Poor dead mouse in pond???

Hi again, well my pond hasn't had water in it for two days and I just
found a little mouse dead in the pond. Which I just don't understand
why he didn't just climb out?? My only thought is that he fell from the
tree onto the rocks and into the pond. Anyway my question is being it's
such a small pond (220) gal) should I drain the water? As maybe the
mouse was poisoned?? I don't have fish yet but if I drain the water
I'll have to wait longer. Just glad my daughter wasn't with me, she can
understand a lot for her age, and it was hard for me to see. I mean I
put the pond out there for the wildlife, not to kill it. Oh and my dog
is just going crazy digging holes around the pond, and knocking the
rocks off the edges. So do you think the pond water is contaminated?
thanks Ouida

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Hi again, well my pond hasn't had water in it for two days and I just
found a little mouse dead in the pond. Which I just don't understand
why he didn't just climb out?? My only thought is that he fell from the
tree onto the rocks and into the pond. Anyway my question is being it's
such a small pond (220) gal) should I drain the water? As maybe the
mouse was poisoned?? I don't have fish yet but if I drain the water
I'll have to wait longer. Just glad my daughter wasn't with me, she can
understand a lot for her age, and it was hard for me to see. I mean I
put the pond out there for the wildlife, not to kill it. Oh and my dog
is just going crazy digging holes around the pond, and knocking the
rocks off the edges. So do you think the pond water is contaminated?
thanks Ouida
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No. Just remove the mouse. It probably drowned. Put a tree branch or
something in your pond for wildlife to climb onto to escape should they fall
in.
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McKoi.... the frugal ponder...
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I honestly didn't think about that. I do have the pump hose coming out
of the pond to the filter, but I guess that wasn't enought. Or maybe it
just couldn't find it. Anyway I will add a way out for the little mice.
Thanks

Ann505 wrote:

Hi again, well my pond hasn't had water in it for two days and I just
found a little mouse dead in the pond. Which I just don't understand
why he didn't just climb out?? My only thought is that he fell from the
tree onto the rocks and into the pond. Anyway my question is being it's
such a small pond (220) gal) should I drain the water? As maybe the
mouse was poisoned?? I don't have fish yet but if I drain the water
I'll have to wait longer. Just glad my daughter wasn't with me, she can
understand a lot for her age, and it was hard for me to see. I mean I
put the pond out there for the wildlife, not to kill it. Oh and my dog
is just going crazy digging holes around the pond, and knocking the
rocks off the edges. So do you think the pond water is contaminated?
thanks Ouida

I am confused Oudi, if it has not had water in for 2 days how can the
mouse contaminate it?

The mouse was only in there one night at best, but if it was poisoned I
thought the poison might be released into the pond. My pond is SO small
that I thought this could be a contanimate. So that's what I was
worried about. If this was a 2000 gal pond I would have never been
concerned over one mouse. Reel Mckoi has a point that it could have
just drowned too. So tomorrow I will put a couple gold fish in there
and hope for the best.

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No. Just remove the mouse. It probably drowned. Put a tree branch or
something in your pond for wildlife to climb onto to escape should they
fall in.


I built two escape routes after I found a drowned hedgehog last year, and
last week another drowned hedgehog. It's the perversity of fauna

You want to fish dead animals out of ponds
because when they decompose they add a
significant bio-load to the pond. The decomposition
uses up lots of oxygen and the remains will
fuel an algae bloom. Your pond is not 'natural'
enough to handle the process (in that it is too
small).

k :-)