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Post by creativechaos on Mar 14, 2018 21:15:05 GMT -5
thanks, TML - storage owners come home the end of the month and i will ask them if they will get some vitamin D traps or something similar. i doubt it but maybe they will let me buy it and take it off my storage fees. still nothing caught with the peanut butter! maybe that means the mice have moved on. i hope so!
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Post by catcat on Mar 16, 2018 21:32:22 GMT -5
I hope so too ! It's a lot to deal with. catcat
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Post by Layla on Mar 21, 2018 1:21:53 GMT -5
I had one rat get into our garage where I have lots of cardboard boxes stacked and the garage is packed. Needless to say, I moved so much, so much rat poop and urine behind it all and on tops of boxes, and various nesting spots where they tore up paper or pulled batting from a chair I had. It was quite the chore, the flip trap with peanut butter was how we caught it, took about 2 wks. Luckily no more after that and we then adopted some feral cats on our property so they are good hunters, we have roof rats in our neighborhood and a hoarder behind us in the alley with a backyard that is heaven for rats full of junk.
It forced me to go through a lot of boxes, many got tossed, and I already had plastic tubs and had to take all the lids off and hose them down as the rat urine and poop were on the tops. And I picked up more plastic tubs, after seeing what the rat did to the carboard chewing things. Also we had a mass amount of crickets and cricket poo on everything too.
Sigh the frustration, I feel you... and there wasnt food in our garage, they were taking the old olives that fell to the ground off our tree and taking them in the garage as I found little stashes of the seeds where they were nesting and sleeping.
I did see though we had some seeds in a bin and that was devoured but otherwise not much was really in the garage to feast on. All my neighbors have said the flip traps and peanut butter are best traps.
So Sorry you are having to deal with this
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Post by creativechaos on Mar 23, 2018 15:12:42 GMT -5
Thank you, Layla! I appreciate the support. I am so glad you got rid of that rat! You have inspired me to go to storage and re-bait the flip traps with fresh peanut butter. I am slowly, as finances allow, getting all my fabrics in storage, into smallish plastic tubs that i can lift, since fabric is heavy. Just bought 5 more tubs on yesterday's mainland trip and am hoping that will be enough to finish the job; probably not, since there are other things that need binning. Unfortunately, my unit is in a building with many others, and lots of cracks and holes for the rodents to peruse the entire building full of storage units. I must face this and slowly deal with the wreckage, but right now, on top of all of this, is garden season, upcoming apartment inspection, and impending summer art shows.
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Post by catcat on Mar 23, 2018 23:04:46 GMT -5
Layla & creativechaos---I feel bad for both of you. The rotted wooden shed in the back yard that I had torn down & almost everything in it hauled away had many mice in it. No food was stored in there ever. The shed was so rotted that I could have put my arm in there in several places. So I am sure they were eating elsewhere & the shed was their hotel room. There is a shed now that is made of some kind of vinyl & it has only yard tools in there, lawnmower, etc. But about this time last year, I had squirrels in the attic, above the dropped ceiling. I was told that they had chewed a way in so that the mother squirrel could make a nest for babies. It cost me dearly to have them removed & relocated & the air vents where they entered replaced with better ones. No vacation last year ! I love animals & that includes little wild things too, especially rabbits. It is a real hardship though when rats or mice gain access to your home or shed or storage place since they do so much damage & are often carriers of disease, such as Hantavirus, for example.Last year was so costly because of those critters & so much work, though for the most part, I had to pay to have big things hauled away. I wish you both good luck with unwelcome rodents that destroy your stuff & cause you so much extra work. I REALLY do. catcat
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Post by Layla on Mar 24, 2018 0:01:59 GMT -5
creativechaos if the cracks for the mice to get into you space are in your reach, get some steel wool and tuck it in them, its supposed to help keep out mice, its not something they want to chew through.
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