Mousetrap rant

[CAJUNLAWYER]

DO they not make the simple Victor Kill traps anymore!! Went to three stores looking for them and all they has were the sticky paper trals and one had an "improved" Victor by D-con for $3. Bought the D-con under protest and the damn thing won't stay set Tomorrow I'm gonna go to the lumber yard and get some VIctors-do I have to start hoarding these???? Have the animal nazi's gotten rid of the Victors???

 

[sar4937]

I think I'm using Tomcat brand. About cuts the head off the mouse.

 

[arjay]

Home depot

 

[Rudi]

Yep, they still make them. Good, simple, effective. Just put a little peanut butter on there and bye bye mouse.

 

[Hillbilly77]

Anyone for a BIG cup of Unintended consequences

 

[Rustyt1953]

I've got six cats. Meeces ain't no problem.

What's Angus have to say on the matter?

 

[carpriver]

get a five gallon pail, some string, peanut butter a couple of sticks, fill the pail half full of water tie some string around a stick so it is just above the water, put PB on the string, the second stick is leaned against the outside of the pail.

 

[joe44va]

$9.95 for 12:
[ame]https://www.amazon.com/Victor-M154-Metal-Pedal-Mouse/dp/B01N9F4JVR/ref=sr_1_10?keywords=mouse+trap&qid=1575250898&sr=8-10[/ame]

 

[wetdog1911]

DO they not make the simple Victor Kill traps anymore!! Went to three stores looking for them and all they has were the sticky paper trals and one had an "improved" Victor by D-con for $3. Bought the D-con under protest and the damn thing won't stay set Tomorrow I'm gonna go to the lumber yard and get some VIctors-do I have to start hoarding these???? Have the animal nazi's gotten rid of the Victors???

IDK about mice, but with rats it's one trap per rat. A exterminator friend tipped me off, the rats will smell the blood on the trap from the first rat and avoid it like the plague. This was using the big Victors and I wondered why the first one had worked within an hour or so and then, rebaited with PB, sat for several days with nothing.

After that, I would dispose of both rat and trap.

Rob

 

[joe44va]

Great old saying:
"The second mouse gets the cheese".

 

[doublesharp]

Jawz plastic traps are great.

 

[Farmer17]

Tannerite....when all else fails.

 

[tlawler]

Yootoob has some fun and entertaining ways of how to take care of rats. Here’s one of them:

[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SSnSg5wH43M[/ame]

 

[PeterJ]

Bought some at Walmart yesterday, but the black glue traps work just as good.

 

[doublesharp]

Love it. Definitely warped. I like the 5 gallon bucket where the mice walk the plank too.

I bought the Jawz last year at Menards and they are much better in my opinion that old victore wood/spring traps. Easir to set and bait and they are deadly. I've got them all over and often catch pole barn mice on stale nearly nonexistant bait. Business schools often say invent a better mouse trap - these cats did.

 

[Sevens]

I set a trap once and used peanut butter for bait, slathered it on good & thick. It snapped one day when we weren’t home. Mouse was in bad shape when we found him, trapped by the neck, somewhat severed but still attached, but a good sized pool of his blood all around.

What made this interesting is that absolutely ALL of the peanut butter was licked clean and the mouse who did that left footprints right through the blood.

Yeah... he showed up and slogged through a pool of his dead buddies’ blood, licked the peanut butter clean and walked off with blood on his feet.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

When the chipmunks were stealing my tomatoes, I used the rat sized Victor traps, Chipmunks don't smell their kind's remains, they smell the peanut butter! (2 traps, 8 dead munks in 2 days) This works until the ants find the trap, they can strip all the peanut butter in about 20 minutes, and not set the trap off!

Small Victor traps for mice in the garage, We set 3 traps set over 10' apart, in the late fall average 2 a day. Again Peanut butter.

I once told a tenant to use a "pea sized" glob of peanut butter on the trigger and set in a corner of her kitchen, I would be in Monday to empty the trap. When I got there, there were mouse turds everywhere in the kitchen, but the trap wasn't set off! She hadn't exactly followed my directions. Instead of peanut butter, she used grape jelly! Instead of a pea sized glob, she dumped about 2 cups! I think she was hoping they died of Diabetic Coma!

Ivan

 

[k22fan]

Tractor supply sells poison pellets that are safe around pets and livestock. There's a larger size pellet for rats and squirrels and a smaller size for mice. The pellet material looks a lot like rabbit food pellets. Spread it in strategic places and you're good for months. It eliminates checking on traps and rebaiting them. As with all poisons the risk is you might end up with a rotting rat inside a wall stinking until it dries out.

The old fashioned way is to put out food for the stray cats often enough that they hang around or keep indoor/outdoor pet cats. If you get a kitten from a mother that was a mouser then it will know what to do.

 

[Sikiguya]

I tried the peanut butter trick and it was no bueno. Damn mice would lick the stuff off without tripping the trap. I then started scotch taping crackers to the trap. Worked for a while. Then they were removing the crackers without tripping it again.

My go to now is zip tie the crackers to the trap.


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[ACORN]

I set a trap once and used peanut butter for bait, slathered it on good & thick. It snapped one day when we weren’t home. Mouse was in bad shape when we found him, trapped by the neck, somewhat severed but still attached, but a good sized pool of his blood all around.

What made this interesting is that absolutely ALL of the peanut butter was licked clean and the mouse who did that left footprints right through the blood.

Yeah... he showed up and slogged through a pool of his dead buddies’ blood, licked the peanut butter clean and walked off with blood on his feet.

That’s why I set them in pairs.