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| Genius critter or human sabotage? Perplexing finding! |
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| Kjelt:
Perhaps canadian mice are different from ours but when I was a child I unfortunately had a lot of mice experiences. Yes they are extremely smart , I have witnessed a mouse slamming a trap with the flip of his tail and then running of with the bait. But I never saw food stashes. AFAIK they eat where they find it and take as much as they need that day. At least I never found food stashes and we had a lot of mice. The little black droppings are your evidence there is some animal active. With stashes here I would look for squirrels but have no idea what kind of rodents animals you have over there. Perhaps chipmunk or other rodent ? Goid luck and try to find the nest. Traps can be effective but if you have no pets I would go for the poisoned rice with cast that dries them out, very effective. |
| Ed.Kloonk:
--- Quote from: edy on December 14, 2020, 12:46:03 am ---It's unbelievable how I found a large round tin in one of my drawers, full of coax cable wrapped in loops for storage. And right smack dab in the middle underneath the whole bundle of cables is a collection of corn chips!!! How did these buggers manage to move so many corn chips intact into the least accessible of places and why? And same goes for spaghetti... practically unbroken long pieces. How could it possibly navigate through the tiniest cracks with such long intact pieces???? And I managed to find a trap today with a piece of bait missing and the trap not even triggered!!! |O Cheap dollar store traps. Tomorrow I'm going to get myself some quality Victor traps and bait it a small suggested above. Meanwhile this is a sign to unclutter the basement and yes we moved all the food into storage bins and put them in shelves. I may even start trapping them outside the house just in case. We are having a very mild winter here in Toronto so I wonder if that's contributing to it as well. --- End quote --- Get rid of the little bugger cos they will chew on your wires (the insulation) to sharpen their teeth. Stick a camera in there to find where they are getting in. And yes, as DrG says, get a cat. Or as my friend calls them, a ball-bearing mouse trap. |
| Ed.Kloonk:
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| uski:
I can confirm from experience than peanut butter works wonder to attract Canadian rodents ;) Also : |
| Kjelt:
--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on December 14, 2020, 09:59:22 am ---Or as my friend calls them, a ball-bearing mouse trap. --- End quote --- If you don't remove the balls within 6 months you will get a very smelly house and garden. |
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