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Originally Posted by wayner
In our crawl space, one of my traps went snap, and then went missing!  |
^I lived in a log cabin on 50 acres in VT for several years. We had a lot of mice. I declared war one evening I was trying to get to sleep and a couple were scratching around in the wall next to my bed, just inches away from my head. The ensuing couple weeks were a bona-fide blood bath (2-3 kills per night). My weapon of choice was the classic snap trap with peanut butter for bait.
On one occasion, the snap trap came down on the little guys shoulder instead of the neck. Poor thing dragged itself back to a hidey hole which was behind the slant-fin base board heaters. Managed to pull himself about halfway in the hole (couldn't make it all the way in dragging the trap along) and then expired. Problem was when I tried to pull the critter out for disposal, it was stuck halfway in that hole and wasn't letting go. I damn near tore the corpse apart trying to remove it...it was nasty.