Terriers and mice - would you? Discussions

If someone you know has a mouse problem would you bring your terrier around to help them combat it ??

No and I have a terrier. Why do you ask? Is this what someone is doing? or just curiosity?

I would send round my Weim, she is excellent at despatching mice.

I could but my terrier has rats as her best pals so can't imagine she'd fancy killing mice!

I think Jinty would ask the mice if they fancied throwing a ball for her or playing tug.

No. Its illegal to use Dogs to kill Mice.

no its not,
its just like ratting on farms which is fine to do,
and to answer the question i would and have done that many times as its what they are bred to do and they love doing it

Really So you could borrow a cat lol and be fully legal

Unfortunately you appear not to have knowledge of the hunting with dogs act. I will say again, it is ILLEGAL to use dogs to kill Mice.

Yes! cats are not classed the same as dogs, so a pack of moggs instead of dogs would be good!

ok then well the police dont really bother to in force it then,
after all killing them with dogs is better than poison
i have actuly done a bit of ratting for a police warden in his garage

Rats are not Mice, the thread is about Mice. Wouldnt worry about enforcing the Mouse bit, they dont enforce any of it!

We cant use them to kill Squirrels either (greys of course) we must shoot them for the dogs to retrieve.

yeah but im sure the rules must be the same for mice and rats lol,

Borderdawn can you point me to the specific legislation which bans the use of terriers on mice please?

thank you.

The Hunting Act 2004, which came into force on 18 February 2005, forbids the hunting of wild mammals with dogs. You may still flush out a fox (or deer) using dogs – or hounds - if you then shoot it, and at present you may flush a fox using hounds so that it can be caught by a bird of prey. There are also two further notable exemptions. You may hunt and kill rabbits with dogs or hounds (but not hares) and you may hunt and kill rats (but not mice).

Thanks I have just looked that up, how bonkers is that? I truly thought that mice were considered vermin like rats!

My terriers rubbish at it I had some mice in my outhouse/back yard last winter and Poppy n Kiara totally ignored them - Bailey however is an excellent mouse catcher suprisingly as he's blind !! He managed to find, flush and gobble up a couple In fact I couldn't believe what I'd seen the first time so I sat and watched for ages til he did it again just be sure!!!

maybe its to protect some of the rarer species of mice like Harvest mice and Wood mice

Well I've broken the law multiple times then since Rupert's killed god knows how many. I have to say I'd much rather let him catch and kill them than put down poison or those awful glue traps! At least he kills them quickly!

Sadly Jimmi hasn't read the legal niceties - to him mice are just small rats:-( I happen to like both mice and rats.