Author Topic: Oh, it's on now. (Read 6273 times)

41magsnub · « **on:** November 18, 2011, 09:42:42 PM »

Heard something at the door between the garage and the house. It was no closed all the way, figured it was the pressure change from all the wind making it move. Opened it and closed it hard.. a freaking mouse fell off the top and into my hair. It jumped off and ran under the stove.

Traps are out. I will have my revenge.

French G. · « **Reply #1 on:** November 18, 2011, 09:45:40 PM »

Detcord! Looks around

Am I first??

Put a lil peanut butter on the detcord if they won't nibble on it plain.

BridgeRunner · « **Reply #2 on:** November 18, 2011, 09:48:12 PM »

Quote from: French G. on November 18, 2011, 09:45:40 PM

Detcord! Looks around Am I first??

Put a lil peanut butter on the detcord if they won't nibble on it plain.

Do mice like bacon?

BlueStarLizzard · « **Reply #3 on:** November 18, 2011, 10:59:37 PM »

Go to tractor supply and buy everything on the shelves by Tom Cat.

Then its time for some good, old fashion mouse hunting fun!

Harold Tuttle · « **Reply #4 on:** November 18, 2011, 11:25:13 PM »

There will be blood

wmenorr67 · « **Reply #5 on:** November 18, 2011, 11:29:51 PM »

.22 shorts

TommyGunn · « **Reply #6 on:** November 18, 2011, 11:33:16 PM »

Nuke it from orbit -- it's the only way to be sure.

Terpsichore · « **Reply #7 on:** November 18, 2011, 11:40:10 PM »

Quote from: TommyGunn on November 18, 2011, 11:33:16 PM

Nuke it from orbit -- it's the only way to be sure.

Affirmative.
Nice "Aliens" reference, too btw.

Peanut butter with a little honey worked for the two mice setting up shop in our dojo.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #8 on:** November 19, 2011, 12:05:28 AM »

Oh come on! Now even the mice are occupying? Freakin' Obama...

roo_ster · « **Reply #9 on:** November 19, 2011, 12:09:23 AM »

Quote from: Terpsichore on November 18, 2011, 11:40:10 PM

Affirmative.
Nice "Aliens" reference, too btw.

Peanut butter with a little honey worked for the two mice setting up shop in our dojo.

What!? The mice cowed a dojo full of martial artists into making them sammiches?

Oh, the humanity!

Quote from: bluestarlizzard on November 18, 2011, 10:59:37 PM

Go to tractor supply and buy everything on the shelves by Tom Cat.

Then its time for some good, old fashion mouse hunting fun!

This.

TS sells rat/mouse poison by the 4lb bucket. TS don't play.

41magsnub · « **Reply #10 on:** November 19, 2011, 09:34:04 AM »

Victory is mine!

Jamisjockey · « **Reply #11 on:** November 19, 2011, 09:41:14 AM »

Wait. Hunt over his corpse. No mouse left behind, and all that.

Successful baits:
Velveta
Peanut butter
gummi worms

When we lived in Brownsville, TX a few years back, mice and even rats were a part of life down there.
We also rented a house in UT right before we moved with a mice problem. Seems someone didn't keep an eye on their food storage before we moved in.

Unbaited traps along the baseboards. Baited traps near the doors. And even a 2.5 gallon bucket 1/2 full of water with a nice little ramp up into it.....

grampster · « **Reply #12 on:** November 19, 2011, 12:28:27 PM »

MURDERER!!!! The mouse cartel with have its revenge soon.

BlueStarLizzard · « **Reply #13 on:** November 19, 2011, 03:01:07 PM »

Just a heads up, but where there is one, there may be more.

Keep your traps set and your war shall be victorious!

41magsnub · « **Reply #14 on:** November 19, 2011, 03:03:07 PM »

Quote from: bluestarlizzard on November 19, 2011, 03:01:07 PM

Just a heads up, but where there is one, there may be more.

Keep your traps set and your war shall be victorious!

yep, the other traps are still out. There are a couple of traps in the garage too.

Chuck Dye · « **Reply #15 on:** November 19, 2011, 03:54:58 PM »

Waging war against mice at my house, surrounded by woods and meadow, is an ongoing proposition. The real effort and success come from Just One Bite bars (a friend calls them mouse cakes.) The fun comes from some .22 pistols and a case of Aguila Super Colibri.

vaskidmark · « **Reply #16 on:** November 19, 2011, 05:27:26 PM »

Secure your raisins and toll-house bits securely. The little four-footed buggers have been known to retaliate.

The problem with mouse muffins is that they tend to go back to their nest to die. If the air is not dry enough to dessicate the corpse completely you are going to be sorry you let them get back home.

Not that I would know anything about ripping out multiple plaster lath walls seeking the source of the problem. Nope, not me!

stay safe.

Monkeyleg · « **Reply #17 on:** November 19, 2011, 05:30:35 PM »

At the first photo studio at which I worked, there was a mouse problem because of all of the food shooting the photographers did. I'd sometimes sit there at night drinking beer and shooting mice with a pellet gun.

I was a much better shot than I am today, even when I was a little drunk.

grampster · « **Reply #18 on:** November 20, 2011, 09:48:39 PM »

Swmbo and I had to actually throw away a stove we had at a little cabin we had. Momma and daddy mouse had a litter in the insulation in the stove and they all died. The smell was incredible.

I kill mice with the old reliable spring mouse trap and peanut butter for bait. Works like a champ. I've got a trap in the basement I've been using for several years. It's covered in dead mouse gore and gnawed in several places by those mice who were not killed instanter. I keep a box of surgical gloves in the basement to handle the corpses and the trap.

I am a champion mole killer, too. I.do.not.abide.moles. I had my 6 year old grandson with me one day while setting my mole trap. i was telling him that I was the worlds best mole catcher. I finished the chore and stepped back and BAM! the trap sprung. Holy Wah!! Well I grabbed the trap and pulled it up and I had the mole. My grandson looked and me, eyes wide and said, "Grampster, you are really the champion mole catcher."

41magsnub · « **Reply #19 on:** November 20, 2011, 09:55:17 PM »

At the cabin this year something was eating all the decon we put out so we kept putting out more. My aunt went to check an old tea kettle we rarely use and found all of the decon pellets! Something was stocking up for winter.

bedlamite · « **Reply #20 on:** November 20, 2011, 10:17:02 PM »

We gave up on the D-con at the cabin, all they do is stash it. Bait bars on a 60 penny nail work much better.

Jim147 · « **Reply #21 on:** November 21, 2011, 12:25:54 AM »

Quote from: bedlamite on November 20, 2011, 10:17:02 PM

We gave up on the D-con at the cabin, all they do is stash it. Bait bars on a 60 penny nail work much better.

If they start moving the bar try shaving it up into an old tuna can nailed to a 2x6.

Napalm, smoke grenades, 20 gauge and straight fire are not to be considered overkill for rats.

jim

BobR · « **Reply #22 on:** November 21, 2011, 02:02:56 AM »

As inrodane it is, I use the sticky traps. I had never thought of using them until I went to Lowe's one day and out front was a skimpily clad girlmouse (mousegirl?) lying on an oversize sticky trap squealing like a, well, like a stuck mouse.

I figured if they could catch something that big, with a brain that should be capable of reason (but obviously wasn't) then they should work just fine on the tiny creatures driven inside during the cold months. I just put them down along the edges of the shed and garage.

bob

Jamie B · « **Reply #23 on:** November 21, 2011, 03:53:51 AM »

Quote from: grampster on November 20, 2011, 09:48:39 PM

I kill mice with the old reliable spring mouse trap and peanut butter for bait. Works like a champ.

This. Exactly.

BlueStarLizzard · « **Reply #24 on:** November 21, 2011, 07:17:19 AM »

Quote from: BobR on November 21, 2011, 02:02:56 AM

As inrodane it is, I use the sticky traps. I had never thought of using them until I went to Lowe's one day and out front was a skimpily clad girlmouse (mousegirl?) lying on an oversize sticky trap squealing like a, well, like a stuck mouse.

I figured if they could catch something that big, with a brain that should be capable of reason (but obviously wasn't) then they should work just fine on the tiny creatures driven inside during the cold months. I just put them down along the edges of the shed and garage.

bob

At certain places I can get 10-12 mice on the rat sized sticky pads. I change them when the pad gets so packed that the little buggers can cross on the backs of the fallen.

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Author Topic: Oh, it's on now. (Read 6273 times)