[henrya]

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Ouch! but surely equally likely to happen to a bird accustomed to taking cheese from a bird table?
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True enough.

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(Apparently cheese isn't the best mousetrap bait: fruit-and-nut chocolate is more effective, I'm told)
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Or peanut butter - but to be honest, mice will eat anything they can get their teeth into, so I'm not sure it matters too much what you use as bait!

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Yes, we intervene in other ways such a providing bird feeders but that is unequivocally in the birds' best interests. It helps them to survive.
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I've heard it argued that feeding the birds helps the weak genes survive, which is not good for the species. But I still feed them, as I'm not persuaded.

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