Topic: I found a hole in my closet baseboard. (Read 3280 times)

Kunlun · « **on:** October 20, 2012, 07:03:13 PM »

I plugged said hole.

15 minutes later, a horrible mouse-scream reverberated from within the wall.

I unplugged said hole.

I set humane traps.

2 months later, 10 mice had been removed to a bush 300 yards away. One mouse died, apparently in protest, in the middle of the floor.

I plugged the hole again.

No more mouse dropping have appeared in the corner of my closet.

Goodbye my dear mouse neighbors.

wiinippongamer · « **Reply #1 on:** October 20, 2012, 08:09:44 PM »

ujamerstand · « **Reply #2 on:** October 20, 2012, 08:35:45 PM »

Marvey · « **Reply #3 on:** October 20, 2012, 08:55:59 PM »

What exactly are human mouse traps? Do they vaporize the mice?

briskly · « **Reply #4 on:** October 20, 2012, 09:12:38 PM »

Probably just a cage to trap them, and release, versus a snap trap or a glue pad.

Hroðulf · « **Reply #5 on:** October 20, 2012, 09:13:09 PM »

The non [right away] lethal ones most likely. We used to have one which traps the rat (or a mouse) in a cage. It was made for rats as the usual clap-traps we had did not brake their spines. The problem with the cage trap was that you had to drown the rat as it always found its way back home wherever you set it free.

We also used rat glue at times which glues the rat to a wooden board but these were awkward as the rats usually started screaming when you approached the board. Scared the crap out of me in the morning when I was little. In any case the more weathered rat exterminators told me that to solve a rat problem you have to catch a few and leave them together in a steel drum for a few days. The rats will start cannibalizing each other and only one will be left. You then set it free and it kills off the rest of the colony.

Creepy stuff, these rodents.

ujamerstand · « **Reply #6 on:** October 20, 2012, 09:24:09 PM »

I'd like to understand the cognitive process behind that.

if (rat.isolation && !food) {rat.Cannibalism();}
if (rat.cannibal && rat.isFree) {rat.MurdurTheRestOfColony();}

Kunlun · « **Reply #7 on:** October 20, 2012, 09:33:42 PM »

Quote from: purrin on October 20, 2012, 08:55:59 PM

What exactly are human mouse traps? Do they vaporize the mice?

Human mouse traps are dudes you hire to catch mice. They just lie around with a piece of cheese of their tongues.

Humane traps are little mouse jails with bait at the end. they are cheap and once you catch one and free it (far enough away and they don't come back), the mouse scent encourages other mice to go into the trap. I relocated what seemed like a whole clan of mice this way and they haven't been back or even called, the jerks.

briskly · « **Reply #8 on:** October 20, 2012, 09:38:41 PM »

Quote from: RudeWolf on October 20, 2012, 09:13:09 PM

The non [right away] lethal ones most likely. We used to have one which traps the rat (or a mouse) in a cage. It was made for rats as the usual clap-traps we had did not brake their spines. The problem with the cage trap was that you had to drown the rat as it always found its way back home wherever you set it free.

We also used rat glue at times which glues the rat to a wooden board but these were awkward as the rats usually started screaming when you approached the board. Scared the crap out of me in the morning when I was little. In any case the more weathered rat exterminators told me that to solve a rat problem you have to catch a few and leave them together in a steel drum for a few days. The rats will start cannibalizing each other and only one will be left. You then set it free and it kills off the rest of the colony.

Creepy stuff, these rodents.

How many rats do you usually gather for that?

Hroðulf · « **Reply #9 on:** October 20, 2012, 09:53:00 PM »

Regarding the rat cannibal holocaust theory.

I guess that the rationale is that the rat eater rat gets used to eat its own kind so it doesn't bother to look for any harder-to-get food. Then again, rats multiply like crazy so one rat shouldn't be enough.

And there wasn't any precise directions on how many rats should you put in the canni-barrel. I guess that depends on how bat-shit crazy you want it to be. If you ask me I wouldn't put too much as I'd be scared about it coming for revenge.

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