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   IMERC | Feb 25, 2004 07:19pm | #1

   Cream of wheat will pass thru too quickly...

    

   Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....

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   BossHog | Feb 25, 2004 07:33pm | #2

   Sounds pretty fishy to me.

   I heard once that mice had a hard time finding water. The theory was that if you soldered a soda bottle cap upside-down on the trigger of a mouse trap and filled it with water, you'd catch a lot of mice. I tried it and never caught a single one.

   Whatcha up to Norm?
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   AdamB | Feb 25, 2004 07:46pm | #3

   won't work.... the rats, if they do eat enough instant mashed potatos and then drink enough water to expand the stomach to point of discomfort... will simply vomit some extra out.....

   but if you mixed some poison in to the potatos......

   I like a 22 rifle myself

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   DaveMason2 | Feb 25, 2004 10:02pm | #4

    My son's blow dart gun was fun but it took forever(3hrs) to get one(mouse) and that was with bait.

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   AdamB | Feb 25, 2004 10:21pm | #5

   lol

   had a rat problem one time....

   I would put a mix of peanut butter with unsalted sunflowerseeds mixed in real well in the same place a couple of times a day.  I did this for about 3-4 days until the rats got to be OK with going out in the middle of a big dirt patch to eat...

   from inside the house (to muffle the noise) picked them all off...

   then went looking for the nest

   I don't really like blowguns,  but, those highpowered slingshots are pretty cool though.  if you put a big nall bearing in there it will go through the fence

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   glatt | Feb 25, 2004 10:27pm | #6

   I've had good luck with rat traps (large mouse traps) baited with peanut butter. The added benefit is that you can then dispose of the rat before it stinks up the joint.

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   jackplane | Feb 25, 2004 11:00pm | #7

   I use standard rat traps, but from the underside screw 1 1/4 drwall screws up within the perimeter of the trap. Nasty, but effective.

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   BossHog | Feb 25, 2004 11:37pm | #8

   I wonder if drywall screws are acceptable for that purpose ???

   Maybe Piffin will stop by and give us an informed opinion................(-:What's goin' down, Normie?My butt cheeks on that bar stool.

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   MisterT | Feb 26, 2004 12:26am | #9

   My doggies got one in our kitchen Last year.

   They were really upset when I took away thier new squeaky toy!Mr T

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   ronbudgell | Feb 26, 2004 12:37am | #10

   I had a rat problem once, too. I got one in  trap when I startled him as he was robbing it but the only thing that worked reliably was a garbage can half full of water with a baited aluminum foil dish on top of a layer of sawdust and chips. Cruel but effective.

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   4Lorn2 | Feb 26, 2004 04:07am | #12

   Re: "but from the underside screw 1 1/4 drwall screws up within the perimeter of the trap. Nasty, but effective."

   How did you get the mice to sit still while you screwed them into place? Perhaps a 'C-clamp' would work?

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   Taylorsdad | Feb 26, 2004 04:57am | #14

   Die too quick.  Not enough torture for those rodents.

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   4Lorn2 | Feb 26, 2004 04:03am | #11

   I too have had good luck with peanut butter but found that I would sometimes find tooth marks in the soft peanut butter. At least once the blob of bait had been removed without triggering the trap.

   I found that if I took a cotton ball and kneaded in peanut butter I got a mix that was still tasty and could be tightly tangled in the traps bail. A mix that still intoxicated hunger of the pesky critters but posed a far more physical extraction problem for the rodents. I even added a few wraps of dental floss to help tie the bait even more firmly in place. After this I never had a bait stolen.

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   Sphere | Feb 26, 2004 04:11am | #13

   dental floss..hmm, the ones that get away have clean teeth at least <G>

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   NickNukeEm | Feb 26, 2004 05:38am | #15

   Cats.  I have three, only two of which are hunters (ironically, they're female, the lazy slug is the male.)  The cats have cleared out  all our mole, mouse, chipmonk, and bird populations, and are waiting for spring for some more brainless rodents to show their furry and soon-to-be-ripped-from-their-sorry-body faces.

   The only down side to cats hunting virmin is cleaning up the entrails off the deck after they've played with them.  But I provide the paper towel so my kids won't have to work so hard.

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   slem2 | Feb 26, 2004 07:02am | #16

   Set a rat trap once and the critter got caught and drug the trap into a hole. From then on I always screw the trap to the floor!    BT

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   SamT | Feb 26, 2004 10:27am | #17

   Hey, where'd you get that picture of...

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   sungod | Feb 26, 2004 07:27pm | #18

   http://durmebugs.tripod.com/vandurmeexterminating/id9.html

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   GregGibson | Feb 26, 2004 09:30pm | #19

   Somewhere, sometime, somehow, when you least expect it, he'll get you for that ! !

   ( shaking my head and walking away  . . . . . )

   Greg