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My animals in my walls just emptied a big bowl of choc kisses in one night whilst we were sleeping!

I haven't found a wrapper anywhere! NOW what could this be that loves choc? Whatever--it must be female LOL! But it's not funny!
This was on a wooden file cabinet next to the bottom of our steps!

What could this be?

You have more than one "animal" eating that much chocolate. If you can't figure out what to do about them pretty soon, you should strongly consider contacting a pro pest control company.

DH once dragged two field mice into the house in a box of firewood. The bag of chocolate chips in the pantry was the first thing they gobbled up. The second time a mouse got in the house, I baited the traps with various foods to increase the chance it would "hit" a favorite. It tripped the one baited with chocolate chips first. The mice I've known love chocolate.

I noticed your other thread, but didn't answer there. I can understand your DH's reluctance to use poison, to avoid the stench of decay. But there is at least one brand of poison that causes the corpse to dry up without decaying. That might be an option for you.

Otherwise, traps are your second best defense, after sealing up as many entry points as possible. I've used old-fashioned snap traps with good success, but I'm not squeamish about seeing what they do and also don't have a chronic mice problem. I don't think much of glue traps, because I think they're cruel to the mouse. But I just browsed at D-Con's site in response to seeing your problem and see they now make a glue trap that instantly kills. I don't know more about it than that, but they have some pretty fancy-dancy traps there in their arsenal.

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Something is storing up supplies for a long winter...

I would suggest you take this seriously and get a professional called in. You probably have a pretty big infestation, and the damage they can do to your house and the disease they can bring in can far out pace the cost of an exterminator.

You might have squirrels instead of or along with the mice!
They are NOT fun to get rid of...both are rodents, chew threw things, breed like crazy and drag all those nasties along with them...parasites, fleas, etc.
You NEED to find where they are getting in which ever it is...and close that up quickly.
If you don't do it before winter, they will have already settled in and will keep raiding other things (foods, etc.) in the house.

Lived in one old house many years ago...I caught 54 mice that winter...and they were all dead when they left so I know I wasn't catching any 2 or 3 times!

And I'm sorry if I offend anyone but I don't ever intend to live with mice!

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oh man I forgot about the squirrels in the walls.

40 years ago DH and I both suddenly were getting ALL bitten up and couldn't figure out what it was. Turned out we had a nest of squirrels in the attic and the fleas just infested us.

We had no pets and it just never occurred to us. It was a real mess getting rid of both kids of invaders. The landlord did some repairs to the roof and we fogged like crazy.

We had a chocolate eating visitor too! I kept putting out the candy bc I thought my DH was eating it. When I told him to stop we realized it was an intruder!!! But we couldn't find the wrappers. I then moved a collectible doll that I had on display next to the candy dish. The doll had a full hoop skirt, and low and behold there were all the wrappers! LOL

That same house that I mentioned in my earlier post....we tore the walls out inside the living room. They were FULL of old squirrel nests, walnuts, and all sorts of little things the squirrels had stashed in there...like little toys. We hauled the stuff out by the wheel barrow full. The original walls had had shredded newspapers as insulation & it was lathe/plaster over that.
We insulated & put up dry wall and closed all the little holes where the squirrels had been coming in. Not sure we ever found all the mouse holes though.

Maybe you have female ghosts who have PMS!

GOOD one flboy----but we still haven't caught anything even though I hear him late after we turn off the lights and settle down to sleep.

My DH is losing his hearing and it's very faint to him but it's loud to me! We'll get it sooner or later--have TWO Haveaheart LIVE capture traps--one on each floor!

I'm surprised that the chocolate isn't toxic to the animals. Years and years ago my kids had two hamsters. I just happened to feed one of them an M&M one day and the next day it died. Doing a little research we found out that they can't handle chocolate. (We did get another hamster and I never fed them chocolate again!)

We have a local family who deals in peanuts - the edible kind. Raw, roasted, salted, candies of all sorts. They saved back a 50# bag of peanuts for a relative. She was in the laundry room one day and decided to move it. Ah-oh. It was too light. She found a hole in the side of the bag.

A season later...she was digging in a closet looking for something and guess what she found? Yep - PEANUTS! Moved from one end of the house to the other. LOL Evidently the varmints overheard the conversation about when the relatives would be coming for the peanuts and decided that they better make hay while the sun shone!