When I catch this little F#@#ker I'll kill him

[dino3310]

:laugh:
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little bastards cleaned out all me grass seed

this should get em:2thumbsup
1 standard trap
1 modified standard trap
1 plastic trap
1 cage trap

the boy's trying to make up a home made guillotine style trap:facepalm:, been watching to many Bear Gryls shows hes coming up with some out there ideas for traps so i hope my traps get em all or the shed could be a dangerous place to dwell for me too:laugh:

[blackdog]

Two saucers. The first 50/50 flour and plaster of paris. The second just water.

Easy. Does give new meaning to 'harden up' though.

[Jantar]

Two saucers. The first 50/50 flour and plaster of paris. The second just water.

Easy. Does give new meaning to 'harden up' though.

Haha. We used to that in one of the power stations I worked at. Only trouble is they die behind walls or somewhere else where you can't find them. But you can sure smell them for a couple of weeks.

[gammaguy]

Glue traps

[Bassmatt]

Try peanut butter on the traps, they love the stuff.

[EJK]

Blarghty hell look at the size of that cheese. Just how much bait are you using? You'll suffocate them to death.

[Berries]

Is that your kitchen? FFS. If I was a mouse I would be ringing the council.

[mashman]

Mars Bar works well. Bon chance monsieur pussycat

[Maha]

A Ratman once left us his rat trap, it has work effectively on a few occasions, they (the Rats ) love Nutella, this particular rat trap had Nutella still on it from about two years ago and caught the little fucker within about 30 mins.

[Laava]

My money is on the Better Mousetrap

[martybabe]

Bastards indeed, I've got a rat in the attic that has survived all the traps and all the bait for a couple of weeks now. I even managed to wing the bastard on one of my trips up there but it still gets around making a really annoying three legged scuttling noise. Little fecker's gonna get it soon! :mad:

[Grashopper]

+ 1 on peanut butter and Nutella

My rats used to love it

[Akzle]

peanut butter better bait.
if its a small mouse it probly be too light to trip those traps.
be a man and set a snare you pussy.

[Grashopper]

Alternatively, adopt a cat from the SPCA

[scumdog]

Try peanut butter on the traps, they love the stuff.

Yep, and tie the trap to a lump of something heavy - little buggers will drag away those grey plastic traps if it only catches them by one leg.

[unstuck]

Ruler balancing over a bucket of water with a bit of peanutbutter on the end.:yes:

[Oakie]

Small landmine. With peanut butter on it.

[tri boy]

Yep, and tie the trap to a lump of something heavy - little buggers will drag away those grey plastic traps if it only catches them by one leg.
Yep, they drag themselves into a noggin square in the ceiling, and "kaklunck............kaklunck............kaklunck.. ........kaklunck" all freck'n night:wacko: till you hunt them down in the morning.:ar15: DAMHIK
+1 on the peanut butter and better mouse trap. Sic em Dino, the eels are hungry.

[avgas]

Good for a rat up to about 6 inch body. Can do an 8" rat, if you attach the chain and pin. Basically the 8" ones will try and drag the trap with them until they bleed out.
http://www.heritage-homeandgarden.co.uk/images/60_65/6160025.jpg

If it catches your finger its broken.

[scumdog]

Ruler balancing over a bucket of water with a bit of peanutbutter on the end.:yes:

Got nine mice one arvo using that method.

[unstuck]

Got nine mice one arvo using that method.

Me and my brother spent a whole wet west coast week planning the most effective way of catching the growing mouse population of an old gold prospectors hut somewhere on the coast;), and this won hands down.:yes:

[granstar]

My 2c as a pesty ... firstly get rid of any food source, put seeds, blood/bone, etc into tight fitting lidded containers. Block any holes where rodents can enter if possible. A rat can enter any hole your thumb can fit through, a mouse your little finger :yes:
Trapping is best control, set the traps along a nearby wall or beam, if you can see where they run ( grease marks) even better. The trigger plates need to be facing along the wall so rodents walk into them from either side to be most effective.
Peanut butter is the choice of the century, iv'e caught 24 rats in last fortnight with PB.
Definitely screw your traps to a piece of flat board, i use ply, they can travel some distance with unclean triggers ( had a tail hold today):yes:, even with a head capture they can head off for a while. Best trap i use is the Victor with the wide yellow plate, I outdoor stain them to make em last. The plastic ones are not as strong in the spring and fall to pieces after a few captures. Metal ones can deter rats, they don't like metal as much as plastic/wood which they know they can chew through.
Mice are a POP to catch with most by trap run over than mouse heading for a snack. Rats however take some catching. They are neophobic which means they have fear of new objects in their daily run way. A trap can do that and often takes a few weeks for the rat to accustom to it's presence before it decides to cross the line...ka-snap!.:shit:Other options..glueboards are restricted to likes myself controlling rodents in food premises, if you have any use them up discretely or toss them, the greenies :sick:will sue you after next year as they are banned.
Poisons are second option, and best kept in a bait box - make one out of icecream container with hole each side. Poisoned rodents will die 4 to 7 days after consuming bait, rats may may break it up and take it away and store and consume later so be patient, mice other -hand will get into it.
They will likely crawl away when sick and die unseen, be wary of this to avoid unexepected smells in unaccesible places, or poison carcass about your house ( care with pets-secondary poisoning).

Shitte, that was 3 c worth.

There is this option ... Williams patented trap

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-btdPLmZZ45c/T8vhpmPBeXI/AAAAAAAAFa0/uT584KDO0F8/s1600/patent269766-better-mousetrap.PNG

[Gremlin]

RatZapper... boss got one at field days. Office backs onto a big grass area, so sometimes we get a few uninvited guests.

Two plates inside the body of the trap, when charged, the mouse crossing the plates completes the circuit. Fried mouse, blinking light, tip it out and reset.

For the cunning ones, set it with bait, but not active. Couple of feeds then charge it and zap.

Yep, peanut butter be their favourite.

[cynna]

Yep, and tie the trap to a lump of something heavy - little buggers will drag away those grey plastic traps if it only catches them by one leg.

came back from work the first time i set one of those and my trap was gone .... had the poor wee fella by a front foot and he had dragged the trap a couple of metres over carpet and was hiding under a cabient

and another vote for peanut butter:done:

[granstar]

Yep, and they reckon glueboards are inhumane and traps are the alternative.


Rat Zappers do work, but often are triggered with damp and dust, as well they are bloody expensive for what they do, and a bugger to clean the plate ...for rats victor trap./PB ;) Mice use Kness brand Snap E trap ( lethal in a Kness trap cover).

While the Americans are hell bent inventing the "perfect mouse trap" some great Kiwi ideas have come up recently.

I'm waiting for a multicatch Henry trap to be designed to capture mice, bloody dear as well tho at moment.

http://www.goodnature.co.nz/

Nooski idea is another great, have yet to capture anything in one yet.
http://www.nooski.com/

[Bassmatt]

came back from work the first time i set one of those and my trap was gone .... had the poor wee fella by a front foot and he had dragged the trap a couple of metres over carpet and was hiding under a cabient

and another vote for peanut butter:done:

I have gone out to check traps and found only a leg in them a couple of times. I assume the rat has chewed its own leg off to get away.
Have also found a trapped rat being consumed by the rest of his family, dunno if it was dead when they started or not. :wacko:
Horrible fuckers.

[Road kill]

We live a couple of hundred meters from a 100 acre swamp and get a constant stream of rats an mice coming to get out of the cold during winter.

Our dogs eat a couple of mice each a day and I put poison in the roof for the rats.

Shot one off the phone line he was using to get into the house with my Shotty one day,,no phone for the rest of the weekend,,,,,,but I got the little shit:laugh:

Even have mice in the truck now an then,they seem to like empty pie wrappers an PET bottles for some reason.

[granstar]

Shot one off the phone line he was using to get into the house with my Shotty one day,,no phone for the rest of the weekend,,,,,, sorry but :killingme:killingme pun :killingme:killingme

[oldrider]

Saveloy's rats just can't resist saveloy's! Put a piece of saveloy in the back of an old coffee (type) tin and a gin trap at the front, bingo! :niceone:

[Swoop]

My money is on the Better Mousetrap
Not mine.

I have one and it is a waste of time, even with peanut butter.

[Smifffy]

http://cdn.instanttrap.com/trap.jpg




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[chiefofthehill]

Yep, and tie the trap to a lump of something heavy - little buggers will drag away those grey plastic traps if it only catches them by one leg.hey uncle T, everyone was telling me those grey plastic traps were the way to go, but had the same problem as you mention, so many disapaired so I went back to the old school traps... get em every time, this bugger had eaten the plastic around my engine coil.
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[victorious]

hey uncle T, everyone was telling me those grey plastic traps were the way to go, but had the same problem as you mention, so many disapaired so I went back to the old school traps... get em every time, this bugger had eaten the plastic around my engine coil.
Thats not a mouse bro... this is a mouse 284200 took about two hours to get her, moved the wood pile twice because thats where the dog said she was, then noticed a hole in the ground so dug that up was like a rabbit warren found the nest about a foot down, the dog ait the 12 babies but mum did a runner over I mean under a fence across a track under another fence and down another hole, you got it out with the spade again found her in the lounge but this time... the spade got her, now we sleep at night instead of listening to the dog barking at the wood pile all night.


Haha. We used to that in one of the power stations I worked at. Only trouble is they die behind walls or somewhere else where you can't find them. But you can sure smell them for a couple of weeks.cant be any worse than the bait we put in the ceiling after the traps all failed, bait got em and I have no idea wwere they went, composting under the batts I guess tho have not smelt anything.

[scumdog]

hey uncle T, everyone was telling me those grey plastic traps were the way to go, but had the same problem as you mention, so many disapaired so I went back to the old school traps... get em every time, this bugger had eaten the plastic around my engine coil.


Nah, a foot of copper wire attached to the trap and an old railway spike on the other end anchors them pretty good.

And if your Dad and Mum have chooks? - feed them the dead mouse - the chooks go mad over them.

Ya might get furry eggs though....

[Shadows]

Alternatively, adopt a cat from the SPCA

Yeah but once the cat has fucked the mouse over, you'll then need to get a dog to fuck the cat over.

[chiefofthehill]

Nah, a foot of copper wire attached to the trap and an old railway spike on the other end anchors them pretty good.

And if your Dad and Mum have chooks? - feed them the dead mouse - the chooks go mad over them.

Ya might get furry eggs though....

foot, copper wire, railway spike... how old are you?
hey pops I put the mice's on the fence posts for the hawks, thing is the damn magpie's chase them away, they have become so cocky they take a dump in the garage every morning, pound the windows with their snouts... got any ideas how to deal with them?

[unstuck]

foot, copper wire, railway spike... how old are you?
hey pops I put the mice's on the fence posts for the hawks, thing is the damn magpie's chase them away, they have become so cocky they take a dump in the garage every morning, pound the windows with their snouts... got any ideas how to deal with them?

http://www.waikatoregion.govt.nz/Services/Regional-services/Plant-and-animal-pests/Animal-pests/Magpies/Construction-of-a-magpie-trap/ :2thumbsup:2thumbsup

[Bikemad]

Alternatively, adopt a cat from the SPCA

bosslady has a spare cat i hear

[Akzle]

foot, copper wire, railway spike... how old are you?
hey pops I put the mice's on the fence posts for the hawks, thing is the damn magpie's chase them away, they have become so cocky they take a dump in the garage every morning, pound the windows with their snouts... got any ideas how to deal with them?

shotgun.
Failing that, slug gun.

[Laava]

I have a magpie distress tape, put that on and the lil fuckers come from miles away. Normally they are clever enough to be extremely gun shy but the tape seems to do the trick!

[Naki Rat]

According to Farmlands everyone seems to have rodent problems this year. Reckon they have never sold so many traps or poison.

We have 'traffic' going on in the ceiling so added a Nooski and a Victor to our arsenal a few weeks back.

Score so far is not great:

One fried by the Rat Zapper,
Plenty of bait stolen from the Victor but no catch as yet (I fucked with the trigger which probably has something to do with it :facepalm:),
They still don't seem to like the Nooski (baited with peanut butter) after two months,
And the poison just keeps on being eaten :sick:
Might look at the water bucket idea.....

+1 for the Better Mousetrap for mice. Simple as, and live capture gives the cat something to play with (when we're not laying poison).
http://www.sdr.ebiz.tw/NPDP/Projects/TRIZ_mouse_trap/better_mouse_trap.jpg

[granstar]

Corvids...magpies are best controlled by trapping, Beg or borrow a Larsen trap, use dog roll for bait and rid our country of these pesky Aussie overstayers. Most success iv'e had is with a judas bird, local councils can sometimes supply an out of territory one which is best.
Shooting them makes the many survivors gun shy, they are a very clever bird, they give our native birds hell and really are a pest growing in numbers each year.

Live capture of mice is a bit inhumane. Imagine you are caught in a trap in Bluff and let go In Auckland with no worldly possesions with you, that's what it is like for rodents i.e a mouse's home range is only 15 meters. ( rat 50).

As the summer has been dry following a mildish winter the breeding of rodents is high ( as well as rabbits, opposums, mustelids, feral pigeons, feral cats, etc.) there is plenty of hunting to be done.
Best practice is keep your turf free of crap and they are more likely to head to your neighbours instead ;)

Aside another pest really hard to control is starlings. Apart from the good option of lead poisoning, proofing/ exclusion, and denial of food source has anyone here had any other succesfull method of control other than trapping or stupor baiting?.

Cats are pretty useless at controlling mice, they can only eat so many and generally it's a game and they play with them half alive then hide them in your house as a test:lol:. I'm so old I can remember local grocery stores having a big fat cat sitting on the counter where you got your unwrapped bread and veges from :facepalm:

[SMOKEU]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSk79YcuIRQ

Fill the bucket half way with water, then they drown.

[tri boy]

they have become so cocky they take a dump in the garage every morning, pound the windows with their snouts... got any ideas how to deal with them?
Scoped up air rifle. Me n kanny had the exact same problem last year.
She shot 5. I got 4, Dino got 1 while visiting.
The Booyah tribe packed their black n white wings, and left the tree line.
Get the dominate male and all hell breaks loose as the subordinates fight for power, and the girls.

[granstar]

That video :killingme the peanut butter sales are going to rocket ( use crunchy).
First lesson, buy some pliers that will cut a coat hanger, then take care not to poke your eye out with the wire :crazy: Bit of a waste of 9 minutes as they never showed it actually worked, and could have. Water needs soap in it so a coating prevents climb out if you are going to the trouble to make one for your dog to lick clean :oi-grr:


Watch out Mickey chocolate eclair chewing rednecks out there to get you'll...valid point re- placement of trap.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YNVPQc47Pho

Anyone considering sonic devices, I can save you a bomb...they don't work.

[Banditbandit]

bosslady has a spare cat i hear

I thought that got curried ..


shotgun.
Failing that, slug gun.

Fuck ... if a shotgun fails I don't know that a slug gun will do any better ...

[nudemetalz]

We got our cat from the SPCA a couple of years ago because of the nasty mouse problem.
First 2 weeks he got about 10 of them,..then 2 years after that about 5 ........lazy fat feline....!!!

Mind you, he's bought in the odd rat, bird etc.....

I almost feel sorry for the little buggers when they're cornered and squeeling like mad as the cat is slowly crawling up to them asking if they have any last requests. Just hope they don't ask for a Pixie Caramel...... :lol:

[Road kill]

Got home half an hour ago an let the dog stampede in.
They rolled down the hall and straight in behind the fridge "which we leave out from the wall to save from damage.

Mouse did the usual and panicked,if they'd sit still the mutts couldn't get them but they always make a break for it.

Which never works because there's five dogs that all really like mice.

I look at the mice as little bundles of herbs an stuff the dogs probably need,plus they've never got crook from it so WTF.

[granstar]

bundles of herbs and stuff yep! :yes:


http://www.cdc.gov/rodents/diseases/direct.html

[Road kill]

yep! :yes:


http://www.cdc.gov/rodents/diseases/direct.html

Not to worried mate,the list of shit humans spread will probably be longer.

[Oakie]

We have a mouse problem at work and the manager concerned is looking at getting one of those electronic (electromagnetic) devices that is supposed to keep them away. Comments please...

http://www.pluginpestfree.co.nz/products/domestic-unit

http://www.pluginpestfree.co.nz/

I am dubious.

[martybabe]

We have a mouse problem at work and the manager concerned is looking at getting one of those electronic (electromagnetic) devices that is supposed to keep them away. Comments please...

http://www.pluginpestfree.co.nz/products/domestic-unit

http://www.pluginpestfree.co.nz/

I am dubious.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/home-living/outdoor-garden-conservatory/other/auction-606595778.htm . Got one of these a week ago and all has been quiet in the attic since, cross fingers:yes:

[scumdog]

We have a mouse problem at work and the manager concerned is looking at getting one of those electronic (electromagnetic) devices that is supposed to keep them away. Comments please...

http://www.pluginpestfree.co.nz/products/domestic-unit

http://www.pluginpestfree.co.nz/

I am dubious.

I'd rather kill 'em...

[Oakie]

I'd rather kill 'em...

Yeah, but we have trendy-lefty, tree-hugging hippies here who would rather not kill.

[Drew]

Yeah, but we have trendy-lefty, tree-hugging hippies here who would rather not kill.Start leaving food around. The fuckin hippies will change their tune, once they are ankle deep in mice!

[Road kill]

We have a mouse problem at work and the manager concerned is looking at getting one of those electronic (electromagnetic) devices that is supposed to keep them away. Comments please...

http://www.pluginpestfree.co.nz/products/domestic-unit

http://www.pluginpestfree.co.nz/

I am dubious.

My in laws have one,it works very well.

[granstar]

Got one of these a week ago and all has been quiet in the attic since that's because the mice are learning to dance a new step to the new frequencies, wait a week :banana:

[Naki Rat]

We have a mouse problem at work and the manager concerned is looking at getting one of those electronic (electromagnetic) devices that is supposed to keep them away. Comments please...

http://www.pluginpestfree.co.nz/products/domestic-unit

http://www.pluginpestfree.co.nz/

I am dubious.Did he get one of these? And if so is it working?

[granstar]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DQif_Omlmj8/ThMk6xI8zDI/AAAAAAAAE-g/kpRcUG2pohM/s320/dancing-mice.jpg





http://icwdm.org/Images/rat-norway/Norway17.gif

[dino3310]

I think i got all the little F%#kers out of my shed this was the last one (maybe)
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[dino3310]

this is what i do when i catch them alive.... warning some images my disturb some sensitive types:laugh:

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