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Mice
mullet:
The only difference between a rat and squirrel is the tail. ;D ::)
bjrogg:
Usually wherever I have had rats, I don’t have mice. It just seems like they chase all the mice out. They can be very difficult to get rid of. Fortunately I have never had them in my house.
I’m a bit curious that all you find is damaged plants. I really can’t remember that problem. Usually it’s turds in the bread drawer or a hole in some type of food package. They usually leave sign. Like said , they can’t control urine and poo. They leave a trail wherever they go and others follow it.
I like to wrap peanut butter on trigger with toilet paper. Might be to valuable for that right now. I also like the chunky peanut butter and usually press a chunk right into the hole on trigger. If you wrap with toilet paper and alternating layers of peanut butter. They will try to eat both and set off the trap. When you still have peanut butter on the trigger and a dead mouse in the trap, maybe you got em all.
Bjrogg
Outbackbob48:
Practice your primitive skills at home, set ya some figure 4 deadfalls.
DC:
We have had no damage and no sign of critters since I got the rat in the crawl space. The crawl space is more a short basement. It's sealed up as tight as the rest of the house. Well it is now. We have a bay window and a jut out in our dining room. The lazy contractor(me) never got around to putting soffit material under either spot. There was just insulation. After 40 years it was getting kind of tattered so I finally put soffit material on them. I'm thinking that a rat was nesting in the insulation and I trapped it in the house when I put the soffits on. I haven't quite figured out how it got from the crawl space to the house but there are possibilities. Anyway I'll leave the trapline out for a few weeks. just to be sure. I caught the rat with an old Victor rat trap baited with Tootsie Roll and a couple of raisins I took out of my granola.
osage outlaw:
Here is how I dealt with a mouse in my bow shop. The trophy picture is gone from the post.
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,49527.0.html
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