Caught a thief in store room on camera !!

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Hi every one,

Caught a thief in store room today, have a picture as evidence. What would you do next ?




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Any ideas !!!!
 
Aww look at his wee face!

We caught a rat at the yard in one of those cages made for catching rodents. You can set them free or someone at my yard drowned him in the river.... Urgh
 
Had mouse poision down on my old yard, and to mine and 2 other girls horror we saw a baby mouse dizzily wanderign about, we came up with big plans to save him until one of the other liveries came alone and stomped on him, you should of heard us scream! Mouse murderer :(
 
keep him prisoner. He's lovely :) I really like mice. The rats annoy me as they eat through feed bins and everything (don't wish them any harm though as they're cute too) but mice are welcome visitors in my feed room.
 
Don't leave food lying around? If you leave choccy biscuits lying around, you'll get pests.

And who in their right mind has choccy biscuits lying around? Buy them, open them, eat them ALL!

Pest proof boxes for food, they won't stay where there is no food.
 
PonyIAmNotFood said:
Humane trap, catch it and let it out somewhere well away from your store room, sorted. Alternatively put it out some food and tame it as a pet :D
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I don't think it would make a good pet (I tried keeping a wild mouse when I was a child, it was just scared even after ages so I let it go). But I'd probably do humane trap and release thing. Personally, I don't like to kill things unless they're actually causing me or my animals harm (like worms and fleas for example!!).
 
Tr0uble said:
Don't leave food lying around? If you leave choccy biscuits lying around, you'll get pests.

And who in their right mind has choccy biscuits lying around? Buy them, open them, eat them ALL!

Pest proof boxes for food, they won't stay where there is no food.
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Agreed. :)
 
jesstickle said:
keep him prisoner. He's lovely :) I really like mice. The rats annoy me as they eat through feed bins and everything (don't wish them any harm though as they're cute too) but mice are welcome visitors in my feed room.
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Our food has been going missing for weeks, I have blamed the other girls for nicking my bickys lol and then today there he is bold as brass did't even care when we went in to photo him. Even gets in the tin god knows how, should be the size of a bloody cat the amount of mouse munchies he/they have had !!! :) :)
 
Please don't poison the dear little soul. He isn't hurting anyone. Do you have a fridge? They're usually reliably mouse proof. Could put the tin in there.
 
Aww, I like him! I won't kill anything to be honest - not if it's my fault as I've left food about. Rats though I have issue - let my dogs 'deal' with them though!
 
I'm an animal lover but mice are pests? Not a big fan of poisons but traps/cat/terrier would be my choice. Once they get a hold (you might see just one, trust me, there will be plenty more when that came from!) and start wrecking stuff, they are very hard to get rid of.
Also, letting it out...it will just come back to where the food and the warmth are!
 
CaveCanem said:
I'm an animal lover but mice are pests? Not a big fan of poisons but traps/cat/terrier would be my choice. Once they get a hold (you might see just one, trust me, there will be plenty more when that came from!) and start wrecking stuff, they are very hard to get rid of.
Also, letting it out...it will just come back to where the food and the warmth are!
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I can cope with letting a terrier in on him but poisoning him would be too cruel :(
 
I am a big softy,could not kill him,told every one that they must keep human food well out of the way, we do have poison down for the rats around the farm which to be honest you never see, but these little ones are a bit on the cute side arrgh, would not be able to deal with being a mouse murderer :)
 
Not harsh at all. Im sick of having to throw things out because the little $h!t$ have chewed holes in everything :mad:

They chew holes into the rugs hanging on the hangers, I cant leve feeds out for my sharer as I bought covers for the feeds and they chewed through them. I HATE having to wipe the mouse cr@p off the top of my boxes and the top of my feed bins.

So I have poison sitting in little piles everywhere for the blighters. Its unhygenic as well since they pass on diseases to both horse and human :mad:
 
NiknKia said:
Not harsh at all. Im sick of having to throw things out because the little $h!t$ have chewed holes in everything :mad:

They chew holes into the rugs hanging on the hangers, I cant leve feeds out for my sharer as I bought covers for the feeds and they chewed through them. I HATE having to wipe the mouse cr@p off the top of my boxes and the top of my feed bins.

So I have poison sitting in little piles everywhere for the blighters. Its unhygenic as well since they pass on diseases to both horse and human :mad:
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It is too harsh. They probably think you're a perfect menace putting everything in boxes so they have to chew through it. They don't to it to annoy you after all, they're just trying to live their lives like you are. Tell me you wouldn't be up in arms if someone was poisoning cats or dogs? What's the difference?
 
I tied dog food up in a gym bag once and suspended it from a hook on the underside of a shelf in the garage and took a seat. Watched mouse crack the puzzle in little under half an hour and there was a big hole chewed in the bag and the dog food was all gone less than a day later, they are resourceful little critters.

ETA - if they were in the house, would people want to co-exist with them peacefully? We had an infestation in the house a few years ago and it was not funny, they did cause quite a bit of damage.
 
jesstickle said:
It is too harsh. They probably think you're a perfect menace putting everything in boxes so they have to chew through it. They don't to it to annoy you after all, they're just trying to live their lives like you are. Tell me you wouldn't be up in arms if someone was poisoning cats or dogs? What's the difference?
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Whatever get in the real world JS, Ive read it all now 'they think Im a perfect menace', mice are not humans and they dont think as such its a pest it gets poisoned/ferreted/munched by cats what ever I need to do to get rid of them end of. Id rather not catch a disease or my horses catch one from a pest.

I cant believe you attributing mice human feelings, its the same as when people do it to horses blooming annoys me.
 
NiknKia said:
Whatever get in the real world JS, Ive read it all now 'they think Im a perfect menace', mice are not humans and they dont think as such its a pest it gets poisoned/ferreted/munched by cats what ever I need to do to get rid of them end of. Id rather not catch a disease or my horses catch one from a pest.

I cant believe you attributing mice human feelings, its the same as when people do it to horses blooming annoys me.
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I was trying to be light hearted but if you're going to get pissy over it on a Saturday night suit yourself :rolleyes:

I still don't see why you think cruelty to mice is ok but presumably cruelty to dogs cats and horses isn't. I could be wrong. Perhaps you think it would perfectly acceptable to poison the dartmoor hill ponies when they need culling.
 
georgiaziggy said:
Had mouse poision down on my old yard, and to mine and 2 other girls horror we saw a baby mouse dizzily wanderign about, we came up with big plans to save him until one of the other liveries came alone and stomped on him, you should of heard us scream! Mouse murderer :(
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Haha thats fantastic I actually burst out laughing (at the mouse murderer bit at the end not the dying mouse). Just stopped prolonged suffering ;)
 
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