by Frank <frankdotlogullo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Oct 15, 2007 at 08:44 AM
j wrote:
> The fastest and surest way I've found to catch a mouse is to go to
Wal-Mart
> and buy Catchmaster brand glue boards. They are sold in a package of 4
for
> under two dollars. Don't buy the black plastic ones. Get the thin white
ones
> that are made of cardboard. When you get the glue boards home, cut the
paper
> edges off of them and line them up in a row along the thresholds of the
> doorways between your rooms. Don't fold them like the instructions say,
just
> lay them out flat. Like us, mice must walk through the doorway to go
from
> one room to another. This method will get them when they do. I live out
in
> the country and I use this method on my front door to keep mice from
> entering in through the gap under my screen door. Last summer I found a
> small rattles**** stuck from head to tail in the glue of the Catchmaster
> brand glueboards that I had in my front door. If it weren't for the
> glueboards he would have gotten into the house and I wouldn't have known
> about it. Catchmaster brand works better for me than the other brands
I've
> tried.
>
I use glue boards, traps and poison. Im****tant thing you mentioned is
that they should be placed in runways like along walls. Rodents
apparently have poor eyesight and may just walk into them.
I find single glue boards least effective but good for catching other
critters as you describe - I catch some pretty big spiders sometimes.
Frank