ratzapper google it, only issue is you have to dump in the trash after every kill.

Have you used it ? Work well ?

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Yes, works good. Get the right bait in there, like peanut butter...they go in get zapped and you dump in trash. Are you in the USA, I could be convinced to sell or loan it to you, its winter in the Chicago area.

Appreciate the offer! This will be a recurring problem I think so going to buy something. Like the idea it works on mice also then I could get rid of the other service. Do you have the regular or ultra ? There's a 3 pack of the regular one which is why I was curious how well you though it works.

When do you use yours ? Winter is when we get the mice and now chipmunks coming in the house.

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I used it outside to get the ground squirrels and chipmunks, that were digging holes all over the garden, under the deck close to the house foundation.

I have a big one, it takes 4 or 6 don't remember D size batteries...its one of the original zappers.

The chipmunk is a perfect fit, small mice might be a little too small, never caught one.

Only other thing you could try, that I didn't, is a good old fashioned rat trap.

What's the issue? You don't like the singing?

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How could anyone kill Alvin?

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I forget what brand I have but I find that the single door ones work better



I own the one you have above. They have stolen the food more often from it.


Most effective is a $2 rat trap. Screw it down to a bigger board so they don't run away with it and die.

Singing would be one thing. The scratching around in the walls I heard last night is a deal breaker. Not to mention when I went up in the attic the little MFer looked right at me like I was in his house.

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Cheaper route.. Chipper dipper.. 5 gallon pail, a small 2x4, water and some sunflower seeds.. https://hubpages.com/...ild-a-chipper-dipper

Had a problem with them burrowing under my pool. I got 10 of them suckers in a few hours.

Alvin is a trouble maker and has it coming. Plus his extended family seem to live in our neighborhood. They are everywhere. Until the neighbors cat started hanging out in our back yard they would sit by the kitchen door if we were cooking something that smelled good.

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That's a concern right now. There's mice traps up there already with poison. I don't really want to deal with one of them dying in the wall.

I also need something that is either quick or humane. My son might deal with it but my daughter might not forgive me for taking out chip and dale.

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Couldn't get link to work but I think I saw a picture of one of those earlier. Not sure I want that in the attic.

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I have the trap you show and I catch several every year. I also have the larger single door trap and use it for squirrels. I don't even bother to bait it for chipmunks anymore. They are such curious creatures they need to explore everything and will naturally enter the trap just by their nature.

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Are you catching them inside or out ? I've only found one person at work who has had any experience with them. They just use peanut butter or raisins maybe. Are they loud once trapped in the cage ? Cause of the kids age I am leaning toward the silent but lethal.

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I haven't found these to work well for chipmunks. I keep getting tree squirrels.

10-15yrs ago we had a bunch of problems with squirrels. They kept chewing their way into inaccessible (to humans) parts of the attic. We had their holes repaired 3x, not easy because it's way way above the ground, before I finally got pissed off.

I love little fuzzy critters as much as the next guy, but I'd reached my limit. They were no longer cute little things, they were "tree rats".

First we explored the "humane trapping" schtick but the outfits that do that wanted huge $$. So it came down to me and a pellet rifle. As a young teen, my little buddies and I were hell on wheels with BB guns and pellet rifles. We put so many rounds down range, shooting anything that moved, that tweety birds gave our little OR logging town a wide berth.

In the first month the squirrel tally was 12:0.

This is a pretty dense pack suburban area so I had to be wary of neighbor peering out of windows. Didn't want folks to call 911 reporting "some madman running around with a machine gun."

My mother came one week and bought some squirrel chow and put it out in the yard. I said "Mom, what the heck, we're having squirrel problems and you open a cafeteria?" Later, prowling with the pellet gun, I realized what Mom had really done is tempt the squirrels to their doom. Mom would have been mortified if she'd have known how many squirrels fell for her bait.

Once every couple of years I'll hear something moving around in the same inaccessible part of the attic so I'll pull out the pellet rifle again.

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In the springtime, we get the scratching in the walls in springtime from birds that make their way into the vents. It's always right above my son's room, which is an exterior wall with the vent they fly into, and the bathroom right next to that. They hate it when I turn on the vent fan, scattering quickly. We finally had it capped by the roof guy last springtime when we needed a minor post-storm shingle repair.

Critters are brazen if you don't stay on top of them. Zap every last one of those little punks, because they're just going to make their way back if you do the humane thing of trapping and releasing elsewhere.

We've been lucky with rodents, but once it warms up a little bit I think I need to check the entry door from the garage to make sure it's sealed as best as possible since, theoretically, they could possibly squeeze their way through if it's not tight...and I suspect it's worn down just enough to make that a possibility.

When I was around 7 or 8 years old we had a problem with pigeons roosting under the eaves of our house. Chicken wire didn't keep them out, fake snakes and owls didn't scare them (thought that as a harebrained idea anyway). My Dad got fed up and for every day for a couple weeks, just after dusk, my job was to stand on the walk in front of our house and hold the flashlight while my Dad plinked a pigeon or two with a .22. This was in a quite suburban area, where he/we had no right to be firing off guns. The 22nd and last pigeon my Dad winged, and it fluttered across the street, hit the neighbor's front window and left a blood streak on the glass before dropping dead into the garden. I will never forget my Dad's face as he sprinted across the street, retrieved the pigeon and frantically used his handkerchief to scrub off the blood from the window.

you are more then welcome to go hunting in my attic ! Walk up stair, floored and plenty of crap to use as blinds. I'll even provide beer.

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SkipJack turned me onto this little beauty, with an entire chapter about how to cook squirrel. Perhaps you should get some of your mom's squirrel chow, go to work with that pellet gun, and then have mom over for a thank you dinner.

Mostly outside but a couple in the garage, the only time I've heard any noise is when I pick up the trap they get a little excited. As a matter of fact, a couple times I forgot about it and didn't get to it in time (poor little bastards).

Black oil sunflower seeds are also good if you want to bait.

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I have 3 massive black walnut trees that give plenty of food. That combined with a 19th century house has had me murder 100's of red squirrels. My wife and daughter have learned to get over it. I tend to leave the ground squirrels alone.

We get squirrels in our office building. Block one hole they make another. This summer one fell down into an interior wall and couldn't get out. We were actually ok with him dying in there. Except he wouldn't die. You'd think after 3 or 4 days dehydration would do him in. On the 8th day he was still scratching around so we opened the doors, blocked the hallways to make a path and cut a hole in the wall. The studs are metal studs that have holes in them to run wires but also work well for squirrels wanting to travel between studs. He came out when we were at lunch and the secretary shooed him out the door, still appearing to be in fine health.

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I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.

Surely there's a neighbor kid that would practically pee down his leg for such an opportunity, no? Oh, what a sad generation.

As a kid, a guy with a bunch of cherry trees would pay us a bounty to shoot birds out of his trees. It wasn't considered sporting to use our pellet guns....too easy. So we used .22 pistols. We'd sit up in the trees, drink sodas, laugh at dumb stories, plot the loss of virtue of the various pretty girls in town, and my buddy's dog would gather our payroll at the base of our tree.

It was tough on the birds but certainly the referenced townie virtues survived unscathed. At least by us idiots.

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Any chance you can borrow Jason's cat? Heck, he might even let you keep it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2Pyu-Cj0gg

We don't have any rodents living in our attic. Just sayin' ;-)

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If I put our cats in the attic, my wife might make me live there too. It is not a pleasant place.

If Mrs Leddy would let me I'd stop at the SPCA on the way home and look for a purely evil hunter. She is adamantly against cats. I don't know what scared her as a child but it would be me or the cat.

When we moved in almost 2 years ago there were chipmunks every where outside. This summer a neighbors cat showed up and they are either in hiding or he has been busy. Rarely see them any more. There's a lot of hunters in our back yard. A couple of owls we can hear at night and hawks roaming around.

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Regarding taking down the pine trees that provide shade. A few years ago I took down a large oak that was on the west side of the house. It was a mistake. That tree provided a lot of shade from the afternoon son. We live on a lake and have a lot of windows facing the west so we can see the lake. After taking down the tree I ended up needing to put up solar screens because of the heat.

That being said, I have taken down pine trees that are within falling distance of the house as they are a hazard and don't provide as much shade as the oak trees. Living in Florida, I didn't want a big pine tree to come down on the house during a hurricane. I did that 15 years ago when I built the house.

This past fall I ran a number of insurance claims in Florida where Hurricane Irma blew trees down on houses. It reminded me that my decision was a good one.

Listen to your wife. Keep the trees.

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We took an oak down out back when we moved in because it was hanging over the house and I didn't like the way it was leaning toward home. I'd really like to take the pine down because it is right up against the house. Dumps needles all over roof, gutters and now I think what ever got in the attic uses it for a ladder.

It provides shade and some protection from the elements but it falling in a storm worries me. I feel like in big storms pine trees are the first to go down around us. If it was oak or any leaf tree I'd be more hesitant to remove. Not really a fan of pine trees.

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In that case, get rid of it. I was assuming it was further back from the house. Tell your wife it was rotten.

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I did see a hawk two weeks ago perched on a branch right outside the window. That was pretty cool. But I still want to take them out. They are about 10-15 feet from the house.

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the neighbor used a 5 gallon bucket half filled with water and a layer of sunflower seeds on top to cover the water. The put a board as a ramp the critters could use to get to the seeds. 12 hours later 6 drowned chipmonks.

I suggested the chipper dipper initially. He turned it down as he doesn't want a bucket of water in his attic.

Showed exterminator where they were asking his thoughts on what to do. Turns out it’s a FAMILY of squirrels. Dammit

Going to buy a trap right now. Anyone have a recommendation for food

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There's never just one.

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I can see at least 4-6 , look like babies

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I'll loan you my cat. He'll pick off the babies first.

He'll also try to murder you in your sleep, but that's the price your wife will have to pay for a chipmunk-free home.

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Go whole hog and set out mutliple glue traps. snap traps and live traps in succession. I glue down pecan and walnut halves with peanut butter.

Bucket is in attic and live trap. I’m not feeling confident with either.

Which will work ? Winner may get a squirrel pelt in the mail or jacket like I Tonya

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If its squirrel and not a chipmunk, the squirrel may be large enough to escape the bucket. When I set my dipper up outside, I got squirrels. They just stood on the edge of the bucket and leaned down for the free seeds... Never had to jump in.

I'm hoping the little smaller ones go in there. When I was filling it up I thought it seemed like it could get out. Hopefully the big one will go in trap. But now I'm a little concerned about wet squirrel running around in attic.

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I would remove the bucket if its squirrels. Chance they could tip it over.. I think the chance is slim but they are larger than the monks and it's prolly not gonna work on the squirrels.

When you say squirrels, how big are you talking about? We have mostly red squirrels here, which are pretty small. bigger than a chippy, but a lot smaller than the grey squirrels (aka furry rats) in other parts of the country

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I think they are grey squirrels. Outside chance flying squirrels which are smaller. I only saw the babies in the nest. The exterminator crawled back to where they are trying to see exactly what they were. He mentioned seeing a bigger one run away.

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Are you sure it's squirrels?

I killed one for you today. Had a freak 50's day and caught one in a live trap. They still get in my attic despite my murderous nature

What do you use for bait ?

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Going by what I've read on the net, perfume, diamonds & cash work. Possibly peanut butter too.

Da fuk ? I’m talking about squirrels not hookers

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This one was pecan halves glued down with peanut butter. Most of the time I just leave a tasty looking whole walnut with the shell in the back.

Read the story I linked. Peanut butter was the serious answer.

Ohhh I did read the link. Peanut butter completely confused me.

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Called in a pro and turns out they’re gone. He pulled up floor boards where they were and no nest but he did see where they chewed on a joist. Best guess was exterminator last week scared them off. Looked around and didn’t see any other signs so fingers crossed.

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"I think I've cracked the code. double letters are cheaters except for perfect squares (a, d, i, p and y). So Leddy isn't a cheater... "

Well the ones in our office are not. I was last one to leave tonight, no one else ther,turn all the lights off, go into the rest room, fucking squirrel runs through the attic right above me.

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I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.