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BTW - A friend of mine who lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains has had good luck with the Victor electronic mouse traps. A little peanut butter to draw them in and they get zapped.
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What about a bowl of fresh anti-freeze. I know it does wonders for Dogs & Cats%/ . Just don't let the Cats in there!!!!
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I wrap a thin solid wire around the the trip lever a few loose winds and embed the peanut butter on the trip lever, even a little underneath. Otherwise they will just lick it clean with no snap. I
I suppose you could put the car up on 4 jack stands and greese the jack stands so the mice/rats couldn't climb up. Or set thejack stands in trays with oil to make a moat. Be creative. Good luck. John |
How about a couple of drunk rednecks with a pellet gun and night vision goggles?
Whatever happens, I'm sure you'll want to catch it on video... DD |
dangerous doug what do you have against drunk rednecks! Masnaka, rats and mice can jump feet into the air without help. I have a silverado duramax and they like to live in my airbox. everytime I open the box to clean the airfilter theres little reminder's they were there.
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I have five barns.
The mice are going to get in. How much are you willing to go through to keep them out? Sticky traps work great, but the cost per trap is pricey. Peanut butter on the trigger has a less than 50% success rate unless you can get the trigger to pop at the slightest tremmor. The box/run traps work if you have a lot of mice, but if you have this many, you have a bigger problem. We set out poison boxes. Most of the mice die inside the barn and are swept up. This is the most effective mouse removal we have used. Put the traps up and out of reach of animals other than the mice. Hope you resolve your rodent issue. :D |
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I picked up a few sonic repellers last night, I figured they couldn't hurt.
The night vision scope in on the x-mas wish list due to the raccoons raiding the feed stalls in the stables. I've used the tray sticky traps with a 75% success rate. The other 25% I find the empty traps all over the garage from where they were originally placed - empty. Will the mothballs actually keep the from damaging the seats/interior? I sealed any openings I thought they could get through, but did not realize that a hole as small as a pencil would be a problem. I will go through it again this weekend, just to be sure. |
I tried everything including the drunk red necks...plugged every hole with SOS Pads ....traps...fabric softeners ect.... but it was a continuous pain in the ass .. I hesitated to use the electronic stuff for fear it would affect the pets.. but it hasn't....now....I put one in nearly every electrical outlet in the garage and I haven't had any mice for several years...if they find out about the tests...they are going to be pissed...let us know what happens...:confused::
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My last Victor trap was the best "snap trap" I had. It was never empty and unsprung. It's "tomcat" traps that aren't sensitive enough. I'll give the Q-tip thing a try. |
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Who knows, maybe the snakes will make a den in your side pipes. :eek: Wonder if the effect would be like sticking a banana in a normal tailpipe. |
The de con must work....had a dog get into it and spend 7 days in intensive care including blood transfusions....turned out fine...
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Everyone from the USDA down to the consumer reporting groups and PopMech have tested the sonic repellers many times over the last 30 years. Not a one got a positive result. IIRC, mice built a nest behind one operating unit. You can look this up in about three minutes flat and save yourself a lot of money.
Everybody has a solution their Gramps or Uncle Busky or neighbor told them about. Most are sheer folktale... but hey, they keep the elephants and aardvarks away, too. If you're serious about rodent control, talk to your local ag university or county agent or equivalent. They'll tell you some specific, effective ways to control critters and pests, often a lot cheaper than anything you buy down at the hardware store. In my experience (aided with good, professional advice), there's never one solution. It has to be a combination of sealing up access holes and cracks, putting away ALL attractants, and then using traps etc. to nuke the persistent ones. |
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The only thing I know about rats is that the distributor is on the wrong end. :D
... Only in that I have a persistent population of Norways in my back yard (we abut onto some undeveloped park/flood zone land) and they've given me endless sport over the years. One was stupid enough to come up from under the house and into the living room, where a piece of wall trim had been removed during some remodeling. It was a short-lived problem. We have Great Danes. :D :D :D |
I'm rethinking the "drunk rednecks with a pellet gun" suggestion. My concern is the possibility of a secondary infestation. Sure, you get rid of all the rodents, but then you have a bunch of drunk rednecks hanging out in your garage. The only recourse is to cut off the food---er, ah---beer supply. Eventually, the herd will begin to thin out as they move to where the beer is readily available, but in the meantime, the damage they can do could be costly---especially if they don't run out of pellets before they run out of beer.
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Hey, I don't resemble Carl at all... I've used every frackin' thing except dynamite. Those damned Norways are so tough and resistant that I've put a .22 pellet through them and they just scamper faster. Poison is the usual problem with dogs big and strong enough to flip over crates, etc. too.
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