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Rodents drive me bonkers, mice stink and are annoying but within the last couple years rats seem to have moved into my back shed building nests on top of my firewood. Mice inside with traps are annoying, they never get on one trap, always just trip it and eat the bait and get away, so one day I made an array of traps around a stick of butter on the counter they'd attacked a couple days prior and caught the thing in I think 3 traps and lights went off... so I made a mouse trap board like attached. Once the rats came into play I did similar with rat traps as seen by the picture with a rat and mouse... same size board on both I think 16 mouse traps to 7 rat traps...
Just thought I'd share my idea as it sure makes things easier, they can't drag the traps around and with the allthread handle you don't even have to bend over to deal with them!
I have a cat, but he's alone and can only do so much, he's a ruthless hunter but is very opportunistic... the tiny bunnies are no match, any mice he sees or hears he catches, I think I saw him with a gopher yesterday. From what I hear rats are crafty and sneaky so traps it is for now... Next year I'll put up a predator pole or two to help out the resident redtail hawks and barn owls...
Oh, and while I'm here, the Tomcat wood traps are where it's at, I'd pay double for them over Victor, the schelac on the wood, coating on the metal parts, better bend on the end of the spring and nicer trip geometry makes them worth it. On the rat trap versions I made the plastic on the Victor has taken a beating where the cheap Bigfoot brand from Amazon seem to be troopers...
Just thought I'd share my idea as it sure makes things easier, they can't drag the traps around and with the allthread handle you don't even have to bend over to deal with them!
I have a cat, but he's alone and can only do so much, he's a ruthless hunter but is very opportunistic... the tiny bunnies are no match, any mice he sees or hears he catches, I think I saw him with a gopher yesterday. From what I hear rats are crafty and sneaky so traps it is for now... Next year I'll put up a predator pole or two to help out the resident redtail hawks and barn owls...
Oh, and while I'm here, the Tomcat wood traps are where it's at, I'd pay double for them over Victor, the schelac on the wood, coating on the metal parts, better bend on the end of the spring and nicer trip geometry makes them worth it. On the rat trap versions I made the plastic on the Victor has taken a beating where the cheap Bigfoot brand from Amazon seem to be troopers...
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