Learn from my tragic mistake!

[frankykeno]

Ahhhh crap Mike what a waste of a bunch of great feeders let alone the stress on you having to hunt them all down. I'm still old schooling it and have all my ASF's in glass tanks. Living in this huge 100+ year old house, I just cannot begin to imagine what would happen if I had a massive breakout like that.

Thanks for sharing this though. The washer idea is fantastic!

[Mike Cavanaugh]

the snap traps really do work like a charm. they are the $3 each home depot hard plastic victory ones if anyone ever needs them. When I woke up this morning almost all of them were full!!!!

61 down and 4 to go!!!!! Haven't seen any more activity though in the garage or the house so I am starting to think those 4 may be gone forever.... It is certainly possible that I miscounted somewhere along the way before they escaped...

[littleindiangirl]

Dude, that sucks!!

[Mike Cavanaugh]

dude, that sucks!!

lol!

[Darkice]

I had one adult male jump free when i was cleaning the cage. Took me almost an hour to catch him. If i had 60 get out i would probobly burn the house down to kill them all. Im sorry you have to go through all that.
Get about a dozen cats and let them lose in the house for a couple days and that should take care of them.

[frankykeno]

Crazy thing in my house is that my lazy arse male cat, Sebastian, won't hunt rodents but my nutsy female yellow Labrador does and then...GIVES THEM TO THE CAT!

Yep we regularily find house mice that have a distinctly squashed look to them being played with by the darned cat. Apparently Bella the Lab does a front paw thump on the mice then gives over her prize to the stupid cat (who is her best buddy). Their little game though has worked. Haven't seen a house mouse around here for ages now.

[nwheat]

Crazy thing in my house is that my lazy arse male cat, Sebastian, won't hunt rodents but my nutsy female yellow Labrador does and then...GIVES THEM TO THE CAT!

Yep we regularily find house mice that have a distinctly squashed look to them being played with by the darned cat. Apparently Bella the Lab does a front paw thump on the mice then gives over her prize to the stupid cat (who is her best buddy). Their little game though has worked. Haven't seen a house mouse around here for ages now.

That's awesome, Joanna!!

Mike, I'm glad you've rounded most of them up!

[Mike Cavanaugh]

three more dead rats in the traps this morning!!!!!!!

64 down, 1 to go!!!! and I think for sure that the one unaccounted for is dead somewhere. I say this because on the first day I shot one right in the belly, but it still managed to run off to a spot I couldn't get to.... so he may be number 65.

LOL, I should have videotaped the whole thing... I would have been an internet legend! heck I probably would have even gotten my own tv show!

Anyways I will leave all 20 traps out for another day or two to make sure. Holy crap that was a long, painful ordeal.


NOW FOR THE MVP AWARD......
If anyone is ever in this kind of situation, these victor power kill traps are priceless. They are definately more then the cheap wooden ones (home depot sells them for $3 EACH) but over half of the rats ended up getting killed by the traps. I didn't have a single trap go off without a dead rat... and the best part they can be reused hunreds of times.... so I am ready for the next prison break.

http://www.victorpest.com/resource/i...e/B144-2_l.jpg

[Wh00h0069]

Glad to hear that you got most, if not all, of them. Sounds like you have a little more fun that you should have.

[Chris Rossi]

Hope fully there wont be another prison break!!