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With the 4 cats we have now I don’t have any mice, rat, gopher or mole problems.
Rat and mouse traps
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Your census count is low (compared to ours), 10 in the house and 15 outside. My issue is, no cats in the shop allowed and the meeces seem to know that. Don't do cats in there. Have some bad habits like whizzing on stuff and puking in the middle of the floor that I inadvertently step in so no cats in there.
Wife and cats came with each other. If I had my way, cats would be extinct.
Wife and cats came with each other. If I had my way, cats would be extinct.
CADplans
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Tell her, that I know from first hand experience,, that mice swim about as good as Fat Albert!!
IT is FAST
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Wife got some firewood yesterday and informed me there's rats in the back woodshed again... so loaded up my two rat trap boards with peanut butter... we'll see what they do tonight... This evening I'm going to try to make another mouse trap board, the Tomcat wood traps are for whatever reason out of season or something, they're usually $.50 a piece and now they're around $1, the 2 pack on Amazon is cheaper than any other option out there right now. I don't like the Victor traps, the schelac on the Tomcat make them last longer, and the lever seems to be easier to set.
goeduck
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Tell that to the rat who (when I lived in the city for a short time) came up the toilet from the sewer line. Dogs kept going to the toilet wondering what the noise was (lid down). Rat was treading water. I opened up the lid and OH CARP.Tell her, that I know from first hand experience,, that mice swim about as good as Fat Albert!!
IT is FAST
Grabbed an aluminum bar and crushed its rib cage and flushed it. I recall not wanting to use a broomstick in case it clawed its way out.
rangerfredbob
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That was quick... one mouse and one rat... and here's the rat trap version of my trap boards, same size board as the mouse trap version but only fits 7 traps, I need to make another, I think I have enough traps. I kinda like the Bigfoot brand from Amazon, they're plywood and more similar to the Tomcat traps, the plastic seems to be more durable than the Victor traps (as you can see, one of each) since half the Victor have broken bait V's or catches, all of the Bigfoot are intact. Reset the traps, we'll see if I catch any more...
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CADplans
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I built a couple, that is a variation of that,,
It is a board, slightly over one trap wide, the board is about 6 traps long,, then I cut 3 pieces of plywood (maybe 3/8",, ?) also 6 traps long.
Nail the 3 pieces of plywood to the trap width board, (I used a pneumatic stapler) to form a tunnel.
The tunnel must be high enough for the trap swinging bar to rotate, but, not much too tall.
Mice love to go in tunnels, put some peanut butter near the middle.
I have caught 3 mice before I had a chance to reset the traps.
If the mouse gets near the middle, and one of the traps goes off without catching it, the mouse runs so fast, it gets caught by another trap.
I put it along the wall in the garage.
You can take the entire tunnel outside, dump the traps, reset the traps, and slide them (carefully) back into the tunnel.
I haven't done it yet, but, I may drill a small hole in the middle of the top, so I can add peanut butter through the hole.
I was out with a biologist a while back and made the comment about snakes eating mice. He said "not as many as people think". I don't know if he meant snakes in general, or just our common garter snakes.
JK22
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Got barn cats 2 years ago. Best employees I’ve ever had. No more mice. Voles seem to be gone too.
Before cats, I would catch mice with traps for the first night or two. Then none for a couple weeks, even though I’d still be seeing droppings. I’m convinced those rodents are smarter than we think and the traps just catch the stupid ones.
Before cats, I would catch mice with traps for the first night or two. Then none for a couple weeks, even though I’d still be seeing droppings. I’m convinced those rodents are smarter than we think and the traps just catch the stupid ones.
goeduck
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Voles chew off my fruit trees below ground. Hate them.