My husband has taken up a new hobby. He is now raising birds. We have several outside pens and an aviary. We have fenced off the area for the birds so our dogs and cats cannot harass them. We loved it when other birds started hanging around but then we had a real problem with mice.
I have the mice in check...just set a few traps around the outside of the pens each night and think we have caught all that had decided to make their homes close by. We continue to set traps for the "occasional newcomer".
But now we have a new problem. A couple of day ago, we found one of our cockatiels at the bottom of the cage...dead. We noticed that one of her feet had been gnawed at and was shredded. It was horrible to think that the poor little thing suffered like that. But, we aren't sure if it could be a field rat or a possum. We don't have many (if any) raccoons around here but possums and rats are a real possibility.
Does anyone have any "real" advise about how to control rodents without using poison?
Please help!!! I don't want this to happen again!
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