Woody Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 Always wondered where the song "Three Blind Mice" came from. Also according to Hickory, Dickory, and Dock, a large clock while somewhat cumbersome may work also. Woody Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henerythe8th Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 Only a couple of things on the face of this planet I'd say that about! Mice are one of them! Paper wasp/meat bee/hornets are another... One good reason to dislike mice immensely is that I've been told that they have no bladder and leak urine everywhere they go! Imagine that! Peanut butter is a tried and true bait for traps. No need for string, etc. usually! Get the right kind of trap that a bit of peanut butter will be forced into the bait holder--many of the traps today also have an adjustable set/trip pressure deal. The other slightly more expensive traps that have a pair of teeter totter ramps-one on each end work great too! Like someone else said--place along walls. And turn off all of the lights. Mice love the dark--you will catch most mice in the first couple of minutes of turning off the lights. Another deterrent that worked for me recently was DRYER SHEETS! I had a car parked outside -- no transmission -- for over a year. When I parked it I put three unused dryer sheets in the car and NO MICE! YEA! Ladies post, on the internet, about 1,000,001 uses for those danged dryer sheets--this one appears to work! H 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eckfordblacksmith Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 I haven't tried it yet, but my brother in law swears by "Irish Spring" bar soap. He has several old cars and places chips or whole bars in various parts to keep the mice out. Smells better than moth balls :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Not in my opinion! I use the snake/cat method currently in my forge with some help from small hawks as well. Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Hicks Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 How about a big pile of green coal in the forge get it burnnin good and close up the shop - Smokem out I hate poison - most the time u cant find them but sure can smell em + Im afraid my pets might eat a poisoned mouse and poison them or get in the poison. I would stick to traps or a good BB gun Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 Irnsrgn already mentioned what we call a "Finnish Mousetrap" (though I've heard it called other things.) Something I do to make them more effective, don't use water, use antifreeze. They die faster, and it doesn't have that annoying habit of freezing. The mousetrap in my garage didn't have antifreeze in it, no ramp, and there wasn't anything on the can, but I still had 5 mice and a mole in there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 We used to keep wild birs seed in a galvanized trash can in the garage and would collect a goodly number of white footed deer mice in them each winter---they went to a local nature center for use as food for snakes and birds of prey. Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferrous Beuler Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Irnsrgn already mentioned what we call a "Finnish Mousetrap" (though I've heard it called other things.) Something I do to make them more effective, don't use water, use antifreeze. They die faster, and it doesn't have that annoying habit of freezing. The mousetrap in my garage didn't have antifreeze in it, no ramp, and there wasn't anything on the can, but I still had 5 mice and a mole in there! If you have a dog don't let it have access to it or you may be the proud owner of a dead dog (kidney failure from drinking antifreze) Dan:( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Ink Posted November 25, 2007 Share Posted November 25, 2007 mix dry chocolate with cement . You will notice droppings around the cup clean them up everyday soon the droppings will stop . Now the mouse is gone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daryl Posted November 25, 2007 Share Posted November 25, 2007 In my area a few years ago we had a mouse problem of Biblical proportions (it actually made the national news one night - yuk). Mice in the fields were measured at twelve to fifteen per square metre (about a square yard). This condition lasted about three weeks before they all died of some lung disease that develops when they are overcrowded. At the time, we were using the five gallon pail traps all over the shop and getting from six to thirty every morning. East of where I live there was an area that had a similar rat problem. If you live in the country, particularly where there is a grain elevator - talk to them and see what the current best method is. As well, if you trap one rat and paint it pure white then let it go, chances are that the other rats will find another place to go when the white one goes back to its home - the others think it is a ferret. Ferrets are incredible mousers and rat hunters, unless there are too many or too few subjects to hunt - too many and they will probably get killed by the other rats, too few and they become a problem themselves... best to see if a friend has one to borrow for a week. Grinding up asprin to a powder and mixing it with flour also rids you of the little beggars (they heammorage internally from the asprin). I once had a small can of old (very old) case hardening powder, it had a high concentration potassium cyanide - sprinkled a bit around the edges of my walls and the next morning I would find the mice in the middle of the floor (!!!). I finally found a company that would dispose of the stuff properly as the idea of having a can of the stuff in my shop freaked me out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoary Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 well, my wife being the more humane person I know won't let me kill the mice.... so I settled for proping a toilet paper tube on the edge of the counter top kinda like a seesaw with peanut butter on outer edge of the tube overlooking an empty trash can. mouse goes through the tube to get the peanut butter off balances the tube and falls into the can. then drive a mile out and release in the wild. not to exciting but kind of amusing especially when you hear the thump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GVR-4579 Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 I am not going to look through all the posts, but dryer sheets keep mice out of cars qutie well around my place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vern six Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 you'll all will say it wont work , but it does. take and go to the drug store and get a bottle of oil of peppermint, not exctract and some cotton balls. put some on the balls of cotton and place them all around,but put the cotton in a cup ,exc, so the oil does not get on things . i use it in my trailer , shop, house,exc. mice and bugs can not stand it, and every thing smalls great. been using it for years. takes about one week and you'll see i don't lie. vern:D:D:D: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Patrick Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 I would suggest a .45 Kimber, but the neighbors will complain. Or, poison tipped numchucks, or as ApprenticeMan said, a mallet.(good one) Another option is a yard leaf sucker dumping into a belt sander. Maybe a small napalm bomb? Elephants,, they hate mice right? My brother keeps horses, therefore he also keeps mice. He employs two barn cats that I am certain were sired from pumas. Also he has a Queensland BLue heeler dog that enjoys eating mice. Seriously, the old mousetap peanut butter bit works about the best, seconded by a cat or two. If you employ cats, be sure to worm them often, as mice carry lots of worms and other crawling nasties. Rats (ALSO KNOW AS THE MOST FOUL CREATURES ON EARTH!!!!!!!!!!) are the worst. If your systems yield dead rats, use gloves to handle the bodies. They ARE filled with all sorts of nastiness. I hate rats. Alot I mean alot. Worse than liver. Really hate rats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayco Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 I have two cats and a blacksnake that frequent the shop. The only problem is; the cats are lazy......and the snake only works in warm weather! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbrforge Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 I'm with jayco. Lazy cat (overfed) maybe cutting back on her food will solve that but I haven't the heart. She was a mouser extraordinar for years so it goes. I've never been bothered with them enough to be concerned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Black Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 Melt a little deer tallow and soak a rag in it.Wrap around the trap trigger and secure with a thread.Mice love the smell and apparently the taste.The pelts won't bring much, but it will keep you busy emptying the traps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easilyconfused Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Kind of an off the wall question, but how long do you figure before we've selected for the mice that outsmart the standard mousetrap? It's bound to be happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete46 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 I Have A Rottweiler He Loves Cats(thinks They Taste Like Chicken) Rats & Mice Not So Much (not Enough For A Snack) I Have Horses Too, They Don't Eat Meat At All! I Got A BB Gun; Rats & Mice Won't Stand Still! I Was In The Usmc I Can Shoot! The Rodents Are Use'n Dark Magic!:mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayco Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 The corner posts of my shop are locust poles......cut right from the woods......with the bark still on them. The post nearest my forge has a 1inch knot hole in it. That knot hole has been home to many a mouse. At one point it became routine for a mouse to find refuge in that knot hole as the cat gave hot pursuit. I got tired of the daily chase and plugged up the knot hole with a piece of wood. The very next morning, there was a mouse's nest in my blower! So......I just took the wooden plug out of the knot hole............... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J W Bennett Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 The last 2 years I have found several "skins" left by black snakes and my mouse population is down to nothing. I haven't ran across the first nest yet this winter either. I did get the pleasure of having one of the snakes enter twined with the tooling on the tool board this last summer. Startled me at first but he went his own way after a few minutes. I'd rather have snakes any day. they don't make near the mess. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete46 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 JOHN SNAKES MAY NOT MAKE A MESS BUT THEY CAN SURE CAUSE ONE!:o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 I have a kingsnake in the yard during the summer; but he/she doesn't help much in the winter. I use regular mousetraps and check them on a regular basis---fresh mice go to my daughter's snake and so save us US$2 a piece! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_sandy_creek_forge Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 Kind of an off the wall question, but how long do you figure before we've selected for the mice that outsmart the standard mousetrap? It's bound to be happening. Hm...I'd never thought of that...but... maybe the movie was wrong... maybe it should have been "Xxxx dirty MICE" instead of apes.... -Aaron @ the SCF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jocko 58 Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 1 bucket 3 parts of water sprinkle 1/2 inch of chaff as they go for the chaff they fall in. They can swim for so long ( one method ) one from an ozzie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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