Posted on 12/01/2018 1:27:41 PM PST by 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!!
I’ve done the same thing with a wire coat hanger and an empty water bottle. Just push the coat hanger through the water bottle, put a couple of small notches on either side of the bucket and hang the hanger in those notches. Works just as well.
One thing though. Don’t forget to check the bucket every other day. Those things tend to get to stinkin’ pretty bad. I used it for chipmunks last year.
As noted above, the new D-con is a joke.
I got a metal box trap at Ace Hardware about the size of a cigar box but twice as tall. No bait needed but I put in some peanut butter. Forgot about it for a while and when I checked it there were over a dozen in there. Just put it close to the interior garage wall where I’d seen some scat. I don’t get them in the house (cat) but they love the garage when it gets cold.
The big glue traps with a Ritz cracker in the middle and a bucket of water nearby to toss them in.
It is everywhere.
Usually August is squirrel suicide month, but it extended this year into mid October.
(Squirrel suicide month is the month that the young squirrels discover traffic after they leave the nest. )
On one 30 minute ride I counted 43 dead squirrels one day in early September.
So if the squirrels were doing so well I guess the rest of the rodent world also was booming. And it certainly has shown up around here.
Had to have the electrician in to remove and mouse proof the bubble box outside and the behind the service panel. Nests everywhere.
I could never live in a big city with rats....of that I am thankful.
that is funny!
DIY cheapo solution: An empty 1 liter soda bottle smeared with PB spins easily on a shaft of 1/2” EMT conduit. We use glycol in the bucket instead of water. Allows the mousie corpses to accumulate over the winter with no odor. Empty it in the spring.
It electrocutes the mouse?
Do you have to take it out?
Does it smell?
I have a bug vacuum that electrocutes the bugs.
Smells funny when they are zapped.
Satisfying though.
how do you get the hammer off the glue trap with the brains still on it?
We never had Rodents until the MJ crowd started growing lived here 40 plus years
Normally in my house, which backs up to a wooded area, I get a bunch of ants in the kitchen in the spring, and generally about a mouse every other year.
This year I had ten mice so far.
Lil’ Kim has killed eight of the ten and left them in the open, knowing that she gets treats and praise for each mouse killed. Two of the ten were captured alive where she had them cornered (most of the mouse murdering seems to be done in the upstairs bathroom and both mouse “survivors” were captured hiding three or four feet above the floor on the shower curtain where she couldn’t reach.
(Lil Kim is my five year old tortie cat. My daughter named her.)
I’ve always had cats, and they have always made short work of any mice we happen to have. It’s just in them to kill mice and there is no other method as efficent in controlling rodent populations.
Part with the 10 bucks and let them dance ballet!
I prefer the teetering plank found on the same page. Rats are quick enough to grab the edge of the bucket using the roller.
There are 10 gallon buckets?
Never saw them at the hardware store.
I use water and drown them because I understand that they will eat each other.
I understand people use antifreeze in outside buckets.
Yuck
cut and paste?
>>It electrocutes the mouse?
Do you have to take it out?
Does it smell?<<
It electrocutes the mouse instantly. There’s a blinking red light that tells you a mouse has been zapped - reminds me of the Ghostbuster’s trap.
I doubt it smells anything.
Invest is a good ozone machine. We have a big one and it will kill the mice, bugs, bad smells, germs, viruses etc in a whole house in a few hrs. It also will kill the house plants and alas gold fish. Boy was I in trouble!
The machine turns 0 into 02 and somehow this screws up the metabolism of things. In 30 minutes it turns back into Oxygen so harmless to people and pets. Don’t breathe the ozone.
Mice and bugs seem to hate the smell. I keep one of those little $30. machines in the treehouse, tornado shelter, and a van we use for storage. No mice or bugs then. They are found in those junk mags for sale. The little ones are advertized as clean air machines and do not produce enough to harm you.
A lot of these uses I found out by accident. My folks used one in their motel to kill smoke odors in a room. I bought one as we have 4 dogs in the house so used it to kill the smell in it. The tornado shelter smelled like mice so put in in there and had dead dried up mice and dead bugs all over.
We found our big one online. They are not cheap but are effective and safe to use compared to poisons.
Couldn’t resist the last comment:)
But no, there is no smell. You just pick up the zapper and dump the body out.
You are right they are a horrible infester.
Have not had roaches since living in Boston and NYC 40+ years ago.
We co-existed.
The only problem is the alarm light only blinks for the first 24 hours, so if you don't glance at it daily, you may have a decomposing mouse inside the trap that you don't know about for a week or more. Don't ask me how I know.
I've used glue traps where the mouse was still alive when I checked. I'd just put the trap upside down in a bucket of water or the toilet. (Just have to make sure it's not the wife's bathroom!)
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