Mouse Bait Station

Doug - Iowa · Oct 27, 2018

I've tried a multitude of bait stations and finally came up with this one. It uses Tomcat blocks, just drop two in the upright pipe and the mice come in the two other ends to get to it. Not my idea I found it on Pintrest. I think it will be dog proof.

My son's German shorthair always tries to get into the mouse poison and a couple times has been caught chewing up or carrying off the commercial bait boxes. Dog has powerful jaws can easily crush the plastic boxes and get at the poison. I'll watch it closely to see if she tries to get into it.

RayP(MI) · Oct 27, 2018

Have been using a half concrete block with hole horizontal. Dropped a cube in, came back 5. Minutes later and two mice were dragging cube off. A third mouse showed up and they drove it off. Then they dragged cube off. I've taken to putting cube on nail driven through a piece of wood.

Butch(OH) · Oct 27, 2018

Thanks for that, just today I has trying to figure out a quick and easy way to keep out dogs out of the bait blocks, what size is the pipe?

Doug - Iowa · Oct 27, 2018

I used 1-1/2 inch pvc because that is what I had. 1-1/4 inch would probably work too. 2 inch would be too big I think.

The blocks kind of wedge in the T so hopefully the mice won't take the bait out of the pipe. That is my biggest concern. After I had already dropped the baits I realized I could have run them on a wire (Tomcat baits have a hole thru them) that might help secure the bait. Maybe just a piece of stiff wire or welding rod long enough to stick out the top so you can feed the new baits onto it.

grizz02 · Oct 27, 2018

mice will just carry off bait ,I use the plastic box and screw it to a 2x6 about a foot long then put rocks around that, seems to work good

D beatty · Oct 27, 2018

I use the Tom Cat bait staions that can be locked so kids and dogs can't open them.

Frankinfl · Oct 27, 2018

I use 3 inch pvc and drill holes for wire. That way they have to eat it.

Dave H (MI) · Oct 28, 2018

You are aware mice can climb, right? I put my traps up off the ground or in vehicles where the mice are hiding. I rarely use bait anymore. You can put the bait out of reach of the dogs and cats but not the dead mice. They eat enough of those and they might just as well have eaten the bait. Almost as bad...when mice die inside the truck vents. Yummy smell that changes as the carcass ages. The gift that keeps on giving...

...I wish I could get the milk snakes back that we had around when I was a kid. Those things ate a LOT of mice and I did not have to raise a finger.

Jimmydog · Oct 28, 2018

What Dave in MI said. I quit using poison bait when I lost one of the best hunting dogs I've ever own. The poison destroys their digestive tract. By the time you notice any thing wrong in the animal there isn't a thing that can be done. Buddy didn't get into the poison but he was one heck of a mouser, and he'd eat them when he caught them. Vet said most of his intestines were gangrenous. Nope, just not going to take that kind of chance ever again, and I implore you to reconcider the use of poison as well. That is if you value your pet.

JD

DoubleO7 · Oct 28, 2018

There are two types of rodent poison on the market these days.

The major, most common is anti-coagulant/ vitamin K deystroyer.
The other rather hard to find poison is a neurotoxin.

Neither one causes instantaneous death.

The most common one (vitamin K remover) makes the victim bleed to death internally. Via a scratch along the gastro tract to a ruptured hemorrhoid that won't stop bleeding without vitamin K.

We had a mini-schnauzer and one Sunday out for a walk, I observed her taking a dump and part of it was turquoise blue.
We were lucky to see it so we knew instantly what to do before symptoms showed up.
I believe it was a vitamin k shot and feeding her more vitamin k for a few days or a week.

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