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

[unstuck]

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

[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 till you hunt them down in the morning. 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.


If it catches your finger its broken.

[scumdog]

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

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.

[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
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), 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!.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 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

[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

[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

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.
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

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 pun

[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!

[Swoop]

My money is on the Better Mousetrap

Not mine.

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