Gauntlet
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My dad and I have "hunted" mice in our hunting cabins for years. Seems they too like to stay warm and dry when your not around. I remember one night years ago, we emptied and reset a dozen Victor traps and went to bed on our first night of deer season. We would be laying in our beds and SNAP. Get up, find the sprung trap, empty the trap outside, reset it and go back to bed. This went on all night, with he and I taking turns on mouse duty and by 5:00 am, we had over 14 mice and were too tired to get up to go deer hunting. Peanut butter has been the best bait for traps and the Tom Cat sticky pads work well too. Last summer, I woke up one morning to find one of the pads still "occupied", so I walked it outside and placed it on the picnic table next to the camp. I went back inside to start the coffee and heard "screeching" outside. A hawk had tried to get the mouse on the pad and was now stuck to the pad as well, rolling around in the grass with it's feet stuck to it. My dad tried to go knock the pad loose from the hawk with a hiking staff, but the hawk flew off with the pad and the mouse. My dad, looking up at the hawk flying off says "I hope he brings the plate back after eating breakfast". We have used cotton wads soaked in mint oil in small jars to ward them off, Decon mouse bait to keep em' well fed, but they always come back. We have 2 traps we set before closing the camp for the winter called the "Maine Mouse Ah" which works well. Bait it with peanut butter, fill with 3" of potable anti freeze and put the top on and away you go. One year we had over 20 in one trap alone. But I cannot seem to find them anymore. If I wasn't allergic to cats, I would leave one inside the camp with just a 5 gallon self watering dish and a big litterbox.