Not what I expected!

RayP(MI) · Oct 8, 2015

Seems my cat's bowl gets empty awfully regularly lately. We feed in the evening in the retired dairy barn, and close up
the barn. Cat usually outside. Access is possible but difficult even for a cat. Not obvious to an outsider visitor.
Earlier this summer, I had to send a couple visitor cats packing. So I was wondering why the bowl was so often empty.

So I setup my game camera at a close range.

Cat bowl is parked under the tongue of a compact spreader parked on the feed alley. Got a couple pictures of cat
eating, then a bunch of empty pictures of the bowl and the tongue... Closer examination showed a mouse playing back
and forth on the tongue. Guess I better raid the peanut butter jar and dig up a few traps!

Hobo,NC · Oct 8, 2015

I regularly vacuum at least a pound of cat/dog food out of the air cleaner box on customer vehicles... They don't eat it all they hoard it some were you have a stash of food for the next generation :wink:

Jeff NWOH · Oct 8, 2015

I used to feed my dog on the back porch. A lot of times he wouldn't eat his food right away. The mice figured it out and would sneak up between his doghouse and the house to help themselves.

I caught a lot of mice with a trap between there. Don't feed outside very often anymore as I don't want the mice anywhere near the house.

When we resheeted the house, we found a stash of dog food. I know never say never, but they will have to look long and hard to find a place to get in now.

LAA · Oct 8, 2015

The cat ought to be ashamed of himself.

JerryS · Oct 9, 2015

I used to leave my work boots on the back porch by the dogs' food pan. Two or three times I had to take my boot back off to dump the Old Roy the rat had stashed in there.

Robert Major · Oct 9, 2015

Hi
We have had a few different time thats happened. Went to get the winter boots out a couple years ago, picked up my pair and thought they were heavy tipped them up and a half bag of Dog food came out the pair. the Dog slept in the house/outside during the day and was a better ratter and mouser than the cats in the shop most days. I guess she missed the mouse while she was sleeping by moms side of the bed, or the mouse new she was out during the day with us L.O.L.

In our Hog barn office we used to keep those small bags of "Rodent belly ache" pellets where they eat into the bag when you put it out and they feel deathly unwell shortly after. one day there was 3 bags totally empty on the shelf with a 1" hole in the corner. Kinda figured that was odd. There was no trace of any pellets until Dad put one of his barn boots on. The mouse and his buddy's must of hauled that stuff all night to move that much !!!!.
Regards Robert

W_B · Oct 9, 2015

When we lived in town just after we were married my wife had a St. Bernard. He lived outside in a big, insulated dog house (he hated being inside) and we kept his dog food in the garage. We had a Honda Accord that we parked in the garage. When heating season came there was a slight smell like cooked meat coming from the heater vents, didn't think too much about it until one day I turned on the fan and heard a horrible racket. What I suspected happened, the mice/rats stuffed dog food into the vents. I tore the dash out of it to get to where they had stashed it, must have been a couple of lbs. at least.

On the farm I'm having trouble with mice building nests in my riding lawn mowers, I parked one a couple of weeks ago waiting for a part to be delivered, when I dragged it up to the shop and took the top off I found a big handful of grass stuffed in it.

01gentdc · Oct 9, 2015

my brother gatherd about 4 buckets of hulled walnuts and put them in his storm cellar .. its not real tite , but good in case of tornado , about thanksgiving he crackt a few walnuts and noticed his bukets were not as full as he thought he made them ,,. couple weeks later he noticed more were missing ,, by Christmas most the buckets were down to half ,. he figured he was feeding the family of squrrills they saw playing in the woods nearby .so he crakt all he needed and said live and let live ,.. by spring the bukets were comepletely empty ,.. save for a few hull scraps ..

4play · Oct 9, 2015

This happened to a buddy of mine, he sat out and watched mice raid the cats food bowl one night, he was surprised more that the cat watched one of them do it. I told him to stop feeding the cat and see what happens. Well the cat starting catching the mice, problem solved.

Not what I expected!

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