Thank you for your words of wisdom... Yes our girls are savages when it comes to things that squirm and crawl throughout our garden as they roam free.
We agree it was a good way to get rid of the mice rather than having to kill them ourselves it's just the brain does a bit of flip if one...
Imagine our horror when one of the girls jumped into the compost bin that my husband was turning over and proceeded to eat the baby mice (still without fur) that were disturbed.
We can't bring ourselves to eat the eggs laid since the great mouse baby massacre!
Any ideas how long it will take...