Finally using the perfect mouse trap!

12.01.18 | chickensoup

[Chickensoup]

Finally using the perfect mouse trap!

It is big news up our way that the mice and other rodent population is out of control.

It has been horrendous.

I have been using snap traps, glue traps, two cats, de-con.....

Never enough.

Finally the day before yesterday I set up the perfect trap using this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FTQ6SM1/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I bought a couple and two 5 gallon buckets.

I installed them on the buckets, filled the buckets about 1/3 full of water, smeared peanut butter on the roller, and laid three pieces of firewoord with dabs of peanut butter on them against the bucket. Like little peanut butter dabbed ladders to the motherlode.

Have caught 5 in the garage in two days and 3 in the basement today.

Just carry them outside and toss them into the snow bank by the bushes. add more water and re-set.

The Mouse Murders Continue!!

[Steve Van Doorn]

I thought this was an interesting way to get rats:
The Trick is you have to get the rats to move before the dogs go after them
Video: Ratting with terriers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2Pyu-Cj0gg

[Tennessee Conservative]

I have three Feists (similar to Jack Russells) and they are hard on mice outside but inside there are too many places to hide. They are learning to stalk them like a cat though. LOL

[Yaelle]

I thought this was a political analogy but was too dumb to figure it out. Like Peter Sellers in “Being There.”

[Yaelle]

I would try essential oils they hate. In a condo we were renting, they would slip out of an overhead enormous light fixture in the bathroom. I was terrified of them or filled with hatred of them, I can’t tell which, and had small children so I didn’t want poison. There are some herbs they hate the smell of. If you know their point of entry, blanket it and other surrounding points of entry with a smell they can’t stand. I remember it was a smell that was quite pleasant (to us). We never saw them again.

[MomwithHope]

You asked earlier about finding a 10 gallon bucket. I was in our local Ace Hardware today. They have lots of white 10 gallon buckets for sale. With lids. Ace logo on the side. Filling a 10 gallon 1/3 full of water makes for a pretty heavy bucket. Less tipovers unless you get a big @ss raccoon. Hubby wound up putting a heavy iron fireplace wood grate over the top. Squirrels and smaller can get through and do. Friends from Belarus who were here for 3 weeks this summer called it a “protein trap”.