We've got a mouse in the garage and he's raided the dogfood so I'm on the lookout for either a galvanised dustbin or a plastic one with locking handles. Does anyone know where i could get one from? Is it possible that if the dogs ate this food it could cause diarheea(sp)? 

Have you got any farm suplliers around you???
They will have the lockable bins :)
Lea :)

Oh I hadn't thought of that. We've got West Country Farmers or something like that in Glos. Worth a try, Thanks very much.

Ikea do smallish metal dustbins - I use one for my dog food - a pack of Burns fits in nicely

I use the cheapy plastic dustbins from B&Q.  The lids fit reasonably well

Jill

I use the cheapy B+Q ones too for my horse feed. Never had any problem with rats or mice getting into it and it's kept in a barn on a farm.:-)

I have a plastic storage container from Ikea with a lift up lid, it can take about 26kg of dogfood in it.  One of my best buys!

This is the best thing that I've used for dog food.  Holds a 15kg bag easily and has a screw lid.
http://www.robinsons-uk.com/products/search.asp?keyword=water+container&x=28&y=13#sku.44946

Sarah

These are the ones I use.

I would throw out the food ange.
And remember if you are going to pour out the contents of a bag of food into a container,make sure it is a food safe container designed to store food.If using a bin or similar keep the food in it's original bag.

Thanks everyone lots of choices there. Unfortunately I didn't throw the food away, I didn't think about it until they were both suffering from a tummy upset. In future I will just store the bag of food in a container and won't open it until i bring it in home.

Which brand of food do you use?  Possibly you could get a food contaner from the reps if you ask nicely ;)  We have a number of Eukanuba ones for our food and a pedigree one which have all lasted well :)

A determined rodent (and his/her friends!) can make minced meat out of a plastic container if they put their minds to it!!  :-)