Need Help with a Silent Menace

[DRDUCK]

Put you a game camera in places you think they are getting in from. Be suprised at what you might see.

[WoodieSC]

Place snap traps with the trigger facing a wall or obstacle where they travel. Don't even need to bait.

Same here. I've run a mouse trap line in my basement for 30 years. I'm down to maybe one or two every few months. I never use bait anymore, just the plain regular traps with the yellow trip that looks like a piece of cheese. I've narrowed down the two places they turn a corner and have the plain traps set right in line with something else funneling them to that half of the trap. It gets them every time. Good luck.

[Model12]

Tractor supply sells rodent repeal granules and spray.........Works good in my shop and seed bin.

[Johnny Reb]

Our barn cat had kittens about 8 weeks ago. I will donate 1 or more to your cause. I will even deliver next time I pass thru Florence for work.

[FOWL MOUTH]

Simple fix.. put a tiny bit of temik in a dab of peanut butter. Just make sure no other animal can get to it. It works every time.

[Maggie Glover]

Three bait traps and two electrocution traps have been deployed for 36 hours. No visible results yet. Moving some cameras on Friday to see what up. I will post progress. MG

[Palmetto Bug]

Don't underestimate the intellegence of rodents. I've considered getting a few of the rats I killed in my garage mounted because it took so much effort to finally kill them.

[huntinghagen#12]

I don't really have a mouse problem in the mountains, but when I lived in the PeeDee our house backed up to a field I owned, my office was in a MIL suite/shops that was 30' away from the field. Mice would get in there pretty bad. I had a 5 gallon bucket of bird seed sitting in the shop area, it was about 1/3 full. Originally I just left it there because that's where I put it down, but I ended up keeping it there a while because mice would jump in to eat and couldn't get out. I killed a lot of them that way as well as traditional traps.

[nitro5x6's]

Lots of craftiness in this thread.

[Maggie Glover]

Im five days in and no obvious visible signs of the green tabs being eaten and somehow the cheese was eaten in the electric traps but no mouse. There are black flies in the kitchen which I can only hope are from a dead mouse. Im thinking about placing the tabs outside of the traps but afraid that (eventually) a pet will find there way to them. I believe they are the reason I have fleas on my dogs and in the house for the first time in 28 years of living here. I am open to more severe measures, all ears at this point. Thanks, MG

[BCR3]

I don't really have a mouse problem in the mountains, but when I lived in the PeeDee our house backed up to a field I owned, my office was in a MIL suite/shops that was 30' away from the field. Mice would get in there pretty bad. I had a 5 gallon bucket of bird seed sitting in the shop area, it was about 1/3 full. Originally I just left it there because that's where I put it down, but I ended up keeping it there a while because mice would jump in to eat and couldn't get out. I killed a lot of them that way as well as traditional traps.

I stumbled on to a similar solution at my old house. Wife bought some dry dog food my dogs wouldn't eat and in a rush to get rid of it dumped it in a 5 gallon bucket and stuck it behind something in my garage and forgot about it. About a week later I caught a whiff of something and moved what was in the way to find 6 or 7 dead mice fat as hell laying dead on top of that dog food. Apparently they jumped in and couldn't climb out.

[Palmetto Bug]

Im five days in and no obvious visible signs of the green tabs being eaten and somehow the cheese was eaten in the electric traps but no mouse. There are black flies in the kitchen which I can only hope are from a dead mouse. Im thinking about placing the tabs outside of the traps but afraid that (eventually) a pet will find there way to them. I believe they are the reason I have fleas on my dogs and in the house for the first time in 28 years of living here. I am open to more severe measures, all ears at this point. Thanks, MG

Are you finding any little droppings?

Make sure you don't have a possum or coon shacking up in your crawl space. They can infest you with fleas.

I'd be really hesitant about leaving poison anywhere dogs could possibly get to it. If mice are going to eat it, they will find it in a trap.

One of my favorite rodent baits is Planter's Peanuts.

[Glenn]

Im five days in and no obvious visible signs of the green tabs being eaten and somehow the cheese was eaten in the electric traps but no mouse. There are black flies in the kitchen which I can only hope are from a dead mouse. Im thinking about placing the tabs outside of the traps but afraid that (eventually) a pet will find there way to them. I believe they are the reason I have fleas on my dogs and in the house for the first time in 28 years of living here. I am open to more severe measures, all ears at this point. Thanks, MG

Sounds like somebody is in the market for some flea meds....

[CUduckreeper]

Found this video. I'll say, the guy's trap setting ability or lack there of gives me pause but I like the design.

[CofC Waterfowler]

I had a small infestation one time. The exterminator I called said to find the holes they getting in first and seal them. Then worry about eradication. I found small hole behind the the oven and one next to the dryer hose exit in the wall. The green poison in the black boxes took care of them. My wife asked me to save turkey and pheasant feathers for crafting projects. They used the feathers for a bed for quite a while before I noticed the severity of the problem.

[Maggie Glover]

Sounds like somebody is in the market for some flea meds....

Yes, its absolutely insane the cost of those bastards. I bought one for each of the dogs last week at the vet (2x$36=$72). He said it was good for thirty days, wouldn't kill larva or eggs. Gee thanks. However, he did ask enough probing questions to get me to believe the rodents are my problem. Im down for anything that makes more sense than that. MG

[scatter shot]

Git some.

I hear they taste like chicken.

[Palmetto Bug]

If I had permission to shoot at a rat infested place like that, I'd spend whatever it took to get the right equipment and make that my top hobby.

There are a couple Brits that have posted several such videos. They have a lot of contacts that host them when the rats get really bad. I can watch those videos for hours.

[Maggie Glover]

Well definitely rats. The black snap traps for the win. I think the other items were mouse-sized, and they could not access the poison bait. I know they are not loners so the hunt continues. Here is the first victim taken from my music room. I would like to think he is the bastard who ruined my guitar cases. Thanks for the help, MG

[Palmetto Bug]

Congratulations! You should post a grip and grin photo.

Was the rat's tail longer than his body? If so, he's a tree rat and you need to make sure there are no paths to your house from the trees and bushes. If I let the trees grow to give them a way onto the house, we start having problems. For some reason, they don't seem to travel on the ground outside much. If I keep the limbs trimmed, no problems.

Those Tomcat plastic traps are a way better design than the old snap traps. Way easier to set, easier to empty, more effective at catching and they won't break a finger or dog toe if the wrong thing trips them.