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mattduke
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 Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 8:43 am Post subject: Mouse In the Stash |
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| It couldn't just nibble away at one bag. Oh no. It had to go and open as many bags as it could reach. |
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Quinny
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 8:45 am Post subject: Re: Mouse In the Stash |
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| mattduke wrote: | | It couldn't just nibble away at one bag. Oh no. It had to go and open as many bags as it could reach. |
Same problem - Sugar, Flour, Pasta. Fussy b*$tards these mice.
The lid was open about .5 cm.
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mattduke
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 8:52 am Post subject: Re: Mouse In the Stash |
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| This may be a dumb question, but can a mouse open a can? |
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smallpoxgirl
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 8:55 am Post subject: Re: Mouse In the Stash |
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Plastic buckets. Very important.
If you're gonna have a lot of food around, you gotta put it in mouse proof containers. I hate them. You gotta starve them off or they'll overrun you.
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mattduke
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 8:56 am Post subject: Re: Mouse In the Stash |
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| smallpoxgirl wrote: | Plastic buckets. Very important.
If you're gonna have a lot of food around, you gotta put it in mouse proof containers. I hate them. You gotta starve them off or they'll overrun you. |
Can you suggest a website that sells them? I realize I'm being incredibly lazy and could search the forums. |
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Shannymara
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 9:10 am Post subject: Re: Mouse In the Stash |
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I got mine, and my gamma seal lids, from beprepared.com when they were on sale a few years ago. Not sure if their prices are competitive right now, but I've been happy with them in the past.
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Cashmere
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 9:19 am Post subject: Re: Mouse In the Stash |
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| mattduke wrote: | | This may be a dumb question, but can a mouse open a can? |
Only if they have a can opener.
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wisconsin_cur
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 9:22 am Post subject: Re: Mouse In the Stash |
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I have also used food safe 50 ga drums I bought from a guy down the street. He sells ones that have a re-usable metal collar that seal the drum airtight.
Fill it with whatever you got.
Throw in a dozen o2 absorbers and "wha'la!"
For the record I also put mine up on pallets just to help the temp stay even through out the drum... I don't know that condesention would be a problem but I don't want to find out.
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patience
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 9:39 am Post subject: Re: Mouse In the Stash |
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Yup,
Plastic barrels. Got 6 more this morning.
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wisconsin_cur
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 9:41 am Post subject: Re: Mouse In the Stash |
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Oh, and I'm going tp put a some poison in the pallets on which the barrels sit. Dogs cannot get to it there, mice and rats can.
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Dawn
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 10:12 am Post subject: Re: Mouse In the Stash |
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| Shannymara wrote: | | I got mine, and my gamma seal lids, from beprepared.com when they were on sale a few years ago. |
I've bought a lot of food from them when it's on sale... The only reason I won't buy the buckets from them is because they have Emergency Essentials printed right on the buckets... I don't want to advertise that to other people who may see my stash, but not know what it is otherwise. 
I got a catalog in the mail yesterday from www.usplastic.com , the prices look okay, but I need to check out the shipping charges, before I could recommend them. |
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eXpat
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 11:09 am Post subject: Re: Mouse In the Stash |
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There´s a very old method to deal with this, better than any poison:
And on top of that it purrs on your lap.
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Leanan
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 12:44 pm Post subject: Re: Mouse In the Stash |
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| Quote: | | It couldn't just nibble away at one bag. Oh no. It had to go and open as many bags as it could reach. |
Yes, they do that. And not just to annoy you. It's a survival thing. They only eat a little bit from any one food source, then move on. This minimizes the chances that they'll be poisoned. If they don't get sick, they come back the next day. If they do get sick, they'll avoid returning. Which of course makes it harder to poison the little buggers.
Cats are definitely worth having around if there are rodent problems. In the old days, a ship without a cat couldn't even get insurance.
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Quinny
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 12:51 pm Post subject: Re: Mouse In the Stash |
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I've been using paper sacks in plastic containers that seal, but someone had knocked the lid loose on one.
Do you really need the CO2/O inhibitors if you keep the sacks in sealed plastic containers?
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dinopello
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 12:52 pm Post subject: Re: Mouse In the Stash |
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| Leanan wrote: | If they don't get sick, they come back the next day. If they do get sick, they'll avoid returning. Which of course makes it harder to poison the little buggers.
Cats are definitely worth having around if there are rodent problems. In the old days, a ship without a cat couldn't even get insurance. |
They also get scared away. Every once in a while a mouse family moves in my house. I was a away for two weeks at the start of such an incursion and my roomate didn't want to set out traps and waited for me to get home. When I got home there were obviously several about. Set one trap and caught one within an hour. Set the second trap and it was sprung but no mouse - haven't seen a mouse in several weeks now. We would get a cat but our two dogs would eat them. |
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