And still.....another "mousetrap"...with pics ;)

Lou Tisch

Lou Tisch

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Mannnnnnnn, I walked into the back shop the other day and picked up that familiar odor of a mouse that has ......... decayed. This was just too funny to resist posting.
Well, it turns out that I picked up some commercial/heavy duty racks (8' wide) and had them standing up against one of the walls. Seems a mouse tried to get up inside one of the horizonals (standing on end) through a small opening. He got his head in but couldn't go any further "in" and couldn't extract himself either. ;) Serves the little bugger well. We have NOW started assembling the racks.
This is NOT that better mouse trap you've heard about that will have everyone beating a path to your door....though it was effective.
Lou

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A few years ago I went downstairs and to my horror the basement had flooded with the heavy rains, the remnants of a hurricane, we had at the time... I am talking 4 inches of water..Some of my decoys started to move around with the wake that I was making while I put the pump into place... The plumber shows up 2 hours later to replace the 2 month old sump pump....

He says" I see your problem right here" and holds a dead mouse up by the tail.. The mouse got on the float and stopped the float from getting all the way up to kick on the sump pump....
 
Lou,

I've found a great mouse/chipmunk trap...bird netting!! I bought a large net to throw over our blueberry tree's to keep the darn birds from picking the trees bare before we could get to them. There has to be enough to to cover the entire tree down to the ground, or the birds will simply fly up under to the berries. Well...turns out that mice and chipmunks can easily get caught up in the netting. Basically they get their heads stuck in the little square's and when they fight to get out it gets so tangled they have no chance. I have to cut them out. I've dispatched 8 chipmunks and 2 mice since August.
 
Nice! I had to dispatch a deer mouse last night after it got its tail and leg caught in a snap trap. I taped a cashew nut to the trigger and he must have not been able to resist it! I have no idea how he got the tip of his tail and one back leg stuck in the trap. A couple whacks with a wooden dowel and it was over.

I freaked out my wife when I went to pick it up and yelled "He's on your shoe, he's on your shoe!!" She didn't like that too much and now I'm walking funny.


Nate
 
so much for the old saying that if they can get their head through then they can get the rest of their body through too.
 
Guess that would be a clean kill. Must have knocked him out ;) Peanut butter is a great bait.

Check out this skillage.

I promise this is an untouched crime scene. In fact I still haven't touched it. "Caught" this one this morning in the garage. I'm using peanut butter laced with barley for bait and a barley pile bait.

Mike
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I had a couple of those with the red backed voles up here. They get hit on the nose and managed to pull it out, but don't make it far.

I tried those little plastic clothes pin like traps last winter when actual mice showed up in the fall. It was not "humain" since the trap just captured the critters head and I had to whack it with a piece of wood to finish it off. Slowed them down though. My daugher was really concerned about the critters coming into her bed at night. She saw them that evening running around the edges of the living room behind the furniture. The mice can clean the bait off the trap so the clothes pin trap was the only way I found that would catch these mice. It took 4 days to finally get them.
 
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