Hi Fi,
I have had wood mice in my garden long before the hogs put in a reappearance back in 2015 after a long abscence.
I feed my hogs Wild Things Hedgehog Food, which they love, but I have never seen the wood mice touch this (nor cats for that matter – they did like Spikes though when I used to put this out in those first years).
What the wood mice do love is the seeds (particularly sunflower hearts) from my bird feeders (I actually saw one inside one of my bird feeders having a feast!). They have a habit of caching food and will run backwards and forwards taking seeds away in all directions as they don’t keep all their eggs in one basket (I guess this is an insurance policy in case another mouse/rat/other finds their stash!).
As I know they are around I often scatter a few sunflower hearts on the ground for them to eat/cache and enjoy watching them – as Nic says they are quite endearing – but this is more during dawn/dusk time As they don’t touch the hog food they do a good job for me in clearing up spillage from the feeders as I know the hogs will eat the seeds and also know this isn’t good for them (although its inevitable they will always find some the birds and mice leave behind).
I have seen the wood mouse loitering around sometimes when the hogs turn up but they won’t go that close to the hogs (I have read that wood mice may be on the menu if a hog could catch one?) and I think its more coincidence rather than them actively trying to pinch the hogs food.
The main thing is to keep feeding the hogs and also give them water as well and hopefully your wood mice friends won’t pose to much of a problem.
Enjoy watching both the hogs and the wood mice.
