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Subject: [DCHAS-L] ADV: CHAS Chemical Safety Workshops BOSTON August 2018

Date: May 14, 2018 15:49 UTC

Author: NEAL LANGERMAN <neal**At_Symbol_Here**CHEMICAL-SAFETY.COM>

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Date: May 14, 2018 16:29 UTC

Author: Lucy Dillman <lucydillman**At_Symbol_Here**COMCAST.NET>

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From: Dan Blunk <blunk**At_Symbol_Here**UCSC.EDU>

Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] mouse bait anyone?

Date: May 14, 2018 16:22 UTC

Reply-To: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety

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Demystify: 

Monona,

I suspect you would now miss the company of your four-legged friend, should you succeed in terminating it's existence. 

Providing you are prepared for the loss, I have a few suggestions. 

Based on the info provided, I suspect the mouse has learned to avoid recognized traps. It likely won't matter what bait is used, the bait won't overcome the trap avoidance. 

Nice don't free-drink water. They obtain water from the food they eat. Based on what it prefers to eat, I suspect the mouse is craving water. 

I'd be willing to bet a fresh apple slice would provide a scent and the moisture to be an effective attractant. But not for a trap the mouse knows to avoid. 

I recommend that you borrow or obtain a small live trap. The trap needs to be small to ensure the mouse can't escape the trap. Because they can compress their collar bones, mice can pass through an opening the size of a dime. 

While you're obtaining the trap, try and unfettered apple slice to see if the mouse takes it. 

Once you have a successful bait identified and a trap unfamiliar to the mouse, you need to train the mouse to the trap. If it becomes scared of the trap without being caught, you're back to square one. 

Put the successful bait near the new trap, but not in it. Next, fix the trap in a set position, but rigged so it doesn=E2=80™t trip. Put the successful bait inside until the mouse is accustomed to taking bait from the trap. Then set and bait the trap to catch the mouse. 

If it's a live trap, I suggest you offer your survivor friend a second chance outdoors. But, if you want to put it down, you can do so with dry ice and a plastic bag. 

Good luck!
Dan


Dan Blunk
Formerly
Env Progs
UCSC

On May 14, 2018, at 7:13 AM, Monona Rossol <0000030664c37427-dmarc-request**At_Symbol_Here**LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU> wrote:

Veh es mir.  Still nothing except the information that jam won't do it.  But tomorrow night will be the BIG test.  I've made a list of all the ideas for attracting the mice to the many traps and every idea will be represented.  Some traps will have multiple types of attractants.  We better not have to get up in the night or we are likely to lose toes.

Monona Rossol, M.S., M.F.A., Industrial Hygienist
President:  Arts, Crafts & Theater Safety, Inc.
Safety Officer: Local USA829, IATSE
181 Thompson St., #23
New York, NY 10012     212-777-0062

 


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Ellison <Mark**At_Symbol_Here**TANKTRAILERCLEANING.COM>
To: DCHAS-L <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU>
Sent: Mon, May 14, 2018 9:31 am
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] mouse bait anyone?

I certainly hope, for the sake of New York, (indeed, the rest of the world!) that this super mouse does not pass on her insane biochemistry to her progeny.  Oy ve!
 
Mark Ellison  
 
From: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety [mailto:DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU] On Behalf Of Monona Rossol
Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2018 6:36 PM
To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] mouse bait anyone?
 
Thanks, but I own two types of those bucket spinners and this mouse isn't at all interested.  I could try the jam.  Haven't use that.  And using peanut butter is a guarantee that the mouse won't go near the thing.    
 
 
Monona Rossol, M.S., M.F.A., Industrial Hygienist
President:  Arts, Crafts & Theater Safety, Inc.
Safety Officer: Local USA829, IATSE
181 Thompson St., #23
New York, NY 10012     212-777-0062

 

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