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Gypsy Jan
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Mice, Mice and More Mice
In all our years of living here we have never had the mice infestation problem we have now.
The dogs are too well fed ("Cough" - too lazy) to go after them inside the house, they just look at them as entertainment.
We put out sticky traps and there is always a mouse or two on them in the morning.
The newly arrived Baja kitty is busy earning her kibble by chasing them down outside.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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Martyman
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Sometimes we have them and sometimes we don't. Probably has to do with the rainfall and the vegetation (food) that follows?
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Gypsy Jan
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Jumping Around and Screaming Out Loud
That is what I did when the mouse lunged up at me irom nside the pot I was going to clean.
I am now a stereotype...
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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SlyOnce
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We are having
"la guerra de las hormigas"
in our Baja apartment these days.
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Gypsy Jan
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Ants are Nasty.
And you can sprat them witout remorse.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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Feathers
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Gypsy Jan
I am now a stereotype... |
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fandango
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Sisters house next to me had mice. We set 4 traps in the house and 10 traps in the ceiling. We used peanut butter and the mice took the bait from
every trap, twice. They didn't even snap the traps.
We tried pieces of peanuts jammed in the little indentation and they cleaned that up too without snapping the traps.
She set off 3 bug bombs for termite control. The bug bombs took care of the mice as well.
It's been over 3 months and no evidence of the mice returning.
Good luck with yours gypsy jan.
sbwontoo
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tjsue
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| Quote: | Originally posted by SlyOnce
We are having
"la guerra de las hormigas"
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Use Terro Ant Bait, it works wonders.
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mrfatboy
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Get the rat zapper. Works great. Clean and fast.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B002665ZTC?pc_redir=1404050051...
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BajaBlanca
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We had them in the garage and Les figured out a way to put the food so that they would snap the trap.
In his pre Blanca life, he tells the story ( truth is his kids told me) of somehow getting the mice to die inside the walls of his garage and in a
spot that he could not get to. Ughhhhhh
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Reeljob
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Put mothballs in a jar, cut holes in top of jar. Place in Garage, atic etc. They will leave.
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boe4fun
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Ever smelled mothballs? How do you get their legs apart?
Two dirt roads diverged in Baja and I, I took the one less graveled by......
Soy ignorante, apático y ambivalente. No lo sé y no me importa, ni modo.
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Bwana_John
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5 gallon plastic bucket with an oil change in it, a piece of carpet against the bucket to make a ramp up the outside of it, and a line of peanut
butter smeared around the inside of the bucket below the rim and above the motor oil.
The oil keeps it from getting stinky as you create your own little "Tar Pit"
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bajaandy
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Like Bwana_John said, only poke a hole in the top and bottom of an empty Tecate can and string it on a piece of wire across the top of the bucket.
Smear the peanut butter on the Tecate can. Mice will jump to the can only to roll off and into the "pit". Works every time.
subvert the dominant paradigm
"If you travel with a man, you must either fall out with him or make him your good friend."
JBL Noel
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bajaandy
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Oops. Did I say Tecate? This must be the Pacifico model.
Note the rope ladder for the little critters to climb up.
Water is nice because you can just pour it out and start over.
[Edited on 7-1-2014 by bajaandy]
subvert the dominant paradigm
"If you travel with a man, you must either fall out with him or make him your good friend."
JBL Noel
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DawnPatrol
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I like the bucket idea!
We used the same thing to kill ground squirrels....
except on the top of the water you cover with unsalted sunflower seeds... make a small "diving board" stick halfway over the rim of the bucket...
Voila! We drowned 12 in two days that had infested a wood pile on our property line
Alan from SD
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805gregg
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You just have the wrong dogs for the wrong rats, Get a corgi it will rid you of all rats, squirrels, gophers etc. breed for that and live to do it. My
friend has one he told me he saw it catch a gopher toss it in the air catch it again and then eat it
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huesos
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Jan
I hate to say this but if you have mice inside your house, you need to find the point of entry and stop it from the out side. This is not complicated
and mice are dangerous. They carry an array of virus some of which are not clearly known spread by droppings becoming air born in the form of fine
dust. If you can not find the point of entry, find some one who can. Trapping the ones inside is only a part of the final cleanup, not a solution.
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micah202
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bwana_John
5 gallon plastic bucket with an oil change in it, a piece of carpet against the bucket to make a ramp up the outside of it, and a line of peanut
butter smeared around the inside of the bucket below the rim and above the motor oil.
The oil keeps it from getting stinky as you create your own little "Tar Pit" |
....you used to work for the cartel??
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wetto
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great ideas, setting up the pacifico model today.
Thanks
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