![]() Having so much feed available made it easy for rats to get big. I have had a rat problem where I raise birds. Now I have only seen 3 mice in the house in the last 5 years and was able to catch all with good old spring traps. At first I checked the "food" supply weekly and replaced as needed, after the first winter I reduced checking to monthly, now many years later I check the stations in the fall, Thanksgiving, New Years, and the first of spring and replace the bait as needed. Shortly after we were finishing a shed and I found several pieces of PVC pipe/conduit scrape and thought they could make bait stations that would protect the poison from our pets and children and still allow the rodents to feast to their hearts content. I said how much and was quoted several hundred dollars for enough stations do my house. Then attending a Home and Garden Show one of the presenters had poison bait stations that you put outside your home so when the rodent goes to a better place he is outside and there is no odor in the house. ![]() We tried to patch all holes or any entry point we could find, but we were still loosing the battle. The population did not grow but it did not decrease either. We did not want to poison the mice in the house because of the odor, so we tried spring traps, glue traps, electronic traps, frequency generators, and even a cat. In the evening watching tv I would see mice running behind the tv and around the perimeter of the room. ![]() When we moved into our "dream house in the country" it was infested with mice.
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