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From: Central WA USA
I love glue traps, we used peanut butter as well, then stuck them in the walk in freezer at -30 to kill them. Warfarin doesn't really dehydrate them, it actually causes them to bleed to death, it inhibits the blood from clotting.
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We've been pretty lucky here, this is the first problem I've had with mice chewing up plastic items(that I know of).
I thought it was interesting that they picked on this one container and only chewed a small hole in it. I've heard of them having a field day with electrical wiring and making nests in heater boxes, etc.
I wonder if the type of plastic makes a difference? This one is(was?) made out of recycled black polyethylene. Maybe they find that stuff tastier.
I thought it was interesting that they picked on this one container and only chewed a small hole in it. I've heard of them having a field day with electrical wiring and making nests in heater boxes, etc.
I wonder if the type of plastic makes a difference? This one is(was?) made out of recycled black polyethylene. Maybe they find that stuff tastier.
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From: Lolo Montana
AeroPA, please don't give the goverment any more ideas for testing. Now they might want to know why mice pick one type of plastic over another. Or maybe you can get a goverment no pay back loan to do the research for them. Good idea after all. Just joking.
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We get mice at work all the time. I came in one morining and found 12 of them that were stuck in the trash. I scooped them up in a box and dumped them in the yard. The guard dogs had a field day! 
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yeah dogs and mice can be a blast, for us sickos out there. I have a 13yo weiner dog and he is absolute murder on mice, if he sees them. Once in the yard I saw a mouse and said, weenie(why are they all called that no matter what their "legal" name is), get the mouse. Normally this dog is slo mo. But with the mouse he went into warp drive. He was so fast that I thought he missed it, but nope, there was the dead mouse twitching in the grass. One snap of the weiner dog's head and that mouse and many others was history, truly amazing to watch. Only problem is to get the creature away before the dog chows down. Grosses my wife out. I get a sick thrill from it. Ah a man and his hunting dog.
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From: nevada
sticky traps
Those glue traps work real good, I once knelt on one, and had to throw it away with the pants still stuck to them. Good old fashioned PB and spring traps for me. We used to trap rats with the bigger ones, and you would have to nail them down, or they would drag them away. Once a neighbor poisoned his barn, and there was a trail of dead rats all the way to the creek. Guess they needed a drink, but didnt make it.
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Animals and Plastics
I've heard more than once that some plastics have a chemical in them that mimics certain phermones that attract animals of all descriptions. A kind of synthetic catnip for the animal masses.
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So, any way to get rid of that smell from the little dead guys I cant locate in the basement after using the bait? I changed to the snap traps, but phewww, stinky down there! The smell is blowing into one of the rooms in the house thru the heating system, I looked into the duck as best I could, looks clear, I am thinking there is (was?) a nest right next to the duct that goes thru the floor and the smell is coming thru with the passing air.
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From: Fraziers Bottom, WV
The local farm and feed stores carry a mice and rat bait called "Just one bite" it is a tan colored bar 6x10" and can be broken into smaller pcs. It has worked better than anything we have found.
If you have pets you can make a box to put the bait in.
The box I made was wood 18x8x8". One end was soild and the other had a 2" round hole. I put 2 baffles near the enterance. The baffles has 2" holes offset from the enterance and to other holes. I made the top removeable for baiting.
Worked great! In about 3 days all of the mice and rat scratching/dropings stopped!
If you have pets you can make a box to put the bait in.
The box I made was wood 18x8x8". One end was soild and the other had a 2" round hole. I put 2 baffles near the enterance. The baffles has 2" holes offset from the enterance and to other holes. I made the top removeable for baiting.
Worked great! In about 3 days all of the mice and rat scratching/dropings stopped!
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From: Kalispell, MT
when i was growin up, my grandpa would make a trap in his barn using a 5 gallon bucket 1/2 full of water, and slide a pop can over the bucket handle and prop the handle straight up in the air...smear the can with peanut butter and run a stick from the ground up to about 4" away from the pop can....mouse runs up stick, jumps on can to eat peanut butter, can spins, mouse lands in water....drowns....caught more mice that way than any other method, when i was growing up....might be kinda cruel, but hey...whatever works and is cheap, right? didn't hafta go to town all the time for poison baits, and no sense in buyin traps when you can make a handy dandy mouse drowner with just the stuff on hand...
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I use both D-con and the traditional spring traps. I have used the sticky traps, but the screaming gets to me! BTW, there is a little known and un-enforced law on the books in Calif. that you have to have a hunting license to set a trap for mice. OK to poisen them, but if you're gonna trap 'em, make sure you got that license! I can just see people walking into the sporting goods store and asking for mouse tags...! -TD
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A couple years ago when I owned my BMW, the dang mouse in my garage developed a taste for german rubber. One ate its way thru the gas vent tube, resulting in a check engine light. After a complete diagnosis, computer download to check the fault codes etc, it cost me $238 in diag fees and labor, and .50 cents for the rubber hose replacement!
The cats I have keep the mice population down. Unfortunately they also jump up on the hood of my truck/car!
I use the spring traps. Don't like the glue ones since it takes the mice too long to die. Set the trap right against the wall, so the mouse comes in from the side to eat the peanut butter.
The cats I have keep the mice population down. Unfortunately they also jump up on the hood of my truck/car!
I use the spring traps. Don't like the glue ones since it takes the mice too long to die. Set the trap right against the wall, so the mouse comes in from the side to eat the peanut butter.
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I moved into a house several years ago and figured out we had tons of mice.
i bought like a dozen and set them.
It was a pure adrenaline rush hearing the traps SNAP,SNap,SNAP.
I bet I caught. 25 mice the first night.
The simple pleasures in life.
Mike
i bought like a dozen and set them.
It was a pure adrenaline rush hearing the traps SNAP,SNap,SNAP.
I bet I caught. 25 mice the first night.
The simple pleasures in life.
Mike
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From: All over Texas
Anybody ever use "fly bait" mixed with Coke or Pepsi? I hear it kills anything that samples the mix in less than a minute (prevents the varmits from reentering the house). My sister-in-law said they killed 8 coons one evening with it.