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I have mice and/or rats underneath a shed. I put out a trap next to the entrance but the main hombre just ignores it on the way in and out of the nest (I have a camera on the entrance). Any ideas how to destroy these little suckers?

 

As an entertaining side note, a field cat has come by the hole in the middle of the night twice to assassinate them but so far no luck. That cat is bad ass.

who was the guy that was definitely going to burn his house down electrocuting mice in his backyard? is he dead?

Cats and terriers. I recommend large cats.

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who was the guy that was definitely going to burn his house down electrocuting mice in his backyard? is he dead?


That guy was hilarious and it led to me posting on shaggy my first war on rats a few years ago.
Cats and terriers. I recommend large cats.
Fixed female cats are rat-killing assholes.
55 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

who was the guy that was definitely going to burn his house down electrocuting mice in his backyard? is he dead?

Wasn’t it PanamaRed? That thread was awesome

Peanut butter and a 5 gallon bucket.  Drown the MF'ers.

33 minutes ago, Grippe said:

Peanut butter and a 5 gallon bucket.  Drown the MF'ers.

I did that a few years ago and it works.  You also feel like MacGuyver.

YouTube the guy who uses ferrets and dogs to tag team them, it’s greatness

16 hours ago, Dbeasy said:

 

I have mice and/or rats underneath a shed. I put out a trap next to the entrance but the main hombre just ignores it on the way in and out of the nest (I have a camera on the entrance). Any ideas how to destroy these little suckers?

 

As an entertaining side note, a field cat has come by the hole in the middle of the night twice to assassinate them but so far no luck. That cat is bad ass.

 

Can you not tell if it's rats or mice? That would be step #1

Rats/mice don't just ignore bait unless you've recently caught others in the same spot (they allegedly can remember that kind of thing). If changing to a different kind of bait doesn't work, use a couple boards to create a tunnel out of their entrance and put the trap directly outside of the tunnel so they have no option other than crossing it.

Glue traps brah. The big ones for rats. Crumble a Ritz cracker in the middle and lay along his pathway in/out of the shed.

It's a shitty way to die but they work way better than a regular snap trap.

 

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Awesome suggestions. I did confirm they are rats and there are at least two. That made me realize they were getting ready to fornicate in my shed domain, leaving me a bigger problem.

 

So, this afternoon I went into full attack mode and tore down the shed and flipped up the flooring. Scared out a big ass rat, and found an extensive rat den. I still don’t understand how these things were too smart to go after the peanut butter on the trap but they’ve got nowhere to screw now.

 

You tore it down? Do we all get invited over for sausage to help you rebuild?

19 minutes ago, millhouse said:

You tore it down? Do we all get invited over for sausage to help you rebuild?

You really want his sausage, don't you?

Hilarious. Somewhere, this story has been posted in a “Husbands and Stupid Shit They Say/Do” thread.

Rats are really difficult to kill. Once they know someone is trying to murder them, they wise up and they become really cautious around bait. There are traps for them but cats are probably one of the more effective things you can get.

There's a guy on YouTube who tests lots of different rat and mice traps and he has a lot of success with the rolling log style traps when it comes to mice. These kinds of traps are fairly humane and cheap to build. Glue traps are just cruel and they can get out of them.

Get a rat terrier. They have that name for a reason.

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Ya why would they walk into that when I can’t get them to do anything.

I’ve never had trouble killing mice with snap traps baited with marshmallows

Rats are a lot smarter it seems. My Dads spent months trying to get a rat that gets into my sisters attic. Got one with a snap trap baited with bacon but after that the other rats(s) won’t go near any of his traps no matter what the bait.

We had  costco Ritz crackers box with opened top and a mouse got into it.  After we threw out the box my wife found some droppings and vacuumed them up but later went online and learned that you shouldn't do that because of spread of disease. 

So the wife who overreacts to everything anyway is now convinced that she has hauntavirus and she has 1 to 6 weeks before it hits. She's calling exterminator and her doctor tomorrow. She even threw out the dust buster. I don't argue but advise she is not gonna get anything. I don't try to convince her as she is playing mind games with herself. I live in phoenix.  Deer mice and hauntavirus aren't exactly a thing here. 

 

forget the .22

 

just do like these guys and go after them with a .177 pellet gun. 

 

 



...my wife found some droppings and vacuumed them up but later went online and learned that you shouldn't do that because of spread of disease. 


Because why?

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On 1/7/2020 at 4:06 AM, RPM said:

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This so very much reminds my of my friends coming down to help me with my house before we ventured to the beach.

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What’s the best air rifle and scope?

18 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

What’s the best air rifle and scope?

Now that's a loaded question.  You may be tempted to get a break barrel Gamo or Chinese (Ruger, Benjamin, etc) rifle at Wally World that's 1100 fps!!!!11!!1 or something ridiculous.

You don't need 1100 fps to kill rats and mice at short range.  Also, spring piston airguns like that are inaccurate, hard to shoot, and tear the shit out of even quality scopes because of their reverse recoil (they actually recoil forward).

It's a bit of a pain in the ass, but a pump-up, pneumatic Daisy 880 or 901 is a better choice.  Not as powerful, but sufficient, accurate enough, and easy to shoot and will work with any rimfire type scope you want to put on it.  Four pumps should do it inside 20 yards.  Might even get by with iron sights.

Currently, those two Daisys get better reviews than the similar Crosmans, although historically the Crosmans were better built.  I have a recent production Daisy target rifle with basically the same internals that will stack pellets at 10m, literally one hole in the right hands.

When you get hold of the Daisys, your first thought may be "toy," but don't kid yourself, they're for real.  Daisy did a remarkable job making quite decent airguns as cheaply as possible.

If you want to go heirloom, look for a Benjamin 397, but you may have to clean barrel paint out of the muzzle before it shoots straight.

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You know you're officially soft when you can't comprehend throwing a cage full of live rats into a water basin. 

the Youtube guy is Shawn Woods, a really creepy looking guy, but has practical videos. He says everything is the "best ever trap" so be careful.  The best is the bucket and trap plank where they drown.

Here is a clever one from 500 years ago

 

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Set a rat trap and killed either a mouse or a baby rat. Only one of the traps or glue strips had one so wonder what’s going on. Not hearing the scratching that started yesterday either.

Because fuck you.

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I think they work like ants & will follow a scent trail, so there's possibly a chance to get another across the same route.

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10 hours ago, Rougarou said:

Set a rat trap and killed either a mouse or a baby rat. Only one of the traps or glue strips had one so wonder what’s going on. Not hearing the scratching that started yesterday either.

Nothing on night two; and haven’t heard any scratching. Hired a roofer to repair a small hole in the siding near the edge of the roof we noticed a critter of some sort had gnawed (our backyard backs into a green belt and tons of wildlife abound) and so I’m hoping that fixes the issue.

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