Rat and mouse traps

[Alien]

Got 3 more last night.

 

[goeduck]

For what it's worth, Mice do have feelings and emotions. Not that many of you care.

Huh??

 

[Gary Fowler]

We were setting glue traps and consistently catching mice. Then one day a huge rat was seen entering the garage. A friend bought a huge rat trap and set it in the garage. IT took 3 days but it caught the rat. I had them also in my shop and chicken coop (tunnels everywhere) and finally resorted to rat poison. I placed them in hidden places around the garage, in my shop, in some of the tunnels in the coop and within 4 days I found 6 dead mice around my shop and since then, no more mice in the glues traps which my wife still keeps out in the garage and in the bathroom. House mice frequent the bathrooms where they partake of water in the commode.

 

[rangerfredbob]

I tried glue traps but caught more bugs than anything (a couple hobo spiders and likely cellar spiders) and any mice that got in there drug the trap around and left it somewhere when they got out... no more glue traps for me, plus I'd rather them die quickly and efficiently, I've caught 4 mice in my above pictured trap at once before... I need to make more of those, if anyone is curious I like the Tomcat traps with the big trigger better than the Victor traps, the spring falls off the bail of the Victor almost every time they trip without a mouse, not so with Tomcat, and the clearcoat on the wood lets the goo not stick...

 

[ponytug]

We were setting glue traps and consistently catching mice. Then one day a huge rat was seen entering the garage. A friend bought a huge rat trap and set it in the garage. IT took 3 days but it caught the rat. I had them also in my shop and chicken coop (tunnels everywhere) and finally resorted to rat poison. I placed them in hidden places around the garage, in my shop, in some of the tunnels in the coop and within 4 days I found 6 dead mice around my shop and since then, no more mice in the glues traps which my wife still keeps out in the garage and in the bathroom. House mice frequent the bathrooms where they partake of water in the commode.

Funny, I had a pet mouse once, but having mice in the house sends me around the bend. Flies, too. Both used to bother my grandfather, and as a kid I thought it was a quirk, especially when he was hunting a lone fly down. Then I lived somewhere that I had a rat crawl over my face at 2am, and where the flies carried wonderful diarrheal diseases, and I have never been the same.:shocked:

When we first moved on to the property, we used to get rodents in the house (rats in the attic, mice in the house). Eventually, I traced it back to the plumbing cutouts from the crawl space into the house, and foamed the holes with fireblock foam. No more mice, no more rats. If yours are persistent, try putting those "copper" pot scrubbers in the holes first and then foaming into the scrubber. I don't have the patience to cut screening to size, and staple it place while lying flat on my back in a 12" crawl space, but if your holes are more accessible, it is an alternative method.

They say that mice can get through a quarter inch crack.

FWIW: I view the effort as a one time expense, with years of returns.

All the best,

Peter

 

[goeduck]

Funny, I had a pet mouse once, but having mice in the house sends me around the bend. Flies, too. Both used to bother my grandfather, and as a kid I thought it was a quirk, especially when he was hunting a lone fly down. Then I lived somewhere that I had a rat crawl over my face at 2am, and where the flies carried wonderful diarrheal diseases, and I have never been the same.:shocked:

I leave all the spiderwebs up around the house in the fall, drives my wife crazy. I even take spiders outside to release them so they can catch more flies. I must be part Spiderman, but I figure the more flies they eat the less get in the house. We don't seem to have any poisonous ones, so what the heck.

They say spiders eat more bugs in total tons each year than people eat meat....

Spiders Eat Up to 88 Million Tons of Insects Each Year | Live Science

 

[Alien]

Only 2 more last night but the bait was eaten so nothing to attract any more in. I will have to make the bait harder to take.

 

[Jstpssng]

Only 2 more last night but the bait was eaten so nothing to attract any more in. I will have to make the bait harder to take.

Glue a peanut to the bait pan.

 

[ovrszd]

I read in a State Conservation Department circular once that if a mouse can get it's head thru the rest will follow. I think a quarter sized hole would be considered a super hiway.

 

[Alien]

Glue a peanut to the bait pan.

But I just spent $1.48 on a jar of peanut butter.