New way to catch a mouse.

[pmsmechanic]

Would this maybe take out a fox or cat that eats the mouse, or is it only mice it kills?

I have not researched this at all but from what I've been told this doesn't kill larger animals. The mice do have to eat numerous times before they die.

The traps are in buildings. Racoons can access two of my traps and I frankly wouldn't mind if they got deathly sick from the mouse bait. No such luck so far. When I remove the mice I bury or incinerate them so that other animals aren't able to partake. The liquid in the bottom is antifreeze outside and water in heated areas.

The only mouse predator's I am concerned about on my yard are the owls. They don't get into the buildings as a rule. They also seem to enjoy cat so we have a hard time keeping cats alive. The solution to that is to just not bother with cats and set up these bait stations in buildings.

What I like about these traps is that I don't have to check them regularly. They reset automatically and are relatively maintenance free. I check more often in summer but probably only check about 6 times a year total. Usually there are 5-10 mice in the outside traps and 0-2 in the inside trap.

 

[EddieWalker]

When I tried poison, I found that my chickens would start acting lethargic and weird. The mice ate a lot of poison bait, and I'm sure we killed a lot of mice with it, but we never noticed a decline in the population from using it. When we realized that the chickens where eating the dead mice, and getting sick from it, we stopped using it. I don't know if any of our dogs ate any of the dead mice or not. One of our coops that we where poisonings the mice is part of the fence for the dog yard, so any mice that died on that side of the coop would be in the dog yard. Better to not risk it. That's when we started to consider cats.

 

[/pine]

Cat predation on wildlife - Wikipedia

The Moral Cost of Cats
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Science

| Smithsonian Magazine

New Study Reveals Extensive Damage to Wildlife Caused By Domestic Cats | The Wildlife Center of Virginia

Why House Cats Are God's Perfect Little Killing Machines : NPR

 

[pmsmechanic]

I know that when we no longer had cats there was in increase in the small song bird population on our acreage. Mostly finches and warblers

 

[newbury]

I've a fair amount of "shed"
When we first moved in, about 10 years ago, we were taking over from a guy that held lot's of parties and the mice were all over the place.
I put out a fair amount of poison, all safely off the ground, which knocked the population down quickly. But they kept coming back. Until the snakes moved in.
I usually find one or two discarded snake skins 5 to 6 feet long each year. Have yet to see a live snake in any of the sheds.

Scares the bejesus out of some of my relatives.

 

[Alien]

Our pup kept sniffing a area on our front porch. I guessed there must be some mouse activity so I have been sitting a cage trap there and so far have caught about 4 of the little suckers. I have learned to watch what my pup does.

 

[buck12]

Not all cats are created equal. We had a good mouser that died at 17 years old a couple of years ago. We now have two cats that would probably run from a mouse.

 

[3gunr]

I know that when we no longer had cats there was in increase in the small song bird population on our acreage. Mostly finches and warblers

Our daughter had a cat for a while until he kept leaving dead birds on the hood of her car. I took him to my farm where he served as a mouser for many yrs. Our bird population returned back at home after a yr or so.

 

[radios1]

Would this maybe take out a fox or cat that eats the mouse, or is it only mice it kills?

that would be nice if it does kill both!. if you have birds, you don't want either around them!. my nephew had a favorite duck that was killed by a cat, it cut the head off, he came in screaming!!.. cats will kill just for pleasure!!..

 

[/pine]

If it were not for the bleeding heart politics of the subject all non native cat species would be treated the same as the pythons in S FL are being treated, there should be bounties and reward for killing them...they (domestic cats) are nothing but invasive, destructive predators and should be eradicated from N. America...they are responsible for killing literally billions of native American song birds and other wildlife species annually...people that allow cats to roam freely outdoors should be heavily fined and jailed..