In article >,
Blair P. Houghton > wrote:

> Katra > wrote:
> >Try bacon rind...
> >That always worked on the mice up at the mountain cabin. :-)
>
> Nope. I'm sticking with Stilton.
>
> HE CAME BACK!
>
> Or his little sister did.
>
> Shoulda known.
>
> I heard and saw one on the kitchen counter tonight.
>
> Set the traps out with a fingernail of stilton in each,
> and about an hour later--clack! Rattlerattle...
>
> He's so owned.
>
> I dropped him out past the back fence again, this time with
> a flashlight so I could see him split for the culvert.
>
> Tomorrow I'm definitely getting a proper coverplate for the broken
> cleanout on the outside of the kitchen wall. I'm pretty sure that's
> their ingress.
>
> --Blair
> "Anyone rented Mouse Hunt lately?"

I'm actually impressed that you are live trapping... ;-)

I tried that with the rats in the chicken yard and it got way out of
hand as rats are so smart, they seem to learn about the others getting
trapped so stopped going into the box traps.

I had to resort to careful poisoning. :-(

The carcass count stopped at 48...... <sigh>

I'm just glad that they never got into the house, even tho' I have
several hunter/killer cats. Rats ate eggs and killed and ate young
pigeons.

Nasty creatures <shudder>

Watch out tho', mice can carry Hanta virus.

K.

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