This animal is trying to get into my house

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A rat, no doubt – have you tried this with peanut butter? you can make a very simple trap with a bucket
this is an elaborated one (check out the ‘shorts’) [Flip N Slide Bucket Mouse Trap Best way to catch mouse rats mice learn how to catch mouse fast], (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mouse+trap+bucket)

or a much more simple one : How to catch mice using only a bucket. Mousetrap Monday

i actually DIYed one of the ‘flipping’ traps over a lazy weekend a couple of years ago, as we found a nest of mice inside the beehouse. It did work like magic! (we relocated all of the ‘victims’ a couple of km away. Since, we are mice-free

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Oops. Don’t know how it got bikes from rats, I must have made a whopping typo.:joy:

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Is this one of your fine dishes?

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Tell him about Lyme disease

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I think you mean Weil’s disease.

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Or bubonic plague, the list is long.

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I was going to say vole as the tail looked to be short and hairy, rather than hairless as in a rat but it could be that the end of the tail is hidden in the moss.

The ears are definitely rat-like rather than vole like which a more rounded and hidden in the fur.

Shame I didn’t see this earlier this week as when I went to feed the cats one morning, I found a (dead) vole carefully placed in one’s cat food bowl.
I could have taken a photo.