Glis glis

No personal experience, but this looks like a good starting point:

I've got a book of Roman recipes somewhere...

How are they different (in pest terms) from mice?

B-)

I don't think they are but I have a sneaky suspicion that they might be protected. Yes they are:

Having the little blighters running about you kitchen/pantry or in the cavities ganwing heavin knows what are "public health and public safety" in my book but ...

are woodland species and bigger than the house mouse.

There are no restrictions on trapping them:-)

Ours used to cart Walnuts through the house from the garage, where the wall cavity was open, into the soffit and along to the hall, up the hall roof insulation and then into the main loft. Once there they had a choice of ways to annoy but opening a Walnut at 11.30pm by trapping it against a joist and gnawing was the worst. Hammering the ceiling plaster with a slipper was not a deterrent:-)

Trapping and further building work seems to have solved the problem.

regards

More to the point, if you set a trap for "vermin", how would one prevent said critter taking advantage of it? Secondly, once you have caught your mouse, how will you recognise that this one is "different"[1] from any other pesky critter in your pantry?

They also say "Occupiers of land may however, kill or take edible dormice by any non-prohibited method, such as shooting, without needing a licence." - so how is one supposed to divine what methods you can and can't use?

Glitch Glitch... same link ;-)

See I told you they looked similar! ;-)

ok try that:

So, when I get stopped on vigilante patrol with my AK47, I'll be OK if I say I'm using it to kill dormice, then ...?

It's perfectly OK to shoot the Glis Glis, apparently. Landmines and other such sneaky methods are frowned upon (IIUC).

The difference is (AFAIR) that they're difficult to tell apart for much of the year, but in the Autumn the "fat dormouse" (aka edible) becomes - well, fat. It porks up ready for hibernation and turns into something almost the size of a hamster. This is presumably what made them better eating. I don't think the non-edible dormouse (unlike shrews) is literally inedible.

I expect the animal kingdom is like the fungi: broadly ..

-nice to eat

-deadly poisonous or give you really bad effects

-the rest. (about 97%)

Somehow "Glis Glis" sounds so much more appetising than "rodent". The former you can imaging being served on a bed of something or other after being lightly pan fried in garlic butter. The latter sounds like rat pate!

I've eaten rat liver.

Inevitably, it tastes like chicken liver.

Some have been trapped in neighbours' houses and identified by some sort of expert. My partner was even taken to see one in its (live) trap.

I suppose any up there come the winter will probably keep us awake with snores...

In message , polygonum writes

Glis Glis are supposed to hibernate underground. Your house would probably be too warm and interrupt their sleep.

regards