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Put that in your mousetrap: mice don't like cheese
AFP ^ | 09/06/06

Posted on 09/06/2006 7:08:47 AM PDT by presidio9

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To: soccer8

I just ordered a live trap yesterday so I can catch the woodchuck living under my garage. He comes out to eat pears and peches that fall off the trees so I've already figured out what to use for bait. I'm gonna turn him loose in the state land near by.


21 posted on 09/06/2006 7:26:38 AM PDT by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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To: cripplecreek
I'm gonna turn him loose in the state land near by.

Is there a liberal nearby with a doggie door...

22 posted on 09/06/2006 7:30:15 AM PDT by batter ("Never let the enemy pick the battle site." - Gen. George S. Patton)
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To: cripplecreek
He comes out to eat pears and peches

He likes peaches too if anybody wonders.
23 posted on 09/06/2006 7:30:45 AM PDT by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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To: cripplecreek

Yep. Peanut butter works very well.


24 posted on 09/06/2006 7:32:06 AM PDT by B Knotts (Newt '08!)
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To: soccer8
Is there a liberal nearby with a doggie door...

LOL HAPPY GROUNDHOGS DAY M'Fers. GIT SOME!!!!!
25 posted on 09/06/2006 7:34:27 AM PDT by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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To: presidio9
I have to chime in for peanut butter.

Works great for about any mammal - including rats with bushy tails.
26 posted on 09/06/2006 7:38:02 AM PDT by freedomlover (This tagline has been pulled - - - - Okay?)
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To: cripplecreek

Who needs traps/bait? Until her recent passing, Kat was quite the little mouser.
27 posted on 09/06/2006 7:38:11 AM PDT by LIConFem (Just opened a new seafood restaurant in Great Britain, called "Squid Pro Quid")
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To: cripplecreek

Peanut Butter!


28 posted on 09/06/2006 7:38:13 AM PDT by Doomonyou (Moderate Bumper Sticker: Bush Lied, Terrorists Died!)
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To: Tokra
Poor little critters -- they must have some use besides in a laboratory.

Carolyn

29 posted on 09/06/2006 7:46:28 AM PDT by CDHart ("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)
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To: cripplecreek
I always use peanut butter too...

have not seen a friday silliness thread lately...
and this one sort of fits into this thread.

It's called "Latest Iraqi Booby trap"

  
30 posted on 09/06/2006 7:47:50 AM PDT by AzNASCARfan
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To: CDHart
Poor little critters -- they must have some use besides in a laboratory.

They do - see post #27!

31 posted on 09/06/2006 7:49:42 AM PDT by Tokra (I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
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To: Williams
The mice have artificial insemination?

I should have said, "Kill MOST of the males" - it only takes one male to keep the generations going. Catch the females and its the end.

32 posted on 09/06/2006 7:51:42 AM PDT by Tokra (I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
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To: presidio9

Forget peanut butter. What works even better is gummy bear type of stick candies. Get that in the trap and the mouse is sure to tug the trap shut

I used to use PB butter but too often the mouse would eat around it. Or eat gently


33 posted on 09/06/2006 8:04:47 AM PDT by dennisw (Confucius say man who go through turnstile sideways going to Bangkok)
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To: dennisw

sticky candies


34 posted on 09/06/2006 8:05:09 AM PDT by dennisw (Confucius say man who go through turnstile sideways going to Bangkok)
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To: presidio9

Hmmm. We had a mouse that got into our house one year when we bought a Christmas tree. The first time my dad put peanut butter on the trap. The mouse licked out the peanut butter and never sprung the trap. The second time he put cheese on the trap. The mouse was caught.


35 posted on 09/06/2006 8:06:48 AM PDT by HungarianGypsy (Better to really live than to merely exist.)
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To: presidio9

I have used both cheese and peanut butter and both seem to work. The last infestation we had was the worst. I caught two with cheese but we still had the little critters rattling and rustling around and they wouldn't go for cheese any more so I switched to PB and nailed 4 more which put an end to the problem. In the two previous infestations I have dealt with cheese did the job by itself. I also tried the poison blocks which the mice happliy nibbled away on but which never killed even a single mouse.

BTW I am amazed at how destructive these little vermin are. They chew their way into everything and - like rust - never sleep (or so it seems).


36 posted on 09/06/2006 8:08:44 AM PDT by scory
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To: Williams
Not so fast! I've caught mice with cheese.

Me too.

I go with what works, and do not consider I am under obligation to provide a condemned mouse with a last meal it might prefer.

37 posted on 09/06/2006 8:36:18 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy
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To: presidio9

I like cheese.


38 posted on 09/06/2006 8:38:21 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

I like cheese.

39 posted on 09/06/2006 10:30:34 AM PDT by presidio9 (“The term ‘civilians’ does not exist in Islamic religious law.”)
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To: presidio9

The Ministry of Truth needs to go back and fix all those Tom & Jerry cartoons.


40 posted on 09/06/2006 10:38:46 AM PDT by DManA
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