Rat and mouse traps

[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.

Finally revealed: the leading cause of death for rats and mice
Research scientists

 

[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.