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The Trap-Proof Mouse
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| 03/05/2020
| Henry Noel
Posted on 03/07/2020 10:15:00 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham
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What do you do when you've got a mouse that refuses to be caught in a conventional trap, even though he flirts with them and comes right to the brink of annihilation before dashing away? That was my plight from mid-January through Valentine's Day of this year. Watch the mouse elude every effort to catch him, as he ends up making me almost pity him for his ultimate demise.
To: Mr Ramsbotham
Can’t you get a cat or a Jack Russell terrier?
To: Mr Ramsbotham
I was going to watch this, clicked over and saw 24 minutes.
No thanks.
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posted on
03/07/2020 10:19:16 AM PST
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: Mr Ramsbotham
You’re going to have to deal with this a little better, or else you’ll have snakes in the house when the weather warms up.
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posted on
03/07/2020 10:21:03 AM PST
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Mr Ramsbotham
Put double sided tape on the suspected traffic areas.
To: Mr Ramsbotham
***Namely, you spot one, set a trap,***
You spot one, you probably have ten.
To: Mr Ramsbotham
One of my earlier houses had a mouse problem. I finally got sick of laying traps, which tended to snap back on my fingers all the time, and we got a cat.
Problem solved. Not a big fan of cats but neither were the mice and that was good for us!
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posted on
03/07/2020 10:28:48 AM PST
by
SamAdams76
(Trump (859); Slow Joe (527); Commie (476); Fake Indian (48); Drunken Weld (1))
To: Mr Ramsbotham
Peanuts or peanut butter has worked well for us.
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
You spot one, you probably have ten. Not in this case. In fact, with one exception, all of the mouse invasions I've had in the past ten years involved single mice.
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posted on
03/07/2020 10:36:34 AM PST
by
Mr Ramsbotham
("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
To: nickcarraway
Cant you get a cat or a Jack Russell terrier? A cat's out of the question. My daughter has a Schipperke, but the problem is, she can't get into the tight places a mouse can get into.
Watch the video to the end and you'll see I finally caught it by using an old-fashioned Victor trap with the metal bait-holder. Even so, he almost eluded the trap and ended up getting caught by the snout and suffocating to death.
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posted on
03/07/2020 10:38:14 AM PST
by
Mr Ramsbotham
("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
To: Olog-hai
Had one leap out of the toaster as the toaster warmed up. ..frightened the skiveys off me. ...rascal can jump. ...lol.
Peanut butter and glue traps. ..clean often. ..
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posted on
03/07/2020 10:40:14 AM PST
by
redshawk
( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
To: The people have spoken
Peanuts or peanut butter has worked well for us. I used almond slices and peanut butter. You can tell he was dying to get at the bait, but it was one instinct vying with the other, and fear won out over hunger ... until he got a bit too complacent and went to meet his maker.
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posted on
03/07/2020 10:41:32 AM PST
by
Mr Ramsbotham
("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
To: Mr Ramsbotham
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posted on
03/07/2020 10:42:28 AM PST
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: ifinnegan
No thanks. Not acceptable. I demand you get on over there and watch every single minute on pain of my not liking you!
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posted on
03/07/2020 10:42:30 AM PST
by
Mr Ramsbotham
("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
To: Mr Ramsbotham
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posted on
03/07/2020 10:42:37 AM PST
by
Scram1
To: The people have spoken
Get a 5 gal bucket about 1/2 filed with water. put a dowel across the top and smear peanut butter around the center point of the dowel.
They will fall in and drown.
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posted on
03/07/2020 10:44:02 AM PST
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: redshawk
Had one leap out of the toaster as the toaster warmed up. ..frightened the skiveys off me. ...rascal can jump. ...lol. That's my problem. I'm not afraid of a two-ounce mouse, but it's very unpleasant to have them jump out when you're not expecting them!
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posted on
03/07/2020 10:44:13 AM PST
by
Mr Ramsbotham
("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
To: Mr Ramsbotham
:-) I’ve had some smart ones too. Peanut Butter gone and trap not sprung.
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posted on
03/07/2020 10:46:19 AM PST
by
xenia
("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." George Orwell)
To: Scram1
Honestly, I don’t think I could have gotten this one to climb the ramp to the bucket. He was so damned wary of every human artifice, which is what made him such an interesting story.
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posted on
03/07/2020 10:46:20 AM PST
by
Mr Ramsbotham
("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
To: ConservativeMind
Glue traps. Yes, if you watch even part of the video you'll see that I tried those, and not a few! He'd hover over them, but would never walk on them. Go to 8:54 of the video and you'll see the closest I came to getting him on a glue trap, which wasn't very close at all!
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posted on
03/07/2020 10:49:42 AM PST
by
Mr Ramsbotham
("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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