Mice

particle_man

Subject: re

Wow, that owl must have been in hog heaven finding a grease covered mouse.

I had a problem last year with mice. First they ate the cheese off the spring traps without setting them off. Then they ate the peanut butter off the traps without setting them off. Then they somehow ate the peanut butter off the trap, set the trap off and escaped unscathed! How the hell does that work? I had glue traps down and they were somehow tippy toeing around them too. So I set up a little gauntlet of a peanut butter loaded spring trap surrounded by glue traps, right next to the only place they could have been coming from. I heard a rustling the next night and got out of bed to check the traps and found the little bastard had set the spring trap off which missed him but flipped upside down and landed on one of the glue traps. The mouse's back right leg was the only thing caught and he was trying to drag the contraption of glue traps and spring trap with him back into the hole. But the traps wouldn't fit into the hole so he was stuck. I put him in a bag and took him out to the trash. That was one MFing clever mouse. Was.

The guy suggesting leaving baited, un-set spring traps out to give the mice a false sense of security is one diabolical dude. Great idea. If they come back, I'll have that card up my sleeve.