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Post by Rick Barbee on Aug 17, 2021 14:31:17 GMT -6
I'm having a real problem with mice, and rats. They seldom touch poisons of any kind, and commercial traps suck. So, I built my own trap. 
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Post by Rick Barbee on Aug 18, 2021 6:49:23 GMT -6
Checked it this morning. Nothing yet.
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Post by Rick Barbee on Aug 18, 2021 13:30:15 GMT -6
I think I need to add some counter weight.
The plank may be tilting to much early on for them to go on down it.
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Post by Rick Barbee on Aug 19, 2021 15:51:19 GMT -6
I slicked the plank up slicker'n snot on a doorknob. I'm also working on a shock therapy device to attach to it. If the plank don't dump them, once they reach a certain spot, the shock will. |
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Post by Draven on Aug 20, 2021 16:43:48 GMT -6
Around here the vermin are black bears. Very interesting idea but if I want to borrow it, I will need a swimming pool - and they might like it and come back for more  |
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flambeau1955
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I don't know why I'm identified as female, last time I looked I still had my boys.
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Post by flambeau1955 on Nov 29, 2021 11:21:42 GMT -6
Up at the deer camp we use drown buckets. Poke a stiff wire through a plastic soda bottle, suspend the bottle at the open top in middle of a 5-gallon pail. Coat the bottle with a ring of peanut butter, fill the pail with 6 inches of water and lean a stick against the rim. The bottle must spin freely on the wire, victim smells the peanut butter, climbs up to the edge of the pail and makes the last jump they'll ever take. I've emptied pails with 17 mice in them. Videos can be seen on You Tube.
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Post by ronaldcz on Nov 29, 2021 22:16:28 GMT -6
My semi-feral cat does the job on the mice, so I retired my traps. Of course the girl friend really doesn't care for the intestines and blood spot he leaves in the tub - he figured out that he can play with the mice in the tub and they can't escape. The Saturday morning quail flying around the bedroom was a different story. It's the pocket gophers around here that we can't keep up with.
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