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Somewhat vindicated
Two days ago, Mike came in to wake me and complained that I'd forgotten to put the Baby's pony nuts in his breakfast. This seemed very odd, but I assumed that I must have just put a double helping in his dinner by accident.
Yesterday, Mike came in to wake me and said that this time I'd forgotten to put GB's posh food in *his* breakfast. Oh, and incidentally, I'd put the buckets the wrong way around so that GB's was on top. This seemed very unlikely. Mike mocked me for being senile.
GB's bucket, I add, goes on the bottom due to his food being tastier for the mice. Although, since we moved All The Rest Of The Food to a metal box, I've been taking the added precaution of putting the feed buckets inside an old water bucket, and standing it in the middle of empty floor, to make sure that the mice couldn't get to the only available source of food.
Yesterday, after I made up the feeds, Mike went around and checked that I had indeed put hard food in all four buckets, then I stacked the breakfasts up and put them in the water bucket as usual.
This morning, Mike came in to wake me and confessed that I was vindicated: the Baby's pony nuts were all gone....
So. Can't be a mouse, and I suspect that either a rat (or a bunny?) can also be crossed off the list, as there's no poo. Fox? Badger? I'm going to have a look for likely holes today, but the the current plan is to leave the light on with my time lapse camera tonight, and see who comes for tea....
Yesterday, Mike came in to wake me and said that this time I'd forgotten to put GB's posh food in *his* breakfast. Oh, and incidentally, I'd put the buckets the wrong way around so that GB's was on top. This seemed very unlikely. Mike mocked me for being senile.
GB's bucket, I add, goes on the bottom due to his food being tastier for the mice. Although, since we moved All The Rest Of The Food to a metal box, I've been taking the added precaution of putting the feed buckets inside an old water bucket, and standing it in the middle of empty floor, to make sure that the mice couldn't get to the only available source of food.
Yesterday, after I made up the feeds, Mike went around and checked that I had indeed put hard food in all four buckets, then I stacked the breakfasts up and put them in the water bucket as usual.
This morning, Mike came in to wake me and confessed that I was vindicated: the Baby's pony nuts were all gone....
So. Can't be a mouse, and I suspect that either a rat (or a bunny?) can also be crossed off the list, as there's no poo. Fox? Badger? I'm going to have a look for likely holes today, but the the current plan is to leave the light on with my time lapse camera tonight, and see who comes for tea....