Mouse ran off with my trap...
Tuned
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From: Greenbush, Minnesota
I had a trap disappear once. Reset a new one and a few days later I found a dazed and confused rat sitting in my kitchen. He'd taken a smack to the head by the trap. Tossed him out the door and I figured he was the one who stole my previous trap...wife was not impressed....
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My Dad took care of an elderly woman for several years. She had a small rat problem in her garage.
One night me, my Dad and a friend of ours went out to dinner. We came back and were talking in the driveway at her house where we had all left our cars. I kept hearing something every now beyond our conversation. To me it sounded like an individual sycamore leaf scraping concrete as it was being dragged down the driveway. It would start and then stop for a while. After hearing this for maybe five minutes someone finally figured it out as they glanced down. Out from under one of the cars came a rat, with it's head trapped sideways under the spring, pushing itself down the driveway with it's rear legs. It had traveled a minimum of 50 feet. After that we started setting cage traps rather than using the spring traps.
One night me, my Dad and a friend of ours went out to dinner. We came back and were talking in the driveway at her house where we had all left our cars. I kept hearing something every now beyond our conversation. To me it sounded like an individual sycamore leaf scraping concrete as it was being dragged down the driveway. It would start and then stop for a while. After hearing this for maybe five minutes someone finally figured it out as they glanced down. Out from under one of the cars came a rat, with it's head trapped sideways under the spring, pushing itself down the driveway with it's rear legs. It had traveled a minimum of 50 feet. After that we started setting cage traps rather than using the spring traps.
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These are definately mice. I must have winged him somehow.
Hopefully i caught him in the tail and he freed himself. Id rather not deal with finding a dead mouse. Upstairs, even with the smell its hard to find.
Hopefully i caught him in the tail and he freed himself. Id rather not deal with finding a dead mouse. Upstairs, even with the smell its hard to find.
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Ha. One time at our old house, i put out some of those "spring traps" (the ones that look like a spring clamp rather than a regular mouse trap) around our house because we thought mice were the ones stashing dog food everywhere.
I put a couple in an unfinished closet at the bottom of our steps- was sitting there one evening and hear a SNAP and then a lot of thrashing around. I opened the door to the closet and a flying squirrel had gotten its foot stuck in the trap somehow (yeah, we found out we had flying squirrels living in the walls). It jumped out of the closet and as soon as it hit the floor, the trap came off its foot and it took off. Fortunately our dogs took care of it from there.
I put a couple in an unfinished closet at the bottom of our steps- was sitting there one evening and hear a SNAP and then a lot of thrashing around. I opened the door to the closet and a flying squirrel had gotten its foot stuck in the trap somehow (yeah, we found out we had flying squirrels living in the walls). It jumped out of the closet and as soon as it hit the floor, the trap came off its foot and it took off. Fortunately our dogs took care of it from there.
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I set a snap trap on our back deck for a mouse and checked a couple of days later. The trap was sprung by a garden glove being stuck into it and of course the cheese was gone. The glove was kept a good three feet away. If a mouse is this smart he deserves to live.
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