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bassman211:
I have an animal in my basement that made a nest from my back tail hair. I set mice and rat traps with cheese with no luck. It has my basement stinking to the high heavens. Mt guess is a chipmunk, or a squirrel . How do I get rid of it. HELP. THANKS

BowEd:
I'd say a different type bait maybe.Some grain????Other than that your doing what you can.
Poison will get him too but then it'll stink a while longer....ha ha.Have you seen it's droppings or scat?That's probably what's stinking.
He's trying to establish a warmer place to live than outside.Sometimes activity down there can drive them out but they can be determined.
I've used multiple catch type boxes with bait inside before too.They walk up a grade that toggles and their weight dumps them into the sealed compartment in the steel sheet metal box.

GlisGlis:
peanuts butter usually is very effective  :-T
search youtube for "Shawn woods mousetraps". full of informations

Pat B:
For mouse traps I use pieces or pecan or walnut wired to the mouse trap. Mice can lick peanut butter off without setting off the trap. If it is a squirrel or chipmunk the peanut butter or nuts or grain would work well. If you have a small Have a Heart trap baited with nuts or grains would work too.

WhistlingBadger:
+1 for peanut butter.  Or borrow a farm cat and lock it in the basement for a few days.  Or make yourself a Mouse Slayer.   ;D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR0zFDzaSkA

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