Another issue with rodents is that they love to chew n electrical wiring
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If you have mice, you don’t have rats. If you have rats, you don’t have mice.
Why? Rats are quite territorial and will kill mice. So the two animals co-exisiting would be an incredibly rare occurrence. It just doesn’t happen. Unless the mice are being fed super well and are getting to mungo size; then they could resemble rats.
I’ve never been to a barn that doesn’t have at least one cat, and despite the, er, traffic issue, it might be worth it to keep trying cats until you find one that’s smart enough to stay out of the road.
Or just get a glaring of them![/QUOTE]
Sorry but that’s not true, IME. We have both mice and rats.
When end we had dogs that would hunt, things were better. We’ve tried cats, but the natural predators as well as the barn dogs terrorizing cats means we have a real problem keeping cats. While I suppose any chance for a semi- feral cat is pretty good, we have a 100% disappearance rate for any cat that stays at the farm (a few have been adopted by barn folks because they were so miserable).
Wow I wondered how a year old thread got bumped. Clever advertising insert, well played.
