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 No Name Nancy
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Location: never in the right place | don't use sticky paper traps- those poor suckers get caught but you can't get them off. Hubby felt real bad for the 1 he caught and then he went and got regular traps. one snap and it's over. |
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 Horsey Gene Carrier
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Location: LaBelle, Florida | We frequently get mice living next to the woods. Usually, PB in a snap trap works. However, we had one who did not like PB and refused to go for it. It also figured out how to get up on our Island Bar. To date the only mouse that has been able to accomplish this.
Hubby finally got the little bugger with a broom. I told him it was really sad when his first kill of the season was a mouse and asked him if he wanted to mount it.
He has since killed another one with a broom and a 3rd was done in by the snap trap. |
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 Experienced Mouse Trapper
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Location: North Dakota | DD2012 - 2013-12-05 3:47 PM My place for rodents is like Asgard, and I am Odin Bait stations, strategically placed traps and good hygiene keep the little bass turds at bay. I would burn my house down before I would live with them.
Amen! Except I do not know who Asgard and Odin are! Hahaha, please see my name,
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I can run a trap line like no other! One piece of advice, if you are trapping in a vehicle, put newspaper under the trap, outdoor mice seem to be bloodier than indoor mice |
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 Texas Tenderheart
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Location: Red Raiderland | Ugh! Those little pains are all over our motorhome! We finally put out poison in all the back of the cabinets and deep in the drawers. My big fear is that the dogs get to them so we were very stategic. I had the rig put up for a month and there was soooo much chewed up and mouse turds everywhere!!!!!!! I thought the poison is supposed to make them thirsty and leave to get water so they mostly don't die in the house/motorhome. Am I wrong in thinking this?  |
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 Elite Veteran
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Location: Qld Australia | kasaj2000 - 2013-12-06 11:16 AM
We frequently get mice living next to the woods. Â Usually, PB in a snap trap works. Â However, we had one who did not like PB and refused to go for it. Â It also figured out how to get up on our Island Bar. Â To date the only mouse that has been able to accomplish this.
Hubby finally got the little bugger with a broom. Â I told him it was really sad when his first kill of the season was a mouse and asked him if he wanted to mount it.
He has since killed another one with a broom and a 3rd was done in by the snap trap.Â
I want to see THAT on the wall. |
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Elite Veteran
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Location: Qld Australia | Kaycee - 2013-12-06 12:04 PM
Ugh! Â Those little pains are all over our motorhome! Â We finally put out poison in all the back of the cabinets and deep in the drawers. Â My big fear is that the dogs get to them so we were very stategic. Â I had the rig put up for a month and there was soooo much chewed up and mouse turds everywhere!!!!!!! I thought the poison is supposed to make them thirsty and leave to get water so they mostly don't die in the house/motorhome. Â Am I wrong in thinking this? Â Â
In theory I think that is supossed to be what happens. In reality, not so much. |
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Elite Veteran
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Location: Qld Australia | LMS - 2013-12-06 11:48 AM
DD2012 - 2013-12-05 3:47 PM My place for rodents is like Asgard, and I am Odin Bait stations, strategically placed traps and good hygiene keep the little bass turds at bay. I would burn my house down before I would live with them.
 Amen! Except I do not know who Asgard and Odin are!  Hahaha, please see my name,
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I can run a trap line like no other! One piece of advice, if you are trapping in a vehicle, put newspaper under the trap, outdoor mice seem to be bloodier than indoor mice
LOL.
I HATE dead mice with a passion. It's my biggest weakness, go figure. Alive I don't care for them but can deal with them no worries. Once they are dead yuck. I bat my eyes at hubby and hope he is feeling nice. Last year he was MEAN and made me get a dead RAT. That was almost divorce material.
Gotta love being on a farm.
When I was about 15 there was a MASSIVE mouse plauge. In the dairy grain room, it was double walled; we ran an exhaust hose in between the two walls and gased those suckers. There were LITERALLY thousands. I think this is where my hatred of little dead bodies comes from.
Thank you everyone for your hints and funny stories! |
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 Sexy Bee Yacht
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Location: WA | Lopin' Leopard - 2013-12-05 4:27 AM Used poison and traps. Agree with the poison, you start smelling them then have to do Whole house cleaning to find them, found one in a shoe once! Hate emptying the traps, would wait until husband got home to do that. Honestly if you can, a cat is the way to go! Yeah you have little box and hair, but just the smell of the cat in the house run the varmints off!
Oh my Lord... I would have screamed!!! I checked a hay bin this morning feeding and a bird flew out and scared the hell out of me! Looking in a shoe and seeing a dead mouse, I am about to dry heave.
Aside from cats, we have really good luck with the sticky traps. I make my husband take them out. |
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Expert
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| Kaycee - 2013-12-05 8:04 PM
Ugh! Â Those little pains are all over our motorhome! Â We finally put out poison in all the back of the cabinets and deep in the drawers. Â My big fear is that the dogs get to them so we were very stategic. Â I had the rig put up for a month and there was soooo much chewed up and mouse turds everywhere!!!!!!! I thought the poison is supposed to make them thirsty and leave to get water so they mostly don't die in the house/motorhome. Â Am I wrong in thinking this? Â Â
if you are using the bait from the grocery store all your doing is making green mouse turds.
Get the industrial stuff from the feed store or from an exterminator and they won't be around long |
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 The Non Sky Diver
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Location: SE Louisiana | Just buy a new car and park it close to your front door.. Watch the wires vanish.. |
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Texas Tenderheart
Posts: 6715
Location: Red Raiderland | DD2012 - 2013-12-05 10:32 PM Kaycee - 2013-12-05 8:04 PM Ugh! Those little pains are all over our motorhome! We finally put out poison in all the back of the cabinets and deep in the drawers. My big fear is that the dogs get to them so we were very stategic. I had the rig put up for a month and there was soooo much chewed up and mouse turds everywhere!!!!!!! I thought the poison is supposed to make them thirsty and leave to get water so they mostly don't die in the house/motorhome. Am I wrong in thinking this? if you are using the bait from the grocery store all your doing is making green mouse turds. Get the industrial stuff from the feed store or from an exterminator and they won't be around long
For real??? We did get it from Tractor Supply but it is just Decon in the triangle boxes. |
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