Dear Mom,
There was a skirmish along the Eastern Front today. War is an ugly business so I'll spare you the details, but we were victorious on this day and I still have all my fingers.
With love,
Ed
Dear Mom,
There was a skirmish along the Eastern Front today. War is an ugly business so I'll spare you the details, but we were victorious on this day and I still have all my fingers.
With love,
Ed
In reply to PunchyWrench - Ed Higginbotham :
Wow, take no prisoners n' such! I'm averaging one every 3 to 4 days in snap traps in the basement under our family room. This area is separated from the main house basement, I think I know about where they're getting in but a complete solution is going to have to wait until warmer weather. I was getting 2 -3 a day before I made some temporary repairs where I can reach for now so it's either working or I've thinned the herd to a degree.
We had a big mouse problem at the end 2020 going into 2021. Two ice storms that knocked down a lot of trees, big piles of brush in everyone's yard as everyone waited on the city to pick them up, plus two new editions going in near us. Our yard alone had 6 different limb/brush piles approx 4' high and 5-6' in diameter.
We tried the old school wood traps, we called an exterminator who used poisoned traps outside and inside the house along with glue traps. None of it ever stopped.
We called a wildlife remediation company, it was $1500. They put some big traps up in the attic (no poison as he explained that prevents them from possibly dying in the walls/vents and stinking up your hours), then literally seal up the outside of the house........everywhere. They come back to check the traps every week for 4 weeks. By week 3 and 4, no more mice being caught and haven't had a single one back since March of last year when paid for the service.
Expensive but so worth it. Hearing a huge boom as the cat slammed into the wall to get one, then it just toying with it forever before killing it.
So this one was a rat, not one of the mice we've been catching. I'd never dealt with a rat until now. It did not end humanely. It was the opposite of humane. But there was no way I was letting him get away.
Now that you bring up the brush piles I bet I know where he came from. The owner of the apartments next door to us used to have piles and piles of junk on the other side of the fence dividing our property from theirs. The apartments were recently sold and all those piles of junk left in not one, but two rolling dumpsters. I'll bet that was this guy's previous home.
Get a snake. 
Co worker had a rat/squirrel problem at his cabin. He's only there a few days each month and the little bastards were doing a lot of damage. Poison was not an option and regular traps couldn't out smart the squirrels. He ended up buying a Goodnature trap. It's expensive but it works great. CO2 cartridge will last between visits. Local predetors or birds clean up the dead.
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