I know this is way OT but I’m sure some folks have opinions/experiences on it. With hunting season right around the corner It’s time to dust up at the camp. Seems every fall the mice head indoors….to our cabin. I was always skeptical of the electronic plug-in ultrasonic pest control devices…..should I remain skeptical of them?? Do they work?? Does anybody have any other proven method of keeping the mice from setting up camp in your camp?
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The five ultrasonic units in my house were a waste of money. I think the mice just get used to them.
Ideas....
Tons of traps, safely placed poison, get a cat, find a snake or two.
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” – Albert Einstein
over the years there have been an unbelievably long list of pest control methods offered...
how's yur sense of humor...
go to the search function...
request / type in..
pest control
mice
rats
squirrels
moles
and so forth...
have something handy to clean yur monitor and ket board...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
We had for a couple of years, a real mouse infestation. We don't have a cat and decided against getting a few rattlesnakes, so I just put out multiple traps, bated with peanut butter, and that really nailed em' for the first few months. But then we noticed that the traps were getting picked clean without snapping! Clever little devils...it was natural selection at work. Those with the survival traits survived and bred, and I guess the art of licking peanut butter without pushing down hard enough to trigger the trap is a gene that can be passed on.
Anyway, got a new neighbor with a big black cat, who has taken over out back yard and behold....no more mice!
BruceM
When using Victor mouse traps, I loosely wrap thread around the bait lever and rub a little peanut butter into it. It snags on their teeth causing a trip. I use chunky style PB and push a chunk into the curled part of the bait lever too - they have to really work at it to get anything. I have also found that the mice shy from traps that have already caught a critter - maybe there is a scent marking them. When a trap quits catching them I replace it with a new one. The new ones are more successful.
I also oil the spring and the bail - speeds up the "SNAP!"
Buy the traps with a metal trigger, not the fake plastic cheese. Wedge two sunflower seeds into each side of the trigger which is rolled over to form a small tube. The seeds go into each end of the tube.
They have to work to get the seed out. I'm batting about 90% on the hits vs misses now. “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” – Albert Einstein
still the second mouse gets the cheese...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Somewhere there's a thread about snakes...
http://www.ratzapper.com
I have an old house that gets mice. I've tried all the traditional traps, with limited success. Now I have a couple of RatZappers. This trap is basically a plastic tunnel with 2 battery operated metal plates at the closed end. You put bait at the end of the tunnel. The mouse enters the trap, touches both metal plates and gets instant death by electrocution. No blood, no mess, no mouse getting away with the bait.
For some reason we only get mice in the finished attic. Gotta love balloon framing.