Thread: mouse shit for stoats

Sorry to bing an old thread up but....
I reckon mouse piss is a great lure for mustelids. I have caught 2 weasels in Victor pro rat traps that were set for rats and i am sure they were attrached into the trap box because mice had been in the trap boxes and peed in there.
I have just made up a trap box for a DOC 200 that has 3 compartments in it. The first chamber is like a standard entrance on the DOC 200. Mr stoat goes thru the entrance into the first chamber then into the 2nd middle chamber where the trap is located and it gets the bad news. The 3rd chamber is at the other end of the trap box to the entrance and is completely sealed off from the trap [middle] chamber by 20mm mesh, it has to be sealed off as a mouse caught in these traps could bounce around and i dont wah=nt it hitting the treadle of the 200 setting it off. The mesh at the 3rd chamber end has 2 only 25mm square holes cut in it the holes are big enough to let a mouse through, but not big enough to let anything else into the 3rd chamber. In the 3rd chamber is your bait for a stoat in my case an egg, either side of the egg are 2 mouse traps. The mouse traps i reckon are best suited for this idea are the BetterMouse traps at Mitre 10 baited with peanut butter. The reason i use the above trap is when Micky gets caught in the trap the trap closes over him and the peanut butter bait cant be got at by any other mice. Therefore the bait wont be eaten off the trap and smell of it will encourage other mice to come in the 3rd chamber and rhey will wee everywhere as it tries to get to the bait. So you have an egg a dead mouse or 2 dead mice in the trap as a lure plus lots of mouse wee.
This idea might come unstuck in the summer as a mouse body will decompose rather quickly however it may work well in winter ? Thoughts please.