A few weeks ago the building replaced the central ventilation stack, and since then everyone has a mouse problem.
I picked up some of the spring traps, and so far got ONE. The little bastards are gentle enough they can eat the bait without setting them off. Basically, I am just feeding them.
I got the bright Idea of bucket traps. A waste basket 1/4 full of water on the floor. Put some peanut butter in the end of a paper towel or TP tube, and balance that on the edge of a counter or desk with the bait over the bucket.
They run down the tunnel, it over balances and PLOP. I even got one while typing up this post.
Works one HELL of a lot better than the spring traps, and
I used spring traps when I lived in a shithole in college. The key to the bait: I would superglue a Cheerio to the trigger. That way the first mouse couldn't just gently knock it off and grab it. Caught 3 this way and suddenly there were no more mice.
I have to use a lot of snap traps. Magic shell chocolate sauce has been the best bait so far. I tried the bucket trap for some chipmunks once and it worked very well. The snap traps did not work on chipmunks. their heads are too hard. Happy hunting
I have to use a lot of snap traps. Magic shell chocolate sauce has been the best bait so far. I tried the bucket trap for some chipmunks once and it worked very well. The snap traps did not work on chipmunks. their heads are too hard. Happy hunting
I had the same problem with a couple of squirrels that kept coming in thru the eaves and eating cow feed in my shop. I used a big rat trap first, but had to nail it down, and they still got out of it. Tried one of my 330 conibear traps, but a squirrel's body is so long, the trap just slung 'em against the ceiling. I ended up having to use a #2 Duke steel leg trap, and that was the end of the squirrel problem.
I don't recommend any novice using a conibear for anything--their springs are very powerful and terribly unforgiving.
I used spring traps when I lived in a shithole in college. The key to the bait: I would superglue a Cheerio to the trigger. That way the first mouse couldn't just gently knock it off and grab it. Caught 3 this way and suddenly there were no more mice.
Got cats when I got the new wife. I was fairly neutral on them up until then.
Turns out to be the best thing I ever did ( Well, second best thing, in case she reads this).
Put a pet access door between a finished upstairs bedroom and the attic and boom, no more mice.
Same thing for moles and voles in the garden.
Now, they do kill birds and snakes so it's not a perfect solution but as with most things in life, you take the good with the bad.
I had a black cat that I found as a kitten and called NigNog. She was a mouse catching machine. Had some black ones too, never seen that. I wish I hadn't gotten rid of her. My old cat I stole from a stripper wouldn't catch anything. I got loaded and found a kitten in Louisiana over the summer and brought her home. She made my original cat mat and he ran off (might have gotten stolen again, he has been about 3 times). He did bring a bird inside to show Jenny and I she also saw him eating one. The birds were super mean to him, not sure what he did prior to make them dive bomb him. This new kitty hasn't caught any mice, but I haven't seen any either. I don't care for her much though. She is still really young and I haven't really been able to "break" her yet.
I use the ones at Home Depo for mice and Rats. For mice its the small white traps with teeth (put some cheese down in the trap hole). They work great!!! Now for rats, I use the Baise colored traps, they sorta look like an old fashined rat trap, (Plastic) but with a huge trigger pad!!! The large black traps that have teeth didn't work too well. For older traps, glue a nut to the trap....
Originally posted by RayOtton: I've lead a very BORING life. First a desk jockey and then a caregiver. 'bout the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me was my divorce.
Yeah..right. Tell us more Ray. 2 words: Hurricane season
Hurricane season? Phhhht!..................Woman scorned? Ho boy!!!!!!!
But to continue.
We've also got an ex-helcopter pilot, numerous military personnel, a guy living off the grid, long distance truckers, a race car driver, a snake handler and quite a few guys with rather interesting interactions with the fairer sex.
It all very entertaining for a retired white collar executive.
Hell, the last ticket I got was five years ago for going 55 in a 50. ( We have more than our share of as*hole cops on the Eastern Shore).
lol MEM, they want strange and wonderful stories, perhaps this is where we bring up the time we were street-racing in the cargo vans (if memory serves, your's was adorned with a larger than life Slush Puppy!)
...or how about the time you damn near burned down your shop with your home-made oil furnace which you were pouring leftover motor oil from your Fiero into.....
btw, that WAS a wad of bubblegum I found inside the head of your old 2.8.
And I was not drilling into propane cylinders still under pressure to build it. WHO would do something like that and make even the dogs run and hide from the impending boom.
(To be fair, my propane tank hack-job did NOT catch fire. I had some pin holes in the welds that were dripping oil, so I put a drip tray under it figuring I could fix the welds later.
That sucker was running hot enough to light up the drip tray from a foot above it. )
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MEM I was up your way last week and was caught off guard on how all your "commercial traps" seemed so much like communist/ socialist housing were you get a flat and that's it. The high rises seemed to sprout up evetwhere.... I feel for ya living in your canned box. Also visited Guelph...now that seemed like a nice place.
MEM I was up your way last week and was caught off guard on how all your "commercial traps" seemed so much like communist/ socialist housing were you get a flat and that's it. The high rises seemed to sprout up evetwhere.... I feel for ya living in your canned box. Also visited Guelph...now that seemed like a nice place.
Damn, ya should have stopped by. Guelf to here is about 45 minutes. Jay is just south of Woodstock, about the same. We dont bite, but around me it might take a few days for thecaffine to wear off.
Yeh, housing up here is a beech, we are within commute distance of Toronto and there expect California prices and worse. A million for a one or 2 bedroom cottage is not unusual.
Welcome to liberal - land.... Stack em 20 stories high, tax the crap out of them, give them welfare, and bring more in so the next hirise goes up for more free rent for more migrants.
It sure aint the Canada I grew up in anymore... Don't think Dorothy or the Wizzard could ever bring this back to Kansas.
Remember, Canada kicked our own troops out of thier homes so migrants could have them... Dont think THAT will ever be forgotten.
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Damn, ya should have stopped by. Guelf to here is about 45 minutes. Jay is just south of Woodstock, about the same. We dont bite, but around me it might take a few days for thecaffine to wear off.
I'll reach out next time I'm in the area...did the quick tour of Facilities in Markham, Toronto, Mississauga, Oakville, and Guelph in three days...so no free time.
I have a large field and woods closeby. I used to get a lot of moles and field mice. CAT cured the indoor mice. I dont think the cat even has to catch them, they sense or smell of the cat and stay away. Still working on moles...theyre tough. About the only way is sit and watch for them and shoot em. I even poured 5 gals of kerosene down ones hole I seen him run into and set it on fire. Didnt do anything. Its a block basement with flagstone, so no fire possibility.
I even got one while typing up this post. 
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