Posted: 12/21/2011 6:48:53 AM EDT
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Mouse! Wife noticed some Christmas cookies that got chewed on and came back from the hardware store with a LIVE trap. So now I'm forced to deal with these critters while they are still alive. How far away do I need to go to let these guys loose where they won't come back?
I did set up a bucket trap in the basement too so hopefully they'll end up drowned and not in the live trap. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W87
It's the only way to be sure... |
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Build a spud gun, use newspaper for wadding, load mouse, send mighty mouse into a low orbit. Your welcome. Probably one of the most epic idea's i've ever read. Seriously, try it. It's entertaining. You can get them out to around 200 yards or more. Eggs will go clean out of sight. |
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Live trap. oy.
I have lived in a series of older houses with a 21 year old giant parrot. I have tried everything to get those little fuckers, for 20+ years. Finally, i went with teh poisons. Shit-tons of poison, everywhere. Porblem solve. 
Traps attrite the population, poison exterminates it. just don't tell wife-unit about the poison and put it out of sight. Esp. in the basement, up along the sill plate. and under the sink. Note: not recommended if you have a possom or a goggy as they might eat the poisoned mice. takes a couple of weeks. |
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Mouse! Wife noticed some Christmas cookies that got chewed on and came back from the hardware store with a LIVE trap. So now I'm forced to deal with these critters while they are still alive. How far away do I need to go to let these guys loose where they won't come back? I did set up a bucket trap in the basement too so hopefully they'll end up drowned and not in the live trap. Not sure if a live trap would work...I'd let it take all the cookies it wanted, tbh. 
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Live trap. oy. I have lived in a series of older houses with a 21 year old giant parrot. I have tried everything to get those little fuckers, for 20+ years. Finally, i went with teh poisons. Shit-tons of poison, everywhere. Porblem solve.
Traps attrite the population, poison exterminates it. just don't tell wife-unit about the poison and put it out of sight. Esp. in the basement, up along the sill plate. and under the sink. Note: not recommended if you have a possom or a goggy as they might eat the poisoned mice. takes a couple of weeks. Every time I have used poison the little bastards crawl off to some inaccessable space to die. Then they start stinking. |
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Every time I have used poison the little bastards crawl off to some inaccessable space to die. Then they start stinking. Yep! You haven't lived until you have one of the little shits die in your ductwork during the winter. Every time the heat kicked on the whole damn house smelled like hot death. No thanks! 
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CSB time... I was in college, home for Christmas visiting the folks. Late at night, on the land-line phone in the kitchen talking to my girlfriend. As I'm listening, I see a mouse poke his head up out from under a burner on the stove a few times. Phone in one hand, I reach back and pick up the Red Ryder, resting it on dining room chair. Mouse pops up again - PLINK - BB clean through mouses neck, ricochets off coffee pot without breaking it and lands in trash. TA-DA! Girlfriend on phone never even stopped talking. 
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Cool pic! Is that a bat in its mouth? Nice black/white pattern on that cat... |
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Cool pic! Is that a bat in its mouth? Nice black/white pattern on that cat... Thanks. It's actually a chipmunk but Melvin kills plenty of mice in the yard too. |
Apparently 9mm is popular.  |
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Screw the live trap nonsense. Regular Victor spring trap with peanut butter
Guy I knew had a nuisance trapping business in the burbs for coons and such. When asked if he killed the catch he would reply that no he didn't. Never had a one who got the certificate after the swimming lesson though 
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Apparently 9mm is popular. 
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Live trap. oy. I have lived in a series of older houses with a 21 year old giant parrot. I have tried everything to get those little fuckers, for 20+ years. Finally, i went with teh poisons. Shit-tons of poison, everywhere. Porblem solve.
Traps attrite the population, poison exterminates it. just don't tell wife-unit about the poison and put it out of sight. Esp. in the basement, up along the sill plate. and under the sink. Note: not recommended if you have a possom or a goggy as they might eat the poisoned mice. takes a couple of weeks. I spent last Friday crawling around under my house looking for the "garbage smell" coming from my daughter's bedroom heat register. I had put out De-Con the week before under the house. The little dead stinker was right under the register in between the duct and insulation. 
There is now a 5 gallon bucket trap in place. I need to check it tonight. It was empty Monday. |
