Interesting Question...Need Help
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11/18/12 02:21 PM
11/18/12 02:21 PM
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Below is a picture sent to my phone by a friend of mine. She has these vases in the shelf of a closet and has found the tall, narrow ones (10-12 inches) full of dog food. Without physically looking at the situation myself, does this behavior look familiar to anyone here. She doesn't have any other pets except 2 dogs. I'm in Ohio here and we don't have pack rats but I have seen other Norway rats (I believe)store massive amounts of paper, etc in nesting situations but never anything like this with dog food. She hasn't seen any large accumalations of droppings but said there may be some 'mouse' droppings. Like I said, I haven't seen the situation in person though Any ides and thanks in advance... 
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11/18/12 03:54 PM
11/18/12 03:54 PM
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Chocowinity, NC
Phil Nichols
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Interesting, but I have no clue as to what or why this might be. It does suggest rodent hoarding.
However, I do have a sarcastic streak which I will stifle for now. It is somebody elses turn anyway. The OP is rife with opportunity for those of us having a sarcastic bent.
No offense ever to the original poster.
Last edited by Phil Nichols; 11/18/12 04:14 PM.
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11/18/12 04:58 PM
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I have seen both house mice and roof rats store dog food and other similar foodstuffs, nuts, seeds, cheerios, etc. Usually in out of the way places, drawers, in furniture, in shoes, boots, and open cans and jars. I have never seen it stored in places where it couldn’t be retrieved. It looks like retrieval from those long necked bottles would be difficult. I would suspect mice or rats. We have very few Norway rats locally. One customer had roof rats harvesting her dried oat head displays and storing them under couch cushions, behind the window drapes, and in the fireplace.
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11/18/12 06:28 PM
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Robb Russell
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I have seen both house mice and roof rats store dog food and other similar foodstuffs, nuts, seeds, cheerios, etc. yep
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11/19/12 12:27 PM
11/19/12 12:27 PM
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Phil Nichols
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Below is a picture sent to my phone by a friend of mine. She has these vases in the shelf of a closet and has found the tall, narrow ones (10-12 inches) full of dog food. Without physically looking at the situation myself, does this behavior look familiar to anyone here. She doesn't have any other pets except 2 dogs. I'm in Ohio here and we don't have pack rats but I have seen other Norway rats (I believe)store massive amounts of paper, etc in nesting situations but never anything like this with dog food. She hasn't seen any large accumalations of droppings but said there may be some 'mouse' droppings. Like I said, I haven't seen the situation in person though Any ides and thanks in advance... Notice only the phallic shaped vases are filled, suggesting what I don't know.
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11/22/12 01:46 PM
11/22/12 01:46 PM
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BigBob
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Is she maybe getting a little "forgetfull"? Chicks will buy glassware and fill them up with stuff of many colors for decorations.
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11/27/12 12:43 AM
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I have some weasel boxes on a shelf in the garage, which coincidently is where the dog food is also stored. Was going through them to make sure they all had traps in them and one of them was half full of dog food. Also found my missing bag of pea seed stock piled in another box one shelf up. dang mice!
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12/02/12 10:34 PM
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Travis Wolford
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The only thing I have seen do this is red squirrels, but they did it with walnuts in early fall. It was in a basement and they had filled approx 50 vases up to the top. We set one way door traps on the crawl space vents and 24hrs later every nut was gone without any vases being knocked over. After the reds were caught we found all the nuts on top of a 10 foot section of bat insulation in the crawl space that had been stapled to the floor joists. Its very common for mice to store dog food but im like pesky, didnt see any mouse droppings in the pic and how would a mouse scale a glass vase. I reckon if you leave it and wait you will know as each vase will have a few dead mice in the bottom by spring.
it is not a stupid question if you do not know the answer
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