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aemeijers

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On Jun 24, 1:32 pm, Frank wrote:
On 6/24/2010 9:00 AM, Stormin Mormon wrote: Not my idea, but wish it was.

I find the Victor trap where tripper looks like a piece of Swiss cheese
works best. It is very sensitive and you can smear peanut butter in the
holes. Regular traps, mice can lick it off and any trap that is not
sensitive is useless.

I don't like glue boards as they do not work that well and I've seen a
mouse practically gnaw off its leg to get out of one. I don't hate mice
that much to see them suffer.

I live trap and release them. DONT keep a food source thats easily
accesible for them.

like the time i kept a 100 pound sack of sunflower seeds in the
basement for bird feeding/.

lesson learned evicted about 60 mice over a few weeks.

live trap and release is the better way............

I keep my bird seed in 5 gallon plastic buckets. Once I forgot to snug
the lid down, and the next time I opened it, two mice looked up at me
with 'What're YOU looking at?!' expressions.

I haven't trapped lately, once I realized they were only coming in to
get the peanut butter out of the teeter-totter traps, that had
previously worked quite well for me. I have NO idea how they do it- the
damn things are so twitchy that if I look at them wrong, the door falls
shut. Mebbe two of them work together, taking turns- one jams himself
under the high end, and the other goes in and gets the PB.

But, in a few months, come cold weather, I suppose it will all start up
again. Any food not in a hard-sided container goes in fridge, so
pickings are better outside in summer.

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