Jon–
Love it! Just curious, is that tiny little kitty a Maine Coon, Norwegian Forest or Siberian? Reason I asked, it’s the spitting image of my Main Coon caboose thief Spooky.
Love the photo!
Tom [bow]
Is that an HO cat or an O?
Could I get one at the LHS? How long does it take to weather the thing
My cat is always up on my table , so i dont have this issue
Steps
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take a deep breathe
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Remove ALL locomotives, rolling stock, and buildings.
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Cats always help, but if not, Do not use poision, glue traps help but get em out quick when they die
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clean up the mess
VICTORY!
Did the cat eat the lineman that was working on that pole?
Hell I will loan you my parents two they eat Squirrels and rats for fun. They are brothers combined that weigh 35 lbs and last summer while I was at my parents house walking my dog. Those 2 chased and TREED a freaking Racoon and then proceeded to kill it working together. The best thing is they are gentle with kids knick knacks and trains as I have a N scale layout there and they do not mess with it when I do run it. However rodents last 30 seconds or less.
Hi Tom
She’s called Pushkin (should have been Pushkina as she’s a female)
We’re not entirely sure what she is, my guess is possibly a Maine Coon. I read somewhere the Norwegians shed their long coats for part of the year. Pushy’s coat just gets all matted and knotty, no matter how much we try to comb her.
Jon
Is this the cats playing with layouts thread or the younger siblings playing with layouts thread?
I get soooooooooooooo confused. [:)]
This is the “Get rid of mice through any means possible before they destroy my tunnels” thread.
An idea for HO, Newer anthearn rotary snowplow, modified so the blades spin really fast. (attaching a big battery to the motor that turns the blades should do the trick)
Packer–
WOW! Don’t want to see the inside of THAT tunnel, LOL!
Tom [:D]
5 pack of razor blades…$1
6" of rosin core solder… $.25
45 minutes to attach the razor blades to the rotary plow… acceptable
having a rodent free layout WITH the tool to keep as such…PRICELESS!!!
I recommend (as a pediatrician as well) the following:
Works great on mice, rats, all rodents… if you (or a lil’ one) trigger it, your arm will basically clench. On the other hand, it fibrillates (and kills) the rodents… nice and safe. I have used it to kill a rat that decided to attack my grill (and poo all over it!)
http://www.ratmousezapper.com/
Brian
Try poison/traps. Or try the fun approach. Take an Airsoft gun and shoot the heck out of each tunnel. Oorah. Yes, I know it might destroy the scenery.[}:)]
Not if you use a piece of flexible steel hose on the inside. I have some that’s 3 inches in Diameter, so it’s perfect for HO scale.
The vermin might not like the metal, so that kind of helps too.
Hehehe
Ill borrow my friends automatic [}:)]airsoft rifle
OO, yeah!!!
I had this same problem in Nov/Dec… Mice in the house (and on the benchwork). I have a toddler so no poison or snap traps allowed. Went to the local Home Depot - Victor makes an electronic (electric) mouse trap… zapper, actually. Bought two at $19.99 each. No mice after about three days of emptying them and resetting. No mess, no smell, just open the top, dump expired mouse in trash can, and reset and replace. They have a build-in safety feature that will shut off the electrical discharge if the top is opened, so OK for little kids.
Still finding old “evidence” (droppings) of mice in places, but no new mice in traps since. Count me as a happy customer.
Little bastiches were hiding out in my basement. So I put down 6 small mouse snap traps. I pushed the peanut butter as far in as I could, even on the trigger wire. The little bastards were so small they didn’t set the trap off.
I then went to Walmart and bought two Victor eletronic zappers. So far it’s Me 3 Mice 0. The neat thing about these traps is they stay clean. There is no bloody mess or mangled carcus to seperate. You just flip open the top and let them fall into a plastic bag. Power off then power on the trap and you’re back in business at the mouse motel. 4 AA Batteries should last 2->3 months.
The electronic traps were $18 at Walmart.
Hey has no one noticed Space Mouse has not put his 2 cents in…I wonder why…[(-D]
Side note: I did some reading online. Apparently the experts strongly recommend that you wash down the surface where the mice were with bleach water BEFORE you vacuum up their droppings. Apparently sucking up the droppings can release airborne viruses.
I don’t know if you have solved this problem because I have limited time to read all the replies to your mice invasion, but I do know how I keep them out of the office trailer that I use to house my layouts…Dryer sheets, you know the ones that you place into the dryer when drying your clothes.
For some reason they do not like the smell of these and since the sheets are dry there is no mess, I’d try putting them inside the tunnels, or strips of them along side the tracks or maybe a swatch taped to the top of the tunnel.
People have tried moth balls hidden in the box cars but they smell up the room.
You could roll up the dryer sheets and hide those in a box car and park it in the tunnels at night.
I hope this hint helps you in some way.
Good luck.