15:24:10 GMT
There is a very clever wood mouse in my garage. I set a trap for it as it is tucking into my home grown veg. This is what it thought of my trap. woodini by Harold Smith, on Flickr Harold.
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Post by Harold Smith on Mar 30, 2020 15:45:48 GMT
Note: The date on the video timestamp has the wrong month. I must have accidently changed it. As seen in the previous video I didn't have much luck. Last night I reset the trap and hoped for the best. When I played back the video I though Hooray! Gotcha! Woodini 2 by Harold Smith, on Flickr Quite a little escape artist isn't it. Not only does Woodini break out of the trap it seems to have worked out if it keeps his rear legs and the main part of his body at the bottom it can stretch forward and collect the food from the top. Woodini 3 by Harold Smith, on Flickr Woodini is still somewhere in my garage. Watch out for the next instalment. Harold.
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Post by rowanberry on Mar 30, 2020 20:53:51 GMT
Harold-
I do love our woodmice, but fortunately ours prefer to stay out in the garden.
I did read somewhere, (and I've never had to use this so can't vouch for it) that peppermint oil repels mice. It might be worth giving that a go... I know that cats hate the smell of citrus, and so far me scattering orange peeling under our birdfeeders seems to be working. You could probably get a decent peppermint oil online still.
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Post by Harold Smith on Mar 31, 2020 8:59:53 GMT
Harold-
I do love our woodmice, but fortunately ours prefer to stay out in the garden.
I did read somewhere, (and I've never had to use this so can't vouch for it) that peppermint oil repels mice. It might be worth giving that a go... I know that cats hate the smell of citrus, and so far me scattering orange peeling under our birdfeeders seems to be working. You could probably get a decent peppermint oil online still.
Hi Rowanberry, Some years ago I had trouble with mice in my garage, which is also my workshop. So I cleared them all out and made it mouse proof. Didn't have anymore trouble with them until now. I suspect it creeped in while the door was open and I was elsewhere. Anyway, thank you for the suggestion. Harold.
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Post by Harold Smith on Mar 31, 2020 9:31:13 GMT
Set up a new trap for Woodini. Woodini 4 by Harold Smith, on Flickr Either Woodini wasn't being very bright or thought not going up the other end. Might not get out. I'll leave something more tempting in the neck of the bottle tonight. Once caught it will be returned to the garden where it belongs. Harold.
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Post by Harold Smith on Apr 1, 2020 15:25:19 GMT
Success at last. Woodini now in custody. It took awhile to pluck up the courage to enter the bottle. Hunger or greed got the better of it. Woodini 5 by Harold Smith, on Flickr Woodini is now underneath my Cotoneaster hedge in amongst a thick bed of ivy. Harold.
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Post by ianr on Apr 2, 2020 7:40:04 GMT
Bottles make great traps for small animals, back in the days of milk bottles almost every one I came across discarded in the woods had a mouse vole or shrew in it, sadly most were dead but the few I found alive were released. Being a kid at the time the best way of stopping it happening again that I came up with was to smash the bottle Even today if I walk past a bottle in the woods I'll pick it up and put it in the bin back home ian
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Post by snowlynx on Apr 2, 2020 7:50:33 GMT
Bottles make great traps for small animals, back in the days of milk bottles almost every one I came across discarded in the woods had a mouse vole or shrew in it, sadly most were dead but the few I found alive were released. Being a kid at the time the best way of stopping it happening again that I came up with was to smash the bottle Even today if I walk past a bottle in the woods I'll pick it up and put it in the bin back home ian It's a wonder they can crawl up the sides to get in in the first place!
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