Suicidal mice!

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Sofi P

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Yesterday I found a dead mouse floating in my horse's water bucket, nothing too out of the ordinary. Then I found another this morning and so did the girl in the stable next door!

I think the mice of Manchester might be feeling a little depressed at the moment with all these suicides! Is it just up t'North that the mice cant face any more or is this happening anywhere else?!
 
OMG I had the same thing a couple of years ago at an old yard. I went into my horses stable and found a couple of dead mice on the floor. Then in my other horses stable I found a floating dead mouse in his water bucket.

It was a massacre! God knows what had happened???
 
One view is they are a pest.

Personally I would be putting a little lid with a half inch of water behind the water bowl so they could drink.;)
 
Well rat and mouse poison is warfarin, makes them thirsty then they bleed to death. Horrible.

If only they would learn to go and live in the field and stay away from feed bins they could live long happy lives.:)
 
pmcc said:
sounds like they have been poisoned and were trying to get some water.
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Ditto this. I used to cover up the poison boxes at my yard so that they didn't get poisoned. :p:rolleyes:

Saying that, the mice and rats at our yard hardly ever got into the feed as it should all be in bins. You'd just get some lazy a*se every so often then the poor mice/rats would get punished for it.

The yard owner is a bit of a tw*t really and just liked to think he was 'controlling' things even though there were millions of rats living over in the crop fields next to the yard and not harming anyone.

I remember once when his doddery old fool of a father decided it would be a good idea to put a poison box in my friend's stable while her horse was out in the field. What the hell? He noticed that I'd blocked up the holes and said 'you and me are gonna fall out'. I shouldn't laugh, but hell, it was funny!

When my friend arrived at the yard she got the poison box on a pitchfork and smashed it on the floor. I'm laughing to myself just thinking about it, how mature? :p
 
We have big trug buckets for the water and although I know mice can climb up pretty much anything I'd be very surprised if they could climb up these as they slope outwards and look kinda slippery...

So I think they must be jumping/ falling from a ledge above, that's what led me to believe it might be suicide! Maybe the recession has hit the mouse world too...
 
We had some mice deaths a couple of winters ago and I made a plait from baler twine and tied it to the handles of each of the water trugs so that the knotted end was long enough to float down quite far when the bucket had some water drunk out of it overnight....so the wee mice had a chance to climb back out.

You can imagine what folk on the yard thought of me after that......not that I mind being seen as a totally barking nutter....at least the mice don't drown anymore! :D:D
 
Sofi P said:
We have big trug buckets for the water and although I know mice can climb up pretty much anything I'd be very surprised if they could climb up these as they slope outwards and look kinda slippery...

So I think they must be jumping/ falling from a ledge above, that's what led me to believe it might be suicide! Maybe the recession has hit the mouse world too...
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Now I have spat tea all over the screen. I can just imagine them all lined up as if on a bridge....
 
we have feline rodent control, mainly unsuccessful but they make a good show of patrolling and being in charge.

Our main Rodent Control Officer, Ziggy, a burmese blue, complained that he needed 'help' so we recruited two ex feral kittens, who he says are completely useless, stay indoors most of the time and make so much noise that the entire mouse population knows they are coming from about 100 yards away. He complains that he was not able to interview them first, and make them do tests and is now stuck with two incompetents.

I have to say that when they bring them into the house, I am forever rescuing voles and little nice and releasing them....
 
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