Breeding field mice?

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Globalti

Legendary Member
Has anybody tried this? They are such cute wee things, I reckon they'd make great pets. Good fun for cats as well. Why aren't they sold in pet shops, perhaps by the dozen?
 

Chromatic

Legendary Member
Location
Gloucestershire
Time to stop drinking.
 

SpokeyDokey

68, & my GP says I will officially be old at 70!
Moderator
They're lovely!

We have lots of Lakeland stone walls all around the house and we have quite a few that live in them - we feed them sunflower seeds.

Occasionally we get one or two in the attic or the house itself.

Nice little things.
 

Ern1e

Über Member
They are quite "cute" wee things but belive me they can breed at quite an alarming rate and they can get out of hand ! We seem to get them coming in over the winter months , which is the main reason for our large stock of moggies lol.
 

welsh dragon

Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
I do have a field, and yes they breed like crazy, and can be a nuisance. However, my neighbour has a couple of cats and they are very efficient at err dealing with them.:rolleyes:
 

Andy_R

Hard of hearing..I said Herd of Herring..oh FFS..
Location
County Durham
Bear in mind, that like rats they are incontinent. So anything they run over will be soaked or sprayed with mouse wee
 

SpokeyDokey

68, & my GP says I will officially be old at 70!
Moderator
Unless they get in your kitchen and s**t on everything :angry:

Yes that would not be nice - never happened as far as we know.

We like all the wildlife that come into our gardens. Mice and Hedgehogs are most common (apart from umpteen types of birds of course). We get the odd Pheasant drop by and the odd big Crow and in the Spring we get Buzzards trying to steal baby birds from the nests - this causes great distress to Lovely Wife. Herons are buggers as they have scoffed all our fish so we have given up keeping them and the pond is now home to maybe 2-300 frogs (noisey!).

Foxes we see most weeks and Badgers maybe 2-3 times a year. Deer are always in the field behind the garden.

We have an upside down bungalow with a garage and carport etc buried under the house and bats live in the roof of the carport which is effectively the floor of part of the lounge. We hear the odd squeak and they used to drive our (sadly departed) dog mad when they were very active.

In the 18 years we have been here we have been invaded by loose sheep on three occasions and stray cows twice. The latter wrecked the front lawns but the farmer sorted them out for us.

We love 'our' wildlife.
 

paul04

Über Member
Has anybody tried this? They are such cute wee things, I reckon they'd make great pets. Good fun for cats as well. Why aren't they sold in pet shops, perhaps by the dozen?

I think you have had to many drinks,

Get the bl**dy things in the loft, then try and get rid of them,
to cut a long story short, after 5 dead mice (mouse traps and poison) and 3 weeks later, got rid of them.

Next door had a hole in the outside wall after some building work, they was getting into the wall cavities, and running up to the loft where it was warm.
 
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