Frank wrote on 06/05/2008 00:54:58:
> PCOpug wrote:
>> Gluetraps . Are there gluetraps in England ?
>> If gluetraps don't catch em .
>> Ghosts , you have ghosts .
>>
>
> Glue traps are not that effective and cause slow death.
> I'm not a PETA type but caught one mouse that tried to gnaw its leg off
to
> get out of trap. Snap traps are quicker and more effective. I also put
> poisons in places that kids or pets cannot get at.
I have found that we do have glue traps in England. However I am under
attack from a wife and daughter who will not kill anything and demand I
use humane traps. I found these ineffective - rarely caught anything. I
prefer a hands off method and have found poison to be so, and
efficient; I hardly ever found a mouse corpse.
In this case the poison has been ignored. My wife and I do not think it
is a mouse (or rat), the main reason is absence of droppings which has
always been present before with mice. She thinks the tomatoes are not
being eaten any more, but are shrinking from drying up.
There are frequent sightings of queen wasps looking for nest sites, but
we discount them as a cause because surely we would have seen one at
the tomatoes sometime during the day. We usually have a wasps nest in
our eaves each year but mutually ignore each other satisfactorily.
Putting out glue traps on the kitchen side would be inconvenient, so
after all we are removing the half eaten tomatoes, cleaning up and
waiting for the next mystery attack before doing anything positive.
This is known as the head in sand method!
Thanks for your comments.
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