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Spotted the evidence of mouse activity in the house Saturday, so set five traps with almond paste and chocolate raisins. They cleaned out all five traps of bait while we were watching the TV, so I set them all again, and all five were cleaned out again in the morning.
We have one trap we call the mouse slayer which is the most effective. Baited them all again last night and got one critter while we were watching the England match on TV. The mouse slayer had done its work as usual.
Baited them again, hopefully there will be more murine corpses in the morning.
The trick seems to be to smear the traps with paste and sprinkle them with little particles of crushed chocolate so the rodent rotters have to stick about licking and foraging on the trap.
I put cctv down last year to surveil my enemy. A sprung trap can shock them unconscious for half a minute and they get up later and carry on. A mouse will gnaw its own leg off to get out of the trap. I also suspect the dad takes food back to the pregnant mother because when dad got splatted, after a while mum came down apparently to see why he wasn't home yet. She looked pretty sad sniffing around and nudging him. The mouse slayer saw to it that she didn't mourn for long.
It's always a time of mixed feelings because I love nature but obviously we can't have vermin in the house, but I love that wildlife is nearby.
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