Unwanted small critters

[Jacobs]

I have a storage building that is of pole type construction. It has a concrete floor with two overhead doors and a people door that appear to be tight. There is a 12 slider that small critters such as mice could navigate. I have lots of tracks in a pile of sand that is on the floor. There is no food type materials stored in the building but there is tall grass outside.



I store my truck and boats in the building in the winter.



What suggestions do you have for getting rid of my critters and keeping them under control.



Thanks in advance



Bruce

 

[BreaksEverything]

little bits of C-4 on some traps & BLOW THE BUGGERS HEADS OFF



sorry 'bout that , I forgot too take my meds today & the voices:-{} are telling me what to type

 

[klenger]

Get a cat.

 

[Peter Campbell]

Go to sams and get a large bag of reeses peanut butter cups. Then to lowes/home depot and a bunch of traps. Start setting traps with a bit of the reeses in the bait plate. wait 10 minutes repeat. If you get bored eat some reeses- unless you have already unloaded traps. Mice can not seem to resist reeses ( at least NY mice )

 

[crabman]

Use This

Buy Tom Cat bait and just put some in the shed and it will decimate the little critters!

 

[Forrest]

Get 5 or 6 mouse traps & cheap creamy peanut butter. Bait the traps & don't set them. Let the peanut butter get eaten twice per trap, then re-bait & set them. Sometimes, you turn off the light & before you get out the door you can hear them get hit.

 

[catoiler]

Hey Crabman,where do you get tom cat bait? does it work on cats?

 

[TPCDrafting]

Originally posted by klenger

Get a cat.

This is what I did. Works great. I had to put their food up where they had to jump for it, cuz one night I walked in and found I had another cat. Only this one was black and had a big white stripe down it's back. He's since been relocated. The cats eat very little food and hunt for the rest of their diet. They cleared out the birds nesting and roosting in there as well. They also are taking out the heard of ground squirrals that dig up my yard.

 

[Jff24Gordn]

Ok go out there every few hours and start your truck and rack it off alot. Once you get a layer of soot on the floor a few inches thick, nothing should mess with it.

Or go to the store and get a box of instant mashed ptoatoes. Put it in a bowl next to a bowl of water. The mouse will fill up on the taters then be very thirsty. He will then drink alot of water and in short order go pop when the taters expand.

Or get a 22lr gun and play urban combat with cci 22lr shot shells.

 

[Alan Reagan]

I like all of the above suggestions but most of all I stress that you eliminate the rodents immediately. Last year I had to replace the entire wiring harness in my diesel tractor after mice built a nest on top of my fuel tank and then proceeded to eat the wires off my gauges. Peanut butter on a big mice trap works great. So does Dcon. They'll eat the Dcon, drink water and die almost immediately.

 

[illflem]

I use zinc phosphate rodent bait. Works about the same as the mashed potatoes, makes their guts explode. What's good about the ZP is that there is no secondary poisoning, it won't hurt animals that eat the dead mice.



Screw the cats, had enough of muddy paw prints on my windshield and tom cat spray.



There used to be a product, forget the name, but it's illegal now that worked the best. You sprayed it on the ground, they would walk though it then lick their feet, they were done.

 

[EMD Diesel Power]

Im with Illflem on the ZP bait... works well without secondary killings.



Im not the only one that has heard of that illegal spray and lick stuff..... problem is that I cant remember the name of it either.





personally I would go the fun route of 22s. Need a brick? I've got about 2k rounds sitting around. Make it even more fun and get night-vision and hunt 24/7 shoot both rifle and pistol... . make it a challenge.



Dont mention cats to me. house cats I dont mind... but outside cats..... waaay too many pawprints all over the truck.

 

[JohnE]

Secondary poisoning can be good. Lot of times it gets the feral cats and pole cats (skunks) that clean up.

Most commercial killers (D-Con) are simply an overdose of Cumadin. That's an anitcoagulant which means the critters bleed to death internally. If your dog gets into some give it a couple tablespoons of hydrogen peroxide and keep it outside. That is ipicak (how do you spell it) to dogs. They will clean themselves out very well. Make sure to bury it. Some will go back and eat their piles... ...



Make sure you clear the ground at least 10 feet away from the building. A gravel area is really nice and if you can get Casoron it will kill most vegetation for up to a year. That will work to limit rodent travel up until the snow flies then you have to get mean.

D-con

green water

traps

sticky pads





Never seen zinc phosphate around here. Any hints where to find it? Time to bait the storage shed again.

 

[illflem]

Ag chemical dealers have the ZP. What's nice about it is that it's weatherproof. You're not supposed to leave it in piles where kids can eat large quantities, not that they'd want to anyways, it doesn't look like it would taste very good.



The anticoagulant rodent baits are exactly the same chemical, cumadin, that heart patents take for a blood thinner, some patents even call it rat poison.

Vitamin K is the antidote for poisoning or what heart patents take when their dosage is too high.

 

[Jacobs]

Thanks for the responses

Thanks for all the "help".



It looks like I will be going with the zinc phosphate rodent bait. It seems less labor intensive.



Take care



Bruce