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Persistence paid off!

Mr Rat fell for my peanut butter on sultana bait last night!

Now to give it the BB gun treatment and add it to the ‘rat garden’:D

Thanks for all the advice guys!

My trap is a steel one with a spring loaded door that is released when Mr Rat pulls at the bait, it has seen the demise of many rats using sultanas as bait,...

Need advice chaps!
My cage trap isn’t inviting enough for Mr Rat, my usual bait of sultanas didn’t entice him, same when I smeared the sultanas in peanut butter, then I added a bit of Chesdale...

Hopefully you bounce back OK time out.
I’ve noticed a real drop off in catches lately since October-November, I guess things will change when the weather gets colder and wetter.

Likewise I only got part of the article.
I did hear that when testing the dyed green sausage bait with game cameras set up a stoat went for one sausage only three minutes after it had been placed.

Hind leg on the tabby looks a bit mangled, what’s the go there?

Yep, looks like you’ll need a DC7 pilot’s licence to fly that sucker!:D

Anybody noticed is there more/less rats and mice around so far this winter?

Caught a cunning rat in the cage trap tonight.

Tried:
Sultanas
Bread
Peanut butter
Jam

The sultanas I left on front of the trap always disappeared so I knew there was a critter - and that...

sore head stoat : Success! Just checked the cage trap and there’s a mouse in it, as you suggested I move the trap plus smeared peanut butter on the sultana on the hook.
I noticed the cunning bugger...

sore head stoat Update: yesterday I put two more lead-in sultanas on front of the cage trap plus threw two small bits of bread into the trap, this morning one of the lead-in sultanas was gone as well...

The thing is SHS, the mouse trap is baited with a sultana and the cage trap with a peanut smeared sultana yet while the ‘lead-in’ sultanas outside the cage trap get taken the two traps (which are...

OK, advice on catching a cunning rat or mouse in my garage.

I’ve got a box/cage trap set and used sultanas with a smear of peanut butter for bait on the hook.
Also have a couple of ‘lead-in...

First rat for this year, caught in a cage trap with my favorite bait - sultanas.

Dispatched using a Crossman BB rifle, planted in the rat garden...

We eventually something tried my trap with the hot glued wheat - and I caught the little bugger!
First mouse for ages (first rodent of any sort!).

And there’s still some hot glued wheat left for...

Well neither of the traps have been sprung and the wheat I hot-glued to the plates is still there so I can only guess there to mice around?

(I figured the extra weight of wheat grains plus glue...

OK, hot glued some wheat to the trap bait plate AND smeared some peanut butter on.

We’ll see how that works out!

Don’t have them down here but I did think it could be beetles of some sort.

‘The Better Mousetrap’ by The INTRUDER inc.

‘Something’ has been eating the peanut butter off my grey plastic mouse trap, the piece of bread I sat beside it was unmolested.

This is not the first time this has happened, I doubt the trip...

Sorry Sparrow, didn’t look that closely. I did notice these square holes were at each end of the wooden box sides right in the lower corner.

Hi Sparrow, I’ve just come back from West Coast and at a Kiwi focused reserve area noticed a lot of the trap boxes had a square hole in the lower corner at each end, didn’t look big enough for a...

My ‘around the house’ cage traps are baited with peanut butter smeared sultanas, normally works good and get one every third night or so but caught nothing for six+ months and likewise the mouse...