Rats & mice!

Check you daughter's teeth for bits of fur. Floss between mollars, that's where patches of fur are most likely to get stuck. The skin is kind of rubbery, and looks a bit like chewed stake if it's been in your mouth over night, but will have a definite mousy smell. That's important, in case she chewed the fur off.

Hope that helps. If the skeletons of the mice are no longer in tact, you could also find evidence where the broken bones would have cut into her gums.

You have something carnivorous--fortunately on a small scale. Are you rural or urban? Could you be supporting a ferret or a weasel?

Well, here's my thoughts, but I don't know a lot about mice.

Rats are scavengers, so I don't see why mice couldn't be.

There are other rodents that eat their dead (like gerbels) so I don't see why mice wouldn't.

I wouldn't be surprised if additional mice are doing the dirty work.

I've lived in a house infested with rats, and rats are VERY loud, so you would easily hear them at night, rustling through garbage cans and such, even if you were a few rooms away. I've chased 'em with knives, drowned em, and suffocated 'em (that's sounds redundant I guess...). Anyway, rats in the kitchen make as much noise as a dog in the kitchen. Sleep in the next room, and if you don't hear anything, you don't have rats.

Do you have any cats by any chance?

You don't have have an infestation of baby crocodiles or REALLY big cockroaches?

Thanks so much for all the responses.....lighthearted as well as serious. I really needed the laugh. I'm in a very rural location on 18 previously undeveloped acres. I do have an outdoor tomcat but he's obviously NOT doing his job.....unless he just has too many to contend with. As far as a weasel or ferret are concerned, I don't have either one THAT I'M AWARE OF ANYWAY. It is entirely possible the mice are eating their dead as I haven't seen or heard any evidence of rats.

What a bunch of bigots!

What a wise guy! LOL

Rats got feelings, too. I was hoping indignation would pass for an answer, but I can see it didn't fly.

Hey, Roger the Rodent! Write to your congressman!

I don't waste my time writing to those rats in Washington!

Well, try one of the weasels in the Senate!

They friends of yours, or something? I mean, it sounds like you know 'em real well.

Well glory be! Yesterday morning's little critter was whole and this morning the trap was empty so hopefully we've gotten rid of the nasty little carnivore.

Maybe you just caught ther perpetrator. Or maybe the last critter.

You just have a smart, fat rodent running around. In a few days it will reproduce asexually and you will have an infestation again.

Also, you have infinitessimally raised the average IQ of all mice on the planet; thanks a lot.

Tribbles, you've got tribbles!!



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I highly doubt it was other mice that were eating them. If it was, there would have had to be a swarm of them to eat that much overnight. I tend to think it was something else that got to them.

Hope they catch it - whatever it is. This whole thread has been just horrible!