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The is a new (environmentalist out of control) law in Washing DC that will blow your mind.
Exterminators are no longer allow to kill rats. They must trap and relocate them. They must try to capture "families" if possible. What idiot wrote this law and what brain dead legislators voted for it?
Wildlife Protection Act of 2010. Rats are now wildlife and are protected.
I had a roofing problem around the fireplace a few years ago and a opossum was getting in the attic. The local animal control insisted that I get a cage and trap him instead of kill him. When animal control was asked what they were going to do with the trapped animal, they said they were going to kill him.
get yourself a 110 conibear trap from Welcome to F&T Fur Harvester's Trading Post becarefuly as a 110 coni has taken more than a few unlucky houscats out of this world. but it will take even the meanest largest rat you can find out fast.
consider the following cautionary tale...one night i heard some scuffling in the kitchen shortly after i had gone to bed. the glue trap i had placed behind the refrigerator had caught it's first victim which was now thrashing around. i grabbed a bb gun and approached the beast, while i was wearing only (and this important) a bathrobe. i pumped up the gun, squatted down and held the muzzle to the monster's head and pulled the trigger. Remember i am wearing only a bathrobe. the projectile had the intended effect and put the poor mouse out of it's misery. however not without karmic payback. the bb ricocheted off the decades old hard lead paint on the pantry door frame, angle of incidence equals angle of reflection and all that happy horsefeathers, and came right back at me and hit me in a very sensitive part of my anatomy. i use snap traps now when mice invade. sometimes one of the cats will get them before the trap does. i have nothing personal against mice, but when they come into the house and walk around where i store and make food, their lives are forfeit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Theseus
amen to that but a 22 is better less chance of the police being called vs a extremly loud bang of say a 30-06Quote:
Originally Posted by RayCover
I had a small mouse problem a few years back. I had seen the droppings and had occasionally seen a shadow flit across the darkened kitchen when I was sitting in the living room watching the idiot box late at night. I went out and bought the Victory brand mouse traps and set them out in the kitchen and turned off the lights. I sat down to watch the TV and not five minutes passed before I heard the loud THWACK.
When I turned on the lights I saw that the trap had practically burst the mouse. There was a fine spray of blood covering the lower cabinet doors and a thick spray of it across the floor. I couldn't believe that a mouse so small could contain so much blood. After that it was glue traps, which proved very effective. Only trouble was that they were alive and pathetic looking when I would find the traps in the morning. I usually filled a bucket up with water and dropped the trap into it to drown the mouse when I got up in the morning. After a while, no more mice.
Years later, when taking my house back from my ex I was cleaning up my kid's room (I'm no neat freak, but my ex lived in total squalor) and I found mouse crap in his dresser drawer. I set out a glue trap under the dresser and the next day my kid said "We caught one, dad! What are you going to do with it?" I said "Well son..."
The look on his face went from excited to horror. So I took the glue trap out into the woods behind the house and poured peanut oil all over the mouse. He wriggled right off the trap and disappeared into the brush. My son was relieved.
I'm sure the owl who ate him that night loved the dressing.
Yeah, I learned the hard way also about not shooting the air rifle indoors. I had a bat loose in my bedroom and figured that i'd shoot it. Let's just say that bats are a lot harder to shoot than tv's.Quote:
Originally Posted by Noisykids
Interesting thread, Youtube has some ideas which you use to "build a better mousetrap".
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I hope the link works this is the first time sharing a Youtube video. If the link does not work, type in mousetrap in Youtube search there is plenty stuff to see.
Fred
Sorry to hear about your problem, rats are disease ridden disgusting rodents! I would like to give you some advice, but I can't, as there are no rats in Alberta. Good luck!
That guy is an idiot. He's just pushing his problem off on someone else.