Bad neighbours resulting in mice in garden

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Two gardens back onto our garden. Their gardens are about 100m in length and neither of the them have cut their lawn this year and the grass is now about 2ft high.

We are now starting to get mice in our back garden (which the cat loves but I don't like so much!)...i understand that there may be mice regardless but i cant help but think that it doesnt help that the grass is so long.

I don't know what address the houses are (and tbh I wouldn't want to go round as we've already had trouble with the kids using catapults to throw things at our windows!) but would environmental health (or any other agency) be able to do anything?

Long grass doesn't encourage more mice as far as I know. Lots of extra food might but I think in general there's more rodents around.

I'm not an expert but aren't there mice in all gardens? I'm not sure how you would go about stopping them.

I wouldn't want them in the house but your answer here is to stop the cat being able to bring them in. I suspect environmental health might not be very interested.

No advice, but I find it depressing that you think long grass = bad neighbours. Are the gardens really 100m? That's about the length of a football pitch. Are you in a rural area? Just wondering as I can't imagine many people having gardens that big.

Can you train your cat not to bring mice in the house? Having a cat should reduce the chance of you getting them indoors, apart from when the cat is actually bringing it in.

As said in the post, we have had other trouble with the neighbours including their children using catapults to try and smash our windows and also trying to throw things at the cat- I wouldn't call them bad neighbours for just not cutting the grass!

The neighbours are really not very nice and the neighbours on either side have been heard asking if they would like help with the gardens and have been told to eff off! If they were unable to cut the grass for whatever reason, it would be understandable but they just seem to be unwilling. They also have quite a few dogs constantly barking and also seem unable to pick up the dog mess in their gardens!

Luckily the gardens are quite long so we don't have much to do with the adults as they can't get through the grass and rubbish along their garden but the kids do sometimes come down to stare through the fence at us which is preferable to them throwing things.

Yes, the gardens are really 100m long, very long and narrow. Again, as I said in the post I appreciate that there would probably be mice but other people that I know have said that long grass can make it worse...don't know if this is true or not?

I would have thought a garden with long grass would probably be a better habitat for mice, as it would be for all other animals and insects. When I have a garden I would like it to become a meadow. I realise your neighbour's intention is probably not to create a nice habitat for wildlife, but whatever their reasons, it's their decision not to cut the grass.

I don't really understand the problem with mice in your garden, but I really like animals!

I've never seen a 100m garden. 100ft maybe?