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Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
in Wildlife gardening
I put a trap out for ratty, and a trail of peanuts inside with about 6 on the plate. I went to check it and saw the trap was shut, the peanuts had gone, the cage was empty. As I'm scratching my head about this, a little wood mouse appeared from the corner, blinking in the torch light. He almost sauntered out the cage, he must have been so full up and probably waddled home! 

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  • SherwoodArrowSherwoodArrow Posts: 284
    I used a borrowed humane trap once trying to catch a rat. I put some peanuts on a old pringles tube lid, put them in the trap, set it and waited. I looked out to check just in time to see the rat reaching in from the outside through the bars, pulling the lid towards itself and filling it’s face with the nuts. Never again, I went and got a kill trap and loaded it with some chocolate spread, gone.
    Nottinghamshire.
    Failure is always an option.

  • Jenny_AsterJenny_Aster Posts: 945
    edited March 2023
    We had a humane one for a mouse that seemed to live under the fridge, or at least he used to scamper there when disturbed, when we moved the fridge we found he'd disappeared. One morning after trying to catch him for weeks, I found him trapped in the cage. I was so excited that the dog got excited, causing him to bounce on the cage and set the mouse free  :(
    Trying to be the person my dog thinks I am! 

    Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
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