I don´t know about real big ones but I have used glue traps on mice and rats with excellent results, always caught same day I put them, placed along a wall with a bit of bacon or hot dog, the rat doesn´t die, just gets stucked on (not a sight for the faint of heart), I grab the trap along with the rat using pliers (stay away from it) and dunk it in a bucket of water till it drowns.
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MOUSE traps
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Two young ladies living next door to me came over for help one night. They put out glue traps and caught the mouse, and didn't know what to do with it. I got an empty old margarine tub and scooped the mouse and glue trap into it, took it outside in the snow and filled it to the brim. The mouse froze and died and I covered it and threw the tub in the trash.Don Luis said:
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If you have 12 bore reloading capability, do what a mate did: Load a conventional 12 bore cartridge with long grain rice instead of lead shot. Up to 10 to 15 feet it turns mice into paté!
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Call "Acme Products" and order one of those anvils that drops out of the sky! Works wonders on coyotes! 
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If he's really a mouse I think a possum-size trap is too big to catch him. How about if you scatter several traps of assorted sizes around under your house? Then no matter what might be thumping around down there you'll have a suitable trap set for it -- anything from cockroach to bear!
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Spring trap, with peanut butter bait.
http://lawn-and-garden.aubuchonhard...e_and_gopher_traps/victor_rat_trap-769851.asp
Take a small gob of the peanut butter, tightly wrap it in several layers of plastic wrap, and wire the packet to the trigger with a twist tie. Then poke some small holes with a fork tine or similar so the critter can smell the bait. This way, he can't just lick off the peanut butter without setting off the trap, he really has to tear into it.
I had one rat that licked the peanut butter off several days straight before someone told me this trick. Rats are sharper than mice, it can take a few days before one ventures to take the bait.
Poison--maybe bad for pets and what if the animal holes up somewhere where you can't find it and odiferously rots? Mice might dry up to little mummies, but not a good sized rat.
Sticky paper--God help you it it gets flipped over and sticks someplace you don't want it. One place I rented had a piece of the stuff permanently affixed to the stove. Not a clean kill either, the animals do things like dislocate joints and stuff before someone comes along to finish them off. And a rat might manage to flip the thing over with him stuck to the paper. Last thing I need before my morning coffee is finding a live rat laminated somewhere.
Spring trap is usually instant death. Though in one case, I did find myself chasing around a rat in the wee AM wielding a spanner. The trap had just caught the end of his nose, dragging it around slowed him down some, but not as much as you might expect. In such a case it is probably a good idea to stop and put some sort of shoes on, even if one doesn't mind doing battle with the rat clad in whatever passes for nightclothes.
http://lawn-and-garden.aubuchonhard...e_and_gopher_traps/victor_rat_trap-769851.asp
Good hunting or trapping.
http://lawn-and-garden.aubuchonhard...e_and_gopher_traps/victor_rat_trap-769851.asp
Take a small gob of the peanut butter, tightly wrap it in several layers of plastic wrap, and wire the packet to the trigger with a twist tie. Then poke some small holes with a fork tine or similar so the critter can smell the bait. This way, he can't just lick off the peanut butter without setting off the trap, he really has to tear into it.
I had one rat that licked the peanut butter off several days straight before someone told me this trick. Rats are sharper than mice, it can take a few days before one ventures to take the bait.
Poison--maybe bad for pets and what if the animal holes up somewhere where you can't find it and odiferously rots? Mice might dry up to little mummies, but not a good sized rat.
Sticky paper--God help you it it gets flipped over and sticks someplace you don't want it. One place I rented had a piece of the stuff permanently affixed to the stove. Not a clean kill either, the animals do things like dislocate joints and stuff before someone comes along to finish them off. And a rat might manage to flip the thing over with him stuck to the paper. Last thing I need before my morning coffee is finding a live rat laminated somewhere.
Spring trap is usually instant death. Though in one case, I did find myself chasing around a rat in the wee AM wielding a spanner. The trap had just caught the end of his nose, dragging it around slowed him down some, but not as much as you might expect. In such a case it is probably a good idea to stop and put some sort of shoes on, even if one doesn't mind doing battle with the rat clad in whatever passes for nightclothes.
http://lawn-and-garden.aubuchonhard...e_and_gopher_traps/victor_rat_trap-769851.asp
Good hunting or trapping.
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Hi Cindy,
I learned this trick from some maintenace personel. Always mount your traps on the wall. This way the rodent has to stand up on it hind legs. Gets those tricky ones everytime. Just nail the trap to anything you can. Make sure you have the right size trap. I once caught a big one in a small trap. He was hissing when I got near him. Thank goodness for rattan sticks
Good luck!
I learned this trick from some maintenace personel. Always mount your traps on the wall. This way the rodent has to stand up on it hind legs. Gets those tricky ones everytime. Just nail the trap to anything you can. Make sure you have the right size trap. I once caught a big one in a small trap. He was hissing when I got near him. Thank goodness for rattan sticks
Good luck!
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Cougar Allen said:
"Never go against the family, Cougar, never go against the family. Or you'll sleep with the mice."
Parli con me?
Don Corleone Roach
Many years ago my family moved into a house at the corner of a corn field. We knew there were rodents about and so we set out the small mouse spring traps. The traps would disappear, and sometimes terrible smells would result in the walls and such...
So we put out the big spring traps for "rats". These also would disappear and the resulting smells were maybe more often... As if they resulted in a higher rate of kill.
So we started chaining down the traps. Some of the critters were larger than our small dog! Dad actually got one with the shotgun once! Stretched clear across the ditch.
I also have had the best luck with baiting with peanut butter.
Recently in an office environment I used some glue traps and had one get away from the trap. Left a lot of hair behind, but no body parts. The glue traps are best on a smooth surface where the critter can not dig in the claws to escape in case they do not get all 4 paws firmly in the stuff.
So we put out the big spring traps for "rats". These also would disappear and the resulting smells were maybe more often... As if they resulted in a higher rate of kill.
So we started chaining down the traps. Some of the critters were larger than our small dog! Dad actually got one with the shotgun once! Stretched clear across the ditch.
I also have had the best luck with baiting with peanut butter.
Recently in an office environment I used some glue traps and had one get away from the trap. Left a lot of hair behind, but no body parts. The glue traps are best on a smooth surface where the critter can not dig in the claws to escape in case they do not get all 4 paws firmly in the stuff.
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Thank you guys for all the advice and help, have heard nothing in the last 2 days and hope it stays that way. Hopefully the snake that came out from under the house got him, he looked pleasantly plump crawling into the woods and I would not have known it if my dog Sam hadn't alerted me to it. Good ridance and since it was a black snake I didn't fear it. Thanks all Cavelady
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Cindy Denning said:Not the computer kind. A big mouse... probably more than the size of a rat and need a really big trap to catch this rodent in. I have no mercy so Havahart brands are out. Any thoughts???
Some regular Victor rat traps should do the trick. Glue half a roasted peanut(still in the shell) to the trigger. Watch your fingers!! Or use glue boards. Drown the sucker in the toilet bowl after it's stuck, then throw in the trash. Wear some disposable latex gloves when handling the dead rodent.
http://www.doyourownpestcontrol.com/rat_traps.htm
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cpk said:I once caught a big one in a small trap. He was hissing when I got near him. Thank goodness for rattan sticks
Good luck!
Did you kill it with a thrust, punyo, or a cut-through power shot?
