Man versus mouse. I seek your alliance in this war.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by eDave

You got bears.

I wonder what eats bears.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by eDave

You got bears.

[srvy]

Maybe the Misses secretly bought and put out poison.

[displacedinMN]

Have you watched an outside animal eat its carcas?

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by displacedinMN

Have you watched an outside animal eat its carcas?

Just wait until he looks out there and there's a fox sitting in front of his door.

[displacedinMN]

We were at our firepit and had one 30 feet away with a rabbit in its mouth.

Amazing how many people in the city freak out when the see a fox, coyote, deer or wild turkey.
They are very tame.

[Iowanian]

My resume' for catching-dispatching mice includes everything from traditional store bought traps, sticky traps, home built traps, blow gun darts, poison....cats and I've had my chickens eat them before.

A couple of things. The "trigger" on most store bought traps is not sensitive enough. You need to do a little bending and tweaking on that trigger wire to make it more sensitive. Use a little sticky bait like peanut butter, not a lot. Sticky traps are good as long as they are fresh and aren't cold(like in a barn/garage in the winter).

You're a creative guy, so you can try to build a better mouse trap. Try a bucket trap with a string and a pop can or toilet paper roll.

If you've got a house cat that doesn't catch mice, I've got a solution for that as well.

[Iowanian]

This summer I was on a trip to a desert lake, on a houseboat.

In the evenings, after the kids were in bed, the men sat on the back deck drinking a few beers. There were so many mice/packrats on the beach that we had a mouse catching contest. Everyone had a trap, could use whatever bait you wanted. Each "set" was a round that ended when a mouse was caught. Everyone put a dollar in a hat and the winner kept the loot.

I couldn't get a paiute deadfall to work right.

[Rain Man]

Mystery solved.

First, in a life lesson about stereotypes, my mouse assassin was a young woman, so she was more Red Sparrow than Anton Chigurh. But she knew her stuff. She crawled around my dining room and noticed a small hole in the frame around my fireplace. It's on the side of the frame in a spot where you're not going to see it as a casual observer. She put a trap directly over the opening, along with a few other traps elsewhere.

Now I'm sitting in my dining room and there's some mouse or mice noisily noshing on the poisoned treats like Casper on movie night.

I don't know if that little hole goes directly into the fireplace (which is a long-sealed coal fireplace), or if there's just a masonry gap to the outdoors. But my hunch is that some mice are living in the fireplace itself, and they're about to learn about Castle Doctrine the hard way.

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Mystery solved.

First, in a life lesson about stereotypes, my mouse assassin was a young woman, so she was more Red Sparrow than Anton Chigurh. But she knew her stuff. She crawled around my dining room and noticed a small hole in the frame around my fireplace. It's on the side of the frame in a spot where you're not going to see it as a casual observer. She put a trap directly over the opening, along with a few other traps elsewhere.

Now I'm sitting in my dining room and there's some mouse or mice noisily noshing on the poisoned treats like Casper on movie night.

I don't know if that little hole goes directly into the fireplace (which is a long-sealed coal fireplace), or if there's just a masonry gap to the outdoors. But my hunch is that some mice are living in the fireplace itself, and they're about to learn about Castle Doctrine the hard way.

DON"T poison them !!! Use the snap traps with peanut butter so they don't go die in crevices'

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Hog's Gone Fishin

DON"T poison them !!! Use the snap traps with peanut butter so they don't go die in crevices'

The sales pitch is that they use poison that makes the mice slowly overheat, so they go outside to cool down and then join their ancestors outdoors. I hope that's the case. I don't want to end up with vultures in my fireplace.

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

The sales pitch is that they use poison that makes the mice slowly overheat, so they go outside to cool down and then join their ancestors outdoors. I hope that's the case. I don't want to end up with vultures in my fireplace.

Those people lie! They're selling stuff. You're in Denver where it's -50 outside. Mice won't go out. I had a hog Farm . i know mice. and I live in the Texas panhandle where it gets cold as shit with wind blowing 50 mph.

[Kman34]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

The sales pitch is that they use poison that makes the mice slowly overheat, so they go outside to cool down and then join their ancestors outdoors. I hope that's the case. I don't want to end up with vultures in my fireplace.

I wouldn’t ever use poison.. It was used at my work and we smelled dead mice for a month..

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Kman34

I wouldn’t ever use poison.. It was used at my work and we smelled dead mice for a month..

Do dead mice smell like brownies? Or not good?

[Peter Gibbons]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Mystery solved.

First, in a life lesson about stereotypes, my mouse assassin was a young woman, so she was more Red Sparrow than Anton Chigurh. But she knew her stuff. She crawled around my dining room and noticed a small hole in the frame around my fireplace. It's on the side of the frame in a spot where you're not going to see it as a casual observer. She put a trap directly over the opening, along with a few other traps elsewhere.

Now I'm sitting in my dining room and there's some mouse or mice noisily noshing on the poisoned treats like Casper on movie night.

I don't know if that little hole goes directly into the fireplace (which is a long-sealed coal fireplace), or if there's just a masonry gap to the outdoors. But my hunch is that some mice are living in the fireplace itself, and they're about to learn about Castle Doctrine the hard way.

“Red Sparrow” and crawling around on your dining room floor. You are SO lucky. I want mice too.