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The early bird catches the worm.
But, the second mouse gets the cheese!
Are you absolutely sure??? I will be glad to rent him to you. Just a little kibble and an "atta boy" when he clears your tunnel system.
Conrail5 wrote:Shishkabob skewer! Sharpen a good stainless steel skewer and lash it down to the top of your fastest loco. Run loco through tunnels at top speed repeat as needed until train exits tunnels with empty skewer.
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Brunton wrote: Bwahahaha!
Mark, is that the latest downloadable horn sound? Where can I get it?
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
howmus wrote: Oh c'mon guys. We're all big boys here. You go buy a couple of the old fashoned Victor snap traps, bait them (peanut butter works the best), pull the snap bar with the springs back and set the trap. Wait a few minutes and you will hear SNAP!!! Wait a couple more minutes unless you enjoy seeing the nerves doing that twitchy thing. Then you take the trap, dead mouse and all, to the waste basket or outside to where ever and pull up on the snap bar releasing the now dead little mousy, and then repeat the process until you don't catch any more. The traps are reusable and when you are done wash your hands and go back to modeling. First off they kill the mouse almost instantly and so are probably the most humane. The sticky ones are IMHO cruel as they don't kill quickly. Traping and releasing doesn't solve the problem unless you do it way my sister does. She catches the sweet little, cute mousy wousy, and takes it outside to the park near her home and humanely releases it hoping it will find new home in the park (or somebody elses house) when it is 10°F outside. Freezing to death is not a nice humane way to go. Can't believe grown men can be so squemish over getting rid of vermin that carry disease and pose a serious health risk to you and your families. Do any of you hunt?????? BTW, if you live in the North, they came in back in October or early November and have been living with you since then. Untrapped they will disapear in the spring outside to provide the next wave of vermin for next fall.
Oh c'mon guys. We're all big boys here. You go buy a couple of the old fashoned Victor snap traps, bait them (peanut butter works the best), pull the snap bar with the springs back and set the trap. Wait a few minutes and you will hear SNAP!!! Wait a couple more minutes unless you enjoy seeing the nerves doing that twitchy thing. Then you take the trap, dead mouse and all, to the waste basket or outside to where ever and pull up on the snap bar releasing the now dead little mousy, and then repeat the process until you don't catch any more. The traps are reusable and when you are done wash your hands and go back to modeling. First off they kill the mouse almost instantly and so are probably the most humane. The sticky ones are IMHO cruel as they don't kill quickly. Traping and releasing doesn't solve the problem unless you do it way my sister does. She catches the sweet little, cute mousy wousy, and takes it outside to the park near her home and humanely releases it hoping it will find new home in the park (or somebody elses house) when it is 10°F outside. Freezing to death is not a nice humane way to go.
Can't believe grown men can be so squemish over getting rid of vermin that carry disease and pose a serious health risk to you and your families. Do any of you hunt??????
BTW, if you live in the North, they came in back in October or early November and have been living with you since then. Untrapped they will disapear in the spring outside to provide the next wave of vermin for next fall.
Amen. This is exactly what I do. I actually make it into a little "Mouse Safari". The Victor Mouse Traps are the only way to go for me - instant kill, no dead mice crawling away to die, and you have an exact body count and can tell when you are making a dent in the mouse population. Every Fall, they start coming back in and every Fall I get the Victor Mouse Traps out. It's become a tradition.
train them to do the belly crawl through your tunnels. could save you a lot of work in the long run.
Just remember to weather and decal for the appropriate era you are modeling.
Mice on a layout plus cats = BAD JUJU. Unless you are modeling a hurricane,tsunami or tornado stricken railroad, put this thought out of mind immediately.
Traps for living areas, poison ONLY in attics or crawls, and ONLY during cold months, or else the smell will drive you from your home.
Steel wool to close access points, or all you will do is strengthen and smarten the surviving Darwinian population.
During the transition to a rodent free environment, I would begin each operating session with a MOW unit, headed by a large front mounted flanger.
Looking forward to the video of the train/mouse encounter.......
Will the LL ones work? I have about 4 of them left.
No problems with rats, my tine is only a foot long.
As for the Anoles 6 P2Ks pushing a custom-built plow shouold fix that, and the dog will keep them off the legs.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
I got a similar reply to that as a suggestion for anoles; but I have no scenery.
I'm guessing if I mess with the garage's thermostat, I can keep the cold-blodded critters out.
G Paine wrote: Brunton wrote: Bwahahaha! Mark, is that the latest downloadable horn sound? Where can I get it?
Speaking of sound, how about reprogramming one of your noisemaking locos to sound like a ferret?
Come to think of it, I recall seeing a note about someone who had several pet ferrets. I rather suspect that one ferret would equal zero mice in very rapid order.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - with no unwanted critters, I hope)
Conrail you are agenius with the skewer idea...
what do you think about smoking the little monsters out with a 2-6-0's smoke and pretty lights
running them over with a CSX SD-40 or the Amtrak amfleet or an SCL ooooorrr the Acela ;top speed only the Lord and the geeks at the LHS know how fast it goes
Well, guys, after reading these posts over my shoulder, my other Maine Coon cat Lowell says that he is available on a rental system to help rid your tunnels of vermin. However, since he's about 20 pounds, he'll have trouble fitting INTO the tunnels, and he's very particular about his payment in Catnip (it has to come from either Malibu or Baja California), and he only works at full speed while listening to Mahler's First Symphony.
And I hate to tell you, the last mouse he caught, he adopted!
Tom
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railroadnut675 wrote: Conrail you are agenius with the skewer idea... what do you think about smoking the little monsters out with a 2-6-0's smoke and pretty lights running them over with a CSX SD-40 or the Amtrak amfleet or an SCL ooooorrr the Acela ;top speed only the Lord and the geeks at the LHS know how fast it goes
Well it did seem to be the obvious solution.
Interesting...
Do you think the Train in one side cage on the other is good?
Or smoking them out w/ a 2-6-0?
vsmith wrote: .
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What's your point? Your post says nothing. Saying "half of the people in the world have higher than average intelligence" would have been more informative.
Mark
markpierce wrote: vsmith wrote: .What's your point? Your post says nothing. Saying "half of the people in the world have higher than average intelligence" would have been more informative. Mark
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Brunton wrote: markpierce wrote: vsmith wrote: .What's your point? Your post says nothing. Saying "half of the people in the world have higher than average intelligence" would have been more informative. MarkBut it wouldn't have been accurate. There are more people with lower-than-average intelligence than there are with higher-than-average intelligence (and the lowest part of that curve is farther away from the average than the highest part of that curve is, with only very rare exception) , so more than half the people in the world have higher-than-average intelligence. It WOULD have been accurate if the statement was "half of the people in the world have higher than median intelligence."
Rat's eat cat's
use glue, snap traps, and decon.
use a slim jim tied to the trap
railroadnut675 wrote:Do slim Jims really work
As many times as I've used mine to free up a jammed lock on one of the back doors of my car, I'd have to say yes. As far as using one to push traps around, I don't know. On the other hand, another type slim jim makes a good snack.
railroadnut
i use a 22 cal pistol with #12 dust bird SHOT(not # 9 SHOT ) it works wonders,my layout is in a shed by itself,also it`s a lot of fun and you will be doing a public service by getting rid of the dirty rodents.i created a couple of instantly dilapidated cars one time when i got carried away while there was more than one running around.i`ve been down to zero population for now what a bummer' dutchman
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I thought your layout was HO scale!
Does he eat those meeses, or just sit on them?
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I'd like to know how you weathered and detailed the large cat model!
AlreadyInUse wrote: Packer wrote: As for vermin, I used to have an anole (gecko) problem. It's not as bad as it used to be (one of my dogs thinks they are tasty ) but the ones that get on the ceiling end up dropping poo on the layout every now and then. How do you get geckos off the ceiling??? Shotgun? Be sure to lead them.
Packer wrote: As for vermin, I used to have an anole (gecko) problem. It's not as bad as it used to be (one of my dogs thinks they are tasty ) but the ones that get on the ceiling end up dropping poo on the layout every now and then. How do you get geckos off the ceiling???
As for vermin, I used to have an anole (gecko) problem. It's not as bad as it used to be (one of my dogs thinks they are tasty ) but the ones that get on the ceiling end up dropping poo on the layout every now and then. How do you get geckos off the ceiling???
Shotgun? Be sure to lead them.
ROFL Sounds like our foreign policy. Feel free to assign blame to whichever party you please.
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow