And a FYI you really have to be careful with the Tom Cat bait holders if you have dogs.
DH caught our Jack Russell Terrier mix with one out in the middle of the pasture diligently trying to break into it. I think she smelled mouse and was just determined to get it to kill it. She is ruthless when it comes to field voles and mice and will spend hours trying to dig them out and kill them. It's so comical to watch her, hind end in the air, burrowed in the dirt up to her ribs and barking her head off as she diligently digs her way to China. DH has to go out afterwards and fill in the holes as the other dogs as well as the two of us have stepped in them and hurt ourselves.
She didn't succeed in breaking into the holder but the mice leave a fine litter of chewed off bait in the trap and we were worried that she had consumed part of it. We had to call the poison control center for dogs, pour peroxide down her so she would vomit and then give her 5 days worth of vitamin K as a preventative. When they say peroxide will make them barf, trust me, once you get it down them, jump back because they become a volcano of white frothy foam and whatever they have eaten in the past 6 hours.
With our house we had to put bait where the animals never went. The crawl space, the attic, the barn loft, under the sealed area under the chicken coop. We had to be forever on guard and at times the bait would disappear in a matter of 48 hours.
Now I have snap traps set around the outside of the coops along with sticky traps. What's funny is that I've caught more sparrows than I have mice or rats. I usually wire a dog kibble to the trap bait holder and then smear it with peanut butter. That is usually mouse crack and I've never failed to catch mice with that combination of bait....guess it's sparrow crack also because those idiot birds love the dog kibble.
DH caught our Jack Russell Terrier mix with one out in the middle of the pasture diligently trying to break into it. I think she smelled mouse and was just determined to get it to kill it. She is ruthless when it comes to field voles and mice and will spend hours trying to dig them out and kill them. It's so comical to watch her, hind end in the air, burrowed in the dirt up to her ribs and barking her head off as she diligently digs her way to China. DH has to go out afterwards and fill in the holes as the other dogs as well as the two of us have stepped in them and hurt ourselves.
She didn't succeed in breaking into the holder but the mice leave a fine litter of chewed off bait in the trap and we were worried that she had consumed part of it. We had to call the poison control center for dogs, pour peroxide down her so she would vomit and then give her 5 days worth of vitamin K as a preventative. When they say peroxide will make them barf, trust me, once you get it down them, jump back because they become a volcano of white frothy foam and whatever they have eaten in the past 6 hours.
With our house we had to put bait where the animals never went. The crawl space, the attic, the barn loft, under the sealed area under the chicken coop. We had to be forever on guard and at times the bait would disappear in a matter of 48 hours.
Now I have snap traps set around the outside of the coops along with sticky traps. What's funny is that I've caught more sparrows than I have mice or rats. I usually wire a dog kibble to the trap bait holder and then smear it with peanut butter. That is usually mouse crack and I've never failed to catch mice with that combination of bait....guess it's sparrow crack also because those idiot birds love the dog kibble.
