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Originally Posted by RJSquirrel
I was hopin to get a few more to make me a Luis Rattone fur coat  |
None for me please!!!!
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Originally Posted by Jayfar
My plague of mice has returned in the past month or so. Previous years' mice had a preference for leaves of certain Phals and Vandas, but this year they've taken a liking to roots and spent spikes, with just an occasional nibble on leaves.
So far they've evaded snap traps and glue traps on my growing tables. And the mice in the kitchen are adept at eating the peanut butter off the snap trap triggers without setting off the traps. I did manage to snag 2 mice total (plus one found dead of natural causes, I presume). A folding glue trap in the kitchen has numerous patches of mouse fur inside, but no mouse; somewhere a bald mouse is shivering.
I googled "mice eating peanut butter off traps" and found it's a very common problem. Some suggest putting the peanut butter or other bait only on the underside of the trigger, which makes sense and I am trying that now. Another suggestion of a more effective trap was a reusable trap called "The Better Mousetrap." I've ordered a 6-pack of those from Amazon, which I should have by Tuesday.
Intruder 30442 The Better Mousetrap, 6-Pack - Amazon.com |
Your mice are smart in the north. But the mice in the south are dumb like some people I know.
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I checked the greenhouse again this morning and found that the two traps caught two more mice. I will reset it later but hate them for now.
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