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Do these things work?
I've got some trap savy mice in the shop that need to go.
I've got some trap savy mice in the shop that need to go.
Ultrasonic rodent repellers..
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I bought a couple and tried them in the shop; did not work. The little pest I was trying to get rid of didnt seems to notice them.
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Trap savvy as in they are eating all the peanut butter and leaving the traps set?
1. Buy only the metal release victor traps not the yellow plastic crappy ones!
2. use CHUNKY peanut butter. You only really need a small chunk of peanut. Wedge it tightly into the hole in the metal release dont add anymore than this or your just feeding them! The mice have to tug at the peanut chunk to get it unstuck....wham!
1. Buy only the metal release victor traps not the yellow plastic crappy ones!
2. use CHUNKY peanut butter. You only really need a small chunk of peanut. Wedge it tightly into the hole in the metal release dont add anymore than this or your just feeding them! The mice have to tug at the peanut chunk to get it unstuck....wham!
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Leaving the traps set, and not touching the bait. Savy enough that they know it means instant death. I have tried various combos with little results, more like natural selection, the dumb ones die, the smart ones build nests in my cabinets and welder.
Heres a pix of my mouse trap hanging out on the deck of the work truck when not out on the hunt . She came from Trenton Psychiatric Hospital as a stray when my mother was working there .The cat got into her car and said "take me home these people around here are nuts" The other one is my brothers shop cat that showed up one day and "F this living on the street in the getto s*** , let me in "
Both of these cats were strays and probably the best mousers plus are just the most great-full to be off the street.
yes the gray one is cross eyed
Both of these cats were strays and probably the best mousers plus are just the most great-full to be off the street.
yes the gray one is cross eyed
Another vote for a cat. I've got one named Dent. She catches lizards, mice, moles, hummingbirds, sparrows, bats and baby possums. I've never seen her eat catfoood.
I borrow the wifes barn cats to keep the mice out of the shed.
The mice have also been known to chew a hole in the Gopher poison. They die withing 3' of the container so clean up is pretty easy.
The mice have also been known to chew a hole in the Gopher poison. They die withing 3' of the container so clean up is pretty easy.
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Splitshot, I covered this stuff in a wildlife book I did a few years ago. The ultrasonic repellers have been shown to work - for a day or so. Then the rodents come right back and ignore them.
Please don't use poison. The commonly available poison for rodent control, called Warfarin among several branded names, persists in the animal's remains and will also poison whatever eats it, whether a hawk, a coyote, or your own cat. It causes death by internal hemorrhaging - not pleasant.
Snap traps really are the best, and the advice in post 3 is good (although I like the Victor traps with the yellow plastic trigger plates). Mice can't learn to avoid traps, since their first encounter is almost invariably their last. Traps are also humane - the last thought in that mouse's tiny brain is, "Oh boy, someone left me some peanut bu . . . !"
Please don't use poison. The commonly available poison for rodent control, called Warfarin among several branded names, persists in the animal's remains and will also poison whatever eats it, whether a hawk, a coyote, or your own cat. It causes death by internal hemorrhaging - not pleasant.
Snap traps really are the best, and the advice in post 3 is good (although I like the Victor traps with the yellow plastic trigger plates). Mice can't learn to avoid traps, since their first encounter is almost invariably their last. Traps are also humane - the last thought in that mouse's tiny brain is, "Oh boy, someone left me some peanut bu . . . !"
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We use some of the poison baits at work for controlling Hispid Cotton Rats with good results. Havoc is the product IIRC, if this was an area I could keep Husker isolated from I'd jump on it. Mechanical seems to be the only option.
What about a Zapper?
What's the best way to get rid of rats? The Rat Zapper Electronic Rat Trap!
What about a Zapper?
What's the best way to get rid of rats? The Rat Zapper Electronic Rat Trap!
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I am voting for a cat too, as to when it comes catching mice, rodents and so on. There is nothing as fast as a cat that can preform all these activities.
After our neighbor's cat died the Gopher's I had battled years before made a miraculous come back. Went to the local nursery to see if there was a non-poisonous solution and found Fox Urine granuals. After a month of use the gophers have not come back.
At home we had a few in the house, i hate cats, so it was mouse traps.
Very useless.......
So we used whats called a "glue board"
Glue Traps || Household Pest Glue Boards
no way a mouse will get off this stuff. i tried to remove one once and almost left half his body behind, he was well and truely stuck, but alive. Into a bucket of water to drown.
Just layed them out flat, we did use a little peanut butter in the center, which helped.
Dave
Very useless.......
So we used whats called a "glue board"
Glue Traps || Household Pest Glue Boards
no way a mouse will get off this stuff. i tried to remove one once and almost left half his body behind, he was well and truely stuck, but alive. Into a bucket of water to drown.
Just layed them out flat, we did use a little peanut butter in the center, which helped.
Dave
Wow, that's horrible. What the hell were you doing it torturing it like that? Glue traps are disgusting and cruel, and should be illegal (they already are in Vic, only a matter of time before they are outlawed in QLD). If you have to kill something, do it quickly. Don't torture it on glue damnit - they gnaw their legs off, skin themselves alive on them and starve to death if not dispatched. Please, stop being such a brute.
Cats are your safest option. I put some poison on the fuel tank of my tractor at the farm when I realized field mice were bedding down under the hood. When I went back out a few days later there wer two dead raccoons which I figure ate the mouse and died not too far away. I rescued some kittens from the side of the road and turned them loose on the farm. No rats, mice or, snakes