gosh darn rodents

[Raven]

but if you feed them
away from your place
thats where they will go...

so if there's a dumpster nearby
go grab some cheap bag of birdseed
and sprinkle some in it or under it...

(just until the exterminator gets his job done)

so they won't be looking for food
inside your place

and here's the other bit of info
you'll freak out on...

most mice and rats can climb houses with ease
they climb trees ...and can literally run up walls
i've seen it first hand and it blew my mind...

of course it depends on the outside wall material
and whether or not they can sink their sharp claws in it
to climb....

my point being, that the entry hole isn't necessarilly
on the ground level

also you can lightly sprinkle some white flour
on the linoleum floor
(if you have one) and it's like artificial snow
then in the morning you can check it

sometimes it helps you determine which direction
they came from and narrow down the search a little.

[GonnaCatchABig1]

gonna be a week before he gets here.. hopefully they will go mess around in the neighbors apartment till then.. if hear/see them again.. i'm gonna try to lure them back to the dumpster..

as fas as them climbing.. i am well aware.. my travels once brought me to lovely nyc. sitting out in a back alley having smoke with some buddies.. we noticed a parade of rats. and watched in awe at their skills.. they were parading along a ledge.. which was covered in large rat traps. over the traps they went with out even thinking twice about goin in.. then proceeded to climb a ladder (it was like a fire escape but built into the wall) as if they human. i was amazed. they actually climbed up the rungs of the ladder one by one. all the way to the top of a 15-20 story building..

of course comparing nyc rats to normal rats is like comparing a civic to a ferrari. those are completely different beasts.

but yeah this weekend they are gonna take out what ever little critters are in the restaurant. (same building) so hopefully that will do the job and we wont have to have a major evacuation and wage a full scale war upon them.

[Surfcaster2884]

Let the war begin......

[freebie]

I've heard they taste like chicken.....

[justplugit]

Originally Posted by freebie

I've heard they taste like chicken.....

LOL

GCAB1, you might get lucky and have a chinese restaurant take the old one's place.

[spence]

I've read that mice have an incredible ability to memorize patterns, once they find food they can recall exactly how to get there...once study said cab drivers often had a similar skill.

So they advise moving things around once you set traps out. The mice will be forced to seek out a new route and will be more likely to find your bait.

We had a lot of mice this winter. The snap traps did nothing so I put out a lot of poison baits in the dirt cellar...didn't happen overnight but it was clear when the flies were massing on the warm side of the house outside that the deed had been done. I couldn't believe how much of the bait they had eaten.

-spence

[GonnaCatchABig1]

ok now it's on.. hadnt seen any since the original sighting so i figured.. maybe they actually decided to bother my neighbors instead.. just opened my door and spooked on that was on my bed. and it lunged for the door way (aka at me) and seeing as i was just as surprised as he was, gave me a good jump. i am not to found of things jumping at me from out of no where. now he must die... also. i am now fairly certain the point of entry is under/behind the fridge. so now i gotta move that... greeeeat.