Mice tried to burn my house down

[old3dogg]

Sprucebunny,
Im sorry but this story has cracked me up. I have been laughing since the first post.
Im sorry sweet heart but the pic of oven fried mouse treats was way to much :D :D :D :D :D :D

Mice that die fron decon dont stink that much.The decon dries up most of the bodies fluid.And yes. They will seek water before they die.

[Jeff]

THe Boss uses decon at the mill. Wont listen to use. THe dang things die in the walls of the break room and STINK. One year It got so bad you could tell WHERE it was. tore off a sheet of paneling, and yup, there it was. I'd never use decon or poison around where a dwelling. Barn, maybe.

[Corley5]

I've been all around the house and haven't found where they're getting in but have an idea.  The house shrunk more this winter than it ever has in the past and the gaps between the trim and the ceiling are pretty big in some places and I'm afraid that's where the entry point is.  I can't move the trim up because by the 1st of June everything will be tight again.  I was thinking about some of that spray foam for windows and doors that doesn't expand and stays soft but think that the little bas***s will just chew through that.  There is a population of mice in the crawl space and always has been but they've never gotten into the living area before.  We always used D-con and spring traps at home and at camp.  Dead mice never smelled for very long after dying from D-con but they also got immune to it.  The old stuff anyway.  Dad switched to a Purina mouse poisin, a green pellet, and it was very effective but the carcasses smelled for longer.  The war has started ;)

[old3dogg]

Get ya a few stray female cats.
After the mice are all gone you have target practice for deer season.

[UNCLEBUCK]

 Hi everyone , the movie called never cry wolf is how my little woodshop looked last week after I stayed away from it since christmas . The other night I fired up the woodstove and blew the dust of my guitar and cranked up the amplifiers and plopped in my country tunes and I sat there watching mice one after another crawl up and down a extension cord and even across my copenhagen box so I put on a good dust mask and grabbed the air hose and blew and burned everything I didnt need in the woodstove and tossed d-con everywhere and I have not been back since . I look like a big elephant stomping around when I see a mouse . They just make me sick . I suppose I better throw in a box of air fresheners this week.  I am afraid that my doggy might grab a mouse full of d-con .

[chet]

No poison for me either. I'm not a fan of the smell of rotting mice. And I always worried a child will discover da mouses stash of decon.       Traps .........lots of traps.......a regular trap line.  ;D

[old3dogg]

Well see there UNCLEBUCK thats where you are going wrong.
Ya need to start chewing Skoal and jammin out some heavy metal and all of those mice will just run away 8)

[UNCLEBUCK]

I think I need a cat like termites there !  He"ll get the job done !  I once had a bag of gopher pellets and put in gopher holes and covered the hole up and found my nice black lab dog laying by the last hole , dug every hole up and ate the gopher pellets and died .  S.B. you need termites cat too ! old3dogg my mice must be deaf because noise doesnt scare them , they must have been there awhile and I didnt notice plus its dark too , they must be smarter than me !

[Phorester]

And a great big YEP!  to all the lethal methods described herein.  Good Lord.  Plenty of mice, they sure will never be an endangered species. 

[old3dogg]

Gee Phorester. dont let the "tree huggers" hear you say that! :D

[sprucebunny]

I'd like to see the animal rights people come up with a good argument to "save" mice  :D :D

[asy]

I'd like to see the animal rights people come up with a good argument to "save" mice  :D :D

Well, when they do...  We'll just use a humane trap and take the mice round to their place and let them all go in their lounge room...

See how many they want saved THEN!

Spring traps, for my money...  and bloody lots of them. 

Bait them with peanut butter and bacon.

asy :D

[Patty]

Over the years mice moved into our house every fall and spring, bringing along all their relatives and little trunks and suitcases  :    it was awful. For several years I tried the poison, but the stink was way worse than the mice. Every morning one of my sons would find his shoe full of the little green poison pellets, it was freaking him out 'cause he thought me and Norm were putting them in there! But I digress... This year I used the old fashioned mouse traps, and baited them with jam. For awhile we were getting several everyday....most of them from under the kitchen sink. In years past they would nest in the stove and under the refrigerator. They can ruin appliances very quickly  >:(
The traps worked great, no stink, and the mouse problem finally went away. At least so far so good. I still have all the traps set, but haven't caught one in a few months. Why use jam, you ask?    Well the jams dries and gets all hard and sticky and they really have to work to get it off, and before you know it....SNAP....another one bites the dust.  8)
At the new house we keep Angel the cat in the garage, he keeps the mice away, although I find little piles of feathers and beaks where he has snacked on a little bird now and then, but I figure it is a small price to pay. Maybe not for the bird.... :D

[farmerdoug]

I like and use the Catch-all repeating mouse traps.  No bait and they can catch up to twenty mice at a time.  I think Tractor Supply Stores sells them now.  It is a metal box with a hole through it that you put against the wall and has a winding handle on one side.  Since mice like to follow walls they will try to run through the hole and trip the trap.  I has a four wingd bat plate that knocks them into the holding chamber before they know what happened.  :D Just remember to check the trap regularly as them mice can really stink after a few days. :

[Rockn H]

Go high tech.  I never had much faith in this sort of thing until....
A year or so ago, we moved a moble home onto our land out in the country.  We put it right on the edge of a hay field with a pine thicket and pond on the other side of the trailer.  Replacing the glue traps was keeping me wife busy we were catching 3 to 5 mice a day.  My inlaws bought us 3 sunbeam rodent repellers and we plugged them in.  No More Mice.  In over a year we have had no rats, we still have the glue traps out but they stay empty.  Within 24 hours of plugging them in we have seen no signs of rats at all.  I'm sold.   ;)

[sawguy21]

pappy, how is his grouping at 100 yards? :D Betchya don't have any stray dogs either.

[asy]

Hey Spruce, I know where there's another one hiding!

OOOPS Got him!



Hope that helps!

asy :D

[pigman]

I haven't seen any mice in my house lately, but we found two big rats in the kitchen. They are so smart they built a plastic house to keep the cat away. ;) The cat belongs to oldest daughter. The rats belong to the youngest daughter. Don't know what kind of animals the other two children are bringing in for us to keep "temporarily". :

[sprucebunny]

asy ...  That's a pretty suspicious picture..... I think we might have found out why there are so many mice....asy is copying them  :D :D

Bob ... I kept some of the mice I caught in one of those cages several years ago. They were pithed ;D
One of them was a little friendly but then they had babies and then the mother ate them and then they got sent outside.   YUK

Had one of those electronic things ..... caught plenty of mice right in front of it  :

[asy]

asy ...  That's a pretty suspicious picture..... I think we might have found out why there are so many mice....asy is copying them  :D :D

OH NO!!

The Ruse is up!!

I'm CAUGHT OUT!!!

:D

asy :D

[Bibbyman]

SB,
Got Lead??   :D

I printed off this picture and showed it to the girls.  I thought they'd think it was funny.

Alex's comment was - "So?".  Rolled her eyes and went back to reading.  :

Brooke looked at it hard and heavy and said - "That kitten don't even know how to hold a gun.  Look at it's hand.  It's in the wrong place."  ;)

[asy]

Tell Brooke his Gun Instructor apologises:



asy :D

[pappy]

A friend of mine has a cabin down by the river about 1/4
mile from mine.  He only comes up three weeks a year on vacation.  He used to have a mouse problem until we got the idea for a "pail trap".

It's just a 5 gallon plastic pail with a two foot board for a ramp up to the rim and put some dried cereal in the bottom of the pail.  When he came back in the spring he had 5 dried out fur balls in the bottom of the pail.  The little suckers would jump in have their fill but couldn't jump back out.  I was with Bob when he opened up the camp that spring and when we walked in he looks in the pail and says "GOT MILK"   :D :D

It really works give it a try  8)

[Steve]

I made on of those with one difference. I took a small empty can (I used a condensed milk can as it had both the top and bottom in place) pierced a hole in the center top and bottom and pushed a stiff wire (coat hanger or brazingand long enough to span the top of the bucket) thru. Cut a couple of small notches in the top edge of the bucket so the can is suspended in the middle and will turn on the wire. Coat with peanut butter. Now when they come up the ramps they jump to the can it spins them into the bucket. I put water in the bucket.
I was milling in a camp situation and was gone a week. When I came back  I had not less than 25 floaters in the bucket.

[asy]

I was milling in a camp situation and was gone a week. When I came back  I had not less than 25 floaters in the bucket.

I sure hope you weren't the cook and this wasn't some new soup recipe!!!

asy :D