Posted: 8/29/2010 10:13:16 PM EDT
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So i've noticed the little fuckers twice over the last month, not sure how many there are or what they're feeding off of. I've been checking heavily on cleanliness and food scraps and it doesnt seem i'm leaving them anything. Anyway, put out sticky traps tonight in places i feel they'd be/run across/have been seen. A quandry though, after they're stuck what's the most humane* way to get rid of them while still getting the trap back? I thought about just "take em outside and let the shovel do it's work" but i'd want the trap back and NOT covered in blood, guts, fur, etc. Also, what bait do yall use? I don't want to put anything out thats going to draw MORE in, or draw bugs/gnats/whatever else. I'm thinking bits of bread since it has a scent, will last well, and breaks up easily. *No guns, nukes from space, burning, maiming, torturing, burying, or otherwise actions that be ridiculous overkill or extend the suffering of the animal. Hell i'd prefer not even kill it, but this sticky stuff is gonna make them pretty pissed off and i'm sure in a bitey mood. |
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Lots of good info in this thread.
http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=1083566&light= |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I catch em in my shop all the time with the stickys...drop em in an ant bed and the ants will clean em up You lie on line f of your 4473's dont'chya? I dont understand the question...could you explain A 4473 is the form you're required to fill out for record keeping when purchasing a new firearm. Line F reads: Have you ever been adjudicated mentally defective (which includes having been adjudicated incompetent to manage your own affairs) or have you ever been committed to a mental institution? |
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I catch em in my shop all the time with the stickys...drop em in an ant bed and the ants will clean em up You lie on line f of your 4473's dont'chya? I dont understand the question...could you explain A 4473 is the form you're required to fill out for record keeping when purchasing a new firearm. Line F reads: Have you ever been adjudicated mentally defective (which includes having been adjudicated incompetent to manage your own affairs) or have you ever been committed to a mental institution? LOL, I gotcha...Hey everybody lies about something 
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Get a real mousetrap:
Invented by Hiram Maxim, the same guy that invented the machine gun. They work. Victor is the best brand IMO, and peanut butter works fine as bait. I caught 4 of them in a couple of nights a few years ago with Victor mousetraps, and haven't seen any since. This type of mousetrap generally kills the mouse instantly (by breaking its neck), so they are humane, and you don't have to finish the mouse off. Prior to buying the Victor brand, I tried some off brand ones that looked the same, and the mice just ate the bait without tripping the traps. |
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Quoted: Get a real mousetrap: http://www.enasco.com/prod/images/products/81/AC025557l.jpg Invented by Hiram Maxim, the same guy that invented the machine gun. They work. Victor is the best brand IMO, and peanut butter works fine as bait. I caught 4 of them in a couple of nights a few years ago with Victor mousetraps, and haven't seen any since. This type of mousetrap generally kills the mouse instantly (by breaking its neck), so they are humane, and you don't have to finish the mouse off. Prior to buying the Victor brand, I tried some off brand ones that looked the same, and the mice just ate the bait without tripping the traps. My concern is a mess on the carpet, also the fact that if one mouse bites the dust, the other gets a free meal of peanut butter out of it. With the stickies, i can catch 3 of the fuckers as long as they all step on it. |
| The stickies work good. At the Fire Station, our water heater is turned up to about 140°. I would just run them under the hot water. After a few seconds they were dead, and a few seconds later the glue would let go of the corpse, making the trap ready for round two. |
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My concern is a mess on the carpet, also the fact that if one mouse bites the dust, the other gets a free meal of peanut butter out of it. With the stickies, i can catch 3 of the fuckers as long as they all step on it. Why would there be a mess on the carpet? Also, put out multiple mousetraps. Most people put out 4 of them at a time in strategical areas, because they are often sold in packages of 4. With sticky traps you have a live mouse to deal with. With real mousetraps, the mouse is dead (and you can reuse them BTW, but they are cheap enough to throw away too). |
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Quoted: Quoted: My concern is a mess on the carpet, also the fact that if one mouse bites the dust, the other gets a free meal of peanut butter out of it. With the stickies, i can catch 3 of the fuckers as long as they all step on it. Why would there be a mess on the carpet? Also, put out multiple mousetraps. Most people put out 4 of them at a time in strategical areas, because they are often sold in packages of 4. With sticky traps you have a live mouse to deal with. With real mousetraps, the mouse is dead (and you can reuse them BTW, but they are cheap enough to throw away too). Bought them from the feed store, feed store only had rat traps... so... mouse traps on a crack that will cut a mouse in half. |
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My concern is a mess on the carpet, also the fact that if one mouse bites the dust, the other gets a free meal of peanut butter out of it. With the stickies, i can catch 3 of the fuckers as long as they all step on it. Why would there be a mess on the carpet? Also, put out multiple mousetraps. Most people put out 4 of them at a time in strategical areas, because they are often sold in packages of 4. With sticky traps you have a live mouse to deal with. With real mousetraps, the mouse is dead (and you can reuse them BTW, but they are cheap enough to throw away too). Bought them from the feed store, feed store only had rat traps... so... mouse traps on a crack that will cut a mouse in half. You don't want rat traps, you want standard Victor mousetraps. Rat traps don't generally work right on a mouse. Mice are generally too small to even trip the trap, and the jaw could miss them or not get them in a vital area even if it did go off. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: My concern is a mess on the carpet, also the fact that if one mouse bites the dust, the other gets a free meal of peanut butter out of it. With the stickies, i can catch 3 of the fuckers as long as they all step on it. Why would there be a mess on the carpet? Also, put out multiple mousetraps. Most people put out 4 of them at a time in strategical areas, because they are often sold in packages of 4. With sticky traps you have a live mouse to deal with. With real mousetraps, the mouse is dead (and you can reuse them BTW, but they are cheap enough to throw away too). Bought them from the feed store, feed store only had rat traps... so... mouse traps on a crack that will cut a mouse in half. You don't want rat traps, you want standard Victor mousetraps. Rat traps don't generally work right on a mouse. Mice are generally too small to even trip the trap, and the jaw could miss them or not get them in a vital area even if it did go off. I'm well aware of all those facts, and i believe these were Victor Rat traps, like i said in the post before, rat traps is all the feed store had in terms of spring operated traps. |
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A good friend of mine (at the time) named morris was with myself and a group of friends when we saw kill bill, and at the end of the fight scene against the crazy 88 when uma's character is fighting the sadistic ball and chain carrying school girl chick. The MOMENT lil asian bitch takes the mace to the head, Morris just blurts out, "QUICK WHILE SHE'S STILL WARM!" Sorry... this picture was just a flash back to that.
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Quoted: Best thing is to get the standard mouse traps and JB weld a medium length razor blade to the part that pins the mouse down. Am I serious? Who knows. I used to be a piercer and still have literally thousands of in package needles, i could just line it 14 gauge goodness and turn the fuckers into swiss cheese... But wait, that would get in the way of me not wanting to make a fucking mess!
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Get a real mousetrap: http://www.enasco.com/prod/images/products/81/AC025557l.jpg Invented by Hiram Maxim, the same guy that invented the machine gun. They work. Victor is the best brand IMO, and peanut butter works fine as bait. I caught 4 of them in a couple of nights a few years ago with Victor mousetraps, and haven't seen any since. This type of mousetrap generally kills the mouse instantly (by breaking its neck), so they are humane, and you don't have to finish the mouse off. Prior to buying the Victor brand, I tried some off brand ones that looked the same, and the mice just ate the bait without tripping the traps. My concern is a mess on the carpet, also the fact that if one mouse bites the dust, the other gets a free meal of peanut butter out of it. With the stickies, i can catch 3 of the fuckers as long as they all step on it. The first time I had a mouse head explode with blood and brains all over the floor I got an idea. I went to the store and got some small plastic food containers and cut a small mouse door in the side. Stick the mouse trap in and you're good to go. If things get a little sloppy you can either toss the whole thing or just wash it out. I hate the stickies. Dealing with a live mouse sucks. |
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1) Get a large Tupperware container (like two gallons). 2) Drop in about a pound of dry ice. 3) Put a smaller piece of cardboard on top of the dry ice 4) Drop trap+mouse in container 5) Put the lid on 6) Wait a couple hours and remove dead mouse+trap 7) Wash under hot water until it falls off 8) Dispose of vermin 9) Reuse trap 10) Hit self in balls with #3 wood for being a pussy and not just stepping on its head. |
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Why torture the mice?
You're not going to get any actionable intelligence out of them. Break their little fucking necks in a cheap old fashioned Victor snap trap. Crank the spring with a penny and shave the trigger. You'll get them every time, sometimes you'll get one just walking over the trap. |
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[/div][div]A quandry though, after they're stuck what's the most humane* way to get rid of them while still getting the trap back? I thought about just "take em outside and let the shovel do it's work" but i'd want the trap back and NOT covered in blood, guts, fur, etc.[/div][div] .[/div] [/div] Err... you realize you're meant to just throw the whole trap away? Mice stuck to it an everything? |
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Crank the spring with a penny and shave the trigger. I would like more info on this!  Lift up the tail of the spring and slide a penny under it. It's +P ammo for your mouse trap. If you have the kind with a plastic cheese pedal, use an Exacto knife or something similar to carefully shave a sliver of plastic off of the sear on the pedal. If you have the metal kind, bend the sear sideways just a hair. You can also use a smidge of your favorite gun lube on the contact point. Mouse trap trigger job. You can get them to the point where you have to tiptoe away after you lay them down. |
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So i've noticed the little fuckers twice over the last month, not sure how many there are or what they're feeding off of. I've been checking heavily on cleanliness and food scraps and it doesnt seem i'm leaving them anything. Anyway, put out sticky traps tonight in places i feel they'd be/run across/have been seen. A quandry though, after they're stuck what's the most humane* way to get rid of them while still getting the trap back? I thought about just "take em outside and let the shovel do it's work" but i'd want the trap back and NOT covered in blood, guts, fur, etc. Also, what bait do yall use? I don't want to put anything out thats going to draw MORE in, or draw bugs/gnats/whatever else. I'm thinking bits of bread since it has a scent, will last well, and breaks up easily. *No guns, nukes from space, burning, maiming, torturing, burying, or otherwise actions that be ridiculous overkill or extend the suffering of the animal. Hell i'd prefer not even kill it, but this sticky stuff is gonna make them pretty pissed off and i'm sure in a bitey mood. I use a bucket of water with mice on glue traps. I prefer the covered plastic victor mouse traps though. They're reusable, a lot cheaper in the long run, and keep the mess in the trap. |
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best place to put glue traps is along walls and near doors. mice have a tendency to stick close to walls when they're running.
i keep a box or two of the 4-pack glue traps handy. living well outside town, the occasional mouse is not unusual. if i hear one, see one, or see signs of one, out goes a pack of traps. Generally i'll catch a mouse or two within an hour of putting out the traps. Did this last night actually, and nailed 2 of the bastards within about 5 minutes of placing my traps 
One of them got me, though. Little fucker snapped around and bit me as i was picking up his trap to go dispose of it 
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