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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 376127" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>Ew........</p><p>OHhhhhhhhh</p><p>NO NO NO</p><p>UmmmmmmmmmYUK</p><p>and</p><p>nononononononoooooooooooooo</p><p> </p><p>Seriously? Before you go to bed - put the food out - and dust your floor with flour. Whatever is coming in and out HAS to leave tracks - not necessarily poo. Mkay? </p><p> </p><p>secondly - YOU are assuming it's a mouse or a rat. IF it's a mouse? Then you have more than one. You have one? You have 13. (NOT exaggerating) You have a rat? You have - OH (whistles a tune) not going to freak you out.....but lemme just say - RATS can climb, they can crawl - they can scale things........like coats in a closet so while YOU are looking for a hole on the FLOOR? THEY are coming and going from a hole in the ceiling, the closet, the top of the .....</p><p>and it's the urine that is getting all over everything so IF you think you have a rat or mice......lemme rephrase that. RATS OR MICES......you had BETTER be washing out all pots, pans, cooking utensils - BEFORE you use them because...(sorry here but) they have crawled in and out and over and pee peed on EVERYTHING. THAT can make you sick. </p><p> </p><p>Now assuming that it is NOT rats or mice......and it is a single squirrel? Or Opossum (reminiscent of Janets midnight laundry room visitor and Dudes pantry buddy who had a penchant for his buddys Nutrasystems pretzels) Then you probably have ONE who is coming and going out of the attic or garage. Lucky you! My good news is that snakes don't like dog food, but bad news is cockroaches LOVE tomatoes, but then again if you have a MIX of critters? (more than likely I'm thinking you should not freak out and DUST THE FLOOR WITH FLOUR) </p><p> </p><p>Oh and glue traps and snap traps? Uhhhhhhhhhhh (exhales) Here's what I don't like about both of those. Snap traps - YOU STILL HAVE TO TOUCH IT. Then it's a dead thing that could be diseased, then what? Do you throw it out? Bait a new trap? And tawnya is right peanut butter is a good thing to put there that won't move and they like it - BUT if you want "rat crack"? Air puffed cheese hulless pop corn makes them insane. As far as glue traps? My biggest problem with those are that I've used them long ago - 1st time was rats HUGE, HUGE rats - I mean HUGE - like 2 1/2 " teeth and over 14" long - the male literally chewed off his leg and left it on the trap. The second glue trap had an entire side of fur coat - so this tells me two things - NOW I not only had rats, but I had huge, angry, furless, lopsided hobbling, INFECTED rats....and rats are omnivores - so they would eventually "Donner Party" the sick ones. That creates another problem. </p><p> </p><p>The other problem you have is IF you have rats and set mouse traps? TOO SMALL money wasted. If you have mice and set RAT TRAPS? Too big - Lil' guys get a reprieve from the death sentence. Most mice can 'work" a rat trap. They are fast-fast. As far as pellets. Okay - the obvious here is they eat it - they run off - they die, they stink and OMG do they stink. The worst? They eat the pellets, they lay on your floor and you have to watch their eyes bug out, their mouths foam, them writhe in pain, they literally do the CURLY shuffle over and over and over and it's a HORRIBLE death to witness. </p><p> </p><p>Live traps are cool - humane......and reusable. You wind them up, bait them, put the lid on like tupperware..........set them down. Wait,,,,,,,and vrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr mouse in the trap. Pick it up. Put it in a box.....drive it miles from your house, put your gloves on - open the trunk, open the trap, and voila - bye bye mouse.....and if he's lucky? He finds a nice girl mouse and settles down and has thousands of baby mice and isn't eaten by a hawk or snake. You go home and know you've done the best thing you could do before your mice mature ----------because mice are sexually active at 2 weeks, and their gestation period is less than a month - and well they have up to 3-13 in a litter and they are incestious little buggers.........so you do mouse math. GET LIVE TRAPS now. (after you flour the floor) Oh and if you need help identifying the tracks - send me a picture. (expert rodent tracker here) lol. </p><p> </p><p>I hope personally it's a Bunny.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 376127, member: 4964"] Ew........ OHhhhhhhhh NO NO NO UmmmmmmmmmYUK and nononononononoooooooooooooo Seriously? Before you go to bed - put the food out - and dust your floor with flour. Whatever is coming in and out HAS to leave tracks - not necessarily poo. Mkay? secondly - YOU are assuming it's a mouse or a rat. IF it's a mouse? Then you have more than one. You have one? You have 13. (NOT exaggerating) You have a rat? You have - OH (whistles a tune) not going to freak you out.....but lemme just say - RATS can climb, they can crawl - they can scale things........like coats in a closet so while YOU are looking for a hole on the FLOOR? THEY are coming and going from a hole in the ceiling, the closet, the top of the ..... and it's the urine that is getting all over everything so IF you think you have a rat or mice......lemme rephrase that. RATS OR MICES......you had BETTER be washing out all pots, pans, cooking utensils - BEFORE you use them because...(sorry here but) they have crawled in and out and over and pee peed on EVERYTHING. THAT can make you sick. Now assuming that it is NOT rats or mice......and it is a single squirrel? Or Opossum (reminiscent of Janets midnight laundry room visitor and Dudes pantry buddy who had a penchant for his buddys Nutrasystems pretzels) Then you probably have ONE who is coming and going out of the attic or garage. Lucky you! My good news is that snakes don't like dog food, but bad news is cockroaches LOVE tomatoes, but then again if you have a MIX of critters? (more than likely I'm thinking you should not freak out and DUST THE FLOOR WITH FLOUR) Oh and glue traps and snap traps? Uhhhhhhhhhhh (exhales) Here's what I don't like about both of those. Snap traps - YOU STILL HAVE TO TOUCH IT. Then it's a dead thing that could be diseased, then what? Do you throw it out? Bait a new trap? And tawnya is right peanut butter is a good thing to put there that won't move and they like it - BUT if you want "rat crack"? Air puffed cheese hulless pop corn makes them insane. As far as glue traps? My biggest problem with those are that I've used them long ago - 1st time was rats HUGE, HUGE rats - I mean HUGE - like 2 1/2 " teeth and over 14" long - the male literally chewed off his leg and left it on the trap. The second glue trap had an entire side of fur coat - so this tells me two things - NOW I not only had rats, but I had huge, angry, furless, lopsided hobbling, INFECTED rats....and rats are omnivores - so they would eventually "Donner Party" the sick ones. That creates another problem. The other problem you have is IF you have rats and set mouse traps? TOO SMALL money wasted. If you have mice and set RAT TRAPS? Too big - Lil' guys get a reprieve from the death sentence. Most mice can 'work" a rat trap. They are fast-fast. As far as pellets. Okay - the obvious here is they eat it - they run off - they die, they stink and OMG do they stink. The worst? They eat the pellets, they lay on your floor and you have to watch their eyes bug out, their mouths foam, them writhe in pain, they literally do the CURLY shuffle over and over and over and it's a HORRIBLE death to witness. Live traps are cool - humane......and reusable. You wind them up, bait them, put the lid on like tupperware..........set them down. Wait,,,,,,,and vrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr mouse in the trap. Pick it up. Put it in a box.....drive it miles from your house, put your gloves on - open the trunk, open the trap, and voila - bye bye mouse.....and if he's lucky? He finds a nice girl mouse and settles down and has thousands of baby mice and isn't eaten by a hawk or snake. You go home and know you've done the best thing you could do before your mice mature ----------because mice are sexually active at 2 weeks, and their gestation period is less than a month - and well they have up to 3-13 in a litter and they are incestious little buggers.........so you do mouse math. GET LIVE TRAPS now. (after you flour the floor) Oh and if you need help identifying the tracks - send me a picture. (expert rodent tracker here) lol. I hope personally it's a Bunny. [/QUOTE]
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