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Title: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: Mano on March 21, 2014, 01:12:13 AM
This is the best mousetrap You will ever use. 5 gal bucket with a gallon of RV antifreeze dumped in the bottom,  plastic bottle with a coat hanger through it and some peanut butter on the middle of the bottle.

Lean a board up against the side and it works all year without checking it and no smell.






(http://boudicabpi.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/redneckmousetrap.gif)


 :D
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: Bodhi on March 21, 2014, 03:54:52 AM
I use the same type of thing at my hangar, although mine has a steel coffee can on a steel rod.  It's helped me prevent quite a few of the little bastards from setting up shop over the years.
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: danny76 on March 21, 2014, 05:36:58 AM
Poor ickle mousey :cry
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: FLOOB on March 21, 2014, 07:31:47 AM
What an emberrasing way to die.
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: SmokinLoon on March 21, 2014, 09:42:37 AM
I bet we could set one of those outside the welfare office and get the same results.  Of course, we'd have to build it a bit bigger and use EBT cards instead of peanut butter.  Oh, I'd not use antifreeze either.  I'd fill the bottom with job applications though that may have the same effect as anti-freeze.
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: Nypsy on March 21, 2014, 11:33:57 AM
Call me worthless and weak but I felt bad for the mouse.
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: BluBerry on March 21, 2014, 12:26:52 PM
the fact they fall into anti freeze to drown in poison is pretty effed up. Why not let them fall into an empty pot they cannot escape from and dispose of them in another way.

Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: Megalodon on March 21, 2014, 01:11:35 PM
I bet we could set one of those outside the welfare office and get the same results.  Of course, we'd have to build it a bit bigger and use EBT cards instead of peanut butter.  Oh, I'd not use antifreeze either.  I'd fill the bottom with job applications though that may have the same effect as anti-freeze.

 dont forget the WIC chips
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: Maverick on March 21, 2014, 01:17:37 PM
Wy waste good antifreeze. Just use water and drown the little rat basterds.
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: Megalodon on March 21, 2014, 01:24:46 PM
Wy waste good antifreeze. Just use water and drown the little rat basterds.

Why waste good water just letem starve to death
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: HL117 on March 21, 2014, 03:41:36 PM
Cut and hole in the bottom side of the bucket so they can do it over and over  :D
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: Saxman on March 21, 2014, 04:10:14 PM
the fact they fall into anti freeze to drown in poison is pretty effed up. Why not let them fall into an empty pot they cannot escape from and dispose of them in another way.



Agreed, that's pretty needlessly cruel. If you're going to use a kill trap, use one that's more likely to be an instant kill (IE the classing spring traps).
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: Skuzzy on March 21, 2014, 04:32:37 PM
Agreed, that's pretty needlessly cruel. If you're going to use a kill trap, use one that's more likely to be an instant kill (IE the classing spring traps).

+1
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: Mongoose on March 21, 2014, 04:39:52 PM
Agreed, that's pretty needlessly cruel. If you're going to use a kill trap, use one that's more likely to be an instant kill (IE the classing spring traps).

  I think the idea behind this type of trap is that you don't have to check it and reset it.  I'm not saying I am in favor of it, but I understand the reasoning. 
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: homersipes on March 21, 2014, 05:37:45 PM
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I think the idea behind this type of trap is that you don't have to check it and reset it
  exactly correct sir  :aok this works well when there are LOTS of mice, my friends dads farm uses this setup and catches hundreds of mice a week, he also has 2 55 gallon drums welded together top to bottom and uses it to catch raccoons, when he catches raccoons, he uses a .22 to kill them, the barrels are empty and he checks this one daily.  I have used this setup to catch fishbait too, with the bucket being empty.
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I bet we could set one of those outside the welfare office and get the same results.  Of course, we'd have to build it a bit bigger and use EBT cards instead of peanut butter.  Oh, I'd not use antifreeze either.  I'd fill the bottom with job applications though that may have the same effect as anti-freeze
   :rofl :rofl :rofl
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: Blooz on March 21, 2014, 06:18:19 PM
Antifreeze is a bad idea.

Not only will it kill mice and rats, it'll kill anything else that drinks it. Dogs, cats, rabbits, squirrels, etc, etc, etc...
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: BuckShot on March 21, 2014, 06:24:46 PM
That's a good one. Used something similar in my barn.

Right now I just have bait blocks in little wooden houses with holes that only mice and red squirrels fit through.
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: BuckShot on March 21, 2014, 06:33:21 PM
When I was a kid, we had some scumbag neighbors who wouldn't stop their dog from peeing on our shrubs, killing the plants. My Dad asked nicely. It didn't stop.

solution: one piece of chicken wire on the ground, one piece on the shrub, one modified extension cord.

Only had to leave it out for a few mornings. It never happened again and the dog was fine.
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: CASHEW on March 21, 2014, 08:22:08 PM
Sombody say nut?!
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: DREDIOCK on March 21, 2014, 08:23:00 PM
the fact they fall into anti freeze to drown in poison is pretty effed up. Why not let them fall into an empty pot they cannot escape from and dispose of them in another way.



Cause they are mice. Aint exactly on the endangered species list

And according to the CDC

Diseases directly transmitted by rodents

Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome
Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome
Lassa Fever
Leptospirosis
Lymphocytic Chorio-meningitis (LCM)
Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever
Plague
Rat-Bite Fever
Salmonellosis
South American Arenaviruses (Argentine hemorrhagic fever, Bolivian hemorrhagic fever, Sabiá-associated hemorrhagic fever, Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever)
Tularemia
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: DREDIOCK on March 21, 2014, 08:24:45 PM
Why waste good water just letem starve to death

Only the first one would starve. every one thereafter would simply feed on the previous
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: Saxman on March 21, 2014, 09:11:10 PM
Cause they are mice. Aint exactly on the endangered species list

And according to the CDC

Diseases directly transmitted by rodents

Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome
Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome
Lassa Fever
Leptospirosis
Lymphocytic Chorio-meningitis (LCM)
Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever
Plague
Rat-Bite Fever
Salmonellosis
South American Arenaviruses (Argentine hemorrhagic fever, Bolivian hemorrhagic fever, Sabiá-associated hemorrhagic fever, Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever)
Tularemia


That doesn't mean they have to be subjected to death-by-antifreeze. If you don't want to use live traps to release them elsewhere away from your home, that's fine. But that doesn't mean you can't use a humane kill trap instead.
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: 68ZooM on March 21, 2014, 09:26:09 PM
the fact they fall into anti freeze to drown in poison is pretty effed up. Why not let them fall into an empty pot they cannot escape from and dispose of them in another way.



Agreed, seems cruel.
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: homersipes on March 21, 2014, 09:32:51 PM
well this is no more cruel than the sticky traps, in fact IMHO sticky traps are far mor in humane than this, nor any different than rat poison, which basically dries them up inside to outside.  Just sayin
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: Estes on March 21, 2014, 09:35:44 PM
Agreed, seems cruel.
+1
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: chaser on March 21, 2014, 10:15:49 PM
This is the best mousetrap You will ever use. 5 gal bucket with a gallon of RV antifreeze dumped in the bottom,  plastic bottle with a coat hanger through it and some peanut butter on the middle of the bottle.

Lean a board up against the side and it works all year without checking it and no smell.






(http://boudicabpi.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/redneckmousetrap.gif)

:D



That's awesome  :aok

I will have to remember that the next winter when all the mice start coming up to the houses.
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: danny76 on March 22, 2014, 05:08:15 AM
Cause they are mice. Aint exactly on the endangered species list

And according to the CDC

Diseases directly transmitted by rodents

Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome
Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome
Lassa Fever
Leptospirosis
Lymphocytic Chorio-meningitis (LCM)
Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever
Plague
Rat-Bite Fever
Salmonellosis
South American Arenaviruses (Argentine hemorrhagic fever, Bolivian hemorrhagic fever, Sabiá-associated hemorrhagic fever, Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever)
Tularemia


Human Beings

Responsible for

Murder
Mass Murder
Burning
Bombing
Raping
Child Abuse
Theft
AIDS
Mesothelioma
Terrorism
Religiously motivated genital mutilation

Just Saying
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: SmokinLoon on March 22, 2014, 01:06:32 PM
Human Beings

Responsible for

Murder
Mass Murder
Burning
Bombing
Raping
Child Abuse
Theft
AIDS
Mesothelioma
Terrorism
Religiously motivated genital mutilation

Just Saying

and all can be prevented by making the culprits drink anti-freeze.  Right?
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: Bizman on March 22, 2014, 01:34:28 PM
and all can be prevented by making the culprits drink anti-freeze.  Right?
Mostly yes, I suppose. Haven't tried it myself, though, neither don't know anyone who has, but somehow I believe very few people would be capable to do such things after drinking a bottle of anti-freeze. Unless, of course, they act before the substance takes effect in their body.  :old:
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: danny76 on March 22, 2014, 02:28:25 PM
and all can be prevented by making the culprits drink anti-freeze.  Right?

Good point :rofl
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: -ammo- on March 22, 2014, 03:30:05 PM
It's a mouse/rat people.  kill it anyway you see fit.
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: 100Coogn on March 22, 2014, 03:37:47 PM
the fact they fall into anti freeze to drown in poison is pretty effed up. Why not let them fall into an empty pot they cannot escape from and dispose of them in another way.

+1 Very cruel...

Coogan
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: smoe on March 22, 2014, 04:22:14 PM
Barn cats work pretty good and no cleanup needed.
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: craz07 on March 22, 2014, 04:32:58 PM
that's a poison.. should not leave that out and about...
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: DREDIOCK on March 22, 2014, 09:12:25 PM
That doesn't mean they have to be subjected to death-by-antifreeze. If you don't want to use live traps to release them elsewhere away from your home, that's fine. But that doesn't mean you can't use a humane kill trap instead.

regardless of how you kill them. Would they be any less dead one way over the other.

Its a rat. Rats spread diseases which are often unkind to humans. Add to that they breed like...well rats.

 Just like worms on a fish hook I really couldnt care less how they feel when they die. Just that they die.

I killed one in my house years ago by pouring a pot of boiling coffee one one I found in my kitchen sink. I'd have smashed it with a club instead but the hot coffee was all I had handy. In the end I really didnt care how it died just THAT it died. I was more bothered by having to wait for another pot of coffee to finish percolating  (anyone remember these?)
 (http://www.howtobrewcoffee.com/images/overview/percolator.jpg)
Then that or how I just killed a rat

Damn kids. The feminisation of the nation continues
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: BluBerry on March 22, 2014, 09:33:27 PM
Damn kids. The feminisation of the nation continues

apparently the douchification of the nation continues as well.
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: Saxman on March 23, 2014, 12:10:44 AM
Damn kids. The feminisation of the nation continues

Who the hell are you calling "kid?" And I pity you if you think not wanting to see any animal suffer needlessly is a sign of "feminisation."
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: Bodhi on March 23, 2014, 06:15:35 AM
I use these traps and have for a very long time.  Do I enjoy the thought of a rodent suffering, no, absolutely not.  It is a point of using something that really works and does not need constant resetting.  The point of the anti-freeze is to eliminate the smell of their rancid little bodies. 

I use it in a hangar, it is what it is, but I'd rather not have to worry about mice nesting in my aircraft and causing issues such as:  eating the wiring harnesses, throwing off weight and balance by packing areas full of crap for nests, urinating and defecating all over the aircraft which causes corrosion, as well as making a general mess everywhere else.  Face it, they are mice and sadly, there is not much else that really works like this.
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: Wildcatdad on March 23, 2014, 08:12:28 AM
Only the first one would starve. every one thereafter would simply feed on the previous
Skyfall anyone?
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: Rich46yo on March 23, 2014, 09:36:52 AM
Im playing for rats and mice. Forgive the size.(http://i478.photobucket.com/albums/rr149/Rich46yo/smallviolin_zps4ea3febe.jpg)

On that same list I'll put raccoons and skunks, possums, insects....ect I dont care how they die as long as they do.
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: danny76 on March 23, 2014, 09:50:18 AM
regardless of how you kill them. Would they be any less dead one way over the other.

Its a rat. Rats spread diseases which are often unkind to humans. Add to that they breed like...well rats.

 Just like worms on a fish hook I really couldnt care less how they feel when they die. Just that they die.

I killed one in my house years ago by pouring a pot of boiling coffee one one I found in my kitchen sink. I'd have smashed it with a club instead but the hot coffee was all I had handy. In the end I really didnt care how it died just THAT it died. I was more bothered by having to wait for another pot of coffee to finish percolating  (anyone remember these?)
 (http://www.howtobrewcoffee.com/images/overview/percolator.jpg)
Then that or how I just killed a rat

Damn kids. The feminisation of the nation continues

I have no problem with killing of vermin. Whether it be insect mammal or people. But whether you did what you claim out of malevolence, or ambivalence, or whether you simply made it up to, in your mind, sound tougher to your percieved piers on a chatroom, nothing and no one deserve to die in terror and abject pain if it can be possibly helped.
I find your post abhorrent.
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: homersipes on March 23, 2014, 11:16:05 AM
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I have no problem with killing of vermin. Whether it be insect mammal or people. But whether you did what you claim out of malevolence, or ambivalence, or whether you simply made it up to, in your mind, sound tougher to your percieved piers on a chatroom, nothing and no one deserve to die in terror and abject pain if it can be possibly helped.
I find your post abhorrent.
I have to agree with this.  I know killing them in antifreeze isnt the most humane way to kill them, they proably drown before they die of being poisoned.  I dont like poison and most certainly dont like sticky traps.  When we bought our house the previous owner used dcon all over the place, I took it all out as much as I could find and flushed it down toilet.  There still must be some someplace because we still get an occasional dead mouse stink where they must have died in the wall or someplace. 
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The point of the anti-freeze is to eliminate the smell of their rancid little bodies. 
  this I did not know.  I just dont see how this trap is any different than placing dcon out, or any other rat poison. :headscratch: :headscratch:
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: NatCigg on March 23, 2014, 07:53:40 PM
Why use antifreeze when you can use the dip.
(http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120427013154/disney/images/e/e7/Toon_Shoe.png)

Good Idea, thanks for sharing.

The traditional term for men who feel bad for trapping, drowning, and deodorizing mice in a pink pool of propylene glycol is "Ladyboys".  But the new generation calls them "sensitive".

From MSDS of high strength RV antifreeze.
http://images.peakauto.com/Peak%20RV%20marine%20AF%20-100%20Rev%202.pdf11. TOXICOLOGICAL INFORMATION
Skin: The LD50 for skin absorption in rabbits is >10,000 mg/kg.
Ingestion: The oral LD50 for rats is 20,000-34,000 mg/kg.
Mutagenicity: In vitro mutagenicity studies were negative. Animal mutagenicity studies were negative.
12. ECOLOGICAL INFORMATION
Movement & Partitioning: Based largely or completely on information for similar material(s), i.e., propylene glycol. Bioconcentration potential is low (BCF less than 100 or Log Pow less than 3). Log octanol / water partition coefficient (log Pow) is –0.92. Henry Law Constant (H) is 1.2E-8 atm.m3/mole.
Degradation & Transformation: Based largely or completely on information for similar material(s) i.e., propylene glycol. Biodegradation under aerobic static laboratory conditions is high (BOD20 OR BOD28/Th0D greater than 40%). Biodegradation is expected to be achievable in a secondary wastewater treatment plant. 5-day biochemical oxygen demand (B0D5) is 1.16 p/p. 200-day biochemical oxygen demand (B0D20) is 1.45 p/p. theoretical oxygen demand (TH0D) is calculated to be 1.68 p/p. Inhibitory concentration (IC5O) in OECD Activated Sludge Respiration Inhibition Test (OECD Test No. 209) is greater than 1 gm/L. Degradation is expected in the atmospheric environment within minutes to hours.
Ecotoxicology: Based largely or completely on information for similar material (s), i.e., propylene glycol. Material is practically non-toxic to aquatic organisms on an acute basis (LC50 greater than 100 mg/L in most sensitive species).
Acute LC50 for fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) is 4,600-54900 mg/L
Acute LC50 for guppy (Poecilia reticulata) is greater than 10000 mg/L.
Acute LC50 for water flea Daphnia magna is 4850-34400 mg/L
Acute LC50 for rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) is 44mL/L (about 44000 mg/L)

So... 20-34 grams of product per kg of body weight to kill half a rat population.  thats 2-3% of a mouses body weight to die.  I would need to drink about half a gallon of antifreeze to have a 50% chance of death.  Also, the product degrades readily enough that we can dump it down the drain or on our garden.
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: jimson on March 24, 2014, 12:43:08 AM
I don't really like the idea that the mice will suffer but I am a little tired of worrying about hantavirus when I am poking around in my workshop.

I am building one

Sorry mice, you lose.
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: danny76 on March 24, 2014, 02:13:50 AM
Why use antifreeze when you can use the dip.
(http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120427013154/disney/images/e/e7/Toon_Shoe.png)


The traditional term for men who feel bad for trapping, drowning, and deodorizing mice in a pink pool of propylene glycol is "Ladyboys".  But the new generation calls them "sensitive".


The traditional term for the killing of anything in an unneccessary cruel and unusual manner is "inhumane".

That some apparently consider the fact that it is somehow a demonstration of the epic proportions of their manhoods, to find brutal methods to exterminate what is effectively a living creature with the capacity for fear and to experience pain, beggars the imagination.

These creatures need controlling? Absolutely.

Do they need to suffer a vile demise? Absolutely not, especially considering one of the arguments was that the person setting the trap can't be right arsed to empty more humane ones. :bhead
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: DREDIOCK on March 24, 2014, 06:10:01 AM

I have no problem with killing of vermin. Whether it be insect mammal or people. But whether you did what you claim out of malevolence, or ambivalence, or whether you simply made it up to, in your mind, sound tougher to your percieved piers on a chatroom, nothing and no one deserve to die in terror and abject pain if it can be possibly helped.
I find your post abhorrent.

And I...Simply dont care
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: mechanic on March 24, 2014, 06:31:13 AM
And I...Simply dont care


That is sad for you.

Through out all time a true hunter or warrior always has had remorse and respect for the necessary death he inflicts.

To simply not care about the suffering of life forms more vulnerable than yourself doesn't make you a man, just a monster.

Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: NatCigg on March 24, 2014, 07:05:02 AM

Humane killing of mice

Chopping - Ok
Exploding -Ok
smashing - Ok
Throwing off of your porch onto the cement - Ok
Thowing off a cliff with a 10 second free fall - ahhh Ok
Dipping in full strength HCl - Bad
Thowing overboard in the middle of the ocean - Bad
Spinning wheel o death by drowning in slightly toxic liquid- Bad
Testing latest ED drug - Bad but necessary so we call this martyrdom
Releasing three cats in the neighborhood to kill by defleshing or blunt force submission - Bad but its Organic so Ok
Trapping in a inescapable container to starvation- Bad
Trapping in a inescapable container and exploding with 100 Black cat fireworks within a 2 hour window of being caught on the great day sacrificial acceptance- Ok
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: puller on March 24, 2014, 09:28:10 AM
 :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl ^^^^^^

So we are feeling bad for mice now.... :rofl

Lets see...Did mice help spread the plague?....Yes
Do mice spread contractible diseases?....Yes
Do mice spread urine and feces all over ones house?....Yes
Are mice despicable little creatures that need to be killed and their populations kept in check by any means necessary, without regard for wondering how they feel before they die, a hopefully swift and violent death?...Hell Yes

Now I am a very humane person...I don't like to see anything suffer...especially anything I am trying to kill...but by saying dude is a monster because he poured coffee on a rat to kill it  :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl

I smash mice with my water meter tool every month...I go for the head...sometimes when I open a meter can and I don't have my violent meter tool of death, I have to use my channel lock pliers to smash their heads...either way I'm not getting the freakin hanta virus or any other kind of nasty disease the vermin can carry...

I have no remorse for killing rats...and if someone does, I promise, you wouldn't make it trying to live in the country...Probably the same type of people that call an exterminator to get rid of piss ants... :rofl :rofl :rofl
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: danny76 on March 24, 2014, 09:38:41 AM
:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl ^^^^^^

So we are feeling bad for mice now.... :rofl

Lets see...Did mice help spread the plague?....Yes
Do mice spread contractible diseases?....Yes
Do mice spread urine and feces all over ones house?....Yes
Are mice despicable little creatures that need to be killed and their populations kept in check by any means necessary, without regard for wondering how they feel before they die, a hopefully swift and violent death?...Hell Yes

Now I am a very humane person...I don't like to see anything suffer...especially anything I am trying to kill...but by saying dude is a monster because he poured coffee on a rat to kill it  :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl

I smash mice with my water meter tool every month...I go for the head...sometimes when I open a meter can and I don't have my violent meter tool of death, I have to use my channel lock pliers to smash their heads...either way I'm not getting the freakin hanta virus or any other kind of nasty disease the vermin can carry...

I have no remorse for killing rats...and if someone does, I promise, you wouldn't make it trying to live in the country...Probably the same type of people that call an exterminator to get rid of piss ants... :rofl :rofl :rofl

I've lived in the country my entire life, my grandfather was a shepherd, my father and his brothers poached for enough to eat when they were kids.I have served my country and have made sure the other guy has gone down  so that I get home. As a part of my job I routinely have to kill birds, almost on a daily basis, I also have to kill mice/rats and a variety of other vermin, when I do so I make sure it's with a single blow, or neck dislocation. Scalding something to death for no other reason than you feel like it would be intersting is below contempt.
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: Skuzzy on March 24, 2014, 09:50:32 AM
Grew up on a farm.  Had to kill many animals.  Mice, rats, chickens, roosters (they go rogue from time to time), possums, raccoons, and so forth.

Never saw any reason to do it in an inhumane way.  Of course, time was of the essence anyway, so doing things quickly meant we had more time to relax at the end of the day.
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: puller on March 24, 2014, 10:04:47 AM
Grew up on a farm.  Had to kill many animals.  Mice, rats, chickens, roosters (they go rogue from time to time), possums, raccoons, and so forth.

Never saw any reason to do it in an inhumane way.  Of course, time was of the essence anyway, so doing things quickly meant we had more time to relax at the end of the day.

 :lol   One of my roosters is starting to go rogue...keeps trying to kill my little chickens...he might have a date with a pot of Folders...I can't stand cheap coffee... :D
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: jimson on March 24, 2014, 12:02:36 PM
The problem I have is that I don't get out to my property but once a week at most, and it's out in a rural desert area with lot's of desert mice and hantavirus is a real concern in Arizona.

I am open to suggestions of some "humane" way for me to control the mice without having dangerous decomposing rodent bodies stinking up the place when I return in a week?
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: danny76 on March 24, 2014, 12:24:24 PM
:lol   One of my roosters is starting to go rogue...keeps trying to kill my little chickens...he might have a date with a pot of Folders...I can't stand cheap coffee... :D

You could put both his eyes out and douse him in petrol then light it. After all it'll be fun to watch and who cares how it dies? :aok
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: NatCigg on March 24, 2014, 12:35:52 PM
trapping a mouse to drown is now compareable to mutilation and torture for sport?  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: Skyyr on March 24, 2014, 12:36:36 PM
Death is sometimes necessary, cruelty is never necessary.
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: BluBerry on March 24, 2014, 12:41:16 PM
The problem I have is that I don't get out to my property but once a week at most, and it's out in a rural desert area with lot's of desert mice and hantavirus is a real concern in Arizona.

I am open to suggestions of some "humane" way for me to control the mice without having dangerous decomposing rodent bodies stinking up the place when I return in a week?


Catch em and send em to Drediock n NatCigg, they can jerk each other while torturing them.
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: morfiend on March 24, 2014, 12:42:25 PM
 My mother inlaw used to have a horse ranch,she kept those hayburning arabs!

  One day she finds a groundhog in the ridding padock and thinks it's rabid. With good reason as it wasnt afraid of her or the horses. So she calls animal control to see if someone will come take care of it.

  They ask her if she has a gun,yes she had a 22 and they tell her to just shoot it. She tells them "Oh I could never do that" and then they tell her that no one can come out to her place as it's not in their area.

  So she sees the animal is now chasing after a horse,her horse and she gets a Tbar,the type used in fencing and clubs the groundhog over the head!  She then calls me to come look after it for her,when I get there I see a groundhog with a bashed it head and a bloddy Tbar and ask her why the heck she didnt shoot it,I got the same answer....Oh I couldnt do that.... :rofl :rofl

  I said to her well then how did you manage to kill it then,I whacked it with the post,it was going after my horses...... :rofl



    :salute
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: jimson on March 24, 2014, 12:47:21 PM
I have no desire to inflict pain and suffering but if I set back breaker traps and then come back a week later it's going to be a toxic mess.
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: Banshee7 on March 24, 2014, 02:34:55 PM
Working in an agricultural warehouse that had nothing but soybeans and/or wheat in it at all times, mice were our biggest nuisance.  The seed was packaged in large bulk bags and/or 1 unit paper bags (commonly misconception that it's a 50 lb bag).  The other seed companies and, mainly, Monsanto required that the bags did not have any holes in them and were for the most part clean.  Mice would run around the the pallets and chew multiple holes in the tops of bulk bags, have a soybean smorgasbord, and build their nests in the pallets.  This would not only expose us to the mice and their feces, it would also require us to re-bag the seed.  Now, it's hard to keep mice out of a 40+ year old warehouse (that's 100,000 sq/ft).  Not only do we have poison spread out about every 20ft on the walls, we also have the poison boxes at the base of every other support pole, AND we place tracking powder on the floor around every lot of seed.  Yet, with all these preventatives, we still fight the mice  :bhead

I say kill them all and stomp the nest in any way possible.   :devil

Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: Rich46yo on March 24, 2014, 02:47:44 PM
I avoid cruelty if i can cause I dont enjoy it. But Im not going to tolerate mice running around and I set sticky traps for them. I cant imagine thats a very pleasant way to die If I dont find them in time and smash their heads in with a hammer.

I live in a wretched city so I have too put up with coons, possums, skunks, and what not. Let me find them out on the farms I hunt and they are dead in short order. And I dont hold prayer sessions for them afterwards. They are all destructive pests.
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: danny76 on March 24, 2014, 04:57:20 PM
Honestly I have no issue with any of this. Kill'em all for all I care, just kill them in a way that causes minimal suffering. This shouldn't be a debate. And as for slowly scalding things to death Dredlock. grow up .Nobody thinks this makes you sound tough son.
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: DREDIOCK on March 24, 2014, 07:30:44 PM
Honestly I have no issue with any of this. Kill'em all for all I care, just kill them in a way that causes minimal suffering. This shouldn't be a debate. And as for slowly scalding things to death Dredlock. grow up .Nobody thinks this makes you sound tough son.

When the hell did I say I "slowly" scalded it to death?. Those suckers run around. There is no way I could have "slowly" scalded it to death.

And again. I couldnt care less how tough or untough you or anyone else thinks I am.

What I AM saying is I dont give a damn how a rat dies
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: DREDIOCK on March 24, 2014, 08:02:55 PM
I've lived in the country my entire life, my grandfather was a shepherd, my father and his brothers poached for enough to eat when they were kids.I have served my country and have made sure the other guy has gone down  so that I get home. As a part of my job I routinely have to kill birds, almost on a daily basis, I also have to kill mice/rats and a variety of other vermin, when I do so I make sure it's with a single blow, or neck dislocation. Scalding something to death for no other reason than you feel like it would be intersting is below contempt.

Idiot. I scalded it to death because the hot coffee was as I stated what I had handy. Perhaps you should consider a reading comprehension course.
I'd have asked it to stay put while I went and gotten a club. but somehow since it had spotted me already I dont think it would have listened.
Besides that even if I had  and managed to smash it to death then I'd have rat innards to clean up. Which I am quite glad I didnt have to do. Nor did I have to worry about playing hide and seek had it escaped.

In the end I really dont care how a rat dies in my home though. So long as it dies.

Speaking of humane. Ever see an animal die from rat poison? Or how humane really are those sticky traps?

Gimme a break
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: ink on March 24, 2014, 08:39:01 PM
I love animals.....absolutely.


a rat/mouse needs to be killed as fast and efficiently as possible....anything handy(for all the reason previously stated).


now if you are raising said rats/mice and killing them for your pleasure....thats an issue....THAT is "inhumane"
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: mtnman on March 24, 2014, 08:53:03 PM
Mice don't die of old age, and many of the ways they die in the wild are far more traumatic than drowning (which btw, they also do in the wild)...

Anyway, I think this is fitting;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcSBO8YAnTQ
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: NatCigg on March 24, 2014, 08:56:28 PM
Mice don't die of old age, and many of the ways they die in the wild are far more traumatic than drowning (which btw, they also do in the wild)...

Anyway, I think this is fitting;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcSBO8YAnTQ


 :rofl
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: Scherf on March 24, 2014, 09:05:10 PM
You could put both his eyes out and douse him in petrol then light it. After all it'll be fun to watch and who cares how it dies? :aok

You've been watching Japanese cooking shows.

Seriously, if this is a remote place that needs to be kept vermin free but can't be checked every bloody day, I don't have see the problem with it. "My species wins."

And those snap-traps don't always work as advertised. I had a job many lifetimes ago which involved setting and checking the traps every few days. One day came across a mouse whose spine had been shattered mid-back by the killing arm, but it hadn't died - poor creature must have suffered for days, a good deal more than any of those which drowned in the anti-freeze.
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: Rob52240 on March 24, 2014, 10:28:39 PM
That's even better than the redneck fire alarm.

(http://cdn.motinetwork.net/demotivationalposters.net/image/demotivational-poster/0810/redneck-fire-alarm-demotivational-poster-1225216985.jpg)
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: Bodhi on March 25, 2014, 12:00:15 AM
this I did not know.  I just dont see how this trap is any different than placing dcon out, or any other rat poison. :headscratch: :headscratch:

It is exactly because dead mice stink that you don't use Dcon.  Mice generally just transport the DCon from the box at point A to a nest at Point B.  When they get it there, they eat at their leisure and then die there.  It's very unpleasant when they die in your walls or some other place that is difficult to access.

I don't enjoy the thought of any critter (except probably mosquitos or no see ums) dying a miserable death, but time and the amount of damage the vermin cause have pushed me to using this because it works and is very, very cheap.
Title: Re: Redneck mousetrap
Post by: smoe on March 31, 2014, 08:41:47 PM
cool.