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kestrel

12-08-2006 06:55:05

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All right ....enough is enough! As of this morning I've live trapped 59 mice in 4 weeks from my attic. It started when one popped out of my tractor's dash while parked in the garage.
Has anyone ever seen these numbers before the cycle has been broken ? My house is tight, no visible holes.
Any ideas appreciated. I read the mice post here last August and would like to hear more from you electronic device guys. Or maybe I should just contract with a drug lab that needs mice.

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rustyj14

12-08-2006 18:45:07

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Re: Of mice and men in reply to kestrel , 12-08-2006 06:55:05

Hey, you'd better hope there ain't any in yer bowel! they kick and squirm, about drive ya goofy, if one gets up there! Beware of mice in the bowel!

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IHnut

12-08-2006 18:39:09

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Re: Of mice and men in reply to kestrel , 12-08-2006 06:55:05

It's kinda funny that I read your post just after ordering another pail of poison bait blocks. I make a box out of 1X4s with a 1 inch hole in both sides and bait it with the blocks.
It works very well, not having trouble with the little guys this year. I get the bait blocks from farmtek.com
As for getting the tails purple? wouldn't you have to touch them to do that?
Not me! hate them little critters.
The nut

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T_Bone

12-08-2006 18:32:34

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Re: Of mice and men in reply to kestrel , 12-08-2006 06:55:05

Hi kestrel,

Well I'm up over 80 before I quit counting. Seams like all the new neighbors killed to many snakes and coyotes last year when they moved in and our mouse problem is horrible this year.

I've been using the electronic repellers and they do work to some exent as they make the mouse agaitated so they get caught easier in the traps. Takes about a week to get the mice moving. Will they keep rid of mice when we get them under control? Maybe and more likely than not from what I've seen.

I've also caught some all white mice and all black and black/tan colored so someone must have let some pets go at some time.

Sorry but mice are too damn distructive and reproduce fast to be let go in a humain trap.

T_Bone

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730virgil

12-08-2006 20:39:41

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Re: Of mice and men in reply to T_Bone, 12-08-2006 18:32:34

T bone sounds like you need a herd of cats

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T_Bone

12-08-2006 23:54:32

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Re: Of mice and men in reply to 730virgil, 12-08-2006 20:39:41

Tell me virgil and this all started just about over night. I seen the signs of a couple and waited a day or two to set traps and the first week I caught over 40 in 9 traps. "I left off a outside access cover"

I thought about getting the shotgun out...lol

T_Bone

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DonN Ohio

12-08-2006 16:52:55

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Re: Of mice and men in reply to kestrel , 12-08-2006 06:55:05

Moth balls work well too. I keep some scatered about in my shop. hasnt been a nest in the drawers or tool box for years.

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Kestrel

12-08-2006 14:55:03

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Re: Of mice and men in reply to kestrel , 12-08-2006 06:55:05

Thanks for the suggestions. Since I caught over 60 today, I'm going to try the "One more Bite" solution. My live trap (USA made) works great but it's getting too labor intensive.

I've been releasing them several hundred yards away & across a swamp. Hard to imagine they come back. My retired engineer neighbor, said to dye their tails purple to check for repeat offenders. Wouldn't that be "profiling ? The last thing I need is the ACLU looking into this.

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old

12-08-2006 08:29:22

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Re: Of mice and men in reply to kestrel , 12-08-2006 06:55:05

No matter how tight your house is they will find a way in. I have seen a good number of them let in by people when they open the door of the house and they just wait and run in when you walk in. Also any place a pipe comes into your house is a place for them to come in.

Hobby farm

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RayP(MI)

12-08-2006 15:20:47

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Re: Of mice and men in reply to old, 12-08-2006 08:29:22

I"ve seen mice squeeze under a door with a 1/4 inch gap between door and concrete floor!

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Mark

12-08-2006 07:59:55

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Re: Of mice and men in reply to kestrel , 12-08-2006 06:55:05

I had mice in my attic a couple times...a few years apart. My solution was to go to the feed store and buy some stuff called 'Just One Bite'..it's a Warfarin product in a big cake/bar. I cut it up into 1 inch chunks and then tossed them all around in the attic....of course they landed on top of the insulation...no matter.The mice have super noses and will find it very quick..like that night or day. In 2 days after scattering the poison..no more mice...no stink either, they shrivel up. I keep this poison scattered in my workshop all winter...I never see the mice...but the poison disappears!Ii wouldn't waste 2 minutes on a trap!

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2x4

12-08-2006 20:47:21

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Re: Of mice and men in reply to Mark , 12-08-2006 07:59:55

I get this stuff at local TSC store & use it in my shop. Had a lot of trouble before using it. Now I find them dead in the yard just outside.

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mjbrown

12-08-2006 07:52:49

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Re: Of mice and men in reply to kestrel , 12-08-2006 06:55:05

Are you releasing these guys from the live trap or are you killing them. If you are releasing them you may be catching the same ones over and over. Live trapping and releasing seems to be the "enlightened humane" thing to do now but it doesn't solve the rodent problem only killing them does.

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Cargocult

12-08-2006 07:49:06

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Re: Of mice and men in reply to kestrel , 12-08-2006 06:55:05

Do you have a cat?? A good mouser?? Or a snake?? Snakes are actually better than cats, because they can go in the hole after the little rodents, wheras a cat must wait outside. The downside to snakes is ..they go off duty when it gets cold. Nyway..good luck!!

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IaGary

12-08-2006 07:48:15

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Re: Of mice and men in reply to kestrel , 12-08-2006 06:55:05

kestal

I see you are catching them live.

I hope you either destory them or take them to the next county to release them.

Are you sure there not the same ones and they think that trap is the dinner table.LOL

Could tag a few to see if they make it back.lol

Gary

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IH2444

12-08-2006 07:08:32

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Re: Of mice and men in reply to kestrel , 12-08-2006 06:55:05

I use the electronic rodent repellers and have ZERO mice. But then everyone tells me they don't work, so what do I know ?

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Dan-IA

12-08-2006 15:25:32

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Re: Of mice and men in reply to IH2444, 12-08-2006 07:08:32

We didn't think our electronic mousetrap worked either. It's a little black box, about the same shape of the trap in the picture. Flip switch on top, one little blinky LED. Light goes out and stays out. When a mouse enters, he's electrocuted. Then the light blinks about once every 30 seconds.

They work... But location is the key. We didn't think our worked-then one night we caught a mouse on the kitchen stove, so we re-located the traps on either side of the stove, near the wall. Killed two, inside of 3 hours. Hadn't caught anything in these traps for about 4 months previous.

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the Unforgiven

12-08-2006 07:35:47

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Re: Of mice and men in reply to IH2444, 12-08-2006 07:08:32

I used the electonic repellers with really good results, but it seems like they just stopped working this summer and the mice really jumped on me.I am going to try some new ones, the old ones were probably 3 years old. I have now added the peanut butter and motor oil "Drum of Death" to my defense system, and it is really punishing them.

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IH2444

12-08-2006 10:38:22

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Re: Of mice and men in reply to the Unforgiven, 12-08-2006 07:35:47

A good point, I am not sure how long they last. I have been using the same ones for 5 yrs, and no mice.
Perhaps a power spike got yours. You did not block their "field of fire" did you ?

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Aaron Ford

12-08-2006 07:42:35

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Re: Of mice and men in reply to the Unforgiven, 12-08-2006 07:35:47

Do you have a pic of this? My coworkers have never seen one and doubt it's effectiveness. I saw it done with a 5 gallon bucket half full of water with a teeter totter mounted on top. Oh, and Peanut Butter.

Let's go Mountaineers

Aaron

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the Unforgiven

12-08-2006 18:23:14

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Re: Of mice and men in reply to Aaron Ford, 12-08-2006 07:42:35

The peanut butter and motor oil trap works real nice. I am using a five gallon bucket with an old peanut butter jar for a bait drum. Cut little notches opposite each other on the rim to hold a piece of rod for the drum to spin on. And keep the bridge to the tar pit far enough away that they have to jump to land on the peanut butter drum. The peanut butter layer on the outside of the jar is covered with little last-chance claw marks. I read about it on here, and it really works nice.

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Paul in On

12-08-2006 06:59:43

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Re: Of mice and men in reply to kestrel , 12-08-2006 06:55:05

I've heard the saying "there's no such thing as one mouse (or rat) but that really takes that to the next level. Paul

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Jerry Cent. Mi.

12-08-2006 15:39:44

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Re: Of mice and men in reply to Paul in On, 12-08-2006 06:59:43

At my summer place I leave a broom stick leaned against the open toilet bowl. Just flush it when I get there if any are in the bowel.

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