This is War

[ffishman]

I am going to try the sponge thing tonite.

[BennieS]

I use a one gallon paint can , 4-5 inches of water, a stick as a ramp, cover the top of the water with suflowerr seeds. Suicide bucket. Problem solved.
The tin cans with peanut butter on a coat hanger sounds cheaper than sunflower seeds. I'm gonna "fine tune my presentation" and move to that method. Love Walleye Central and the stuff you learn here.

[ffishman]

Round two. He won this one, but the war is not over. I put a piece of sponge with peanut butter on it. This morning, the ENTIRE mouse trap is gone. Next, a rat trap.

[Freytown]

Originally Posted by RedNeckWino

Careful how big. I did the motion camera trick once just to find out it was my neighbor in the middle of the night. Wished I had set the leg hold traps I use on coyote.

Your neighbor snacks on grass seed??? Hmmm...invite him over for supper some day.

[seeds]

I keep 3 rat traps handy....Small yard,lots of asiatic and oriental lillies. Chippies chew down lillies - true lillies (lillium) not daylillies - without eating them,and I collect lillies... I killed a few earlier this summer,then stopped trapping when the damage stopped. Now I'm seeing chippies and damage again.

It's time to reset the traps.

[ffishman]

My guess is, it is a chipmunk. The neighborhood is loaded with them. And, when they stay outside, no problem. But, when they take up residence in my garage, they crossed the line.

[micropterus]

My cat handles pest control.

[gn83tm]

My buddy's been trapping ground squirrels around his place with rat traps baited with peanut butter. I'd guess they or chippies are your problem. Hopefully d-day is soon!

[dutchboy]

Originally Posted by micropterus

My cat handles pest control.

My wifes cat shares it's food with mice and appearently educates them to the location of the poison.

[grizzley]

Reminds me of when I was trying to outsmart a racoon that kept getting into the cat food.
It took awhile but I finally figured out how to secure the container so it couldn't turn the top off.
couldn't believe that a critter could figure out how to turn a threaded top off of a garbage can to get at food.