I set this live catch trap up like this in the engine compartment over night. The critters like to goof around in there. It traps them inside alive and then I take them for a bicycle ride up the road a few hundred yards away in the morning.
So far the score stands at 14 chipmunks and 19 mice.
One morning Beans was playing with something under the RV. She had a baby mouse. The next morning she had another baby. Where is she getting them from? Soon after I actually saw another one fall down from the inside of the front bumper. The nest must be up under there somewhere but I can't see it. It could be inside the chassis member as the channel has a few holes in it and I think that is where those rats went last winter while in the desert. I am beginning to think there will be no end to the mice here. I've not seen one predator (coyote, hawk, etc.) since we've been here.
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Not the kind of company you want to share your home with. No matter how many you get rid of, there will always be more looking for a cosy home. Keep on mousing, Beans!
I wonder how many are repeat offenders.
I felt two hundred yards away would be far enough. Think they would travel back that distance?
It’s hard to say. To get back to their nest, I suspect so. My house and outbuildings are in the woods, and mice are always getting into things and causing damage. If they make it into the house, I use kill traps. There’s nothing worse than the smell of a dead mouse trapped behind a wall.
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