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Of mice and men.....

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I am at my wits end. A few months ago I noticed the dreaded black mini rice. As it got colder, there was more rice.. I got mouse traps, loaded them with bait and put them on the most sensitive setting......they had a feast!!! Not a crumb was left, just mini rice and the set trap.... Next I got the sticky pads, more cheese....more feasting. It looked like fresh concrete at kindergarden.....alot of hand and feet prints but no fuzzy little bastards! (think it was too cold for adhesive).. Does anyone have any secrets on how get rid of the rodents????

Thanks Tobb
 
This works great for rats, it should work for mice too. Buy some correct size old style regular mouse traps and wrap the trigger with raw bacon. Let the trap sit in the sun a day or two till the bacon is hard, set it and secure it with wire leader so they can't scurry away with the trap, BAM!. Set a few with peanut butter while your waiting for the bacon to dry out. Poison is no good, you don't want to smell dead rodents. Lastly, find where the critters are getting in and seal up the hole (or place wire screen over it). Good luck
 
Mike36c said:
This works great for rats, it should work for mice too. Buy some correct size old style regular mouse traps and wrap the trigger with raw bacon. Let the trap sit in the sun a day or two till the bacon is hard, set it and secure it with wire leader so they can't scurry away with the trap, BAM!. Set a few with peanut butter while your waiting for the bacon to dry out. Poison is no good, you don't want to smell dead rodents. Lastly, find where the critters are getting in and seal up the hole (or place wire screen over it). Good luck
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Amen. In my home, years ago had a mother mouse who had pups get in. Best way for trapping is good ole' fashioned wood base, wire spring traps fitted with stinky cheese, and tie the cheese on! They (the mices) are quick and will grab 'n run without getting trapped. All good points above. Tried the adhesives traps and I got was lotsa' screamin' and russling, but no Mickey Mouses.

P.s., they liked to run into a closet I had , so I got a couple with my shop vac and dumped them outside. They can skitter...

Also, on openings, they basically have no skull, so they can squeeze into a very small, flat opening.
 
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I have the best luck with peanut butter. Lots of it, on the old wooden spring traps. Real little ones are the hardest to catch because of the weight required to trip the trap. So I place a large blob of the peanut butter on the trigger in order to make the trap more sensitive.

BILL
 
This method works quite well, low-tech but effective. Place a 5gal pail beside your steps. Run a 1" wide piece of trim wood from the step to the center of the pail (must be level). Place a peanut butter coated cracker (just a 1/2) on the end over the pail. Every mouse in America will walk out on the wood piece and fall in, unable to crawl back out. Make sure your wood stick in not long enough to used as an escape ladder once in the pail. You can place more than one stick at a time this way, catching several mice each night. Then you can carry them outside for disposal or release. This system also works well for retrieving lost pet hamsters. Cheap and effective.
 
Ahhhhhh, The better mouse trap... I like it!
 
One down.....many to go. The peanut butter works well, Bigbil had recomended that to me too. I like the bucket idea, I might put a few inches of water in the bottom and put a big blue crab out of my neighbors trap in and let him chow down......ok maby not.
 
The crab will make sure the rat never gets out. I like it!
 
At our cottage on Lake Huron, we use the dark green 1" cubes. This works well there as the go outside looking for water. Another trick we learned that almost totally eliminated the problem is leaving an old radio on when you are not there. They don't seem to come around when they hear people talking. Probably best to put the thing on a talk radio station.
 
Maybe Rush will drive them away. Talk radio can be annoying. Especially around the elections. Great idea. Do you think it will also deter roaches?
 
I forgot about the pail trick. You can screw a short piece of broom handle across the inside of a plastic 5 gal. bucket side to side at the top in the middle. Leave the handle loose so it will rotate. Smear the broom handle with peanut butter in the middle only. Then place a yard stick size board against the bucket side for a ramp. I duck tap the boards in place. One each side 90deg. from the broom handle. In the bottom of the bucket poor about 2 inches of antifreeze. The mice run up the ramp. Then try to jump to the peanut butter. The broom handle will rotate and mouse goes into the soup in the bucket. Good by mouse. I use these in my grainery and hay barn. I think you can buy them at a farm store all ready made. I just make them. It works on all sizes, no mess and quite.

BILL
 
We've just had a run in with warf rats on our dock and boat. We poisoned the lazerette and put bait statioins around the yard. I've seen PLENTY of droppings in the cockpit and the flybridge, but none inside. I found a couple of expired critters in the dinghy, it was holding some rain water and apparently that was their last stop. I've seen a drastic decrease in the droppings. I'm going to scrub the boat down today and hopefully won't see anymore. My boss swears by the bucket trick, i just think the poison is low maintenance, unless the plug in your dinghy stops up.......
 
I had forgotten, but about two years ago, at the office building of a major insurance company in suburban Detroit, rats were getting in. Company kinda responded by "no food left at desk overnight, etc.". Then a few days later, a unionized employee opened a side drawer in their desk and faced a full sized rat straight on. Union went ballistic (understandable) and the place was immediately emptied for two days, and all were on call to not return, until the 800 line gave the clear. They found the opening in the building (finally), plus stopped the overflowing of the dumpsters outside (ye-haa, rats chow time). Complete fumigation of facility and last I heard they caught about 35 of the critters...yeesh. Of course, all food was still disallowed, and all candy had to be in glass jars.

Rats are nasty business, esp. on a boat.
 
Boatsb said:
Maybe Rush will drive them away. Talk radio can be annoying. Especially around the elections. Great idea. Do you think it will also deter roaches?
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Not until Hillary drops out.:)
 
hey tobb, at least you have the short grain rice. you remember the long grain rice i had.. thank god i have not seen any lately. bigbill
 
I have been able to kill them with the poision that looks kind of like a corn cob. You could also try antifreeze.
 
Yea Bill, the long grain rice takes alot more chewing to get down...... LOL.
 
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