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I hung a plastic owl from the house close to where I park my truck. Seems to work pretty well. Previously had 3 time the squirrels chewed up wiring. You can get them at Farm & Home or rural king. Not a problem since. Just move them around from time to time.
Got one of them yesterday with a trap! He/she won't be eating any more wiring..... Took a couple of days with them licking the peanut butter off of the traps without triggering them. Now I'm hot glueing bait to the traps. I haven't checked yet today.
I will be more vigilant about trapping in the future.
Got one of them yesterday with a trap! He/she won't be eating any more wiring..... Took a couple of days with them licking the peanut butter off of the traps without triggering them. Now I'm hot glueing bait to the traps. I haven't checked yet today.
I will be more vigilant about trapping in the future.
If you are using the "old" style spring traps with wood base where the spring catch engages under the bait spot; these seem to be easy for the rodent to clean of the peanut butter without tripping the trap. Try looping a string through the bait spot, tie a knot in the string and trim the two ends to about 1/4" long. Apply the peanut butter to the bait spot making sure you include the string ends. The rodent will keep licking the string to get all the peanut butter and more readily trip the trap. I've lost rodents without the string, none with it.
If you cannot tie the string to the trap, you can try gluing it to the bait holder then apply the bait.
My experience is the mice always move in as a family or start a family as soon as they move in. I suggest keep trapping until a long time passes with no feeding sign and no other indication of mice. Most traps only kill one rodent at a time so it takes a long time to catch them all. I recommend a bucket trap. With the bucket trap I have caught up to four mice at a time. The only issue with bucket traps is if your truck is outside and Temps go far below freezing.
If you are using the "old" style spring traps with wood base where the spring catch engages under the bait spot; these seem to be easy for the rodent to clean of the peanut butter without tripping the trap. Try looping a string through the bait spot, tie a knot in the string and trim the two ends to about 1/4" long. Apply the peanut butter to the bait spot making sure you include the string ends. The rodent will keep licking the string to get all the peanut butter and more readily trip the trap. I've lost rodents without the string, none with it.
If you cannot tie the string to the trap, you can try gluing it to the bait holder then apply the bait.
I got another one today.
After a couple of days of traps cleaned without tripping, I am hot glueing a chunk of peanut butter cheese cracker to the trigger. So far I have a 100% trip rate with the glue.
My experience is the mice always move in as a family or start a family as soon as they move in. I suggest keep trapping until a long time passes with no feeding sign and no other indication of mice. Most traps only kill one rodent at a time so it takes a long time to catch them all. I recommend a bucket trap. With the bucket trap I have caught up to four mice at a time. The only issue with bucket traps is if your truck is outside and Temps go far below freezing.
I might switch to a bucket trap in my garage. The truck is outside, backed up to one of my garage doors. There is a small gap at the end of the garage door weather strip where they can get in. Thats where I've trapped 2 so far. I'll keep 4 traps baited for a few weeks and start looking into making a bucket trap.
My wife's jeep had a low tire and last night I drove it up to my shop to air it up. As I was working on the front driver tire, the horn suddenly honked twice and the emergency lights went off. I immediately called my wife and asked if she was messing with me with her remote cell phone ap. She said no and thought maybe I had accidentally bumped the key fob. That was not possible as I had left the fob on the seat (keyless start). The random honking and flashing stopped. I then opened the hood to check the oil and found this. Smells very bad like mouse under the hood. I put some traps under the hood and more in the garage where she parks. I did not see any visibly chewed wires but have my suspicions that there is a problem somewhere.
I hate rodents. I wont use poison either. As far as cats around the farm, thats a tightrope walk. They are the great for helping keep the numbers down but if you don't micro manage you will have a cat issue. We dont have chickens anymore, too much hassle and a magnet for mice….and foxes. Foxes are what got our chickens, but, the foxes eat 100 times more mice than cats.
The 5 gallon bucket mouse traps work good for volume of mice killed with little effort.
My wife's jeep had a low tire and last night I drove it up to my shop to air it up. As I was working on the front driver tire, the horn suddenly honked twice and the emergency lights went off. I immediately called my wife and asked if she was messing with me with her remote cell phone ap. She said no and thought maybe I had accidentally bumped the key fob. That was not possible as I had left the fob on the seat (keyless start). The random honking and flashing stopped. I then opened the hood to check the oil and found this. Smells very bad like mouse under the hood. I put some traps under the hood and more in the garage where she parks. I did not see any visibly chewed wires but have my suspicions that there is a problem somewhere.
Thats a bummer. The lights and honking are a bad sign. I hope you find the problem.
My experience is the mice always move in as a family or start a family as soon as they move in. I suggest keep trapping until a long time passes with no feeding sign and no other indication of mice. Most traps only kill one rodent at a time so it takes a long time to catch them all. I recommend a bucket trap. With the bucket trap I have caught up to four mice at a time. The only issue with bucket traps is if your truck is outside and Temps go far below freezing.
