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So far, he has safely removed peanut butter from conventional mouse
traps on three occasions without tripping them. He ignores various types of poison bait. The two cats don't have a clue. So yesterday, I paid $20 for an electronic Victor meecie trap. This morning, the green light was lit, AHA, success at last! Bull****, not only was there no carcass, he somehow escaped, despite the manufacturer's assurance to the contrary. His main residence is under the kitchen oven; hope he ain't chewing on that wire with its 240V power. All fruits and paper and cardboard-packaged food is safely put away. Guess the only thing to do is continue to use the conventional meece traps and hope that he gets cocky. |
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Try a glue trap. Tom
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Next time take a little cotton batting and mix the peanut butter into it.
Bait the trap with this. The fibers will make it more difficult to get the bait off the trap without tripping it. Charlie "Jack" wrote in message ... So far, he has safely removed peanut butter from conventional mouse traps on three occasions without tripping them. He ignores various types of poison bait. The two cats don't have a clue. So yesterday, I paid $20 for an electronic Victor meecie trap. This morning, the green light was lit, AHA, success at last! Bull****, not only was there no carcass, he somehow escaped, despite the manufacturer's assurance to the contrary. His main residence is under the kitchen oven; hope he ain't chewing on that wire with its 240V power. All fruits and paper and cardboard-packaged food is safely put away. Guess the only thing to do is continue to use the conventional meece traps and hope that he gets cocky. |
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I've had luck putting p-butter on the bait lever, inside the little
space where the bait lever rolls around, and also on the arm that holds the swatting-arm down. Eventually the little cuss stands on the bait pan. Recently I caught one with a baitless victor trap- it has a large pedal on it, and you shove it against a wall where they run. They step on the pedal, and snappo. I don't catch-and-release, but I always have good luck with the little gray trap that just tilts and allows the door to shut. If they go in, they're getting caught. Dave |
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Charlie has a really good idea. Just a SMALL amount of peanut butter
mixed with the cotton batting! Maybe alot more than just one trap, too. Try glueing a small piece of peanut onto the trap....instead of glue, use corn syrup....do it early in the day so that it will harden. Good Luck....hope it isn't a pregnant female!!! |
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Jack wrote:
So far, he has safely removed peanut butter from conventional mouse traps on three occasions without tripping them. He ignores various types of poison bait. The two cats don't have a clue. So yesterday, I paid $20 for an electronic Victor meecie trap. This morning, the green light was lit, AHA, success at last! Bull****, not only was there no carcass, he somehow escaped, despite the manufacturer's assurance to the contrary. His main residence is under the kitchen oven; hope he ain't chewing on that wire with its 240V power. All fruits and paper and cardboard-packaged food is safely put away. Guess the only thing to do is continue to use the conventional meece traps and hope that he gets cocky. I agree with tom. Try a glue trap. -- Joseph Meehan Dia duit |
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Try a "Troll Trap".....
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Why are you fixated on the peanut butter for bait?
The one time I had a mouse and was catless, I used a chunk of cheese cut fom a block of cheddar. It may be that a cheese chunk, on the spring trap, will take enough moving and tugging and pulling that musey will trigger the trap and get guillotined (sp?). Worth a try. -- Jim McLaughlin Reply address is deliberately munged. If you really need to reply directly, try: jimdotmclaughlinatcomcastdotcom And you know it is a dotnet not a dotcom address. "Jack" wrote in message ... So far, he has safely removed peanut butter from conventional mouse traps on three occasions without tripping them. He ignores various types of poison bait. The two cats don't have a clue. So yesterday, I paid $20 for an electronic Victor meecie trap. This morning, the green light was lit, AHA, success at last! Bull****, not only was there no carcass, he somehow escaped, despite the manufacturer's assurance to the contrary. His main residence is under the kitchen oven; hope he ain't chewing on that wire with its 240V power. All fruits and paper and cardboard-packaged food is safely put away. Guess the only thing to do is continue to use the conventional meece traps and hope that he gets cocky. |
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I live in a country setting.....our mice is pretty stupid....they head
for the traps every time they smell peanut butter. But, like the guy said before me....they LOVE insulation, evidently, it makes great baby mouse beds. We were having a terrible problem with mice in the early Spring...we found the hole they were coming thru...added some caulk...and no more mice. Like the guy above me said, make a maze to lead them to the traps. Maybe put some regular traps right beside the glue traps.....if one don't get'em the other will! Good luck on your mouse hunting...lol.. |
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says... :) Jack" wrote in message :) ... :) So far, he has safely removed peanut butter from conventional mouse :) traps on three occasions without tripping them. He ignores various :) types of poison bait. The two cats don't have a clue. :) :) So yesterday, I paid $20 for an electronic Victor meecie trap. This :) morning, the green light was lit, AHA, success at last! :) :) Bull****, not only was there no carcass, he somehow escaped, despite :) the manufacturer's assurance to the contrary. His main residence is :) under the kitchen oven; hope he ain't chewing on that wire with its :) 240V power. :) :) All fruits and paper and cardboard-packaged food is safely put away. :) Guess the only thing to do is continue to use the conventional meece :) traps and hope that he gets cocky. :) :) I don't recall in your original post if you had actually seen a mouse or were just seeing droppings and damage to food packages. The large outdoor roaches will have droppings as big as if not bigger than mouse and they will readily attack ripe fruit on a counter and will eat through paper/cardboard packaging in a pantry. http://www.arrow-pestcontrol.com/roachdrop.htm -- Lar Oh, if only Noah would of been a bit more wise, he surely would of swatted those two flies. to email....get rid of the BUGS |
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Jack wrote: So far, he has safely removed peanut butter from conventional mouse traps on three occasions without tripping them. If you are using the trap with the metal pedal (not the fake cheese-looking ones) try putting the peanut butter under the pedal. Those type trip in either up or down direction & he has to wedge his nose under to get the bait. I've had good luck doing that. MikeB |
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His main residence is
under the kitchen oven; He will soon start a family in the insulation in the over, and **** and **** all over, so that when you turn on your oven a week from now to bake that pie, the smell will make you gag and go running for the door. Get rid of that mouse NOW! |
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On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:17:34 -0800, dirt farmer
wrote: His main residence is under the kitchen oven; He will soon start a family in the insulation in the over, and **** and **** all over, so that when you turn on your oven a week from now to bake that pie, the smell will make you gag and go running for the door. Get rid of that mouse NOW! Exactly why I had to get rid of my stove, and they actually pulled out much of the insulation, so the stove was ruined. |
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Some good advice here, except I hate glue traps. I've had them dragged off,
and worse, have had to watch a mouse try to free itself, getting more and more stuck in the process. Now some of you might enjoy that, but to me, it's painful. I don't like watching things die, even if I want them to die. I'd rather it be instant, like a standard trap. Also I wouldn't recommend poison -- they'll go off and die somewhere (where it's least convenient to find them) and stink to high heavens. -Tim |
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Tim Fischer wrote:
Some good advice here, except I hate glue traps. I've had them dragged off, Try the rat size trays, I don't think they will drag that off. and worse, have had to watch a mouse try to free itself, getting more and more stuck in the process. That's how they work. I have a true animal loving daughter (now a zoo keeper) who when a bit younger informed me I had to rescue the mouse caught in the glue. She keep that mouse as a pet until it died of old age. BTW rubbing alcohol will clean the glue off the mouse. Now some of you might enjoy that, but to me, it's painful. I don't like watching things die, even if I want them to die. I'd rather it be instant, like a standard trap. Also I wouldn't recommend poison -- they'll go off and die somewhere (where it's least convenient to find them) and stink to high heavens. -Tim -- Joseph Meehan Dia duit |
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On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 23:38:50 -0600, "Tim Fischer"
wrote: Some good advice here, except I hate glue traps. I've had them dragged off, and worse, have had to watch a mouse try to free itself, getting more and more stuck in the process. Now some of you might enjoy that, but to me, it's painful. I don't like watching things die, even if I want them to die. I agree with you, but you may not believe me by the time I've finished. I have a home office and a lot of mice for a few months. Snap traps were not working. I would see the mmice run by the door to my office, either into that room or the bedroom next to it. Later I'd see them run out again. (Maybe it was just one mouse, but after I got rid of him, there were more, one at a time, after him.) Anyhow, I caught one in the glue trap and it was very cold and full of snow outside, so I used an empty frozen vegetable box and scooped the mouse and trap into the box, and put the whole box in the freezer. I figure with the high metabolism of a mouse, he would be sluggish within a minute or two, unconscious a minute later, and dead by the time he was 40 degrees F. I did the same thing with the next two, and finally left the house 3 days later, and put them in the garbage. I worried a bit about dander coming from the boxes, but I don't know what dander is and I was careful not to touch the boxes after I put them there. I hope I didn't get any, and it doesn't seem to have hurt me. I'd rather it be instant, like a standard trap. .... -Tim Remove NOPSAM to email me. Please let me know if you have posted also. |
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On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 21:58:25 -0500, mm
wrote: On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 23:38:50 -0600, "Tim Fischer" wrote: Some good advice here, except I hate glue traps. I've had them dragged off, and worse, have had to watch a mouse try to free itself, getting more and more stuck in the process. Now some of you might enjoy that, but to me, it's painful. I don't like watching things die, even if I want them to die. .... Anyhow, I caught one in the glue trap One more thing. They iddn't strugggle long, in my experience. A minute or two, and then they would just stop. Maybe they were thinking, about what to do next. They started up again when I tried to put each one in the box, and one got a hold of the box flap and wouldn't let go. I had a hard time shaking him off, and then I came at it from the other side. Then it was pretty easy like the other times. By the time I got downstairs to the fridge, I think they had each stopped struggling, afaic hear or feel. and it was very cold and full of snow outside, so I used an empty frozen vegetable box and scooped the mouse and trap into the box, and put the whole box in the freezer. I figure with the high metabolism of a mouse, he would be sluggish within a minute or two, unconscious a minute later, and dead by the time he was 40 degrees F. I did the same thing with the next two, and finally left the house 3 days later, and put them in the garbage. Remove NOPSAM to email me. Please let me know if you have posted also. |
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Joseph Meehan wrote: Tim Fischer wrote: Some good advice here, except I hate glue traps. I've had them dragged off, Try the rat size trays, I don't think they will drag that off. and worse, have had to watch a mouse try to free itself, getting more and more stuck in the process. That's how they work. I have a true animal loving daughter (now a zoo keeper) who when a bit younger informed me I had to rescue the mouse caught in the glue. She keep that mouse as a pet until it died of old age. BTW rubbing alcohol will clean the glue off the mouse. Thius is Turtle. Oh My Lord , You have one too. there was 3 cats in my back yard that cought a baby squirrel and was killing it. They had knocked one eye out and scratched him up till my wife got out there. So we have now a Baby squirrel in the Utility Room now to be cared for but doing fine. i like him because he was standing up to the 3 cat and taking them on. TURTLE |
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"Jack" wrote in message ... So far, he has safely removed peanut butter from conventional mouse traps on three occasions without tripping them. He ignores various types of poison bait. The two cats don't have a clue. Use a raisen or hard cheese for bait, or maybe meat. Something firm enough that it cannot be removed without tripping the trap. Bob |
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"Bob" wrote: "Jack" wrote in message ... So far, he has safely removed peanut butter from conventional mouse traps on three occasions without tripping them. He ignores various types of poison bait. The two cats don't have a clue. Use a raisen or hard cheese for bait, or maybe meat. Something firm enough that it cannot be removed without tripping the trap. Bob My sister never had mice in her current house for 15 years until last year and then had 19. She caught them all using peanut butter on the spring type traps. Best Regards, Morenuf -- lid |
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"morenuf" wrote in message ... In article , "Bob" wrote: "Jack" wrote in message ... So far, he has safely removed peanut butter from conventional mouse traps on three occasions without tripping them. He ignores various types of poison bait. The two cats don't have a clue. Use a raisen or hard cheese for bait, or maybe meat. Something firm enough that it cannot be removed without tripping the trap. Bob My sister never had mice in her current house for 15 years until last year and then had 19. She caught them all using peanut butter on the spring type traps. The O.P. obviously has had no such luck. If it doesn't work, you should try something different. Personally, I've never used peanut butter. I've caught multiple mice on one chunk of cheese or raisen. Bob |
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"Bob" wrote in message The O.P. obviously has had no such luck. If it doesn't work, you should try something different. Personally, I've never used peanut butter. I've caught multiple mice on one chunk of cheese or raisen. The last time I had a mouse problem, in the garage, I set two traps after removing the attracting bird food. I had a couple occasions where I had more than one trap trip while I was in the garage for a short time. I caught 6-8 mice in 2-3 days, and the problem was gone. I believe that was using a bit of old salami. Bob |
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