Thread: HELP!!! Rodents

Chunky peanut butter.. but the trick is to jam a small piece of the chunky nut part in the holder... it works every time for us..

Heres a simple solution to the mice problem. Buy 3 or 4 snakes/pythons. They will have a good feed

Next time I find a small diamond python I think I will domesticate it. Success on chocolate...2 today and traps reset.

When we moved to Warracknabeal (1992) close to then was a big mouse plague in the area. THe house we were in was riddled with them, turn over a bale of hay in the barn would have the dogs yelping and fleeing from the wave of rodents that would erupt from beneath it...
sultanas/raisins are good for trap baiting
Mouseproofing your home takes time but is worth the effort, every nook, every cranny, stuffed tight with steel wool (they wont chew through it) then patched up and repaired as normal
Old school mop buckets (with the rollers up top?) half filled with water, smear something on them (cant remember what dad used, it wouldnt have been peanut butter because none of us liked it, maybe vegetable oil?) and next morning you'd have 20 drowned mice to dispose of
If you have no dogs or cats, consider getting one (though some are useless lol). Even if you're not a cat person think of an adult one, you'll be saving a life of something that isnt as marketable/rehomable due to its age, and because its already older wont last as long if you're not cat inclined lol

http://www.ufaw.org.uk/documents/Gui...Feb2509V19.pdf

have a look here ^^^^^^^^ may have some helpful info....its from the UK

When I lived in Tehran working for B/L, I rented a ground floor appartment, the rent was surprisingly cheap for a nice pool side set of digs.
THEN after two days I found out why!!--stunk out with mice!
I tried traps, poison they just kept coming!
Bloody things were everywhere worse than cockroaches!

It bit stuck for a resolution I looked outside onto the pool patio one day and there was this black Persian cat mewing to come in. I am not an animal person but she seemed very charming--like Iranian women!

Opening the patio door she came in and made herself at home sleeping on the sofa and being fed.
I called her Yazd the city of Persian cats, she like that!

But for all her sweet ways she was vicious!
Within a week not one mouse!
Dispatched the lot often with two or three mice corpses in her jaws as I opened the door. The racket during the night was music to my ears as she dispatched the invasion with precision attack.
She stayed for few weeks then just disappeared as suddenly as she arrived, presumably searching for rats & mice.
So I second the solution get a good female mouser, don't bother with tom cats too busy with other thoughts & pursuits.
Dennis

Don't know if it works with mice but I read recently that rats absolutely hate strobe lights (discoteque lights),and will stay away. Apparently low energy strobe lights can be purchased quite cheaply. Fit one inside the roof cavity and one underneath the house if applicable and the critters will go an terrorise your neighbors instead.
Bill.

Using poisons like "Talon" can be effective but any secondary animal i.e. dogs, cats, kookaburras etc eating the poisoned mouse/rat will also be affected, so be very careful, or more to the point, don't use them!!!