Arrrrgghh! Dang Mice!

[gilberte]

In an effort to become more self-reliant we began saving seed from some of our garden vegetables this fall. Had carefully processed some cuke, tomato, and bean seeds and they were drying in the garage. I went to bag them up yesterday and the dang mice have carried every last seed off!

Must be retribution for the bucket trap I keep out there

[Micheal]

And the mice thank you for setting such a wonderful and easily accessed table/tray/screen/other....
Maybe you should have set it up over the "bucket"?

[motdaugrnds]

I can just hear those little critters now running off and telling all their neighbors about the nice person down the road who provided them with such a banquet. ROFL

Truly not laughting at you; just enjoying the vision you painted. Believe me when I say many of us have done things just as ... clears throat ...

[nehimama]

Oh! What a HUGE disappointment! After all that work . . . . . . . I'm so sorry.

[toni48]

Oh no, so sorry...

[PastTense]

Traditional people gets cats to handle the mice problem--although I suppose it depends on the cat.

[GrannyG]

You better sign up for those free heirloom seeds in Countryside area...LOL...you could win them ! I hate meeces to pieces.....they cause me untold grief.....

[Patt]

I so sympathise having just lost our year's worth of sweet potatoes to a critter! Hope it goes better next season!

[10ecn]

A good barn cat is worth it's weight in seeds.

[CountryWannabe]

Sorry that happened to you. I lost a *few* of my stored seeds, but not all of them. I am bracing for the winter mouse invasion - each year when it gets cold the little dears find their way into my house. I have stuffed every nook and cranny with wire wool, dripped gallons of peppermint oil and still they come in. Cats are out of the question as the LGDs will not tolerate them.

Mary

[pancho]

Think I would rather have the mice than a cat.

[FoxyWench]

a good terrier is worth more than a barn cat too...

i have 3 mousers in my house, only 1 is a cat (and shes a little odd as she likes to decapitate her victims...im not sure what she does with the skulls) the other 2 are my chinese cresteds (the breed is origionally an african primitive breed that has both sighthound and terrier traits) they work as a team, theyve caught everything from tiny mice to rats, voles and even suirrel and rabbit (not bad considering the male is right around 5lbs) id honestly take my dogs as mousers over any cat.

[Jan Doling]

I read in MEN to use Bounce dryer sheets to repel mice.

[ErinP]

Originally Posted by FoxyWench

a good terrier is worth more than a barn cat too...

So is a dachshund on a mission.