Baker, thanks for that image. It’ll stick with me for a while.:eek:
I once trapped a mouse in a room I didn’t use much during the winter. Come spring I started cleaning and found a nice little freeze-dried mousie in a trap on a shelf. I picked up the trap, mousie stuck out straight from it, except for the part of his tail that had flipped over the edge of the shelf as mousie gave up the ghost. Nice permanent right angle, which made me giggle for quite a while.
I’m willing to donate the gumdrop flavors I don’t like to the cause, but the rest of the bag is mine.
Pardon my ignorance, but what are these electronic traps under discussion?
We had mice in the garage, but we started letting Piper Cat 1 and Piper Cat 2 out in the garage now and then, and the problem seems solved.
But, am interested in a non-spring trap option as an alternative.
The neighbors have a huge naval orange tree which straddles the fence.
I was working near the tree when I heard a rustling noise from the tree.
“Noisy squirrel” was my thought.
Until a medium-sized rat plopped down in front of me.
It was just the size of the sole of my shoe, and I was quicker than it.
Spot fertilization.
Another saw the mosquito-eating fish sunning themselves in the 2’ of water over the top step. It jumped in (of course, the fish were gone before it landed). It then had the problem of climbing a smooth, vertical surface. I used the leaf-skimmer to pin it against the wall below the water line.
For smaller vermin, I use poisons - with luck, they will live long enough for the stuff to circulate throughout their bodies, so any other vermin eating their corpses will get the effect as well.
But there IS a certain pleasure to hearing that “snap”, isn’t there?
I wish I had known this earlier this summer. The exterminator put glue traps around my shop, but all it caught was some bugs and a Blue Tailed Skink.
It took me over 30 minutes with tiny tools and picks to free his tiny legs, torso, and tail from the glue, and even then I suspect he didn’t survive after I put him back outside.
FTR, I have had an electronic mouse trap for years, and never caught a thing. I put plain old snap-traps next to it, and get mice every time.:smack:
With the cold snap we’ve had lately, the rodents have returned, but between the cat and 2 Dachsunds, the pantry is safe.
Call be bloodthirsty, but yes there is.
Oh, yes. Especially when accompanied by an evil cackle and rubbing one’s hands together.
The snap is particularly satisfying (and dramatic) when the trap is in your attic and it catches one of the damned things that has been running around up there.
It snapped at 2 a.m. right above my head! I even enjoyed the thrashing and clattering that went on for several seconds afterwards.
Stupid rats.
Only had to deal with a mouse once. When I was a kid, a mouse got brought in with some firewood. Mom spotted it hopping along the wall from the hearth to behind to TV and determeined to do something about it. Some days later , I was up later than I should have been (Trying to watch the scrambled adult channel). When I heard the SNAP a few feet away, I jumped out of my skin. Turned on the light and looked behind the TV just in time to see the light go out in mousies eyes.
Why is the “Catch, carry, and release” particularly cruel? If it’s because some other animal is going to have a mouse-attizer… well, eaters gotta eat, right?
I hate to tell you, but that probably wasn’t brown rice! :eek::eek::eek:
I’ve done the catch/carry/release (kinda).
It’s just that the little bastard was stuck to a pad of glue, that’s all…
After nearly two weeks with no activity in the traps, I was ready to declare victory. Then I found two mice in the first-floor traps, two moles in the basement traps, and had another trap snap just I was getting ready for bed.
Bastards.
Hmm, after some googling it appears I may have caught two shrews, not moles.
Can you tame them?
They’re pretty tame, what with the broken necks and all. Not very obedient, however, with the one notable exception of “play dead”, to which their performance not even the most artistically gifted opossum could aspire.
I think perhaps you are referring to the meandering trails of carraway seeds usually found in proximity to mousie pawprints in the miniature Zen garden.
