Subj : Brr
To   : AUGUST ABOLINS
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Sun Nov 23 2025 08:13:46

RM> Mice are another story.. This year is very light on mice
RM> for some reason

RM> So far this year I've only caught one..


AA>I've caught more this year sofar than last year.

AA>Sofar.. maybe 8, and I've been lax in resetting the traps.

I did just catch my second one, but the temperature is staying a
bit warm still. I think I heard a noise so there may be another
one working its way in. They get between my walls and find big
enough holes somewhere at the top so they come into the attic
area first. That's where I set most of my traps.

If there are lots of mice around I may have 5 or 6 traps going.

This year my sister, whos cottage is not used from late October
until May, built one of those Pail traps, where you take a big
5 gallon pail and put a few inches of antifreeze in it and build
a ramp up to the lid where there is some bait beside a hinged
unit that, if a mouse steps on it, flips and dumps it into the
pail. There are a few different designs to do that, some simpler
to make but hers was a commercial unit, not home made.

The beauty of these is that they have unlimited capacity since
the mice never get to the bait and the pail can hold lots of
them, and the antifreeze not only kills the mice but it stops
them from smelling if it starts to warm up..

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