Status update. Old fashioned traps 2. Rodents 0.
Round 2 commenced.
Arrrggghhhhhh
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Hovis
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Re: Arrrggghhhhhh
I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
Izaak Walton
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Re: Arrrggghhhhhh
Chocolate works well in an old spring trap. I did learn, by trial and error, that you had to attach the chocolate to the prongs with a bit of fine fuse wire as the little critters had a cany knack of stealing the bait without setting off the trap.
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Dave Burr
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Re: Arrrggghhhhhh
Another tip, move the trap sites as they learn to avoid them and maybe secure the trap, my mate set 5 in his loft but only recovered 3.
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Hovis
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Re: Arrrggghhhhhh
Good advice gents. Chocolate buttons had always been the bait of choice her. I move the traps around too, normally setting them against the wall or other large object.
I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
Izaak Walton
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Re: Arrrggghhhhhh
We used Peanut butter... worked well
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If it has, you must fidget a lot!Dave Burr wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 4:42 pmWhy, do you think my bum has teeth?
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Re: Arrrggghhhhhh
This worked for me as well.
If you have no grease with you, and your rings are full of ice, do not cut out the ice with a pen-knife but get your man to put the rings one by one in his mouth, and so to thaw the ice.
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Re: Arrrggghhhhhh
Works well for me as well! So does raw carrot! As does a lump of vintage cheddar!
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This one regularly brings in little presents for me. So I'm in the kitchen one day he comes in drops a vole at my feet which instantly runs under the washing machine and I spend the next half hour trying to catch it!
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Re: Arrrggghhhhhh
This one regularly brings in little presents for me. So I'm in the kitchen one day he comes in drops a vole at my feet which instantly runs under the washing machine and I spend the next half hour trying to catch it!
Like most cats he sleeps a lot through the day but is active early morning and evening which inspired me to write this -
"My crepuscular cat lies asleep on the mat and he stays there most of the day
But at dusk and at dawn with a stretch and a yawn he goes outside to hunt and to play."
Like most cats he sleeps a lot through the day but is active early morning and evening which inspired me to write this -
"My crepuscular cat lies asleep on the mat and he stays there most of the day
But at dusk and at dawn with a stretch and a yawn he goes outside to hunt and to play."