Snails and mice

A mate of mine recently removed an old shed in his garden, he's now building a new one.

Anyway he reckons that under the old one there were loads of snail shells, each with a round hole in the back.
He thinks it was mice dragging the snails under the shed and eating out the snails from their shells.

If this is the case maybe we should rethink if mice are actually good for the garden, and not the pest that most people think.

Or maybe someone can come up with a different idea as to what would eat a snail under a shed.

 

Pete, your friend is right - mice do eat snails.
Have a look at the link.
http://blog.thomaslaupstad.com/2008...ellow-snail-shells-land-snails-eaten-by-mice/

 

Thanks Alice thats interesting:thumb:

 

I have a mouse living in my shed, I never thought of him as a pest. He's ace, he just eats the excess bird seed that drops from the bird feeders, and wanders round the garden of an evening at dusk. He's quite personable, never seems to run from me. I just hope my cat never gets to him... she does sniff around the shed during the day.

 

I Allways knew there was a good reason for mice to live in the garden and this is it, im with Canucks, Mice Are Ace

 

Think again about encouraging mice,mice are incontinent, and as they move around they dribble urine and leave droppings. If they come into contact with food there is a risk of food poisoning, such as Salmonella and E.coli, don't forget mice can get were castor oil cann't so nowhere is safe from them.

 

Ive said it before and I shall say it again..
You learn some stuff in these boxes..

Walnuts comments about contamination are very valid.
How many of us do not wash our lettuce leaves before eating them?
I know I dont, but I shall in the future..
robert

 

I dont go out of the way to encourage mice, but when I see them in the garden I tend to put them in the same category as any other form of wildlife.

I would not want them in the house but as long as they stay outside I have no problems with them, the local cat population keeps the numbers down, and is probably around in higher numbers , I find they have dirtier habits than mice.

Not that I'm getting at cats I hasten to add.
Well only when I get a handful that is.:D