The problem is at work , not at home. We use to have cats in the out buildings to take care of the mouse problem, but my one boss hates them and came up with ways to get rid of them. Won't go into that because we don't need PETA knocking at our door, plus he gets enough crap from me about it. Even more now that all my snacks go missing in the night. I now have a mouse trap rigged with peanutbutter, works great. I'm catching one a day for the last week and a half. It's wearing on me though. Today I forgot to check the trap so that I can go through my daily teasing on how I won't clean the trap. So, when I rolled back in my chair to get into a file cabinet and rolled over it :af: , I have to say I've lost my craving for Taco Bell for lunch today. Anyone else got this problem? I want to get decon, but another one of my bosses say then the mice will rot behind the wall and stink the place up. Can't smell as bad as them after Mc Donalds and alot easier than cleaning it off the wheel of my chair.
get a rapzapper! http://www.agrizap.com/ They work great, and are a lot less messy than the other traps. Use cat food or peanut butter for bait. Works every time! ________ Yamaha Tdr 250 Specifications
Danie- I go through this annually at my house, lots of woods around. Caught about a dozen or more last year with the peanut butter method in the snap type traps. I had heard they might smell from using decon, but I tried it anyway. No problem, found a couple of dried up carcasses in the basement that I never smelled. I think the mice are pretty small, but if you were talking rats, you'd get a smell. Nice work with the chair!
I got that site open,,, I should of mentioned my bosses are cheap. They make comments about how much peanut butter I put on the trap because it isn't free ya know. I bought it, so yeah it is free to you!! I'm waiting for my boss that rid of the cats to get back in the yard so he can clean my chair. It's sitting in his office right now with the mouse & trap sitting on it. :laugh:
Here is a real sweet trap. I smear PB on it. NEVER misses because they must step on the trigger to get the bait and their weight sets it off.
Call the Health Department........ :Brow: I've got 4 outside Cats at Home, work great with the House, the Garage was a problem, they would build nests in my toolbox ( :shock: ). I got a couple of rodent repellers that plug in the wall socket, uses some kind of radio/sound waves, they worked great last year, even kept the wasps away this summer.
Why wouldn't you want Protestants coming over to your house? :laugh: :laugh: HAH! It's late and it's Friday.
Are you sniffing the glue traps again!! My one boss whats to get the glue traps that way he just has to throw it away and not clean the trap. Plus, someone told him that a mouse has to eat every 4 hours or it dies. It basically it gets stuck to its self and starves to death. That's just mean. I would rather have it's neck snapped while enjoying peanut butter. See if they finish off a pound of my sweadish fish again :rant:
Buy one of those gps trackers, catch a live one and trace it back to it's home. Toss a bottle of peanut butter in there, give a few minutes to enjoy their treat then it's flamethrower time! :Brow: :laugh:
We are getting mice around this time right now too...mostly around the office. I bought some sticky traps last year...worked great!!
Clean the trap?? I'm sorry, at 50 cents each I can toss the dead mouse and trap in the trash! Also, the sticky traps won't work with the bigger guys, they just drag it away. I have heard that there is a poison that dehydrates the mice so they die and won't stink, don't know the name....anyone??? - Bill
:TU: first thing to do is an inspection to see if you can find where they are entering your building. seal that hole and you will be off to a good start. of corse in a garage like mine, sealing all the hole would take to long :grin: you can buy a multi catch trap at hardware stores. one brand i use is called tin cat. i have caught as many as 15 mice in one trap! a tip is to use a glueboard inside the trap then when you go to empty it just toss it in the trash and its ready to use again. otherwise you have to deal with the urine and droppings the mice leave in the trap. you can use the baits. they are very effective. most are anti coagulants that interfere with the normal blood clotting mechanisims of the mouse causing it to die of internal bleeding. :eek2: if you think you have a lot of mice inside already i would put out a lot of glueboards or traps one night and catch as many as possible. do the same thing again if you catch a lot of them. after you catch most of the mice, start using a bait to keep them under controll. sorry for the long post, but this is what i do for a living :TU:
cat once I had a tom cat that weighed 20 lb. He thought food came out of a can. I was in law enforcement at the time and had come home for the day and was having coffee with the wife before taking my uniform off. The cat came walking thru the kitchen with his tail sticking straight up like cats do. I goosed him at the end of his tail with my stun gun. :Brow: He ran in place for a second or two and then caught traction and went straight through the screen door without opening it. I had the mad woman blues for a while, but it was worth it. I still chuckle about it. p
How about getting a PETA guy and tie him up in the closet covered in peanut butter. :laugh: Let's see get a cat, and then the cat makes a mess get a dog to get rid of the cat...and so on. I use fabric softner, mothballs and the old mouse traps with peanut butter. Only in the belwo 30 degree weather do I get maybe one or two in the bsaement.
Man, and I thought I was being mean buy sticking tape to their paws. The one cat gets it off right a way so it's not as funny. But Fuzz Nutt will freak then flop on his side and give up. Once I had a piece of paper taped to his forehead hanging down in front of his face for a week. At first he just kept trying to back out of it, then just decided to live with it. I finally just took it off. Oh, is he a dumb cat, It's to easy :laugh:
You have to get a farm cat if you want the mice gone. I was visiting some relatives on a farm and they had a few wild ones running around and I had found a dead mouse so I, wanting to see what the wild cat would do with a dead mouse, held it by it's tail about 4 feet above the cat and if I had my hand any lower, I'd probably have 3 fingers now. That cat went nuts and had the entire mouse gone in under 40 seconds.
