20 March 2024

Navigating Pest Control: Where to Find Reliable Information

#Rat #Tips #mouse #sarkman While Mickey Mouse might be an endearing character at Disney World, real-life encounters with mice are far from delightful. Beyond their nuisance factor, mice pose health risks and property damage, including the notorious engine wire gnawing in cars. Understanding why rodents are drawn to your home is essential for effective pest […]

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Understanding Rodent Behavior: Why Mice Love Your Home

#Rat #Tips #mouse #sarkman While Mickey Mouse might be an endearing character at Disney World, real-life encounters with mice are far from delightful. Beyond their nuisance factor, mice pose health risks and property damage, including the notorious engine wire gnawing in cars. Understanding why rodents are drawn to your home is essential for effective pest

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Good traps! Read instructions and be patient...

Bought a couple of different traps, had most success with these. They are bigger and seem to be stronger than the others we purchased. And these were cheaper.

Gloves and instructions were very useful.

Keeping human scent off the traps and allowing the rats time to get used to them (baiting but not setting) etc. has helped catch a trap-shy rat.

Work every time - with the right bait

I have a neighbor with a huge overgrown garden (her house looks like a horror movie set as well). Consequently over the last few years we have the autumn influx of critters which move into my sheds for the winter. They even dug under the ground to come in via the floor! I have tried everything available to be kind to them, then to poison them then to trap them. Only death works because there are so many breeding mice next door. These traps are failsafe. Box has warnings in about useless bait (like cheese, peanut butter etc) and also comes with gloves and brushes to get rid of fleshy ick. You need a 2-pronged attack – I have heeded the advice and only put about six grains of poison in the middle well in each trap. I then set trap and dropped only about 2-3 grains beside trap to have a trail going to trap. Every single day I have set two traps as an experiment and every day I have caught two mice.

Note at end of November: I have now caught two mice a day for 16 days – found out they came in via a mole tunnel underground then chewed through a wall. I filled up hole n have no more since – using this method NOT ONE MOUSE HAS BEEN TRAPPED BY LEG ETC and all die quickly by instant effect as their eyes are still open in surprise. Not cruel and no lingering suffering for them, just instant.