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November 21, 2008, 06:11:40 PM

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how to catch a mouse without a mousetrap

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paul wheaton
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June 02, 2006, 08:39:34 AM

Check it out!

http://glass.typepad.com/journal/2005/09/how_to_catch_a_.html


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Leah Sattler
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July 15, 2008, 07:46:52 AM

I have seen an idea similar to this!
http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/easterly110.html


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paul wheaton
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July 15, 2008, 08:25:16 AM

I've heard of the bucket method with water - that's pretty cool.

I've also heard of places so terribly infested with rats that they use 55 gallon drums and do basically the same thing.

I do have to wonder about somehow not letting that meat go to waste. I would prefer that a cat or dog eat the mouse. Or maybe somehow give the mouse to the chickens or the pigs.


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Leah Sattler
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July 16, 2008, 06:04:00 AM

rodents can harbor toxoplasmosis, plaque etc... I would just as soon burn the carcasses as try to feed them to something! or better yet bury them so that they contribute to the soil.


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paul wheaton
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July 18, 2008, 12:54:29 PM

Plague is super rare.

I wonder if some of the things you are worried about can be mitigated. Like feeding the rat to a non-mammal: fowl or fish.


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Leah Sattler
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July 28, 2008, 05:18:17 AM

I have seen my chickens chase down and eat mice. I don't let them in my house or cuddle with them, so I suppose I could let them eat the carcasses.... they do anyway


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paul wheaton
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August 02, 2008, 09:29:10 AM

I recently heard a story of a woman having trouble with squirrels. She had a barrel of water and floated a styrofoam plate with some peanut butter on it.

It turned out to be amazingly effective.


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Leah Sattler
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August 04, 2008, 06:09:59 AM

I bet that would work. I have seen many a squirrel that met its end in stock tanks during the summer months. I make it a point to put a big stick in the water to prevent it. I like the squirrels but I can see how they could become a nuisance. They were just more of a nuisance to me fouling the stock tanks with their dead bodies!


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