Posted on 01/02/2021 9:28:54 AM PST by Vigilanteman
Anybody have any experience by using a flour/plaster of paris or flour/baking soda method to get rid of mice or kindred rodent invaders?
Our kitty is pretty good, but she is still not getting them all. I do not want to risk harming Miss Kitteth with poison or glue traps.
Is there a better ratio that 1 to 1?
Anybody else have experience to fine tune?
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I tie a long string to snap traps and anchor the string so that they do not drag the trap away.
“How do you feel about snakes as freely moving pets?”
We had a huge 7 ft blacksnake move into our horse barn for a couple of years. Sucker was as big around as your wrist. It was the best mouser ever. One winter it never came back.
Snakes do not bother my wife. She would pick up a couple of bales of hay and it would by laying there in between the bales just look at her.
Have you tried the blue lights that you plug in?
I tried that plaster thing for chipmunks but it was a big fail
resorted to tomkat with peanut butter on it
Yup pretty easy to make, and you ca. Either catch em alive. Or not... fill bucket with water if you don’t want to keep them alive, or put decon in bottom of bucket so they die in bucket an d not in your walls somewhere where they will stink..
I nailed a mouse with a .44 Magnum. (Primer-powered plastic bullet.) He ran out of my bathroom under my room door, around the corner, into the kitchen. Mother screeched, he came past me, back to the bathroom. I loaded my Model 29 and waited. Sure enough, he came back out along the door and stopped. Pop! EOM (End Of Mouse). Great fun...
Black snakes are good at getting mice here in TN. Our crawl space is warm enough that there are probably fews days that they stay in their den.
A man that lives about a mile away from us catches them whenever he sees one along the road, and brings them home. He prefers them to cats, but hawks and buzzards are good at snatching them.
My wife wasn’t thrilled at first, but since the black snakes also keep the copperheads away, she’s accepted their presense,.... as long as they can’t get in the house!
“” If you’re not handy, you can buy pre-made rollers on Amazon.”
An empty drink can and the straight part of a metal clothes hanger works well.
Are those in the Garden Section of Home Depot?
Don’t like snap traps because they might harm Miss Kitteth. I tried using them outside, but felt bad when they got birds as well. I have a smilar set us as you on the garage. Weatherstrip is in good shape, but somehoe, they are still getting in.
The only way you will ever get rid of them is to find out where they are getting in and blocking it, then find out where they are getting their food and remove it.
I use Max-Catch glue traps but I don’t fold them into a box I just lay them flat up against wall with a dab of peanut butter in the center. Don’t try using flat if you have a cat or dog that may mess with them. Works great and the are cheap in bulk online.
“I hear Boas are relatively harmless to people “
A suburban Omaha man was strangled by his pet boa constrictor in his home as he was showing off the snake to a friend. Cory Byrne, 34, died in a local hospital just hours after cops and paramedics pried the 9-foot snake from his neck. The snake is being held by the Nebraska Human Society and may be released to a zoo or sanctuary, reports AP.
Sticky traps with a pecan on it. We would buy the big ones and cut them up. It doesn’t take much.
When using the standard little spring traps, I use peanuts as bait instead of peanut butter or cheese. Often times, the mouse will be able to lick away cheese or peanut butter without springing the trap. So I cram a small piece of a peanut into the hole in the catch. The mouse has to bite or push to get the peanut out, and the trap springs more easily. I’ve had mice escape with cheese and peanut butter, but the peanut catches them every time.
The Tail of the Cowardly Cat
Most cats I owned would chase mice, even catch them, but not actually kill the mouse. These cats would mortally wound the mouse, and either “play” with it like a little rag doll, or just lie down and watch the mouse die a long, slow death. That was like entertainment to them.
“Don’t like snap traps because they might harm Miss Kitteth”
Put boxes, tools, around the trap but leave a couple of inches for the mouse to get in.
I had used the old wooden Victor traps in my garage before, but the mouse often got the bait or set off the trap without being hit and then ate the bait afterward.
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