"Magic" Mouse Bait

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  1. Trollbait

    Trollbait It's a D&D thing

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    The quick kill is what i picked up.
    Mouse Snap Traps | Easy Mouse Trap | Victor®

    Cats didn't care for the current kibble and scattered it across the kitchen floor. It disappeared one day. Caught one, and no more disappearing kibble since. Used peanut butter and molasses. Probably should wash and rebait the traps.
     
    #21 Trollbait, Dec 31, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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  2. cyberpriusII

    cyberpriusII Maybe it was the roses

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    Quick Kill Victor is one of the several I have pictured in my earlier post in this thread (Post #19, with the Chrome pedal poking out). Very sensitive. If a mouse gets near it, it will snap. I caught myself twice with it.
    kris
     
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  3. VelvetFoot

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    I keep the cat out of the garage when I put down the snap traps. Having a cat-safe trap is a concern. Hopefully, inside the house, she'd do her duty, eventually.
     
    #23 VelvetFoot, Dec 31, 2025 at 1:05 PM
  4. cyberpriusII

    cyberpriusII Maybe it was the roses

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    Hope you caught the one and only...
    kris
     
    #24 cyberpriusII, Dec 31, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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  5. ETC(SS)

    ETC(SS) The OTHER One Percenter.....

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    I used to use a bread morsel coated in peanut butter with live traps - but I'm a glue board dude now for the very few times I actually need to trap mieces.

    Cats need toys.
    Fish need to eat.
     
    #25 ETC(SS), Dec 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
  6. bisco

    bisco cookie crumbler

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    i don't reuse traps, i bait them and throw them away with or without the mouse, so i buy the cheapest ones i can find in quantity.
    i pick them up with pliers and dispose in a plastic bag, wearing an N-95.
    i don't want to get gene hackmanned
     
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  7. cyberpriusII

    cyberpriusII Maybe it was the roses

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    I know the possibility exists, but I feel it is pretty low. I used to alcohol my hands after handling mouse traps at home, but I have stopped doing that unless I am going to be handling food or something in the near time.

    For work, required to sterilize after any sort of contact with critters, traps, etc., but it is a bit of overkill.

    The only time I worry about traps and dying is when it is rattlesnake traps...and won't be doing that until spring (not at home, for work). Actually, if we had rattlers around the house, the mouse population would be smaller.

    Well, the boas and garters do what they can...
     
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  8. ETC(SS)

    ETC(SS) The OTHER One Percenter.....

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    I've actually never been much afraid of rattlers.
    You usually have to step on them (or something else equally foolish) to get them to bite you and they generally try to warn you off first.
    I see one in the woods I will usually let them be.
    HOWEVER (comma!!!!)
    I also have a boxer that thinks that anything that moves MUST be a toy.....or food - so I will be forced to eliminate a poisonous snake if I find one near the yard.

    Insects are a different issue for me, and I will generally run and hide like the owner of a Minneapolis zero-child daycare center if I see a wasp or a spider.
    Fortunately?
    Our Boxer keeps the house pretty much spider free, and I have an abundant supply of wasp spray owing to my job in the phone factory (we keep it by the case!)
     
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  9. cyberpriusII

    cyberpriusII Maybe it was the roses

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    Yes, for the most part the rattlesnake populations are fairly mellow, unless pestered -- how else could all those snake handling preachers survive.

    When I was in the Midwest, the timber rattlesnakes were a bit cranky, but not too bad, and I have heard tales that a population of Mojave Green rattlesnakes in the desert southwest is very aggressive, but have never had the pleasure. My thing is mostly amphibians and they and their other water dwelling friends are pretty laid back here. I only volunteer to help out with snake census because they need the help and its a job not suited for amateurs.

    As for wasps, I was getting attacked by yellow jackets the first week of December as I was hiking through the woods. Unheard of. They were pretty sluggish though and I managed to kill the two that tried to attack me.
    kris
     
    #29 cyberpriusII, Dec 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
  10. ETC(SS)

    ETC(SS) The OTHER One Percenter.....

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    Actually, it's usually the congregants that pass the snakes around.
    Those 'hard shell' fire and brimstone pastors yell too much and usually rattle the snakes too much for THEM to do it.
     
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