As seems to be the case most winters, we have mouse droppings startingto pop up (or is it plop down?) in our basement.Some judicious mouse trap use always stops the problem. But I'mgetting old and tired of the "standard" traps - baiting them, makingsure to not set them off myself, emptying the gross dead mice fromthem, repeating...(By "standard" I'm talking about the kind seen in Looney Tunes andother cartoons - bait with cheese or peanut butter, and a piece ofmetal snaps onto the mouse and kills it.)What's a "better" mouse trap? By that I mean one that might killmultiple mice without rebaiting, and that's easy to clean and reuse.Not so fond of the bait traps that feed them poisoned food, as theyforce me to figure out where the dead critters are. I'd ratherconfine my looking for carcass hunting to where the trap(s) are.

Feed them Decon rat poison. Makes them go out and seek water while they hemorrhage to death.

Van Chocstraw wrote innews:HY6dnfjBq93PVtLUnZ2dnUVZ Well, sometimes cats and birds have the same thought. As in this pic,both are thinking "dinner".

Only good mouse is a dead mouse, yes, but how to get there?

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Red Green 17 years ago

Van Chocstraw wrote in news:HY6dnfjBq93PVtLUnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

Well, sometimes cats and birds have the same thought. As in this pic, both are thinking "dinner".

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SteveB 17 years ago

Tin Cat by Victor. Live catch. They work very well, and last decades, or until you run over it with the car. Don't ask. Best damn mouse trap made.

Steve

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Red Green 17 years ago

trader-of-some-jacks wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Much like water problems in basements, gotta attack the problem before it gets in.

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