how many mice live in a colony?

[*mrgrizz*]

found some in the garage.

they are feeding on a bag of bird seed.

so far i have caught 9, how many more will there be?

score so far is mice 8.......dogs 1.

and these are manchester terriers, breed for catching rats.

[latina4621]

we have 4 cats  and a while ago we had one inside and i think the cats are to well fed as we ended up catching it in the trap.

[soulart2]

haha stawka, I have one of those, too.

think there are lots of meeces and rats atm, not sure why.

[katymatey*]

Just be a little careful with the moth balls. They are poisonous to kids, and also cats and dogs. 

Crawling babies will put anything they find into their mouths. 😞

[soulart2]

okay, thanks katy. that's why I like the plastic houses for the bait.

[electric*mayhem*band]

Cats ? Dogs ? Forget cats and dogs. What you need OP, are the sevices of The Pied Piper.com

(Rates reasonable - apply for details).

[jean2579]

EHM, move to Aus, set up business in any regional area and I guarantee that you will be the richest ex Brit ever.

There are millions of the little blighters running loose in regional areas. All of the cats are useless. More decorative than rodent hungry.

[jean2579]

Sorry that should have been EMB. I need another evening wine.

[icyfroth]

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@*mrgrizz* wrote:

found some in the garage.

they are feeding on a bag of bird seed.

so far i have caught 9, how many more will there be?

score so far is mice 8.......dogs 1.

and these are manchester terriers, breed for catching rats.

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Don't feed them anymore bird seed. They may take to flight.

[imastawka]

Uploaded 2 weeks ago.  Doesn't say where in Australia though.  I'll try a spoiler box

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[cq_tech]

If mice are capable of breeding from the age of 6 weeks, have a gestation period of around 20 days, and can give birth to as many as 15 in each litter, then just one pregnant female could generate an almost unbelievable 6,250,000,000,000,000 mice in just 18 weeks! This equates to more than 7 million mice for each and every single person on our planet. Very scary stuff.