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Oh, Rats! There is a Critter on my Porch!

7/8/2014

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Everyone knows how much I love beginning my day on my back porch. I also love to end my day here, too! It usually helps me to unwind and relax for the night. Well, not so much for the past couple of weeks. I keep seeing a large mouse or a small rat scurrying around in the evening. He is very quick and it is so hard to get a good look at him. He is very mischievous, knocking over small flower pots and my pictures and other artsy stuff that I have sitting around on the iron bakers rack and small desk that sits in the corner. He climbs up the curtains that I have on the outside of the bedroom sliding door. He climbs in and out of the small baskets of garden tools and supplies. For the last couple of nights he has added some singing to his routine. I think he is singing " You Can't Touch This" ! We have put out a rat trap, the old fashioned kind with a piece of cheese. He has not touched it! I have to admit that I do not want to see him caught in it. I am thinking that would tear me up to see his squished little body. I wish that I could just relocate him to the wooded area down by the creek. But how would I catch him? Please share any ideas that you may have! Have an awesome day!
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fran link
7/8/2014 02:04:12 am

If you are using a snap trap, bait it with pesnut butter, not the good natural kind, cheap stuff. You can get capture traps but they are more expensive. Use peanut butter in it too. They will leave cheese.

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Cindy Ackley link
7/8/2014 02:13:19 am

Thank you, Fran! I will try the peanut butter in some kind of catch and release trap!

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Joan Harrington link
7/8/2014 02:41:35 am

Great post! Thanks for sharing :)

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Clarissa Wilson link
7/8/2014 02:59:56 am

My parents own a dairy farm and we have tons of rats, mice and other rodents around here. The main trap that we use to catch them is a cage trap. You still bait it with whatever you want to bait it with, but it only traps the rodent in a cage. Then you can set them free after they have been caught. But you may want to let him loose at least 5 miles away from your house or he will find a way back to your porch since he really seems to like it there.

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laura
7/8/2014 03:44:40 am

Clarissa's advice is great.Whatever you do,please don't kill or hurt it.Just release it somewhere far away from your home.Only God gives life and has the right to take it.Life is such a precious gift,even if it belongs to a tiny little rat.
Thank you for commenting on the story of my childhood.

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laura
7/8/2014 03:49:51 am

Oh my god!Guess my computer is having some problems.I only intended to comment once,i swear.Sorry

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