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!!
Boric acid is effective against roaches. It’s fairly harmless to humans and pets but kills roaches residually for a long time.
Use a tomato duster to inject boric acid powder into crevasses around your home esp. your kitchen. Takes about a week but works very well for at least 6 months. Used that method when I lived in New Orleans when I lived in some very “porous” houses. Had kids and pets so roaches were impossible to stop through housekeeping efforts alone.
Another way to apply it is to make a super-saturated solution by adding boric acid to boiling water then squirting the still hot liquid into all the hidey holes.
Another product that works well is Cimexa. It’s non poisonous and has a 10 year residual action against all creepy crawlies. It works mechanically like ground glass in the joints of any terrestrial arthropod so they become dehydrated and die. Cimexa is one of the few ways to wipe out bedbugs since they can’t be poisoned because they never eat anything but you.
Mr. Mercat goes out every year and I’m guessing thinks like a rodent and plugs/replugs any holes. He also does that in the shop. We do have a cat but all he does is let us know if there is one in the house. A better mouser is some kind of terrier or earth dog. We have had good luck over the years with dachshunds.
A couple of Variations on the five-gallon bucket mousetrap for the do-it-yourselfers:
http://gentlemanhomestead.com/diy-five-gallon-bucket-mouse-trap/
No problem with rats. Yet. But those mice seem to get into the basement quite regularly.
I use a pill bottle, water,bleach and rv anti-freeze when i close the cabins.
I think they go live in the garage wood pile and go out and dine at the bird feeder.
The new D-con, as you said, is watered down. You can still get full strength d-con type poison pellets at farm & tractor stores. Those stores have an exemption from the crap they are forcing people to purchase out there.
I remember. Kliban's cats were BIG in the 80's. There were calendars, mugs, pillow, all kinds of items with his funny cats.
Marking for later... just in case.
I hope we won’t ever need this thread.
Good point, I forgot about that. I’ve gotten good vole poison at Murdocks.
Sometimes critters eat the foam and the n pull out the steel wool.
Me too. but I dont see them any where. I would love to have one, the one about eating their little feet.
funny that was over forty years ago.
It went so fast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsoVcrFyrF8
WOW. This is something else.
Walk the plank mousetraps !!
MY NEXT TOY!!!!
MUHAAHAHAHAHA!
Bird feed was part of my problem. We keep our cockatiels in the basement. I vacuum it up every day now, plus I replaced all the insulation and sealed it in with plastic. They were coming in through the garage through the wall into the basement using the studs as a highway into the house walls where they could infest everything up to the attic. Had to replace all the plastic ductwork in the attic they ruined. Mice are destructive little monsters.
Thanks.
that 200 dollar electrician bill looks even more painful.
I need a new life.
this is going to be a favorite!
Thanks.
I love the walk the plank ones.
I will have to get a few.
Not much entertainment here in the winta.
I second boric acid. Works wonders. You don’t need much, just sprinkle a little in the cracks and crevices where they crawl, and your problem is solved. It dries them out and they die, but not before they carry it back to their nesting areas, where it kills the others. At least this is how it was explained to me.
Food attracts them. No food and they won’t invade, or stay, if one of them happens to do a walk thru of your place to check it out. So, clean up after meals. Eat only at the dinner table. No eating on the sofa, no pet food on the floor, etc. Crumbs attract them. If I see one cockroach, I squish him. If I see two, out comes the boric acid. A one pound container you pick up at the pharmacy will last forever. I’ve had mine for 30 years. It never expires AFAIK.
Anyhoo, check it out on the web, youtube, etc. Heed all the warning advice, then go to town and get rid of your roaches forever! Good luck!
Fold the Glue Trap into a Burrito like shape with the glue with the mouse inside.
Bang the Burrito with a hammer(Stomping is optional).
Filling your home openings is the most effective. Wire mesh and steel wool into crevices is what my terminex guy said. Worked.
urethane foam sprayed into cavities fills them completely
It is cheap and very effective
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