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Wild mice getting into Vision racks?

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Reptilebaby

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I have a vision hatchling rack that I use one half of for my baby balls and the other half I use for baby corns. the rack is not completely full.

My husband went to change the water in the tubs and he saw something dark in one of the empty tubs. He opened it and there was a dead wild mouse in it. My question is, How in the heck did a wild mouse get into the tub?
 
They can really squeeze. Is it in your house? Weird- what if it would have gotten in with a BP! That's creepy. I wonder why it was dead.
 
It was probably dead because we used to poison the wild mouse population. We picked up all the poison when we didn't think it was working. :( We must have missed one box of it because we found it yesterday. almost totally eaten. I have tried glue traps, and can't do it again-couldn't stand seeing the mice pulling against it util the skin started tearing off their heads and bodies. And the snap traps didn't work-they tripped em and ran. :(

I was panicking when he told me that about the mouse. I just can't figure out how the heck it got in there when a feeder mouse can't get out! I am so worried that one of them is going to eat a wild mouse. Thinking about moving all my snakes into aquariums with screen tops until the mice are gone just so I can avoid having it happen again.
 
Yes! I use it in my adult racks with yearlings that have just moved in. I have heat cable in a recess under the very back of the bins. My hatchling racks have FlexWatt on the back wall and they ALL have cardboard!
 
That just might be the answer! Thank you SO much!
That'll help with preventing the babies from escaping too! :) I've had that issue twice with this rack.
 
This is why I do not use poison on wild rodents on my property. My first concern is that one of the dogs will get a hold of a poisoned rodent. As unlikely as it would be that a wild mouse would end up in my houe, there's my ferrets & my snakes to be concerned about as well.
I use paper towel tubes (squished flat) or sections of newspaper to reduce the amount of excess open space on somce of my racks.
 
Yep.

One last question before I go do the cardboard. You haven't noticed any reduction in the heat from using it? Our room is pretty cool and I don't want to lose any of the heat.
 
Best way to use th snap traps in my opinion is to use bred as the bait... just use a small piece and squish it nice and firm on the trigger, then allow it to set for an hour or so and the bread will get hard as it gets stale and dry, they will have a hard time picking the bait and they will have to stick their heads into the trap prtty good to get thebait. I have also had really good luck with the repeating live traps that you can buy at farm supply stores in my chicken coop. Poison works but it has residual effects that are just not to friendly in my opinion.

Steve
 
For the snap traps, I use peanut butter. It stays smelly but sticks to the trap so the mouse stays there for abit and then SNAP! :D
 
Yep, nothing beats snap traps with peanut butter! I've never had a snap trap fail me.
As for the bats, a really easy solution to keep them out is to find the hole that they are coming in at, and place screen over it on the outside, just held down on the top. This way, the bats can fly out, but they won't be able to get back in! It's a humane and simple way of "uninviting" them.
I think the best solution for the mice though is to get a kitty cat :) We had a really bad mouse problem in the summers at my house, and then this sick, stray kitten showed up at our door so we kept him and we've had only one mouse in the last 11 years. And that wasn't even in the house, it was in the garage and the snap trap took care of that.
 
We have a cat. :) We rescued a beautiful siamese/himalayan cross boy last year-he has caught several of the bats that have gotten in our house. :) He catches a few mice, but not often, He's a humane killer-one bite and the mouse is dead. Even better he doesn't eat them, he puts them at your feet.

I've actually seen mice get their heads in the snap trap and the metal trap part just bounces off with no injury to the mouse. :( I don't know if you can set it so it doesn't do that.
 
Buy a victor trap, I have tried a bunch of different snap traps and the victors kill every time, I think some of the cheaper traps have a weak spring. As for the big plastic pan they will go off too easy and the mouse doesn't have to put their head in the way of the snao far enough.

Steve
 
Ok so hopefully this thread is not too old... I read that a good way to keep mice out is to put a snake shed in an area where they go/have gone. I guess to warn them that they could be dinner?? If anyone has tried this, I'd love to hear your thoughts.
 
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