Posted by Dr. Walt on November 03, 2018 at 05:24:44 from (74.82.159.103):
In Reply to: Danged squirrel again! posted by Dave H (MI) on November 02, 2018 at 14:02:38:
Dave H - Want to catch the mouse, and NOT have the squirrel take the bait? Forget the snap-trap. Get yourself a GLASS soda-pop bottle, the old "no deposit-no return" type or the old Coca Cola style with the narrow neck. Crumble up a COOKIE and sluice it through the neck into the bottle. Wire the bottle in a horizontal position where the squirrel can't knock it to the floor (thereby breaking it) and yet it is someplace where the mouse will find it. Mice are gluttonous little buggers and are also very selfish (if they can help it, they won't leave anything behind for another mouse to get it) . The mouse will smell the Cookie, squeeze himself through the neck of the bottle, stuff his belly full and if there is any left he'll stuff his pouches full. Now he is too fat to get out of the bottle, he'll empty his pouches but he's still too fat to squeeze through the neck of the bottle. LOL - Bottled Mouse !
I know for a fact that THIS WORKS! - Back in the late 1970's I worked the Graveyard Shift at a Mining Heap Leach site in Goldfield, Nevada, and the mice would raid our lunch boxes, the little buggers would actually chew through our plastic lunch boxes to get at the contents. I got a couple dozen throwaway "no deposit-no return" soda-pop bottles, and the bottle caps from the soda machines around town, and a cheap package of cookies. I prepared the bottles as described above, and took them in to work with me. I placed the bottles inside the buildings and at strategic locations outside. In the morning before I got off Shift, I collected all the bottles, and there was a mouse in every bottle. Later, after punching a nail hole in the bottle-caps and pressing the caps back on the bottles, I made some signs saying: "Bottled Mouse" - $1.00 - "Think Ship-in-a-Bottle" , got a card table & a folding chair, and my bottled mice and set up shop on a street corner along the State Highway which ran through the middle of Town. I set my signs up where they could be seen by traffic coming from both directions, and set up my table with the bottles on it. - You wouldn't believe how many people stopped to see what I was selling, and most of them bought a bottle, and walked away scratching their heads trying to figure out how I stuffed a LIVE MOUSE into a bottle. -- (I DIDN'T - the mouse went in VOLUNTARILY!) but I'd joke with them that I did it the same way as you build a Ship-in-a-Bottle, you dismantle it and put it into the bottle a piece at a time and then reassemble it. LOL!
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