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Rats/Mice are a major health issue. They make no contribution to a healthy sleep.

You wake up in the middle of the night. Scratch, Scratch. Oh oh!. Enemy rat overhead. Lady of the house is a staunch feminist and immediately assumes executive control.

Next morning finds me up the attic with a new Deadfast bait box. Three sets of bait disappear in three-day block succession. This is an expensive exercise. This mouse is easily winning. We prefer to think it’s a mouse. Cute.

What gets me. No food is left out. It’s all in plastic containers in cupboards. Although we are surrounded by cat’s lovers. Cats bring back treats. Also bird feeders.
The area is secure. All new fencing with no front or back garden. The rodents probably scaled the wall. SAS style frontal assault mounted via the bottom of the roof tiles. Bingo mouse is in.He has been watching the old "The lady loves Cadbury" ads.
Does anyone have experience of humane rat traps? This is a wire cage with a non-poison bait. Or other? Any stories to share? Best bait entrapment method?
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I ride Brompton,Hetchins 531

We've used rat bait boxes with good results, and they're very convenient. Keep going.

Rentokil:
https://www.rentokil.co.uk/rats/busines ... t-station/

Jonathan

PS: Of course nothing will work if there's still a food source or somewhere nice to nest.

PPS: I have fed pet snakes with live-trapped mice, but not for many years.

Mus musculus en route for the great outdoors.

Mouse goes up ladder at right and out onto the seesaw, which drops it into the bucket. The inner tube stretched across returns the seesaw to the horizontal.

The brown stuff on the seesaw is peanut butter, in case you were wondering: it has a strong enough smell for the mice to pick up quite far away, and they like it. In the bottom there's parrot seed, which is why we have a mouse problem every few years. It's there so that the wee darlings don't get too hungry.

We got a couple with this, but there were so many it didn't get that we finally resorted to bait boxes under the cupboards. They worked.

Blessed are the Meek for they shall Inherit the Earth. Squeak squeak…

Mouse goes up ladder at right and out onto the seesaw, which drops it into the bucket. The inner tube stretched across returns the seesaw to the horizontal.

If you used a big plastic box.You would make a fortune.This is one of the best designs which unfortunately is not on the market.Put a plastic box in place of bucket and sell it to major manufacturer.

You could be in the money.

briansnail wrote: ↑5 Apr 2024, 3:37pm

Mouse goes up ladder at right and out onto the seesaw, which drops it into the bucket. The inner tube stretched across returns the seesaw to the horizontal.

If you used a big plastic box.You would make a fortune.This is one of the best designs which unfortunately is not on the market.Put a plastic box in place of bucket and sell it to major manufacturer.

You could be in the money.

And "the world will beat a path to your door".

Jonathan

First farm I worked on after leaving school in the sixties had a rat problem. We had one of those wire cages they fell in but didn’t get out of. Don’t know if you’d call it humane though because in the morning we would throw a sack over it and throw it into a water trough to drown them.

We had one of those wire cages they fell in

Note always get one with a handle.These are more expensive.However mice /rats nip humans through the wire.
The bucket in photo is better as rodent waste drips through the bottom wire cages.Not good if you have expensive Axminster carpets.
(if they still make them).