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Old Oct 9, 2018 | 02:21 AM
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Just box up the bodies and send them to your rep. Then Mr Brown can sleep with them in his big house.
 
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Old Oct 9, 2018 | 02:31 AM
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Been watching this thread with interest as we have rats as well. We have around 50lb of poison around the place that keeps most of them down, cats are not too bad but rats aren't good to them so they go more for mice and birds. A terrier is ok, ours is a bit slow but likes his squeaky toys, even though they only squeak once. Traps work too, but it's getting the right place for them, and if you bait them the mice will make off with it. We find spring traps set along a wall are the best.
What works over here as well is catch one alive and put it into panic mode - the squealing frightens others off for a while, and they sure can squeal
 
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Old Oct 9, 2018 | 08:28 PM
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Lmao , Rambo , war room , tank specialist is what I’m sayin, ( we take no prisoners ) lol, Scott with the temps dropping , those Rodents are looking for warmth too , just the other day I went out to the barn , the cows go into where the pigs usually go ( no pigs this year) well I had some 2x6 going across mid span wall to wall that was holding a heat lamp for the hogs in winter , the cows knocked all the boards down , with some plywood and foam core board to help insulate, as I was picking it up I discover a nest , 6 baby’s BAM with the shovel, sad I know but had to, I moved another plywood piece , WTH 5 more and momma took off , they had burrowed into the dirt with pieces of core board as a little bed, it was a good day with 11 down, I’m coming for ya Momma , the moral is they will nest in wood piles , under places we’re dry , close to food and water, and in attics , my war with these lil suckers came from the barn to my house, got one last week in the garage , door must have been left open , and he was camping out ( illegally ) on the fire place ledge close to the water heater, good thing I have hard pipe on my Hvac unit but he stole some insulation for his bed and I never had a chance to charge him extra for that and room n board , he had a nice meal and found him self caught by a Snap trap jaws of life , I looked at those Zappers to day Wholly crap 50 bucks at Lowe’s , sounds like a great idea but peanut butter on a Snap trap works too.PS they prefer Skippy over off brand picky picky, lol
 
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Old Oct 9, 2018 | 10:40 PM
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Good for you, Scott!!! You can find the zappers a whole lot cheaper online, but I only got one rat and a mouse, so not sure how good they are. I tried some off brand peanut butter and then broke out the real deal: Skippy Super Chunk -- it's like they are taking food from my own mouth... (grrrrr...) - still couldn't get 'em in a spring trap. Have some ultrasonic repellers coming in next... Maybe a full court press will send them elsewhere...

Good luck in your battles -- I'd say hang em on fence posts like coyotes, but the others would just eat what you hang, they're cannibals too...

I think I have a way to prove out these ultrasonic jobs, if they work I'll let you know...

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Old Oct 10, 2018 | 01:14 AM
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The problem with the cheaper ultrasonic repellers is that critter will get used to the frequency over time.
The more expensive type use a rolling frequency so that they can't learn to live with it.

Here is an article on the topic.
https://www.todayshomeowner.com/do-u...pellents-work/
 
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Old Oct 10, 2018 | 10:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Yahiko
The problem with the cheaper ultrasonic repellers is that critter will get used to the frequency over time.
The more expensive type use a rolling frequency so that they can't learn to live with it.

Here is an article on the topic.
https://www.todayshomeowner.com/do-u...pellents-work/
Haven't had time to read the article, Sean, but that is the same thing I have read and experienced (I've bought the cheap ones). Here's what I'm trying an EE friend recommended it:
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Old Oct 10, 2018 | 02:19 PM
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One thing to keep in mind is ultrasonic sound radiation is easy to block with stuff like walls or boxes in front to the generator.
So you want to have it in a clear space.

That article is short but all the replies do take a bit of time to read.
 
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Old Oct 10, 2018 | 05:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Yahiko
One thing to keep in mind is ultrasonic sound radiation is easy to block with stuff like walls or boxes in front to the generator.
So you want to have it in a clear space.

That article is short but all the replies do take a bit of time to read.
I’ve seen these and wondered about sensitivity with cats and dogs hearing , gota have the watch dog around the Ranch , he’s my eyes and ears , I remember a few years ago I caught two small baby rats in one trap , thought that was the Cats Meow , a week later I did it again , the barn is stacked with hay now , but haven’t really seen much activity , just the cotton tail rabbits foraging on my stack of hay.i might start making Rabbit slippers for everybody here on FTE for Christmas,lol
 
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Old Oct 10, 2018 | 07:24 PM
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I’ve seen these and wondered about sensitivity with cats and dogs hearing , gota have the watch dog around the Ranch , he’s my eyes and ears , I remember a few years ago I caught two small baby rats in one trap , thought that was the Cats Meow , a week later I did it again , the barn is stacked with hay now , but haven’t really seen much activity , just the cotton tail rabbits foraging on my stack of hay.i might start making Rabbit slippers for everybody here on FTE for Christmas,lol
They are just rats with short tails and big ears.
 
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Old Oct 10, 2018 | 10:39 PM
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Sean: the other side of Block, is Reflect... So if you put one of these in a metal building, I'd expect the latter... We go with two of them, and let's see what happens -- they say it can take a couple weeks for the rodents to get irritated enough to leave...

Well Mark (bismic) gave me a big headslap, when he said to take the bait stations OUT of the area I want to protect. HUGE, and I can't emphasize enough: H-U-G-E difference in the attack, or activity, since I moved the great attractant and killer OUT of the building..

Have two Hot trucks in there tonight -- Hoods open, full of Bounce towels, zapper traps ready, hoping for no new chewed wires -- my Jeep O2 sensor and wrench came in, would like to not do that twice. Plus Wife brings the One Million Feet of wire MH back tomorrow, to the same place: the War Zone... And the MH stays warm for days... :-/

Ultrasonics should be here in 2 days...

Scott
 
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Old Oct 11, 2018 | 12:30 AM
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You should ask around to see if anyone has a Jack Russell Terrier you can barrow.

That would take care of the rabbits, rats and any couch that is thinking of lounging around.
The pooch will run you ragged too and that is why I say barrow and not own. I wonder if they
like to go after moles. Might just have to rent one next spring to terrorize the moles.

Or we could do joint custody. 6 months for each.
 
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Old Oct 11, 2018 | 12:37 AM
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They do catch moles, but cats can do that as well. I used an old engine oil-diesel mix on a rag in mole tunnels that got rid of them really quickly.
 
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Old Oct 11, 2018 | 12:55 AM
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I do also have a problem with pocket gophers, similar to moles but more similar to ground squirrels, and we don't like those either... Poison to the gophers too...

The local Bobcat would take out a Jack Russel, or the pack of coyotes would if she doesn't (she looks like a mini-cougar, but bob-tailed, and large for a bobcat). If I get dogs again and leave them outside, it will be at least 2 or 3 (numbers are huge in this game), and that is only if I can fence well enough to keep the larger critters out. If they survive I might try a couple feral cats in addition...

Meanwhile we blast the rats acoustically :-)

Scott
 
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Old Oct 11, 2018 | 12:57 AM
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We used to have a cat that did a very good job if that. The problem is I have someone that lives on our street that has a bunch
of cats and I am willing to bet that she does not have them up on there vaccines. Let alone having them fixed. The problem is
they don't come over and annoy the moles at all. Also because of the breed I don't let the big cat out because she may never come
back because someone took her.
 
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Old Oct 11, 2018 | 01:02 AM
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Meanwhile we blast the rats acoustically :-)

Scott
Too bad you live in "That state". I would say blasting would do the trick if you could use something other than sound.
A .22 and rats can be fun and the scavengers clean up the leftovers.
 
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