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Warpy

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4. Before the electronic traps arrived, I used a TP roll baited at the far end with the close end
Mon Dec 23, 2013, 08:08 PM
Dec 2013

precariously balanced on the counter. Well, the mice this year were smart enough to rotate the tube so they could eat the bait. I then put pill bottles on either side of the tube and managed to catch a few mice in a steep and tall kitchen trash can.

That presented me with the problem of what to do with live mice. I sent them to mouse heaven, into the dumpster with bags of choice garbage for them to feast on for up to a week before the Sanitation Local bore them off to glory.

I've since swapped over to the electronic traps and they are fantastic, quick for the mouse, no handling of corpses to me. The design seems irresistible to the little bastards, I haven't baited it in weeks.

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And, it's a humane, no-kill trap! NYC_SKP Dec 2013 #1
we walked him out to the back of the acre property NMDemDist2 Dec 2013 #2
You're right to fear that you may not have walked him far out enough rocktivity Feb 2014 #15
Cool! OffWithTheirHeads Dec 2013 #3
Before the electronic traps arrived, I used a TP roll baited at the far end with the close end Warpy Dec 2013 #4
electronic traps? NMDemDist2 Dec 2013 #5
I use the Victor traps Warpy Dec 2013 #6
sadly i had already sent for this one NMDemDist2 Dec 2013 #7
I'm up to 18 Warpy Dec 2013 #8
well, we caught three last night in the kitchen NMDemDist2 Dec 2013 #9
That loooks interesting! pengillian101 Jan 2014 #10
Just keep about ten cats in your house jmowreader Jan 2014 #11
I have 6 cats. Silver Gaia Sep 2014 #17
Best Bait sammfol3y Feb 2014 #12
Welcome to DU gopiscrap Feb 2014 #13
Spice drops and chocolate work great as bait, too rocktivity Feb 2014 #14
Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2014 #16
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