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Well yes, as a country dweller I know that - which is why I mentioned it. Doesn't seem to have gone down too well - unlike the mice with the owls!!

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What fun you can police the fox hunting lot that the regulars ignore .

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True - and the Owls have to live too.

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We live in a barn conversion, it's quite long and low, being single storey.

We knew we had mice in the roof at one end, over the main bedroom because we could hear them at night scampering around. We were at a loss as to how they were getting in there and reluctant to put traps up there.

Eventually it dawned on us that a large honeysuckle which climbed up the outside wall was like a cargo net for the mice! We cut it down (shame because it smelt gorgeous on summer nights) and the result was no more mice in the roof.

We do see rats occasionally around the stables area but there are probably more of them in a town centre.

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I really, really do not like rats at all.

We've had this discussion recently when members who feed the wild birds (me included), get problems with rats visiting.

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I don't mind the four legged ones .
They are so bright and clever.

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They are horrible, and it's not unknown for them to bite - and of course they spread disease. I'm happy to poison or shoot them although as I said, we don't get that many or at least, we don't see them.

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I don't mind them either...but not in my loft...lol....how many have you caught so far?

A elderly lady I know,her cat keeps bringing in mice..which are still alive...I'd worry that they may nest ..especially in her house,because she is unable to get upstairs..

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I have caught five little field mice so far.
They come in from the fields in the winter.
I hope I can get rid of them all .
I simply cannot kill them by poison is so cruel added to that I have a dog and although they are in the attic field mice do come out at night . A dead poisoned mouse in the garden would be a serious danger to a dog.