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.
Eeeyowww! - sometimes they come already so hair trigger as to be almost unsettable...
(These are the traps with the wide yellow plastic “trigger pad”)
I noticed that rodent repellent gap-filling spray foam is now available... How long the effect lasts I don’t know.
Older houses can be really hard to totally keep sealed up... Young mice can get in amazingly small cracks, gaps, etc.
Crunchy peanut butter.
I get the Victor ones with the copper trigger.
Just bend the copper so that the latch is more closer to 90 degrees opposed to the bait claw and is less positively holding the wire.
Google “bucket mouse trap” - you can make one or buy the roller and ramps on Amazon.
Not only lots of dead mousies, but the word spreads somehow. I haven’t had to empty my trap in a year.
We have lots of marshmallows and I’ve never seen an alligator on my property or in my lake.
Of course, the lake has six inches of ice on it and it’s ten degrees - maybe the gators have gone somewhere else?
I use both. The ones with the yellow pads seem better vs. the smaller (ie., 1/3 or 1/2 grown) mice.
“”””I noticed that rodent repellent gap-filling spray foam is now available...””””
That sounds very interesting for those who need it and that filler foam is easy to use, sort of fun.
I’ll have to try those.
Yep ...
Based on some things I’ve seen in my career as a serial rodenticide ... after the first rat ... “Meat’s back on the menu, boys!”
I’m in Florida. I am having a hard time understanding,
“Of course, the lake has six inches of ice on it and it’s ten degrees - maybe the gators have gone somewhere else?”
Who would put that much ice on a lake? I didn’t think lakes were measured in angles. If it is that small no wonder the gators vamoosed.
Squeek!!!!!
“.. taught me to tie bacon on with dental floss” This also comes in handy if you have a large family and can’t afford bacon for everybody. Use this method and everyone gets a taste with no danger of a greedy kid swallowing it.
Bought at Lowe’s a battery powered mouse trap very humane mouse walks in to get to peanut butter steps on two metal sheets inside and zap electrocuted. cost under $20 they also have larger traps for rats and other rodents.
Bought at Lowe’s a battery powered mouse trap very humane mouse walks in to get to peanut butter steps on two metal sheets inside and zap electrocuted. cost under $20 they also have larger traps for rats and other rodents.
Once you have smacked a rodent to death with theold-fashioned wood/wire trsp, throw it away. It seems to emit a death odor to its inquisitive pal. But the cheap old-style one with the meal (not plastic) bait-trigger works better than almost anything else. Put a tiny dab of peanut butter also in two or three harmless places on the wood base to lull the wary mouse. Also, fresh bread emits a very tantalizing invitation, and grips to the trigger quite well.
Use a Tootsie Roll. One of the bite sized ones. 100% effective.
I’ve used dry flour and baking soda, 50/50 mix, on a paper plate.
It’s nice because you can see if they’re leaving tracks in it.
Pretty sure it’s pet and child safe. Though it may make your dog fart? (Rats and mice don’t fart. That’s why they bloat.)
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