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Originally Posted by graciegirl
With all respect to you, the messenger, it is my opinion that I have heard many exaggerations and downright incorrect summaries from the decent and hardworking people who work for many companies and restaurants and all kinds of businesses here. One stood on my front porch recently and told me that he had met Gary Morse a few months ago.
So...I try to do what my high school teacher said as far as credible sources. I think there are plenty of rats here, but we are not like some New York apartment building from the thirties. Our team of snakes and eagles and hawks are working hard here 24/7 and just to prove my point, everyone should set a mouse trap and report back. Good cheese please. Some of them have been fed by gourmets.
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First of all you will NOT catch a rat in a mouse trap-simply too small. YOU NEED THE BIG GUNS-A RAT TRAP. It looks about the same as the mouse trap only about 4 times larger.
CHEESE-that is from cartoons. Peanut butter works good.
RE: NY apartments in the 30's
We lived in QUEENS in the late 70's. Due to the EPA they outlawed the small incinerators commonly in all apartment buildings and the mouse population exploded. TRUTH I had never seen a mouse before that. They are interesting IN SOMEONE ELSES HOME. A mouse first of all is far smaller than MICKEY seems. They are quick. All you see is a, did I see that. They can squeeze though a 1/4 inch hole and they can have like 14 babies every 2-3 weeks.
Like everything else I viewed it as a game. Set three traps and get three mice on a good, or a bad night. Out of frustration and calling both the manager and the owner usually about 3 AM. One night I set 12 traps and got 11 mice. I had been deducting the cost of the traps from my rent and still not reaction. I loaded the 12 traps onto a shovel and dropped them in front of the supers door.
VOICE OF EXPERIENCE-cheese-they will nibble it off and not trip the trap. bacon-they will pull it off and not trip the trap. PEANUT BUTTER-they will try to clean their plate. MY SCORE- 11 OUT OF 12. Cheese runs about 1 out of three.
BOUNTY ON RATS? BIGGEST ONE? MOST CAUGHT IN A NIGHT? CATS? THE MALE MAY BE BIGGER BUT THE FEMALE IS THE HUNTER.