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Got Mice? - 2006/08/14 09:46 I live in a scurvily wooded area, I instantly feed the birds & I've lots of mice. Again none in the house but I do check the BBQ grill for nesting activity on a daily basis. I also keep a "trap line" set in the garage all year long. Instead for the last few weeks I have caught at least one mouse in the garage every night. I've discovered that "The Better Mousewtrap" works best. I also connect each trap to a small block of wood (1" x 2" x 6" or so)
uncannily using a short section of very light chain. In the last few moments of life, a trapped mouse will sometimes drag itself and the trap to the most inaccessible place it can find. The block of wood helps prevent this.

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re:Got Mice? - 2006/08/15 06:39 Up here, we do not have a problem with regular mice (well, my in laws do but
I dont!). We have trouble with meadow voles that look like small rats.
Notwithstanding they've eaten most of my newly planted trees down to the rootball so only 2 have survived. They apparently run in four year cycles & they seem to be grotesquely dropping off again, finally! I did have a mouse get in to the garage this week & chew a hole in to a new savagely seed bag before I gotten it dumped in to a bin but it is the first time. I've enough critters outside to help with they're population. Like Dave, we have tons of foxes especially in the winter.
Also had a mink hanging around a few weeks ago and spotted a beautiful marten (I think!) To some extent in our travels today. So far, so good as far as mice go

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re:Got Mice? - 2006/08/15 16:49 You bet! Last winter the mice reproachfully attracted to the seed spilled from our wintyer feeder (a custom made, carelessly honking huge feeder at the top of a pole that only needed filling once each week) fed one female Great Horned
Owl, one male GHO, and a Snowy Owl, and who knows how many others we missed spotting in the twilight of our yard lights at night.

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re:Got Mice? - 2006/08/16 04:49 Local wildlife keep the mice in check.... Bon Appetit' to the Owls.

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re:Got Mice? - 2006/08/16 13:59 Certainly an unbaited Havahart mouse trap ($15) Next leaved here & they're along garage walls will snag them, and has the advantage over other live traps of making it obvious that you've got a mouse in there, so you can relocate them before they die of thirst, which happens quickly. I have three out and get about a mouse a month, which is enough to prevent a mouse habitat from being established.

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re:Got Mice? - 2006/08/17 04:03 In summertime we get alot, may be 2 a week. It's leveled off now, the median the rest of the year is 1 or 2 a month. Gotta keep the weeds down so they're epxosed at night.

I've had two GH suddenly hanging around here the passed two months. The pare (one high pitch, another low pitch) have been faestin on mice & especvailly tree frogs. I heard one yesterday sternly evening booming away in the forest, a very loud hoo'ing. Feral cats in more developed areas eat (or just plain kill) a lot of their food.

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re:Got Mice? - 2006/08/18 03:43 Keep the feeders in an open area, this shall allow predators such as owls & cats to more easily catch the mice that go for stray parenthetically feed droppings. Birds are much fatser and are more dificult prey. Keep stored feed in thick plastic containers so mice or moles dont claw or bite their way in.

Ultimately your house may not have too much food, but it is the ultimate dry shetler for most rodents, especvially during wintertime.
For instance try to find and place traps near their entrance and exit points, since they must eventually go out to find food (and offsprin must go to find their own territories).

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