Again with the mice!!!

[Fawn32 2]

On 10/13/2020 at 7:29 AM, tom2p said:

I've seen mice go under a shut garage door - a garage door with a good bottom rubber seal over a good concrete surface 

 

also seen mice crawl up the side of a brick exterior wall and go through a tiny mortar joint into the above overhang

 

 

Yep, that's why it's nearly pointless to try to keep them out. Just gotta find a way to either deter them from entering or kill 'em. 

[rjg854 11,389]

I very humainly, kill them!.

[Pullstart 62,922]

On 10/12/2020 at 7:28 PM, ebinmaine said:

Are there different levels of dead?

Kinda dead.  RARE

Regular dead.  MEDIUM RARE

Very dead. MEDIUM

Wicked dead. MEDIUM WELL

 

And last but not least, the level of well done... like my wife’s family likes their steaks!  It’s already dead y’all, we’re just warming it up a bit!

[Pullstart 62,922]

On 10/12/2020 at 7:28 PM, ebinmaine said:

Are there different levels of dead?

Kinda dead.  RARE

Regular dead.  MEDIUM RARE

Very dead. MEDIUM

Wicked dead. MEDIUM WELL

 

And last but not least, the level of well done... like my wife’s family likes their steaks!  It’s already dead y’all, we’re just warming it up a bit!

[Pullstart 62,922]

On 10/12/2020 at 7:28 PM, ebinmaine said:

Are there different levels of dead?

Kinda dead.  RARE

Regular dead.  MEDIUM RARE

Very dead. MEDIUM

Wicked dead. MEDIUM WELL

 

And last but not least, the level of well done... like my wife’s family likes their steaks!  It’s already dead y’all, we’re just warming it up a bit!

[Pullstart 62,922]

There.  Third time’s a charm!  

[Handy Don 12,244]

Kinda posted, regular posted, very posted, and WICKED posted 

[ebinmaine 67,695]

13 minutes ago, Handy Don said:

Kinda posted, regular posted, very posted, and WICKED posted 

Alright Don you've just proven that you are mentally twisted and comically enhanced and you should be able to fit in quite well around here. 

[Pullstart 62,922]

 

[Pullstart 62,922]

26 minutes ago, Handy Don said:

Kinda posted, regular posted, very posted, and WICKED posted 

 

11 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

Alright Don you've just proven that you are mentally twisted and comically enhanced and you should be able to fit in quite well around here. 

 

26 minutes ago, Handy Don said:

Kinda posted, regular posted, very posted, and WICKED posted 

 

11 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

Alright Don you've just proven that you are mentally twisted and comically enhanced and you should be able to fit in quite well around here. 

 

 

[Charbs152 254]

On 10/12/2020 at 1:58 PM, SylvanLakeWH said:

 

So, how about an update on how effective they have been in carrying out the intended task?

 

You happy with them?

 

Doing a good job?

they work awesome. i use the bucket traps also.  ive gotten 5-6 in it in one night

Edited January 13, 2021 by Charbs152

[Pullstart 62,922]

This is what happens when you let a kid poke the trap with a toothpick... at lunch time!  

 

 

[ebinmaine 67,695]

9 minutes ago, pullstart said:

This is what happens when you let a kid poke the trap with a toothpick... at lunch time!  

 

 

What kid? You?? She cleaning up your mess for you?

[AHS 1,443]

On 10/12/2020 at 7:28 PM, ebinmaine said:

Are there different levels of dead?

Kinda dead. 

Regular dead. 

Very dead. 

Wicked dead. 

 

Glad to hear you got that worked out. 

 

Wicked dead! I have 4 traps in my garage, and since fall, when I set bought and set them, I have caught 15 or so mice! One was reakin havoc up in my 73 wiring area, behind the dash!

[rjg854 11,389]

The jaws of death 

[ebinmaine 67,695]

We put a Bucket Of Death in the outdoor workshop a month or two ago and have not caught one single solitary mouse in the damn thing.

But the trap on the floor beside it has been mildly productive...

[WHNJ701 4,165]

I think my friend gave up on mice

Edited January 13, 2021 by jabelman

[ebinmaine 67,695]

14 minutes ago, jabelman said:

I think my friend gave up on mice

Maybe just resting in between voluminous catches?

[Ed Kennell 38,249]

Mrs K just saw one run across the living room.   No felines in this house, so I'll have to break out the traps.

[WHX?? 48,834]

Last count I got eight outside cats and I also feed birds so that pretty much throws out the welcome mat for mice. 

Early this winter I had mice get in my warehouse. I try to keep the cats out of there as they tend to  use the gravel floor as their personal littler box. Not fun laying on the gravel doing horse business then find out you were laying in it! 

Caught three of them in the victors  and locked my best mouser in there with a loaded cat box and she caught two more. I have also been feeding the cats their nightly ration of cat chow by the camper to hopefully put the fear of God in the mice. 

[SylvanLakeWH 25,606]

Perhaps it is time to bring out the big guns...

 

[Handy Don 12,244]

5 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

Alright Don you've just proven that you are mentally twisted and comically enhanced and you should be able to fit in quite well around here. 

Humor detector is working again! Hooray!

I do enjoy the banter and it is fun to join in now and again. 

@pullstart be sure to ding me the next time I do the double or triple post 

[Jeff-C175 7,202]

2 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

We put a Bucket Of Death in the outdoor workshop a month or two ago and have not caught one single solitary mouse in the damn thing.

But the trap on the floor beside it has been mildly productive...

 

I've used a slightly different design of the bucket of death that works fine with water in the bottom of it.  Caught many a mouse in it.  However, in the winter the water freezes so I decided to put some used anti-freeze in there... and haven't caught a single mouse since.  Anti-freeze seems to be a good mouse repellent!!

 

OR, maybe it's the skulk of Red Foxes that have taken up residence on a neighboring wooded area... see them every night out hunting.

 

OH!  and there was a BALD EAGLE munching on a Bambi carcass that I pulled out of the road and hid from SWMBO out in that area.  Two days in a row he visited!  between him and the black headed vultures there are only bones to dispose of now.

Edited January 13, 2021 by Jeff-C175

[wallfish 17,017]

We do the 5 gallon bucket trap but just sprinkle bird feed sunflower seeds to cover the water surface. It appears solid to them like the bucket 1/2 full of seed so they just hop right in. No spinning devices or trap doors or anything but a ramp. Works great for mice and chipmunks.

[WHX?? 48,834]

Anti freeze works good in the death bucket as the sweetness helps attract them. Also pets tho so be careful,  it in itself is a deadly poison. Don't feed mice drowned in it to the foxes. If it's a clean kill foxes love mice.