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will try tuna or peanut butter but no mouse is getting his teeth on my chocolate , I asked hubby what he thought when he came in last night and he said same as me probably a mouse the little blighters can get in such tiny places I was totally amazed, still not found my little friend hope hes gone now,
hope your sons alright when you break it to him just keep them as warm as possible thats all you can do, think I'd pile all our clothes in there with them lol
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If you have hamster feed that works great. I use that in my humane traps and start catching them nearly as soon as I put them down.
 
I'm so sorry you lost your piggy. I hope your son is dealing with it ok. I'm here to say, sows CAN be that aggressive. It doesn't sound like that was the case here though. But my Little Soli had to be seperated from her cagemates because she was a tyrant. She would trap her 2 cagemates inside of their pigloo and lay in front of the door and not let them out until I chased her away. I thought she might settle down a bit but after Kagome seriously injured her eye (from what I truly believe was a well placed Little Soli kick) I decided enough was enough, she was just getting worse. I was afraid she might seriously hurt (I say that like Kagome's eye getting ripped open wasn't serious ::) ) or possibly kill one of them. She gets along great with everyone during playtime but she just can't be trusted to live with anyone. So she lives upstairs from her family and aggravates me instead. She's a very sweet girl, just not to other piggies. I do think everyone may be right though and she died of natural causes and another rodent may have come in and taken her eye. Rodents as a general rule can squeeze in just about anywhere (excluding our fat, fairly clumsy piggies of course). I learned my lesson about that the first time I successfully caught a mouse in a humane trap. I couldn't go let her out until that afternoon so I transfered her to a dwarf hamster cage with food and water so she could be more comfortable until her release. Before I could blink she was through the bars and gone. I dumped her in and snapped the lid closed and looked to see her and she was nowhere. Mind you my tiny little dwarf Astin lived in this cage his whole life and never could get out and this mouse really wasn't any smaller than him and she was still gone.

-kkat
 
Goodness, I was so sorry to read your post. It must have been a terrible shock for you. I hope you and your son are doing OK today. Thinking of you.

Alex x
 
my little mouse friend is not going to be caught, its not tempted by any food put in the humane trap, and why should it , it has ready made meals from my pigs food and hay in their runs, none of mine are in hutches, so the little blighter is not even tempted, it lives in a bottom drawer of a chest of drawers used for piggy bits, lucky the bottom one was empty, except little mice droppings, I have cleaned it with disenfectant and deliberatly kept it empty but the little blighter keeps leaving me message lol, I am going to wait for warmer weather and empty the whole shed something i do a few times a year anyway,
KaosKat I did laugh when I read about you putting the mouse in a cage I do the same type thing, putting the mouse in a shoe box then leaving in the garden until I got my coat on, to let it out in fields only to find it had chewed its way out in minutes, I think we underestimate these little rodents, and yes they can get in tiny little holes, ;D ;)
 
I'm ok, miss me little bounty, still weird not seeing her.
i just done some exercise and i cant stop shaking lol havnt done any in 4 weeks as i have been ill, first time since. ihave a eliptical strider has a computer on it tells you the distance and how many calories you burn off, i ran 2 miles in 15 minutes and burnt about 70 calories
 
that's brilliant going.
It is so sad when you lose a piggie I know. I have just started to be able to think of Dr without crying so much. I really hope you will get there too soon x
 
Lucinda i wish I can get to that stage. i have to not think its a nightmare.
 
It's really hard and sometimes I can't manage it. Sometimes the grief just overwhelms me. But then I try to think of the beautiful grave Dr has now in Cornwall, and the lovely flowers on it, and I know Dr has gone somewhere special, because when I saw him dead he sure as hell wasn't there, if you see what I mean, so he is peaceful somewhere else.

I still have pics of Dr up round the house and one that travels with me in my bag, so he is always there, and I also have an envelope with some of his fur in
 
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