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21-12-2012, 12:22
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Alaska
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Re: a damn mouse
Did you get the rat to help get rid of the cucarachas?
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21-12-2012, 12:28
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Boat: Bestevaer.
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Re: a damn mouse
They are very common here although we have never had one , probably due to always anchoring. We did get a snake once that swam to the boat.
The cruisers I have met all vote for the sticky paper rather than an ordinary trap.
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21-12-2012, 13:28
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Location: Now based on Florida's West coast
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Re: a damn mouse
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Originally Posted by noelex 77
They are very common here although we have never had one , probably due to always anchoring. We did get a snake once that swam to the boat.
The cruisers I have met all vote for the sticky paper rather than an ordinary trap.
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Noelex, have you ever cornered an angry rat? Very nasty fellows. I grew up in Chicago and we hunted them as kids with high powered BB guns and slingshots in the alleys before garbage pickup. I wouldn't have the b-lls to confront an angry rat doing a Chinese dance on sticky paper. A proper rat trap is the best ticket to safety and success.
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21-12-2012, 13:52
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Long Range Cruiser
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Australian living on "Sea Life" currently in England.
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Re: a damn mouse
Get plastic dink bottles, coke bottles etc and cut the bottom out of them. Then slide them onto your mooring lines so the rats cant walk up your lines.
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21-12-2012, 13:54
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Heath, TX
Boat: 1978 Pearson 26 One Design
Posts: 316
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Re: a damn mouse
peanut butter for sure. they can't resist it.
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21-12-2012, 14:54
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Rockport, Texas
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Re: a damn mouse
I had no luck with peanut butter in Rio Dulce. Used some BBQ'd pig from July 4th at Bruno's, and that did the trick. Everyone down there said bacon or pork. So maybe Hispanic rats like meat..
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21-12-2012, 15:23
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Massachusetts
Boat: Finnsailer 38
Posts: 5,132
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Re: a damn mouse
If it's a mouse the plastic traps work better than the old style with the metal arm. Like these.
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21-12-2012, 15:24
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Location: South of 43 S, Australia
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Re: a damn mouse
Quote:
Originally Posted by rebel heart
Pretty sure we've got a rodent onboard. Heard him scurrying about, found a little mouse turd, then saw a couple food containers accessed. Most everything is in tough plastic but the two easy victories it managed to score.
Buying traps tomorrow.
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Let's hope it is a mouse but as others have noted, it is more likely a rat; and where there is one, there are hundreds nearby, they are very social animals.
You really need "shock and awe" tactics and as MarkJ pointed out, a way of preventing reinforcements arriving.
Good hunting!
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21-12-2012, 15:24
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Eastern Tennessee
Boat: Research vessel for a university, retired now.
Posts: 10,406
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Re: a damn mouse
Quote:
Originally Posted by rebel heart
Pretty sure we've got a rodent onboard. Heard him scurrying about, found a little mouse turd, then saw a couple food containers accessed. Most everything is in tough plastic but the two easy victories it managed to score.
Buying traps tomorrow.
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Are you sure that's not Homeland Security sneaking aboard at night?
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21-12-2012, 15:27
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Location: Baltimore, MD
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Re: a damn mouse
Ih had a rat in a city house years ago. Came into the closet from the crawlspace. I had the floor covered in sticky traps, heard screeching and that thing chewed off its trail and ran back down.
Looking back a rat trap would have been better.
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21-12-2012, 15:31
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Straits of Juan De Fuca
Boat: Orca 38
Posts: 820
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Re: a damn mouse
I caught a rat once but he was twice as big as the trap and it didn't outright kill him. That damn thing thrashed around and when it finally died the kitchen looked like the valentines day massacre had occured in there.
I hate rats......
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21-12-2012, 15:43
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Seattle
Boat: Krogen 58' Xiao Xiu
Posts: 276
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Re: a damn mouse
Kettlewell-
So somebody actually built a better mousetrap?
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21-12-2012, 15:44
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Posts: 1,065
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Re: a damn mouse
Cinnamon. Lots of cinnamon. I know it works on moles and gophers, maybe mice and rats too???
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21-12-2012, 15:46
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#29
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Northern British Columbia, part of the time in Prince Rupert and part of the time on Moresby Island.
Boat: 50-ft steel Ketch
Posts: 1,884
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Re: a damn mouse
I have a cat, but she seems to run a half-way house for mice. Last time I had a mouse on board, she just watched while I did the catching.
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21-12-2012, 16:07
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Massachusetts
Boat: Finnsailer 38
Posts: 5,132
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Re: a damn mouse
Quote:
So somebody actually built a better mousetrap?
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Yep, and I've tried a bunch of them. Peanut butter works good too. Another nice thing is the plastic ones are less likely to snap on your fingers while you are setting them, and it is easy to pick up by its back side, mouse and all, and then release the critter in the trash can (assuming he's dead).
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