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Mouse caught and eaten.. by what?

  • 10-03-2021 11:30am
    #1
    Prezatch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 952 ✭✭✭


    I caught a mouse this morning (number 3 in about a week), in the hot press of an old house. There are holes in the floorboards where the piping runs into and they are coming from there.

    This mouse was dead in the trap, had moved a few inches from where I initially set it, and hanging down into the hole. I thought it had just bounced a bit into the hole. I took it out of the hole to inspect and left on the floorboard where I initially set it for about an hour. I came back to dispose of it then and it was back in the hole :( I inspected it again and saw that now the mouse had been partially eaten, nibbled around it's thighs and body!!

    Does anyone know would another mouse be able to do this ie. drag the dead mouse back into the hole and start eating it or do we have something bigger like a rat!? I feel a bit sick...


Comments

  • #2
    Stigura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,576 ✭✭✭Stigura


    Mouse on mouse is most likely. They do cannibalise.


  • #3
    D3V!L
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,963 ✭✭✭D3V!L


    A large house spider ?


  • #4
    Kencollins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 567 ✭✭✭Kencollins


    My money is on a shrew. These little buggers will eat mice and other shrews down to the bone


  • #5
    canonball5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭canonball5


    100% another mouse. Once the dead one starts to smell the others will eat him so the smell doesn't attract larger predators. They basically get rid of the body themselves.


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Mice are really strong for their size! Would be no hassle to drag a trap with another mouse inside.


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  • #7
    Prezatch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 952 ✭✭✭Prezatch


    Ok thanks lads, not time for Rentokil just yet...


  • #8
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    Soylent Green,


  • #9
    loyatemu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,329 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    D3V!L wrote: »
    A large house spider ?

    most probably:
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2016/oct/24/huge-huntsman-spider-tries-to-eat-a-mouse-video


  • #10
    Calahonda52
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,881 ✭✭✭✭Calahonda52


    Pictures please

    “I can’t pay my staff or mortgage with instagram likes”.



  • #11
    tabby aspreme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,099 ✭✭✭tabby aspreme


    Could have been a Gruffalo


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  • #12
    Yester
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,499 ✭✭✭Yester


    Is it damp in there? Might be piranhas.


  • #13
    Prezatch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 952 ✭✭✭Prezatch


    It was just another mouse. I found they had knawed their way through an unopened sack of dog food in the garage and were pretty much nesting in a hidden area near it. Caught 7 of them in the garage in the space of a few hours including another one that got cannibalised. Pipes run up to hot press from there. Seem to have wiped them out now and closed up gaps with expanding foam.


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