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

[Smifffy]

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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.

[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 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/Ser...a-magpie-trap/

[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 ),
They still don't seem to like the Nooski (baited with peanut butter) after two months,
And the poison just keeps on being eaten
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).

[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. 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

[SMOKEU]

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 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 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


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...&v=YNVPQc47Pho

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