As Lucy would say: "RATS!!!"

[zzzzip]

The really cold weather usually brings the mice from the fields into the house/garage. With the lousy ice, snow, cold this year I haven't been on the bike for almost 2 months. So I hide out poison in the garage. They have been eating it like popcorn.

Went out this morning to find foam rubber laying under the bike that wasn't there yesterday. RATS!!! Fortunately, it was only from the cool can I got a couple of years ago at the SW-FOG.

Had them get into an air filter on a bike one year, and they like to try and build nests on the auto motors.

Now I have also put out mouse traps around the bike, so it is like a mine field buffet. Gonna have to kick my lazy terriers in the butt for not doing their jobs.

B)

 

[odot]

Ya know if us americans would change our eating habits we wouldn't have any mice/rat and or cockroach/killerbee problems. Ants, even.

 

[wheatonFJR]

That stinks there Skip.

You need CATS Skip...not dogs. Hunter cats will decimate the area's rodent, rabbit & bird population. 'Course, you have to say nice things to them as they show up proudly at your door with their latest "trophy".

BTW...recognize my avatar picture?

 

[DucatiSSsp]

The really cold weather usually brings the mice from the fields into the house/garage. With the lousy ice, snow, cold this year I haven't been on the bike for almost 2 months. So I hide out poison in the garage. They have been eating it like popcorn.
Went out this morning to find foam rubber laying under the bike that wasn't there yesterday. RATS!!! Fortunately, it was only from the cool can I got a couple of years ago at the SW-FOG.

Had them get into an air filter on a bike one year, and they like to try and build nests on the auto motors.

Now I have also put out mouse traps around the bike, so it is like a mine field buffet. Gonna have to kick my lazy terriers in the butt for not doing their jobs.

B)

Don't poison the poor critters, just use traps! After eating poison, the rats like to crawl into holes and decompose.

Put a little peanutbutter on multiple traps and check daily! Look for droppings and place traps there! Happy Hunting!

My record at work was 47 in one week after a bad infestation! :yahoo:

My nickname went from "Iceman" to "Ratman" overnight! Havn't figured out if this is good or bad?

Cheers!

Bryce

 

[dbvolfan]

ugghhh...hate the things. We had quite a few field mice in here LY making a home in our attic and at first my wife felt bad about trapping them in those newer traps that look like big paper clips so she wanted to use the glue strips (like that is more humane??)..lotta good that did...she saw one half stuck to one dragging it's butt across the floor as it tore its skin off trying to get off the glue...now she says, just use the good old traps.

 

[weekend rider]

I like them there glue traps, several years back we had a mice infestation and I had to do thesame thing seek out and dewstroy. traps worked well with peanut butter but the best was yet to come. Tried one of those new glue trap and caught one stuck in the middle again. Only this time I finished him with my 22 oz. checkered framing hammer. It was a very good kill kind of like the snipers, one shot one kill, this was one swing one kill

weekend rider a non hunter but a deadly striker :yahoo: :clapping:

 

[zzzzip]

Yeah, I've used the old fashion traps with peanut butter, but these suckers are so slick they can lick it off without tripping the trap. Maybe the wife should get something other than "creamy". Too smart for the "swinging door" type, and have yet to trip the one I call the "jaws of death". Quit using the glue traps because the wrens kept getting stuck on them.

I've got a little Scottie/Schnauser female mix that will put a cat to shame, be it mice, snakes, ground hogs, 'possums and of course CATS!! But she's entitled to slack off since she turned 12. Lap dog, but she can still kick *** and is the alpha dog around here.

B)

Wheaton: you look a lot younger in the photo. :glare:

 

[huron52]

Wheaton: you look a lot younger in the photo. :glare:

It was before they invented coloured film.... that's why he looks so young! :lol:

 

[mehaffydr]

I just recentlly ordered a new air filter because the little scum bags ate up mine.

 

[airboss]

Mice? Best mouse trap I ever had.

Fox terrier, Trapper, No mouse rat, or cat ever envaded his territory.

 

[zzzzip]

I just recentlly ordered a new air filter because the little scum bags ate up mine.

Must be a Missouri phenomenon. :angry2:

B)

 

[wheatonFJR]

...Wheaton: you look a lot younger in the photo. :glare:

And Skip, you appear to have changed genders in your avitar

 

[zzzzip]

...Wheaton: you look a lot younger in the photo. :glare:

And Skip, you appear to have changed genders in your avitar

I am a man of many talents.

B)

 

[S76]

Mice are a big problem for me too. Had to go extra strenght.

Get a 5 gallon plastic pail and a soda can. (Odot, you can use a beer can.)

Drill two small holes in the bucket just below the rim, opposite each other.

Use a welding rod or similar and stick it through the can top to bottom and insert the wire ends into the holes of the bucket.

Fill bucket with 6" of water and place a board on a 45 angle leaning against the bucket and extending past the rim.

Smear the soda can with peanut butter. The mice crawl up the board, and jump to the can to get the peanut butter and the can rolls around and they fall into the water and drown.

Perfect!

 

[zzzzip]

Mice are a big problem for me too. Had to go extra strenght.
Get a 5 gallon plastic pail and a soda can. (Odot, you can use a beer can.)

Drill two small holes in the bucket just below the rim, opposite each other.

Use a welding rod or similar and stick it through the can top to bottom and insert the wire ends into the holes of the bucket.

Fill bucket with 6" of water and place a board on a 45 angle leaning against the bucket and extending past the rim.

Smear the soda can with peanut butter. The mice crawl up the board, and jump to the can to get the peanut butter and the can rolls around and they fall into the water and drown.

Perfect!

I love it!! :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: No stinky bodies, ecologically sound, and you can take care of them like gold fish.

B)

 

[odot]

Sounds like something jack bauer would do.....or skyway.......

 

[tstaff]

And we think we have it bad?

 

[zzzzip]

And we think we have it bad?

Beats having to spend the money to get them drunk first. :glare:

 

[throttlejockeyTJ]

Years ago when we had dogs in kennels. Rats got infested under the cement. I had to tie lanyards on the traps. When a rat got it. His buddies would drag him into their cave. There would be nothing left but a rat skin and head. My Husky Taz killed a wharf rat that came from the river. It was about 15 pounds and he had what looked like walrus tusks. TJ :blink: