Rodent Contol

Looking for ideas on how to catch a rodent. For the first time this year the critters won't take the peanut butter that I put out as bait. It always worked before but even fresh apple and peanut butter does not entice them.  Any ideas what I can use in a snap trap? The critter is getting bold and letting me stand close to it and watch it, so it seems to not be afraid of me anymore. It's taking charge and comes and goes as it pleases. So bizarre the animal behavior this past 3 years.  Also something is digging numerous deep holes all over the yard. They don't seem to want to bury anything an can't figure out what they are looking for as there are literally NO bugs anywhere that I've found in the soil.  Acorns are on the ground so no need to go digging for them.  Seems the animal kingdom has lost their senses.

There are a lot of rodents in our universe.  Which one are you trying to deal with?

Have you tried an outside cat?

Is this problem inside a building or outside?

This thread might help you or others for outside problems:

https://permies.com/t/178672/Rabbits-squirrels-groundhog-defeat

If inside a building and a mouse this might be a little simpler.  

This thread has some good information if dealing with a chicken house:

https://permies.com/t/62434/tech/ideas-mouse-trap-feeds-caught

Other threads of interest to you or others:

https://permies.com/t/164132/RAT-trap

https://permies.com/t/125/catch-mouse-mousetrap

How about a pellet gun? I wouldn't try it with a mouse, but a rat or larger could be dispatched quickly and easily.

MouseX; check it out: https://www.ecoclearproducts.com/collections/mousex
 

I used this the for the first time this month, since its the time of year that mice and rats are seeking warmer spots to overwinter in; and so far, its working!  I also have 2 cats, a dog, and like, 8 traps set in the kitchen and pantry are living room areas; the MouseX is taking care of them BEFORE they get to the traps. and so I am now a committed supporter of the product.

RE mousex: how is it possible that if a hawk or stoat or coyote or cat eats mice or voles that have eaten poison are not themselves poisoned? Because it takes awhile to kill, there is plenty of time for them to be running around and eaten by a predator. I understand that the amount ingested by a single mouse/vole would likely not kill it's predator, but it's unlikely the predator would not be at least a little sick. And if the predator eats several rodents who've had the poison bait, what then?  And then there is the horrible death by dehydration to the rodent.

MouseEx and RatX are not poisons, they’re a preparation of dried, compressed corn gluten pellets. This somehow expands and because of how rat/mouse digestion works, they get full, stop eating and drinking, and die of dehydration.  They do not have this effect on other animals, per manufacturer, and also are ineffective once wet. So unlike the blood-thinner poisons that do kill raptors, there’s no harmful substace persisting in the dead rat’s blood or tissue.

The REASON I posted the link to MouseX in my post was so that people WOULD WATCH it and UNDERSTAND that it was not a poison.

Ok, in essence, to wit:

1. Mice, and rats, and voles, have fine nerve endings in their gut that tells them if they need water to digest something;

2. MouseX TURNS THOSE NERVES OFF by binding to them as it expands.  

3. This in, turn, starts to dry the tissues out.  

4. Eventually, they actually mummify from the inside out. No smell after they are die, because the carcass continues to mummify, and the stomach acid, which is what harbors all the things in it  that creates the gases of the decaying body,  has actually dried up by the time  the mouse or rat dies, so  the product just continues to dry the critter out.

5. And the dried up carcass won't hurt other animals who prey on them, because THOSE animals do NOT have the same nerve fibers in their gut that mice do, because those animals that prey upon rats and mice and voles, evolved differently, to be predators, not prey.

so, NO POISON, and the mice and rats and voles actually die in a manner that is humane; they aren't thirsting to death; their gut isn't sending them the signals that they SHOULD be drinking water.

And, with the over abundance of mice a lot of us have, MouseX is a good product.  I have went the way of mousetraps and poisons, too; and even live release; I now have health issues and I was looking for a way I would not ever have to  handle a dead rodent carcass again, if I could help it, and have been looking for a product for several years that would help with that goal.

MouseX is my choice.

 posting MouseX link AGAIN:

https://www.ecoclearproducts.com/collections/mousex

Now that I have, I URGE and ENCOURAGE  anyone interested to go watch the link; it goes over how the product works; educate yourselves; thats what Permies is for; educating each other on how to live sustainabley