Around here the chipmunks cause more damage than the mice.Interesting, I never caught a chipmunk in a trap, though I once caught one with a towell.
Around here the chipmunks cause more damage than the mice.Interesting, I never caught a chipmunk in a trap, though I once caught one with a towell.
So, the choice is rata gazpacho or rata frita?Someone who lived through World War 2 in England told me about a friend of his who had a rat problem back then when there were shortages of everything, but this was an ingenious guy who came up with two solutions that worked:
1 Fill a bucket half-full with water. Place an ordinary 12-inch ruler on the edge of the bucket and also on some pile of books or something, and put a piece of bait out on the end of the ruler. The rat crawls out along the ruler to get the goodie, the ruler tips in, and you have to deal with one drowned rat in the morning.
2 Get a piece of electrical cord and split the wires back for a couple of feet. Connect one wire to a metal plate, and let the other hang down over the plate with a piece of bait on it. Plug the contraption into a wall outlet (240 volts in Europe, remember). Deal with fried rodent in the morning.
Uh oh. Did that second idea break the rule here against mains-powered circuits? Well, those were desperate times.
There's some good squirrel trap clips on youtube - a collender/bungee strap catapult with some bait, when a squirrel goes for the bait - cut the tie rope and watch the squirrel fly.Around here the chipmunks cause more damage than the mice.
Ian,There's some good squirrel trap clips on youtube - a collender/bungee strap catapult with some bait, when a squirrel goes for the bait - cut the tie rope and watch the squirrel fly.
The bicycle inner tube between two washing line posts is perfect for launching windfall apples - aside from the random damage, it distributes the seeds and grows more apple trees.Ian,
That is the "Arial Burial" device from way back. Once the mouse's brains get scrambled you launch him into the bushes for an owl or snake to get for dinner...Also works really great for launching water balloons a couple hundred yards if you use bicycle inner tubes as the bands instead of bungee cords. We used to fill them with Dye and a bit of water and launch them down the beach. If nobody is around freeze the balloons before launch and they will go a long long long way, then melt...
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Torture you say?I prefer a trap that will torture the rats for a while before killing them, any ideas?
I had bunch of ways of killing rats cause we had giant rats where I use to work... I was using a 5 gal bucket filled with water about half way And then put a skim coating of grass seed on top and the rats would fall in and drown..
Torture you say?
THERE LOVELY WHEN YOU WISIT THE STATES, BUT YOU DON'T REALISE JUST HOW SMART AND DAMAGING THE LITTLE BUGGERS ARE.Around here the chipmunks cause more damage than the mice.
I WISH IT WERE THAT EASY. THE SEEDS WONT PRODUCE THE SAME APPLES AS YOU WOULD NEED THE SAME PARANTS THEY CAME FROM TO GET THE SAME APPLESS. MOST APPLES ARE GRAFTED THESE DAYS TO A FASTER GROWING ROOT STOCK). OOPS, THE PADDLE OF REBUKE.The bicycle inner tube between two washing line posts is perfect for launching windfall apples - aside from the random damage, it distributes the seeds and grows more apple trees.
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