I keep mouse traps set in the garage all year long, especially around the buckets and pails where I store the bird seed. About a week ago I caught a shrew in one baited with cheese spread. A couple days ago I checked traps and one was totally missing. Gone. Nowhere to be seen. So I baited another trap and set it in the other’s place. Today I went to check traps and another was totally not there… the same spot the other trap went bye-bye. Now I’m really curious and went on a hunt. About twenty feet away I found both traps with partially eaten mouse carcasses in each. I re-bait one of the traps and set in back where they had been. An hour later I was working in the shop and heard the snap so I went to check and sure enough….another shrew. I might have to start setting those traps that pinch open and have a cavern that the critters stick their heads in and bait the trap with raw hamburger. I don’t mind shrews eating the mice but wish they’d get the job done OUTSIDE. Now it seems I have two kinds of critters to get rid of. Anybody else get shrews in their garages?
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