Went into my gun room to do some reloading, found that the mice had been in there chewing the shit out of every piece of foam, styrofoam and even ate the lube out of some bullets that were waiting to be loaded for my bpcr rifles.
So, spent a couple of hours emptying the shelves and cleaning up the mess they’d made and plugging up the holes they were coming through. A rethink of how to store stuff and a crap-load of baits thrown around outside the room.
Spent the rest of the day spraying paddocks getting ready to sow crops, so I missed a shoot at the pistol club
Boy am I over this mouse plague shit!!!
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Yeah me too, I’ve thrown baits around, and constantly trapping them in the ceiling…the fuckin cat is not earning its keep
Yup they are giving me the shits to, I’m emptying the resetting the traps all night in the shed
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Don’t get me started on cats. The cat sleeps while the mice run around it’s bed, then goes out and catches and kills the grass parrots that land in the yard. I should never had weakened and let the rest of the family talk me into letting them get a cat. I reckon the only good cat is a dead one.
Our two miniature Fox terriers do a pretty good job on the mice but the bucket traps I’ve made are getting a dozen or more a night. Got 33 in one trap on the first night.
Here too @bentaz , in the house, it’s a constant job emptying and resetting the traps. I got hold of some old fashioned spring traps, they shit all over the new plastic crap ones that are around.
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Yep done the same thing and bought new old fashioned traps the old one were a bit rusty. These new ones have plastic bait stations and are a pain to set hair trigger. I found that using a ball point pen under the trigger hold until the trap is in position seems to work. Also changed the poison from the blue Talon blocks to a Red one feed kill type although waxy seems to be working better. At one stage the damn mice were shitting blue turds I kid you not.
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Spot on I weakened to the cat idea also…fuckin hate em…It might have to run away…coff coff
Bucket mouse trap…any tips? I do recall it, I may have to Google it
Yes it seems they have built immunity to the blue blocks…
I’m actually cutting the tops off 20 litre round-up drums. ( you can all come to the gun clearance sale after I die of Non- Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, oh wait, that only happens when you sue Monsanto in a particular court in San Francisco )
A piece of 1/4 " dowel through a couple of beer cans stuck together with hot melt glue, bit of peanut butter out on the cans, a ramp for access and 4" of water to drown the bastards. There was a YouTube video where the “bloke” didn’t use water because he was going to take the mice out into the woods to release them, fuckin’ leftard!
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Yep pure leftist…why catch them then!!
My gradparents who used to live in the mally also used the water bucket trick but I think they just dangled a piece of baited string in the middle of the 44 drum the mice had to jump from a walk the plank across to it. They were filling drums back in the day.
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Mouse traps are sold out everywhere I’ve been lately, I might build one of those bucket traps.
I used to have one similar but with a greased up beer bottle instead of the cans, but that looks better.
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Having once lived in a house across from a wetland reserve. Was plagued by mice. My first experience with them. The first time I saw one I thought “ha, that’s cool, a house mouse”
But then they started eating all my food in the pantry, shitting everywhere, walk into a dark room, turn the light on and several would always scurry. I could hear them at night, drove me crazy. In the end I set so many traps and baits it wasn’t funny. Would lie in bed , for the first few weeks, before I thinned the herd, would hear traps going off every 10-15 mins. Had about 10 traps and a stack of baits. Must have killed over 100 before it was brought under control. I was astonished how quickly they can move in and take hold. At plague proportions I can imagine it being a huge problem that’s not easily dealt with.
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I made a bucket trap…we shall see my harvest in the morning! I actually made 2, at work today, and a leftie I work with, said I should simply catch them and let them go!!! WTF!! Cant look at him the same! I knew he was an animal lover, but Vermon lover???
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We should have a competition. Highest body count wins a prize!!
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We had them in the roof and then one came into the house and the cat got it. I’ve since trapped four in traps in the house and baited the roof and shed.
We have a lot of neighborhood cats around here. They aren’t feral, just sort of drift from house to house and I think they’re doing a good job at killing them or the mice don’t want to hang out where there are cats around.
It’s getting very frosty in the mornings now so hopefully that will deal with them too.
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I’ve got 2 cats and so inside and around the house is okay, but there’s definitely some vermin in the garage that I should deal with. Thanks for the trap ideas and tips.
So, the bucket traps went off the boil, all the peanut butter gone, bugger all mice. Seemed somehow they learned how to balance on spinning cans!
I rebaited the traps and was in the shed when I heard noise at one of the traps. Fucking dog was licking all of the peanut butter off the cans!!!
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Your bloody dog’s virtue signalling. Mouse Lives Matter!!