Mouse problems.....

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I usually leave some bowls of antifreeze out for them. I stick a old milk crate with a cinder block on top of it to keep the lazy ass cats out. My mouse problem has significantly lessened. Still a few running around.

I realized the idea when we tried draining the coolant from my friends J-10 and completely missed the bucket underneath and threw a bunch of cat litter on it to soak it all up. Over the next 3 days a good dozen mice were lying dead across the floor of the garage. Even saw a near dead one munching on the floor dry and ended up dying right on the pile not 2 hours later.

My current cat likes eating the mice he does kill, I'd be concerned that he'd start finding the half-dead mice and eating them. Seems a mouse that's drank enough coolant to kill himself might not be good for the cat to eat.

(I'm surprised nobody's mentioned this idea......and it's a smart-a$$ed one, so don't take it seriously.....)

Order up some good night-vision goggles, and get a good pellet-gun. (I wouldn't use a .22, for fear of going through ceilings.) Bait a spot out in a clear area, for good field of fire.

Have fun.

(Again, just a joke.......)

The thought has crossed my twisted mind before. If decent NVGs were not so pricey I might....

I always liked this one, never tried it:

1 one gallon bucket
1 coat hanger
1 empty beer can
1 3" wide, 2' long piece of wood
2 tablespoons of peanut butter.
Wire cutters
Punch

Straighten coat hanger and cutto a length that will span from side to side of the bucket.

Pierce the can lengthwise so it spins freely on coat hanger wire.

Attach can on the wire across the top of the bucket(check that it spins freely)

Coat the can with peanut butter.

Quarter fill the bucket with water.

Set bucket in an mouse infested location with the wood plank positioned as a ramp.

Mice (and rats) love peanut butter and will climb the ramp, leap onto the can, spin off into the water and drown.

You know, I had been thinking along those lines... I may have to build one of those and test it out.

I had also come up with a couple electronic mousetraps but decided they were a little too much work for the current situation.

it's not just you.





I use a single shot air pistol on mice.

I'm a good enough shot that every friend I have has seen me (repeatedly) take out carpenter bees and hornets from BETWEEN florescent tubes.

I've yet to break a tube by shooting it. Yes, I'm really that good)

Not too long ago a friend was suprised to see me grab up my air pistol and shoot something across the room.... Dead mouse, drilled it through the head too.

there are some that just don't fall for the decon.

I've gotten several crafty mice that were good enough to steal
my bait by adding various fun chemicals to the peanut butter
used for bait simple cyanides have worked in the past but I
long ago exhausted my small supply

I've also used short lengths of glass tubing filled with other fun chemical compounds, compounds heavy with nitrogen if anyone gets my drift,
that are unstable, percussion sensitive and shall we say lacking anything resembling a gentle thermodynamic slope back to the elemental
nitrogen they want to return to... (generally very HOT nitrogen which really wants to expand)

Even seen a mouse virtually shredded with glass shrapnel?

I can tell you they don't steal any more peanut butter...

there's also this charming compound known to the Romans who liked to drink it themselves... The Romans called it "defrutum", I call it Lead (II) Acetate.
Alchemists called it "Sugar of Lead" mixed into peanut butter and you don't even need traps.

Old fashioned "moth balls" ones that actually contain Napthalene are available at your local walmart are poisonous toxic and can really mess up people with certain types of anemia but they make a good "area denial" fumigant.

I use a slingshot to distribute them to the four corners of my attic.

AD

Love your ideas AD, the input is always appreciated.

 

[doorgunner]

git a long extension cord annnd some peanut butter (i like smooth, myself)....

plug the cord close to the nearest door or window & extend the cord outside as far as it will go....

now, take some smooth peanut butter and spread it evenly in the throat of the PAPER SHREDDER THAT YOU BORROWED.........

then plug the shredder to the extension cord......................

 

[doorgunner]

A D ..........................................maybe you could get a job with the CIA ...


"questioning" enemy combatants........


just a suggestion

 

[RatDog8o8]

I like some of those ideas........especially mixing things with the peanut butter.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

git a long extension cord annnd some peanut butter (i like smooth, myself)....

plug the cord close to the nearest door or window & extend the cord outside as far as it will go....

now, take some smooth peanut butter and spread it evenly in the throat of the PAPER SHREDDER THAT YOU BORROWED.........

then plug the shredder to the extension cord......................

Sorry to revive this thread from the dead, but....

I think I'm going to have to move to plan B. For whatever reason the mothballs (despite getting the old fashioned kind) do not seem to be demoralizing the enemy to a significant degree.

In other words as soon as the initial odor of mothballs subsides in the slightest, they are right back at it. They have totally destroyed the interior of two of my trucks despite having mothballs in them.

The numbers of them in the attic has declined for whatever reason. I suspect they may still be using it, but in the last year I think I have only trapped two of them. They seem to like my trucks and shed better.