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Mish mash => Open Forum => Topic started by: B.D.F. on November 21, 2013, 10:11:24 PM
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So I am at the local store and stop to pick up some mouse traps. I have several set in the garage in an effort to keep the little pests from building nests in my bike (some more) but the triggers are getting sticky and the mice keep eating all the bait and not setting off the trap. You know, basically outsmarting the whole human race, which puts me off a bit. So, to get back in the game with the little fellows. I was perusing through the various devices, all guaranteed to dispatch the pesky critters fast, easy, etc. etc. when I saw two traps types being sold side by side. One advertised "Kills mice quick!" while the other claimed to "Kills mice dead". Hmmmmm. What to do, did I want them killed quick or killed dead? I looked around to see if there was a third brand that maybe, just maybe would kill them fast and dead but alas, no such product. I could not decide so bought a package of both (two traps in a package). Now one was pretty conventional, had an upper jaw with teeth (that must be the part that results in the killed AND dead aspect!) while the other one had a safety mouse killing bar.... which I though was a nice touch although I am not sure what it does. Whatever, that was the fast one. But that one had a little trick which I really came to appreciate. Rather than having a trigger the mouse had to step on or tug, the bait well was fully covered with a small plastic dome that the mouse had to lift to get to the bait, and it was this lifting which triggered the trap. Now I thought that cleaver because the mouse could not begin eating before raising the cover and bringing the 'killing bar' down on his body, which apparently killed him.... and fast! So I set both up on the counter, got a butter knife and pretended it was a mouse along for a free meal. I must say, given the butter knife test only, the fast killing trap with the bait cover worked very well. The butter knife snuck up little by little on the trap, checking around and even behind it often for predators (pesky cats!). But when actually touching the trap, there was just no way to get his little head (the tip of the butter knife) to the bait without tripping the trap. Very ingenious! That butter knife never had a chance!
So now both traps are baited and set, side by side. We shall see.
Brian
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What are you using for bait?
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testicles
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Just caught one last night. My mice have a penchant for peanut butter. I use the simple mouse traps baited with that. It works every time...
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Sounds all fine and dandy. But will it get this fella? http://youtu.be/Plz9JxsnhH4 (http://youtu.be/Plz9JxsnhH4)
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Possibly not...
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So I set both up on the counter, got a butter knife and pretended it was a mouse along for a free meal. I must say, given the butter knife test only, the fast killing trap with the bait cover worked very well. The butter knife snuck up little by little on the trap, checking around and even behind it often for predators (pesky cats!). But when actually touching the trap, there was just no way to get his little head (the tip of the butter knife) to the bait without tripping the trap. Very ingenious! That butter knife never had a chance!
So now both traps are baited and set, side by side. We shall see.
Brian
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The quick and the dead?
I'm having this same issue in my garage. Those rodents aren't getting after my bike (yet) but I found a nest under the engine cover of my Jetta along with some insulation that the little bastards must have pulled from the car somewhere. >:(
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The problem that I seemed to be having is that the mice there are VERY small and they're eating the peanut butter without springing the trap. I decided to make one of those 5 gallon bucket traps.
Bucket Mouse and Rat Trap (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OijRH-lduq4#ws)
I set the trap before I went to work one day last week and when I got home I had me a mouse! I may be too tender hearted and as such I didn't want to drown the lil critter. My plan was to catch them and carry them over to the corn field down the block from me. So after I went into the house to let the dogs out I came back out to the garage to deal with the mouse. The damn thing was gone! No way he climbed up the inside of the bucket so he must have been able to jump to freedom.
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No problem, I'll just use I taller bucket. That seems to have done the trick because the next day I had another mouse. This one wasn't the same as the lil one who escaped relocation, he was a larger mouse which did get relocated. I'm still hoping to catch that lil one who got away.
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Say, has anyone seen Conrad? Maybe he is over there in his new corn silo. That's not a corn silo, that is his mousetrap....
Brian
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The damn thing was gone! No way he climbed up the inside of the bucket so he must have been able to jump to freedom. No problem, I'll just use I taller bucket. That seems to have done the trick because the next day I had another mouse.
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Peanut butter. But lately it has been more of a form of 'mouse chow' than bait.
Brian
What are you using for bait?
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:popcorn: Great stuff.
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On the plus side of peanut butter as a bait, if they just eat it and don't set off the trap, then it will bind them up so they can't deposit anything on my workbench. That should kill them as well but will take more time.
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Basic Victor trap for me. I clamp a piece of almond in the jaw and put a little peanut butter under the trigger. Then put them along the wall with the trigger facing the wall so as they scurry along the wall they are forced to go over or around but they will smell that peanut butter. And if they carefully lick it off they still want a bite of the almond. Works every time.
(http://www.thetoolstore.ca/catalog/054420140.jpg)
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Basic Victor trap for me. I clamp a piece of almond in the jaw and put a little peanut butter under the trigger. Then put them along the wall with the trigger facing the wall so as they scurry along the wall they are forced to go over or around but they will smell that peanut butter. And if they carefully lick it off they still want a bite of the almond. Works every time.
(http://www.thetoolstore.ca/catalog/054420140.jpg)
Those are the same traps that I have except the metal trigger isn't, it's plastic. Maybe I'll try the trick with the peanut butter under the trigger and hot melt glue an almond to the plastic trigger. I place my traps just as you described.
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those little metal triggers are the best because if it is moved in any direction it goes off. Left, right, up or down. the newer cheese looking plastic triggers only work when pressed down.
Good
(http://www.thetoolstore.ca/catalog/054420140.jpg)
Not as good
(http://i-store.walmart.ca/images/WMTCNPE/222/888/1222888_Enlarged_1.jpeg)
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Do you double dip the peanut butter jar when you're reloading the traps? ::)
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Do you double dip the peanut butter jar when you're reloading the traps? ::)
The mice don't seem to mind at all. ;)
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The mice don't seem to mind at all. ;)
I don't eat peanut butter so it doesn't bother me either.
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Do you double dip the peanut butter jar when you're reloading the traps? ::)
My wife asked me that same question. I had many a witty reply in mind. I played it safe and went with no.
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I had a woman watch me baiting two traps to take out into the garage one night. She watched me open the packages containing the mouse traps and so knew they were new. Then she watched me take a butter knife out of the drawer to use to bait the traps.... and then she said something like 'Well, I guess I won't be eating any peanut butter here!' I asked her what part of putting a clean utinsel into a jar of peanut butter bothered her and she said it was 'just skeevy'. Go figure.
Then again, maybe it IS skeevy and that is why the mice eat the peanut butter off the trigger (easy boys!) slowly and therefore don't set off the trap.
I have had really bad luck with the old type, trigger traps, at least using peanut butter. Maybe clamping a nut in there is a good idea. I mean a nut from a tree, not the mouse's ...... nevermind.
Brian
Do you double dip the peanut butter jar when you're reloading the traps? ::)
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You mean like 'No honey, but I didn't want to get my fingers all peanut- buttery so I used my XXXXX.'
Brian
My wife asked me that same question. I had many a witty reply in mind. I played it safe and went with no.
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argggggg
this was last year
this crap was packed into the C14 tail section... and more up under the tank above the throttle bodies,,
(http://i1327.photobucket.com/albums/u672/MAN_OF_BLUES/old%201/COG%20TECHNICAL%20PHOTOS/2333668260015463693TiQgPN_fs.jpg) (http://s1327.photobucket.com/user/MAN_OF_BLUES/media/old%201/COG%20TECHNICAL%20PHOTOS/2333668260015463693TiQgPN_fs.jpg.html)
this was what they did 4 years ago in Va.... ate the cable connected to the throttle position sensor.... try fixing that wire without removing every freaking part of the intake system....arggg
(http://i1327.photobucket.com/albums/u672/MAN_OF_BLUES/old%201/COG%20TECHNICAL%20PHOTOS/2193720940015463693mrclGQ_fs.jpg) (http://s1327.photobucket.com/user/MAN_OF_BLUES/media/old%201/COG%20TECHNICAL%20PHOTOS/2193720940015463693mrclGQ_fs.jpg.html)
this was last years....
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(http://i1327.photobucket.com/albums/u672/MAN_OF_BLUES/old%201/COG%20TECHNICAL%20PHOTOS/2510039320015463693zcikXz_fs.jpg) (http://s1327.photobucket.com/user/MAN_OF_BLUES/media/old%201/COG%20TECHNICAL%20PHOTOS/2510039320015463693zcikXz_fs.jpg.html)
(http://i1327.photobucket.com/albums/u672/MAN_OF_BLUES/old%201/COG%20TECHNICAL%20PHOTOS/2828442810015463693gASTHo_fs.jpg) (http://s1327.photobucket.com/user/MAN_OF_BLUES/media/old%201/COG%20TECHNICAL%20PHOTOS/2828442810015463693gASTHo_fs.jpg.html)
after last years adventures wit dem meeses, I went to the water bucket trap route, made 3 of them, and they worked like a charm.... I didn't give a hoot about them drowning...(if you can't hear them scream, it works....eh Clarissa... the screaming of the meeses....
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I have to re-do them all this weekend... I have to say they cannot steal the peanut butter from these....
(http://i1327.photobucket.com/albums/u672/MAN_OF_BLUES/old%201/COG%20TECHNICAL%20PHOTOS/2617627010015463693Sjhzjw_fs.jpg) (http://s1327.photobucket.com/user/MAN_OF_BLUES/media/old%201/COG%20TECHNICAL%20PHOTOS/2617627010015463693Sjhzjw_fs.jpg.html)
if you don't put at least 2" of water in the bucket, they can hop right out....
but when they are wet, it ain't happenin...
I use 50/50 antifreeze (recycled when I do my coolant changes), and have at least 3" in the bottom.
They don't last long. ;)
also gave them a couple "bait" boxes to snack on....
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:censored: :censored: Kill them all! :cannon: :shoot:
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:censored: :censored: Kill them all! :cannon: :shoot:
yeah, that's my feelings after I spent half the night repairing the harnesses so I could get my inspection.....
the more pain they feel is just Karma telling them to avoid the bike.... :rotflmao: :cool:
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What's all this Rich? I thought you were seriously opposed to modifying the C-14 and always told everyone to just leave it alone? Are you now advocating tinkering with the wiring harnesses? ?? ?? ??
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Yep, the bucket / bottle / welding rod thingy works well but I just can't bring myself to drown the little guys. Snapping their little heads, now that seems to be OK but the struggling an swimming part bothers me.... Not dumping on anyone else for doing it, and I know it works great, just that I can't quite bring myself to set one of those up.
Brian (wonder how I am doing in the 'Brian vs. the rodents' contest?)
argggggg
this was last year
this crap was packed into the C14 tail section... and more up under the tank above the throttle bodies,,
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You mean like 'No honey, but I didn't want to get my fingers all peanut- buttery so I used my XXXXX.'
Brian
:)
That was one of the replies that I had in mind.
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...(if you can't hear them scream, it works....eh Clarissa... the screaming of the meeses....
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After looking at your pics I think that I had better have a very close inspection of my C14 when I get home. It was snowing this morn so I didn't ride to work.
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Yep, the bucket / bottle / welding rod thingy works well but I just can't bring myself to drown the little guys. Snapping their little heads, now that seems to be OK but the struggling an swimming part bothers me.... Not dumping on anyone else for doing it, and I know it works great, just that I can't quite bring myself to set one of those up.
A few years ago I had just opened our pool up for the season and I didn't get the ladder set-up yet. One of the squirrels that lives in our trees drowned in the pool. I thought about that poor animal swimming and swimming till he couldn't swim any longer and finally drowning. I felt like crap about that. I just can't bring myself to do that to the lil **** assed mice. Killing them instantly is a different story.
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What's your point? Just because you are too wussy to use the bike you want to deny its use to a few adorable, furry little critters (easy boys!)? You are a hard- hearted man Conrad!
;D
Brian
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After looking at your pics I think that I had better have a very close inspection of my C14 when I get home. It was snowing this morn so I didn't ride to work.
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I love you Conrad! :-*
I think you are talking about cousin Ralphy. There is more to that story than you might know- the other squirrels were teasing Ralphy by telling him they did not believe he could swim. Just then, there was this old guy taking the cover off a pool under the tree they were nesting in. You know how it turned out..... :'(
Kirby
A few years ago I had just opened our pool up for the season and I didn't get the ladder set-up yet. One of the squirrels that lives in our trees drowned in the pool. I thought about that poor animal swimming and swimming till he couldn't swim any longer and finally drowning. I felt like crap about that. I just can't bring myself to do that to the lil **** assed mice. Killing them instantly is a different story.
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What's your point? Just because you are too wussy to use the bike you want to deny its use to a few adorable, furry little critters (easy boys!)? You are a hard- hearted man Conrad!
;D
Brian
I know, I know. I'm a mean man. Hey, if the rodents can pack a fob and throw a leg over the bike, they can take er for a ride. As long as they don't eat any Connie parts, I'm good with that.
Wait, what old guy? :battle:
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I love you Conrad! :-*
I think you are talking about cousin Ralphy. There is more to that story than you might know- the other squirrels were teasing Ralphy by telling him they did not believe he could swim. Just then, there was this old guy taking the cover off a pool under the tree they were nesting in. You know how it turned out..... :'(
Kirby
I can believe that story! Oh the looks that I got from the remaining squirrels...
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Most of them are harmless..... but watch out for Aunt Edna! She gots rabies and she goes right for the nuts! Who am I kidding- we all go right for the nuts. Even faster if they are in a burl bowl. And not just any kind of burl but real, amboyna burl bowls.
(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f82/BDF08012008/Kirbysnutsnwood.jpg) (http://s45.photobucket.com/user/BDF08012008/media/Kirbysnutsnwood.jpg.html)
Kirby
I can believe that story! Oh the looks that I got from the remaining squirrels...
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Most of them are harmless..... but watch out for Aunt Edna! She gots rabies and she goes right for the nuts! Who am I kidding- we all go right for the nuts. Even faster if they are in a burl bowl. And not just any kind of burl but real, amboyna burl bowls.
(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f82/BDF08012008/Kirbysnutsnwood.jpg) (http://s45.photobucket.com/user/BDF08012008/media/Kirbysnutsnwood.jpg.html)
Kirby
Mmmm, walnuts!
Hey, that reminds me of a joke. Um, on second thought never mind...
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Burl.........ahhhhhhhhh.
Just came back with 4 more instruments of destruction and death for any mouse brave enough to venture into my garage. The only way I'll spare them is if they install my Canyon Cages for me. Other than that, they're mice toast.
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Jim- you cannot successfully rid your garage of mice using a toaster. Those toasters, or 'instruments of destruction' as you call them simply won't work. Even if you get the mouse into a toaster slot, they just won't stay still long enough for you to actually toast them.
Why not just use mouse traps like the rest of us? Sheesh!
Brian
Burl.........ahhhhhhhhh.
Just came back with 4 more instruments of destruction and death for any mouse brave enough to venture into my garage. The only way I'll spare them is if they install my Canyon Cages for me. Other than that, they're mice toast.
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;D
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Mmmmm, toast. Lightly buttered with some orange marmalade please.
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Mmmmmmmmm, orange marmalade...
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Jim- you cannot successfully rid your garage of mice using a toaster. Those toasters, or 'instruments of destruction' as you call them simply won't work. Even if you get the mouse into a toaster slot, they just won't stay still long enough for you to actually toast them.
Why not just use mouse traps like the rest of us? Sheesh!
Brian
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Mmmmmmmmm, orange marmalade...
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What about the fledermaus? Flying mouse, bats, any traps for them? I knock them out of the air with a broom then carry them outside with a leather glove and dispatch them. I got the house sealed off now, shouldn't be a problem anymore right? ;D
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Yeah, right. Do you realize how small of an opening a mouse can get through?
http://youtu.be/r6dDCgX4R5o (http://youtu.be/r6dDCgX4R5o)
http://youtu.be/-2m7Z0OvGX4 (http://youtu.be/-2m7Z0OvGX4)
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They were getting into the house via holes on the mortar of my chimney which was made with lime based mortar in 1926. I plugged as much as I could then just had it tucked pointed and had the other side relined that serviced the water tank and furnace. Then I went around and sealed anything bigger than a crack with foam. I had some decent holes in the mortar and since I wasn't using my fireplace it was perfect for bats. We'll see.
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:popcorn: :chugbeer:
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I think I got the only mouse that was in the garage. So far no more of it's relatives have taken the bait and I haven't heard anything in the walls.
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I checked my trapline this am and no meeces yet. Bait still in the traps too so we seem to be flying a holding pattern. Do choosy mice really prefer Jif?
Brian
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That's what I use. They like that better than Peter Pan. They really hate the organic stuff.....ugh....don't blame them.
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Anything sweet, I use bits of cookies or crackers.
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:censored: :censored: Kill them all! :cannon: :shoot:
+2 or 3
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I checked my trapline this am and no meeces yet. Bait still in the traps too so we seem to be flying a holding pattern. Do choosy mice really prefer Jif?
Brian
If the peanut butter from Aldi is good enough for me then it's good enough for the friggin rodents! :)
Me and the mice in my garage seem to be in a holding pattern as well, or maybe a standoff?
I checked the bike over REAL close yesterday and so far so goot.
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Careful Conrad, you might be mistaking an end to the problem while they are merely falling back to regroup.... The new plan could be startling and end up choking your rivers with their dead!
Maybe we need bigger throttle bodies on our mousetraps, did you ever think of that?
Brian
If the peanut butter from Aldi is good enough for me then it's good enough for the friggin rodents! :)
Me and the mice in my garage seem to be in a holding pattern as well, or maybe a standoff?
I checked the bike over REAL close yesterday and so far so goot.
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If we mixed a little reefer with the peanut butter we might rob the little a##holes of the intelligence needed to make the throttle bodies work for them. Then they could find somewhere else to spread their joy.
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Careful Conrad, you might be mistaking an end to the problem while they are merely falling back to regroup.... The new plan could be startling and end up choking your rivers with their dead!
Maybe we need bigger throttle bodies on our mousetraps, did you ever think of that?
Brian
It can't hurt at least, right?
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Oh I think intelligence robbing is not needed for some installing throttle bodies.
As to the mice, my score might shoot up today / tonight; the temp was 20 F last night and is going down to 14 F tonight. They might want to go someplace warm and dry.... with just a bit of fine smelling food to seal the deal.
One of the new traps I got is really quite clever I think- it does not have a traditional trigger but rather a food cover that acts as a trigger. The bait is in a well with a cover over it, and that cover is the trigger but it must be raised to trip the trap. So at least the little b($(#(%$ can't eat the bait, run off to a corner and chuckle when they see my frustrated look. I guess I don't mind a draw- neither one of us gains ground but I don't like losing to a mouse. I mean not catching them is bad enough but I am actually feeding them when the trap does not spring....
Brian
If we mixed a little reefer with the peanut butter we might rob the little a##holes of the intelligence needed to make the throttle bodies work for them. Then they could find somewhere else to spread their joy.
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If we mixed a little reefer with the peanut butter we might rob the little a##holes of the intelligence needed to make the throttle bodies work for them. Then they could find somewhere else to spread their joy.
I tired that before G. It's damn hard to keep the joint lit. Me and the mice had a good time trying though. 8)
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Mental picture is :rotflmao:
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I tired that before G. It's damn hard to keep the joint lit. Me and the mice had a good time trying though. 8)
Next time just let them swim in the bottom of the bong ;)
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Our house is an 1860 railway cottage with stone and flint walls.Plenty of cracks for the little fart knockers to get in. And its been a regular winter sport putting down poison and traps. To date, the little feckers have eaten - £100 worth of neoprene waders, £150 leathers ..(.well, not just nibbled away at the leather and waders but they do tend to **** on everything too) and a tent.
This winter hasn't gotten off too bad yet. 2 nil to me so far.We have rats in the garden sometimes but the air rifle gets them...and those pesky grey colonial..ex-colonial squirrels. I tried the can on a bit of string over the bucket idea and just lost loads of peanut butter. One idea I had was adding antifreeze to the peanut butter (no people around by us, so no issues) - no holds barred when it comes to rodents.
I use the DR every day and check both bikes and the garage for poop etc and annihilate as required. No prisoners and no quarter
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Your gov still lets you have air rifles?
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Er, I am reasonably fluent in English- English translations but this is beyond my limited abilities. Please explain the following terms:
Railway cottage. Was that a house that used to be rolling stock? I do not understand the link between cottage and railway.
Neoprene waders- I want to guess on this one Alex.... are those rubber boots?
Leathers. ??
Garden [English] = yard [American] Got that one.
Colonial / Ex- Colonial squirrels. ?? Gray Squirrels? Are they from the new world and not native to England?
You are not doing the can on a string thing right- the can is really a plastic bottle, and the string is really a steel rod. The can / string thing is just a test to see if rodents can climb a rope and they most certainly can. Stop testing them and get to killing them. :-)
Poison is OK but only if there is no chance of any pet getting to it. Personally, I would not bother and just go with the improved 'string on a can' method mentioned above.
DR everyday. What is DR? Does DR not come in a two- day version? Is DR not available in a trans- dermal, one per week, patch?
I LOVE writing back and forth with Limeys! (that is not an insult, merely slang for what we call you- sorta' like you calling us Yanks).
Brian
Our house is an 1860 railway cottage with stone and flint walls.Plenty of cracks for the little fart knockers to get in. And its been a regular winter sport putting down poison and traps. To date, the little feckers have eaten - £100 worth of neoprene waders, £150 leathers ..(.well, not just nibbled away at the leather and waders but they do tend to **** on everything too) and a tent.
This winter hasn't gotten off too bad yet. 2 nil to me so far.We have rats in the garden sometimes but the air rifle gets them...and those pesky grey colonial..ex-colonial squirrels. I tried the can on a bit of string over the bucket idea and just lost loads of peanut butter. One idea I had was adding antifreeze to the peanut butter (no people around by us, so no issues) - no holds barred when it comes to rodents.
I use the DR every day and check both bikes and the garage for poop etc and annihilate as required. No prisoners and no quarter
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No and peanut butter is gonna' be next once this guy mixes it with anti- freeze....
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Brian
Your gov still lets you have air rifles?
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I LOVE writing back and forth with Limeys! (that is not an insult, merely slang for what we call you- sorta' like you calling us Yanks).
Brian
Limeys? >:( Twit.
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Oh don't act all.... well, Limey- like! You are only half- Limey and if you didn't tell us we wouldn't even know. Two or three more generations at the most and your lineage will be a distant memory and only a small embarassement to your offspring.
<duckin', runnin' and grinnin'>
Brian
Limeys? >:( Twit.
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Unfortunately, what you say is true and sad at the same time......at least to me.
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Leathers. ??
Now that one you should have gotten. Not everyone wears textile motorcycle gear.
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Ah, leathers = motorcycle leathers. Yes, makes perfect sense and even works in the US too. I guess I was just looking for something else being it was a UK who wrote that post. And to be honest, I was a little ascairt (scared) of learning what it might really mean- wait until an Englishman asks to borrow a rubber. :yikes: :yikes: :yikes: :yikes: Like I would want it back.....
Back on topic: trapline clear, peanut butter frozen (temp. here is around 20 F and heading down with lots 'o wind), mice hiding.
Brian
Now that one you should have gotten. Not everyone wears textile motorcycle gear.
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Aw, there, there Jim. Maybe every once in a while, generations from now, when your decendants are learning to use utinsils and little Joey eats with his knife, some on- looker will stop and think: Limey!
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Most of us are a mixed lot in the US and getting more and more mixed everyday. About the best I can do is say that to the best of my knowledge, my ancestors were European but even that is uncertain. Let's face it, unless you are of royal blood or some such, we really don't know where we came from, certainly not for hundreds of years at least. And besides all that, a pure- blooded Englishman is really.... German and Norse and a little French and some Celt and some Pict and.... about everything else anyway so there isn't much to long for IMO.
Brian
Unfortunately, what you say is true and sad at the same time......at least to me.
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Aaaaaargh!
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Kirby checked the trapline and reported back. We got one on the ole' mouse scoreboard:
Raid: Kills mice dead! 1
Victor: Kills mice fast! 0
Godspeed little mouse- dude, Godspeed.
Here's Kirby pointing to the trap with the most points:
(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f82/BDF08012008/MouseScore1.jpg) (http://s45.photobucket.com/user/BDF08012008/media/MouseScore1.jpg.html)
(We're gonna' need an emoticon of a someone giving a crisp 'mouse grade' salute or something....)
Brian
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:salute: We have one, slightly irreverent of course.... You must not have looked hard enough.
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I found this on the interwebs and modified it a bit.
Death of Mickey Mouse
The Walt Disney Studios regrets to announce that Mickey Mouse, the oldest, and probably foremost (with due regards to Mr. Donald Duck, who is also equally well-respected) passed away, apparently last night, and was discovered by his wife, the well known Minnie Mouse. It is surmised that he died of poisoning. The death seems to have been instigated by BDF, with Kirby as his accomplice.
Mickey (or as he was known to his many Spanish friends) Miguelito Ratonchita, came from humble beginnings as a petty thief, taking bread crumbs from the art easel of Walt Disney. It was Mickey’s pluck (do people have pluck nowadays?) that inspired Walt (everyone called him Walt) to transition from drawing nose art for air corps bombers to drawing Mickey. He made fun of Mickey by drawing these outrageous ears, but Mickey, being a professional actor didn’t mind and coined the phrase, “there are no small parts, only small actors.” Or something like that. Mickey was not very bright.
“One of the best things that ever happened to me,” was what Mickey said when Walt penned Minnie and they went on (Mickey and Minnie, not Mickey and Walt) to a happily married (because this was the thirties and you had better be married or, well, never mind) life. It is said that Mickey and Minnie had three-hundred and fifty-six children, but since none of them made it in show business, we don’t care.
Services will be held in the Little Chapel of the Mice, which is reached by taking the second mouse hole in the floor of the first gift shop in Disneyland. You must be two inches tall or less to enter.
Burial will be at the Forest Lawn of the Field Mice at the Mouse Kingdom. Pallbearers include Popeye, Yosemite Sam, Sylvester, Bluto and Pluto, and Fritz the cat, who will remain behind, after the others have left, to guard the casket.
:chugbeer: :chugbeer:
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Nuh uh! It was a spinal cord injury and besides, I don't know nothin' about it! I swear. I was home all night with my wife. We were watching TV. I can prove it because I can tell you what was on the night the mouse
was killed died.
I think it was a plot. Maybe a conspiracy. It is all a cover- up I tells' ya'. You have no idea how high this reaches! You better back off or the black helicopters will come for ya'!
Brian <shiftily looks left, then right>
<snip, or is that snap?>
It is surmised that he died of poisoning. The death seems to have been instigated by BDF, with Kirby as his accomplice.
<snip>
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If only Mickey had KIPASS. Kippy has all the "pluck" he needs ;)
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I do believe we have hit a new low... :yikes:
:rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
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Next time just let them swim in the bottom of the bong ;)
:finger_fing11:
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Nuh uh! It was a spinal cord injury and besides, I don't know nothin' about it! I swear. I was home all night with my wife. We were watching TV. I can prove it because I can tell you what was on the night the mouse was killed died.
I think it was a plot. Maybe a conspiracy. It is all a cover- up I tells' ya'. You have no idea how high this reaches! You better back off or the black helicopters will come for ya'!
Brian <shiftily looks left, then right>
My bad, I wuz thinkin that was a poison trap. Oh well, guess I ain't quite as perfect as I thought I were. ;)
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I do believe we have hit a new low... :yikes:
:rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
For you possibly, not for the ones that have been here for awhile. It can get much lower... ;)
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And I can't wait. :_shudder_Emoticon
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Say little girl, how you doin'?
What's a nice rodent like you doing in a place like this?
If you want me, just whistle. You know how to whistle, right- just put what would have been your lips together and blow; I'll recognize the hiss.
Kirby
If only Mickey had KIPASS. Kippy has all the "pluck" he needs ;)
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Nope, don't use poison. In a better world, I would catch the little guys and let them outside but unfortunately they just come back inside where they know it is warm. So for lack of a better method, it is the typical mechanical mousetrap for me. Or should I say... them.
Brian
My bad, I wuz thinkin that was a poison trap. Oh well, guess I ain't quite as perfect as I thought I were. ;)
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Maybe I'm using the wrong bait in my traps.
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The problem with that Conrad is that you are limiting yourself to the heterosexual mice. What about the homosexual mice- they are gonna' walk right past ole' Minnie. They might go for Minelli (Liza) but you ain't gonna' get to many straight mice with bait like that.
But everybody loves Jif! Even the vegetarian mice. Even the vegan mice. Why, I think you might even get a Jewish mouse on the Sabbath- sure they are not supposed to eat but what's a little nosh when nobody's lookin'? Just make sure you are using Jif is Kosher. The Islamic mice wouldn't even stop and consider before diving in. Same thing regarding Indian mice (south Asia). Now for the Asian mice, you might catch them with peanut butter, or you might need to put a drop or two of soy sauce on the peanut butter.
Brian
Maybe I'm using the wrong bait in my traps.
(http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18mmci33pekncjpg/original.jpg)
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Jeez and shucks...etc. Note to self - turn on transatlantic translation module before confusing them lil' ol hill billies. Is hill billies one word? I used to catch 'em and release the mice bit I'm certain they just laughed and ran back in the garage or house. House that used to belong to the railway line and was used to house the resident level crossing operator - level crossing ...er...don't know what that is in yankese.
Waders - not a bird that paddles. But fishing trousers... ::)
No pets except goldfish and they don't like peanut butter. Or get to the garage.
Leathers - er...leather trouser and jacket for riding a 'sickle...or is it mo'cickle? Languages eh?
And I'm 1/72 cherokee or so I'm told ...or is it sioux...or inuit? ;D
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The problem with that Conrad is that you are limiting yourself to the heterosexual mice. What about the homosexual mice- they are gonna' walk right past ole' Minnie. They might go for Minelli (Liza) but you ain't gonna' get to many straight mice with bait like that.
But everybody loves Jif! Even the vegetarian mice. Even the vegan mice. Why, I think you might even get a Jewish mouse on the Sabbath- sure they are not supposed to eat but what's a little nosh when nobody's lookin'? Just make sure you are using Jif is Kosher. The Islamic mice wouldn't even stop and consider before diving in. Same thing regarding Indian mice (south Asia). Now for the Asian mice, you might catch them with peanut butter, or you might need to put a drop or two of soy sauce on the peanut butter.
Brian
Wow, too many things to consider in this mouse hunt!
You're confusing your mice Brian. Minnie is/was Mickey's girlfriend. Pearl Pureheart and Mitzi were Mighty Mouse's girlfriends.
Pearl
(http://www.toonopedia.com/mightym.jpg)
Mitzi
(http://media.monstersandcritics.com/articles2/1523699/article_images/mouse1.jpg)
After the Mighty Mouse cartoon ran it's course Pearl Pureheart ran onto hard times and had to do what she could to make ends meet.
(http://images.wikia.com/terrytoons/images/5/59/Paul-terry-toons-oil-can-harry-and-pearl-pureheart-1-.jpg)
(http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs42/i/2009/098/6/1/Mighty_Mouse___Pearl_3_by_shoxxe.jpg)
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Well, hillbillies really only come from one section of the country. A better term might be colonists.
Railway house- got it but still has no meaning in regards to what type of house that might be.
Waders- yep that term ever works here but I was thinking of some strange and magical thing that you would use while eating something strange and unusual such as 'steak and kidney' pie.... from a can no less.
Leathes- yep, that term works here as well, I was looking for something more.... foreign I guess.
No opinion on the American Indian component; it won't do you any good here. But if you were 1/16th Indian, you could work at a local casino! ;D
Mice- me too- I used to let the little rascals outside but realized I caught the same one twice because it was an odd gray / spotted color. That is when I realized there was only one way to stop them. Too bad they behave like animals because otherwise they are cute, cuddly little things. But nesting in things I like is bad, eating parts off things I like (easy boys! I meant my mechanical things!) is worse so they got to go.
Brian
Jeez and shucks...etc. Note to self - turn on transatlantic translation module before confusing them lil' ol hill billies. Is hill billies one word? I used to catch 'em and release the mice bit I'm certain they just laughed and ran back in the garage or house. House that used to belong to the railway line and was used to house the resident level crossing operator - level crossing ...er...don't know what that is in yankese.
Waders - not a bird that paddles. But fishing trousers... ::)
No pets except goldfish and they don't like peanut butter. Or get to the garage.
Leathers - er...leather trouser and jacket for riding a 'sickle...or is it mo'cickle? Languages eh?
And I'm 1/72 cherokee or so I'm told ...or is it sioux...or inuit? ;D
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No opinion on the American Indian component; it won't do you any good here. But if you were 1/16th Indian, you could work at a local casino! ;D
Or, you could just claim to be and get elected senator from Massachusetts. :-X
Yeah, I know this isn't the Arena... ;D
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You're right, it isn't.
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Glue traps. That is all.
The nice thing about glue traps is when your wife (now ex) goes down to the kitchen in the morning and you hear an EEK, then hear her leave the house immediately. When I went down a bit later, I found two mice on the glue trap and they had managed to drag it out into the middle of the kitchen floor. Hee hee.
I guess I'll get called cruel for having them die a slow death on the glue trap, but I don't have much in the way of feelings for the little b'stards. I sometimes will dump the trap into a pail of water and end their suffering that way, or I'll just throw them in the trash can if it's cold out, knowing they'll be dead very soon.
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Glue traps. That is all.
The nice thing about glue traps is when your wife (now ex) goes down to the kitchen in the morning and you hear an EEK, then hear her leave the house immediately. When I went down a bit later, I found two mice on the glue trap and they had managed to drag it out into the middle of the kitchen floor. Hee hee.
I guess I'll get called cruel for having them die a slow death on the glue trap, but I don't have much in the way of feelings for the little b'stards. I sometimes will dump the trap into a pail of water and end their suffering that way, or I'll just throw them in the trash can if it's cold out, knowing they'll be dead very soon.
Personally, I would never use a glue trap. I saw a mouse ounce who got stuck on one of those traps and he/she half skinned itself trying to get loose from the glue. He was dead when I saw him but that image still lingers in my mind. He must have died an agonizing death.
I know that I'm stupid about this but that's just how I roll.
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I'm with you, Conrad. As much as I don't like them, I owe them a swift ending. Same as being an ethical hunter.
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Well just look at us- tough guy bike riders, straight razor shavin', real fine examples of American manhood! Except about the mice.... :rotflmao:
I caught one one time in a mechanical trap but it wasn't dead, just wounded. The trap had him but he was still scurrying around..... or trying to at least but he was way too hurt to recover. I ended up drowning him but I couldn't look while I did it. Wusses, all of us. I can't do the sticky traps or the bucket drowning either even if they are better or more efficient.
Brian
I'm with you, Conrad. As much as I don't like them, I owe them a swift ending. Same as being an ethical hunter.
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So, add a cone in a bucket without water, kinda like a bee trap. Take the volunteers to the local pet store for the "pets" to feed on
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Yeah, not 'at my house'. My son had a snake and wanted to raise mice to feed it- not in my house. He fed the snake frozen rodents (rats I think) but nothing alive- he did take the snake to a friend's house and try a live mouse but apparently it bit the snake and put it off to eating live, moving food. I called him Mary Jane Tinklesnake.
Brian
So, add a cone in a bucket without water, kinda like a bee trap. Take the volunteers to the local pet store for the "pets" to feed on
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Well just look at us- tough guy bike riders, straight razor shavin', real fine examples of American manhood! Except about the mice.... :rotflmao:
I caught one one time in a mechanical trap but it wasn't dead, just wounded. The trap had him but he was still scurrying around..... or trying to at least but he was way too hurt to recover. I ended up drowning him but I couldn't look while I did it. Wusses, all of us. I can't do the sticky traps or the bucket drowning either even if they are better or more efficient.
Brian
I've hunted for years and killed a lot of animals with arrows. I've had to slit a few throats, too. Never liked it, but the idea is to kill the animal, not make it suffer. Many animals will die so you and I can live. That's life at the top of the food chain. But that comes with responsibility, too - efficient killing in necessary, anything less is a failure. You're just being a good human. Steve
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Quick update: went out to the garage today to get the bike out (a balmy 39 F and a very pleasant ride to meet some other concours folk for lunch) and found I had caught both a cat and a mouse. The cat was not in a trap of any kind, just in the garage; I think I caught it with the automatic garage door opener.... again. So I set the cat loose and went onto the mouse:
I believe this is the third mouse I have caught with the more traditional mouse trap. There is a pedal type of trigger with a bait pit in the center, and the top of the trap is lifted against the spring and waiting..... waiting..... waiting for that pesky mouse. So this puts the score at 3:0 in favor of the trap that kills mice dead vs. the trap that kills mice fast. Now to be honest, it could be that the 'kills 'em dead' trap is simply the first one in line on the old mouse highway in my garage. ?? But to be sure, none of those poor mice have yet been interested in the other, I think far more interesting, mouse trap to stroll on over and take a test- bite or two from its little, covered bait well. My own personal opinion is that the trap that is actually getting the mice is awfully ominous looking and I would not even approach it but I only have my own (human) and Kirby's (squirrel) points of view.
Oh yes, we are still working on the original bait samples; both traps are full of bait, it is getting old but the mice partaking of the first trap are getting deader more quickly then they are getting fed so that trap also remains full of bait.
Brian
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My own update...
Since placing over 20 peanut butter baited traps, along with one bucket trap, in my garage. I have only caught one critter and it wasn't even a mouse, it was a very small mole (I'm sorry Mr Mole). I have not seen any evidence of mice in the garage so I'm hoping that they are not coming in. There's a hawk that has set up housekeeping in the tree next to my garage, so I'm hoping that the hawk is taking his share. We have lots of owls around too so maybe they're helping to keep the mouse population down as well.
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Hate to break the news to you, Conrad. The reason predators are in the area is because the prey is there.
:yikes: :yikes: :yikes:
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I hate moles more than anything. Destructive little beasts. I've often thought about catching one and nailing his carcass to one of my fence posts.. Lucky for them I don't have much luck in catching them. I've found that spreading out the grub pesticide appears to work wonders with keeping them away...
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Hate to break the news to you, Conrad. The reason predators are in the area is because the prey is there.
:yikes: :yikes: :yikes:
As long as the prey is staying out of my garage!
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This has been one of the more entertaining threads I've reads in a long time. Thank you everyone. In my limited experience with pest control I found that if I put a raisin in the bait portion of the trap and cover it with peanut butter then I got 100% results. It seems the peanut butter attracts the rodents but the sweet tast of the raisin makes them want to take a bite there-by tripping the trap. This has worked equally well for me in both the small mouse traps and the larger RAT traps.
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Hmmmmm raisins and peanut butter. I'd have a hard time staying away from that trap.
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I am getting some mental images of how that trap might snap on you and where.... shiver me timbers! (must poke out frontal lobes with pencil now)
Brian
Hmmmmm raisins and peanut butter. I'd have a hard time staying away from that trap.
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I am getting some mental images of how that trap might snap on you and where.... shiver me timbers! (must poke out frontal lobes with pencil now)
Brian
Why settle for a mental image when the world is full of 'Hey watch this'......
http://youtu.be/EobqN_q3Vi8 (http://youtu.be/EobqN_q3Vi8)
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What an idiot. I think I'm at least smart enough to unarm the trap mechanism, first.
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You mean before you lick the bait off the trigger? :yikes:
Brian
What an idiot. I think I'm at least smart enough to unarm the trap mechanism, first.
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Yes and I would use a spoon. At least I'm civilized.. ;)
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Yes and I would use a spoon. At least I'm civilized.. ;)
Your spooning with a mousetrap? Better double check the trap has been tripped :o
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Anyone ever top this?
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Put out two more older mousetraps and baited all four tonight- temp. is going down to 7 F and I think they are going to take refuge anyplace they can....
The traps I have been using that are actually working eventually fail because the trigger will not trip the trap. I have some old ones that just will not trip even after the trigger is pressed all the way down. They work very well when new but not when they get old (sorta' like us humans' right?) and look like this:
http://www.icreatables.com/interior-home-improvement/mouse-trap/mouse-trap-best.html (http://www.icreatables.com/interior-home-improvement/mouse-trap/mouse-trap-best.html)
Brian
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Another one yesterday in the first trap. The mice are just not interested in that new- fangled trap I guess.
Brian
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And now have caught several more.... all in the old- style trap. Nary a one of dem dare mouses has committed mousicide by having a snack at that new- fangled mousetrap. I guess the mice are either too smart or just too old- fashioned and won't go for the clearly newer, better and slicker mousetrap.
The plastic one with the teeth on the upper jaw works great though- I am still on the same bait and at least three mice down the road.... as it were.
Brian
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And now have caught several more.... all in the old- style trap. Nary a one of dem dare mouses has committed mousicide by having a snack at that new- fangled mousetrap. I guess the mice are either too smart or just too old- fashioned and won't go for the clearly newer, better and slicker mousetrap.
The plastic one with the teeth on the upper jaw works great though- I am still on the same bait and at least three mice down the road.... as it were.
Brian
You must be dealing with old school mice?
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sgJZ_NxmsLE/T-MoHym7nHI/AAAAAAAADoE/rK5BMb4w174/s1600/ratones-antiguos-de-computadora.jpg)
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You must be dealing with old school mice?
Mice with mullets? ???
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Mice with mullets? ???
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:rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
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Why settle for a mental image when the world is full of 'Hey watch this'......
http://youtu.be/EobqN_q3Vi8 (http://youtu.be/EobqN_q3Vi8)
argggg
back in 82', while I was shooting tournament archery every weekend, spending almost 40 hours a week to excell at the endeavor, I was setting Victor Rat traps for my garage to protect my Z bike, about a half hour before leaving for a tournement. I set 3, was on the last one, applied the "set" on a baited trap; only to have one of the staples that held the center pivot bar the spring is wound around pull free from the wooden base. The wound spring has about an inch of "leg" on both ends, one end is against the wood, the other is against the looped bar. The spring end rotated, and struck the finger tip on my right hand middle finger, literally splitting my fingertip in half for about a half inch from the tip... sliced right thru the nail, like a Ninja sword.
it took about 5 seconds of me looking at this before my brain registered what happened, then instant nausea..... I freaked.
so much for baiting rat traps, I cleaned the wound, wrapped it all up, and travelled an hour and a half to the tournament. bummer.
Shot 7 points out of a perfect Vegas 450 point tourney, never got a penny.... and had to drive back in a blizzard with my pals who all choked, giving me the riot act on how I puked the game.... bastiches.
I hate rat traps.... mouse traps ok, them big ones will f you up if they let loose. ::)
hey, ZG, Conrad, don't be dissing the mullet....
I am the Mullet KING
styles tend to come around, my hair has came around at least 3 times in my lifetime... still shooting for 4..... ;)
http://youtu.be/oOT16YiZou8 (http://youtu.be/oOT16YiZou8)
http://youtu.be/CnXgKr3fanw (http://youtu.be/CnXgKr3fanw)
it's like, "business up front, but then again, I like to party dude...."
http://youtu.be/SS_OVZtVa4E (http://youtu.be/SS_OVZtVa4E)
by the way, I began my personal mullet, before it was ever defined as such, from this movie (my wife at the time was a hairdresser, and said "you might have something here..."
(http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee136/suwarnaadi/hair/MelGibsonmadmaxlonghair.jpg)
personally, I have stopped shearing the sides, and am letting them grow longer so's I can braid them, 'cause I always liked this style......
(http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee136/suwarnaadi/hair/MelgibsonlonghairstyleinBraveheart.jpg)
let's go pick a fight.... ;)
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(http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Humor/SayNo/Images/SayNo-Mullets.png)
Hey now, isn't this guy one of the Crow clan from Justified? ;)
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