Our beautiful home has been upturned, in some ways literally by a recent vole infestation. These seemingly innocent little creatures have destroyed my once thriving hill of plants in our backyard. Here is a vole, or field mouse:

And here is a picture of what they do to yards:

So what to do. I don’t want poison. Maggie has already caught and killed one of them. And while, yes very good puppy, I can’t stand the thought of her eating or killing a mouse that had consumed poison. So that leaves us with traps. Wish us luck.