Disclaimer: This post was originally posted by Hero Member, mjb8743. This user is located in Zone 7 - South NJ, Garden State. This was originally posted on July 22, 2013.Disclaimer: This post was originally posted by Newbie, rancjones. This was originally posted on July 22, 2013.
Thanks for the information. I will see what I can catch!
I've never had a rat problem, neither indoors nor out, lots of feral cats on my little acre. However, I can usually count on getting several mice once the weather gets cold, and they always seem to come in pairs. I set out peanut butter traps, catch them, and that's that... done for the winter.
This spring, in my plant room, I was surprised to find that all my melon seeds Id just planted were methodically dug up, cracked open and the inner nuts eaten. Out came the traps, and I caught the mice (a pair), not in the plant room, but at the other end of the house, in my kitchen. End of problem.
I'm just amazed that the little buggers are brazen enough to travel room-to-room to see what they can find. Then again, I remember how, years ago I fed my cat upstairs in my attic (to keep the dog from the food), and later when Spring cleaning, in my bedroom closet I found a sweater containing a mouse nest with dry cat food cached. That mouse had to travel up and down stairs multiple times with food and get to my closet without the cat catching on. Amazing!
Anyway, good luck with the traps, and please post when you catch the culprit.
Mickie
