A month or so ago one of the neighbors up at the end of the road had a mouse problem in his RV. He thought the "nest" was under his deck, so he had it pulled out and put down gravel instead.
Today Gary found out he's still got a problem, so he put out POISON PELLETS. Gary tried not to freak out on him, but has a meeting with him at 4:30 this afternoon to discuss how to do this without threatening all of the wildlife around here. I don't know if deer eat mouse pellets, but there are dozens of them around here munching on whatever it is they eat in our yards. There were eight in our yard this morning. We have chipmunks, skunks, raccoons, fox, squirrels... and, of course feral cats!
The kittens that are waiting for their spot in the foster network are still here, and YESTERDAY someone left us a present - yup, a dead mouse. Thank goodness it hadn't even been munched on. But because of that alone I'm proud of Gary for not going ballistic on this guy.
Anyway, any thoughts on what we suggest he do?
Before we had cats, we stuffed dryer sheets into all the access points we knew about, and that worked.
But any other suggestions? I mean - if he's going to insist on doing something to kill them, I'd almost rather see him use snap traps. At least it's a quick (usually) death. But I'm still afraid the smell of peanut butter or whatever he would use would attract the cats or skunks, chipmunks, raccoons... ????
Anyone have any thoughts??????????????????????
(We could suggest he start feeding the cats, and help us with trapping, but he's a pilot, and not around a lot).
Today Gary found out he's still got a problem, so he put out POISON PELLETS. Gary tried not to freak out on him, but has a meeting with him at 4:30 this afternoon to discuss how to do this without threatening all of the wildlife around here. I don't know if deer eat mouse pellets, but there are dozens of them around here munching on whatever it is they eat in our yards. There were eight in our yard this morning. We have chipmunks, skunks, raccoons, fox, squirrels... and, of course feral cats!
The kittens that are waiting for their spot in the foster network are still here, and YESTERDAY someone left us a present - yup, a dead mouse. Thank goodness it hadn't even been munched on. But because of that alone I'm proud of Gary for not going ballistic on this guy.
Anyway, any thoughts on what we suggest he do?
Before we had cats, we stuffed dryer sheets into all the access points we knew about, and that worked.
But any other suggestions? I mean - if he's going to insist on doing something to kill them, I'd almost rather see him use snap traps. At least it's a quick (usually) death. But I'm still afraid the smell of peanut butter or whatever he would use would attract the cats or skunks, chipmunks, raccoons... ????
Anyone have any thoughts??????????????????????
(We could suggest he start feeding the cats, and help us with trapping, but he's a pilot, and not around a lot).