Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: New critter dilemma ...., 1 by konkreteblond

konkreteblond wrote:
Yeah, these indoor cats aren't good for helping with the mice! I am sure I've told you this story before but I'll retell it quickly. Ok, so I had the field mice by the dozens and was taking them off one by one in the live trap. One day I was outside and heard a strange squeaking. Later I heard it again and the light bulb suddenly went off...an animal! It was baby mice and I had taken the mama away!! I felt horrible!! Mice or not I didn't want to do that to them. I found them wandering out of the flower bed, looking for mom. :( I was SO glad I didn't step on any! I had a little rice milk that I fed a few with a tiny syringe. I would have kept them but it doesn't seem very socially acceptable to be hand-raising mice so I took them off to the field where I thought I probably left mom and left them too. I filled a sock with rice and warmed it in the microwave to help keep them warm. It was very hard not to go back in the morning to check on them, but I didn't want to find them dead or half eaten either. So, the moral of my story is...??? I guess it's catch that mama before she has them! lol