2 mice in a garbage can

[beeker]

for some reason this is just something i'm going to share.

today at the hunting shack I was doing my usual pre season scrub down.. washing the counters.. washing the dishes.. basic cleaning stuff.. so.. last week when we left I grabbed the garbage bag from the trash can.. typical chore at the end of a weekend. well at some point between me grabbing and us leaving one of the kids dropped in a little Debbie (partially eaten and they must not of realized their father was hungry.. no longer my favorite child).. either way.. I show up at the shack today.. 2 mice dropped into the white plastic kitchen sized garbage can.. they ate the little Debbie.. then once they began to starve over the course of the week.. the big one ate the littler one.  the little one was tour to bits all that was left was part of the head the backbone and the tail and feet.. the other one looked like it just fell asleep.. I even kicked the can to see if it would move, nope nothing.. 

so apparently it takes less then 7 days for 2 mice in a garbage can to resort to cannibalism.

[kenhuntin]

yes Beeker mice are not nice to each other when it comes to competition or survival. From the experience I have had with the little #$%^&*s  If they get into a food source that they cannot climb out of they will not last long at all without water. I have a stainless steel hopper that I keep the duck food in and at the most it is three days that pass before I get into it. I have got four mice out of that thing that were all dead. I just got back from visiting an old timer that lives in a log house he built in the early seventies and has always been inundated by the rodents. He watches a lot of tv and keeps a bag of chips by his chair. This week He found three dead mice in the bottom of the foil bag of kettle chips he was working on for about a week.
 I believe I would instantly puke if that happened to me.

[glenn57]

I do that all the time up at the cabin. set out a few 5 gallon pails throw a few sunflower seeds in it, even help with putting a walking plank to the pail. works better during the winter months!!!!