Accept no substitutes.
Posted on 01/17/2024 1:05:02 PM PST by week 71
Woke up the other morning with my better half screaming, ran into the kitchen and she was on her hands and knees on the kitchen counter due to Mickey.
I have taken two down so far. I used peanut butter and Nutella to bait them. Maybe that is all, but need to be sure.
I agree,a trim,lively,short-hair cat works wonders.
Brilliant! Never thought to try to adjust the trigger.
I use D-Con pellets or small block bait in my basement. Sometimes I find the bodies, sometimes I don’t. Last year a few small rabbits got into the basement and the critter guys came and after they sealed up the windows where they entered, they noticed some mice poop and put some mouse bait down that the mice would eat then go outside and die. Don’t know what it was.
Don’t go for the glue traps. You might offend Rep Ted Lieu (see link below). However, I find them useful. I then just throw the trap..mouse and all...into the burning bin. If you live in the city, that is probably not an option. Like others I recommend peanut butter. Also, Tractor Supply sells some decent traps (another link below) if you just want to catch and release to outside.
I can’t tell you HOW to catch them but if you watch a few hours of Tom and Jerry you’ll definitely learn HOW NOT to do it.
1 of my outside dogs water buckets always has a mouse or mice in it.
One day he had like 8 dead one in it. Mom & dad and all the babies
I use 2 five gallon buckets each filled with 6 inches of water and a freely rotating horizontal rod across the diameter of the top opening. I then put two pieces of wood to connect each edge of the top near the roller and floor, a ramp. Bait the center of the rod. Have yet to see a rodent successfully endure the “log roller” process. Dump the bucket of water with the dead creatures in the yard for scavengers and repeat.
Emptied my barn of such creatures - about a dozen of them. Clean process and reusable.
Accept no substitutes.
I also set glue traps with bait in the middle. The glue traps are now gone? WTH. I assume there are mice running around with a glue trap stuck on their a$$.
A softer bait like chocolate or peanut butter needs to be shoved all the way into the curl of the bait pedal. Make the little bastards work for it ...
Call the chinese. They need them for experiments.
wy69
I tie on a small piece of raw bacon with a bit of sewing thread.
Yeah, but our own CDC uses mice to test safety for human use. Sigh....
Use the good old fashioned spring traps. Bait them with peanut butter. Mice like to run next to walls. Put the traps next to walls or in corners where you have previuosly seen them.
Agreed. Search and destroy missions don’t win this war, the enemy plays the Long Game.
Permanent complete areal denial is the only way, but permanent needs annual maintenance.
Oh, and seal up/eliminate food sources - can’t fully describe how much mess a partially open bag of turkey seed for hunting enabled. Was in a tough plastic bin as well.
No exterior holes/loose wires, pipes.
I have an ultrasonic device. Victor model M792. It emits an annoying high frequency sound that is painful to rodents.
I used to have mice in my garage, but this thing works very well.
Peanut butter and snap traps....gets em every time!
I tried one of those but it didn’t work. What did work on a couple dozen mice of all ages was these things.
What’s really great, besides them working the best of any trap I’ve tried, is you don’t have to bait the trap again. I’d catch 2 to 4 a day then put them in 5 gallon bucket then take them out to the country to give them a chance at life or to be part of the natural food chain.
Agree. I had to replace a sprinkler head that had been chewed up by mice.
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