Mice problems... Again!!

16 years ago

Disaster! A mouse built itself a nest in my pot of S. rubras. It tunneled through the soil and under them, eating through their roots and gnawed and damaged the rhizome. My rubra ssp alabamensis was damaged and I just bought it last year when I visited Peter DÂAmatoÂs nursery. I hope I can save it. The worse off was my rubra ssp wherryii, it ate through the main rhizome, but fortunately it left alone the side shoots. But damnÂ

WhatÂs worse, the little vermin dumped the soil on top of my Venus flytrapd and sundews, burying them.

The sales clerk at Home Depot looked up at me asking what did the mouse do. I bought several traps of different types and mouse poisons tablets. Talk about overkill but I intend of getting rid of these little vermins quickly. IÂm already familiar the damage they are capable in one single night and I know the little vermin is coming back to finish his job. It obviously its been walking over my sundews because most of them are damaged or have their traps shut.

My sister thinks IÂm making too much fuss over nothing, she sez that I can get more plants like these plants at any store. She doesn't get it. Sorry about this, IÂm just venting.

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squim4
16 years ago
That must suck something awuful. I buy most of my plants from his nursery online, but havent benn able to go there in person...
dnieter
16 years ago
I've had similar problems with raccoons (read BIG RATS!) I swear on all I hold sacred (and my wife will vouch for the number) I have killed 299 in the ten years and one month we've lived at our current residence. They have destroyed countless orchids and Sarracenia. I view them as the Al-Queda of the woods.
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squim4
16 years ago
haha, dnieter you remind me of my great aunt and uncle. They shoot raccons in traps and drown chipmonks. Why they do this is beyond me...they're like, 95
organic_trickster
16 years ago
I'm from England and by the sound of it all these animals suck. We spend so much time caring for these plants and they just come along and eat them. I have problems with magpies ripping out my flytraps to get to get to the flys.

As I grow them outside along side my saracenia they get plenty of flys. No more, as I have to keep them in a greenhouse now. Unfortunately, I would be arrested if I was to own a gun and take revenge on these pests.......
hunterkiller03
Original Author
16 years ago
Unfortunately, the mouse or mice got around my traps and went straight to my rubras again. But the poison pellets look that they have been gnawed. The package promises I will see them dead in a couple of day. That means a slow death for these little basterds.
He-he-he-heÂ.

Hey, usually IÂm not a mean person; IÂm nice to animals. As long as they stay far away form my plants.