Do mice eat garden plants?

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  1. Scrungee

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    Oh dear, sounds like mr mouse has got a girlfriend, whch will mean lots more mice......

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      We had a rat that used to drag tea bags under the shed.
       
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        I wonder why? Because, like Everest, they were there?
         
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        Maybe the kettle was under the shed too?
         
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          After we nailed expanded metal lath strip both across the shed bearers and along them (to prevent gnawing) the rats took them under the shed next door until we started storing every single bit of compost in steel dustbins prior to removal to our veg plot.
           
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            I suppose, to a rat, a tea bag looks like a nice cushion or pillow.
             
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            We had a rat problem at our old house,we lived quite near a farm , one day I had a friend round for coffee she said "ooo look you've got a squirrel on your bird table", not a squirrel but the biggest rat I've ever seen, we got the rat man out who found a run under next doors shed, he thought it was a rabbit run, we were selling our house at the time about half an hour before prospective buyers were due to look round,this rat, which had obviously eaten the poison was staggering around the front lawn, what a sight hubby with a large plank of wood chasing this flippin rat, luckily he put it out of its misery before the viewers came, and we sold the house :D
             
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              Just mentioned that to Mrs Scrungee, and she's seen rats climbing a clothes line post, shimmying along the clothes line and dropping down onto a high level bird table. Maybe I shouldn't mention why you should use metal shower outlets, rather than plastic ones.
               
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                Did anyone else catch that programme on the BBC "Nature's Weirdest Events" where they took a look at Mouse Plagues in Australia? that was some scary **** I'm not a particularly squeamish person when it comes to rodents but that would completely freak me out:shocked::runhills:

                Here's an Iplayer link to the section of the show talking about the Mouse plagues:
                BBC iPlayer - Nature's Weirdest Events: Episode 1
                 
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