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.

 

[Jstpssng]

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

Now you need a loaf of bread and a jar of jelly!

I killed about 21 or 22 earlier this year using cheese in the snap trap. I still don't know how they got in but haven't had a problem lately.

 

[Damifino]

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

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[Fuddy1952]

I didn't read all posts, but mice can get in unbelievably small spaces. A friend works on appliances and one was inside a washing machine timer. I did TV repair, years ago picture tube (crt) sets had a high voltage cage. One RCA TV was arcing, so I removed the high voltage cage and there was a mouse inside stretched out with 30,000 volts coming off top of his head!
We use snap traps baited with peanut butter. Last winter in an upstairs bedroom I heard this scuffling noise. I had caught a mouse by the nuts! I took it way outside letting it go. Now we got a Tom cat kitten. I'm hoping it will mouse.
We had a gray striped Tom who died a few years ago at 20 who was amazing at catching anything that moved! He'd sit on a fence post. If a blade of grass moved he'd pounce...mice, moles, chipmunks...anything.
He would leave it's heart on the doorstep, eating the rest. Reggie...but we called him Hannibal Lecter.

 

[Alien]

Luckily we don't have them in the house. They are around the barn and cockatoo aviary. No sign of rats yet so that is a pleasant surprise.

 

[bcp]

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

If I make a bucket trap, instead of water in the bottom, I'll put beer.



Bruce

 

[two_bit_score]

I still prefer my barn cat. No traps to check or maintain. However - I do feed, water & shelter this cat.

I think cats work better than anything. We have 4 and they have even cleared the yard of gophers and moles. They will, occasionally, bring their catch up and leave it by the door. Just so we know they are working I guess.

 

[caver]

I've had two different brands of zapper traps and both failed within a year. I also think they get leery of it after their buddies disappear. Best success I've had is the snap trap where they have to step on a treadle to get the bait. My neighbor swears by the old wooden traps. He says nail brads pointing up around the snap end. He said when you get that instance were the snapper just clips them the nail snags them or at minimal they bleed out. I tried one but talk about a dangerous task just setting it.

 

[dodge man]

I use glue traps but found I have to put duck tape on the bottom to hold them in place or they will drag them all over and you have to hunt to find them. Two pests I fight the most are mice a moles. The mole traps kill right away but the glue traps don’t. As much as I hate the little buggers the glue traps seen cruel so I do try to find them the next day and finish them off.

 

[bunyip]

We put in a huge rat trap in our shed and found a rat head in it the next day, never realised that rats were cannibals and would eat each other.

 

[dodge man]

We put in a huge rat trap in our shed and found a rat head in it the next day, never realised that rats were cannibals and would eat each other.

I’ve seen that with mice also.