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Mink in the house?

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    #32
    sikastag
    Registered Users Posts: 376 ✭✭sikastag


    Try raw chicken (Leg/wing) covered in marmalade in your trap. Really interested to see what it is!


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    #33
    One shot on kill
    Registered Users Posts: 2,247 ✭✭✭One shot on kill


    sikastag wrote: »
    Try raw chicken (Leg/wing) covered in marmalade in your trap. Really interested to see what it is!



    give him double vodra and diet coke aswell


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    #34
    emer_b
    Closed Accounts Posts: 483 ✭✭emer_b


    Set the 2 traps lastnight with raw chicken and peanut butter, nothing caught. He must have found a way in/out. Thanks for all the advice. Will keep you posted if anything shows up again.


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    #35
    Eddie B
    Registered Users Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    emer_b wrote: »
    Set the 2 traps lastnight with raw chicken and peanut butter, nothing caught. He must have found a way in/out. Thanks for all the advice. Will keep you posted if anything shows up again.

    Pine Martens love peanut butter, but will also go for a tin of sardines in sunflower oil, which is a good allround bait to attract Pine Martens and Mink!

    Just remember that if you catch a Mink, it's elegal to re-release it, so must be dispatched!

    Is it possible to set a cage outside as well, or did you say that you've cats?


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    #36
    emer_b
    Closed Accounts Posts: 483 ✭✭emer_b


    Eddie B wrote: »
    Pine Martens love peanut butter, but will also go for a tin of sardines in sunflower oil, which is a good allround bait to attract Pine Martens and Mink!

    Just remember that if you catch a Mink, it's elegal to re-release it, so must be dispatched!

    Is it possible to set a cage outside as well, or did you say that you've cats?

    Yes, have cats who I'm trying to keep away from the traps.
    Spoke to a ranger who says it is almost certainly a pine marten. Will leave the traps set for another few days but he may just have moved on now that the weather is milder.


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    #37
    Eddie B
    Registered Users Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    emer_b wrote: »
    Yes, have cats who I'm trying to keep away from the traps.
    Spoke to a ranger who says it is almost certainly a pine marten. Will leave the traps set for another few days but he may just have moved on now that the weather is milder.

    I caught a Pine Marten a couple of day's ago in a Mink cage and he made absolute sh*t of it!
    Bent the door into a hoop, and i was close to losing fingers whilst trying to prise it open when releasing him!


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    #38
    Eddie B
    Registered Users Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    marten002.jpg

    Don't know if ye can make out the picture lads, but this lad wasn't far off making his own way out of the cage!
    He's the biggest Marten i've ever got in a cage, and he was a beut!
    As i said earlier, i had fun trying to get the door open when releasing him!


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    #39
    Tiercel Dave
    Registered Users Posts: 797 ✭✭✭Tiercel Dave


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    Caught one by mistake last year, extradited him to a wood a few miles away!


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    #40
    Qu1zmaster
    Registered Users Posts: 11 ✭Qu1zmaster


    Was there any follow up on this? I seem to have the same problem.


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    #41
    Eddie B
    Registered Users Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    Qu1zmaster wrote: »
    Was there any follow up on this? I seem to have the same problem.
    In your attic i bet?


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    #42
    El Tarangu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,618 ✭✭✭El Tarangu


    Qu1zmaster wrote: »
    Was there any follow up on this? I seem to have the same problem.

    On the balance of probabilities, I would say that the OP's pine marten/mink is likely dead at this stage.


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    #43
    Qu1zmaster
    Registered Users Posts: 11 ✭Qu1zmaster


    I thought we had mice or maybe rats. I put some flour around the kitchen floor. Got prints that don't match either one. No droppings. No tail line.
    It could be a pine marten. We live surrounded by fields of sheep, with ditches, gorse, hawthorn.


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    #44
    Qu1zmaster
    Registered Users Posts: 11 ✭Qu1zmaster


    Eddie B wrote: »
    In your attic i bet?
    Something is living between the floors.


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    #45
    Eddie B
    Registered Users Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    Qu1zmaster wrote: »
    I thought we had mice or maybe rats. I put some flour around the kitchen floor. Got prints that don't match either one. No droppings. No tail line.
    It could be a pine marten. We live surrounded by fields of sheep, with ditches, gorse, hawthorn.

    Any pictures of prints? Id guess rats if under floor but prints would give a great clue.


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    #46
    Qu1zmaster
    Registered Users Posts: 11 ✭Qu1zmaster


    Eddie B wrote: »
    Any pictures of prints? Id guess rats if under floor but prints would give a great clue.
    I don't seem to be able to post pictures. Maybe because I'm a new member.


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    #47
    Eddie B
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    Qu1zmaster wrote: »
    I don't seem to be able to post pictures. Maybe because I'm a new member.

    Pm sent. Is food been eaten? Much of a mess? Any damage done?


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    #48
    Qu1zmaster
    Registered Users Posts: 11 ✭Qu1zmaster


    Eddie B wrote: »
    Pm sent. Is food been eaten? Much of a mess? Any damage done?
    Thanks.
    No mess really. Packets of bread and cereal chewed through and eaten.


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    #49
    Eddie B
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    Qu1zmaster wrote: »
    Thanks.
    No mess really. Packets of bread and cereal chewed through and eaten.

    Just looked at the prints you sent me, and im amazed thinking it would of been a rat. I believe they are prints of a stoat. There's a small chance of it being a small female mink, but stoat would be my first guess.


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    #50
    Qu1zmaster
    Registered Users Posts: 11 ✭Qu1zmaster


    Eddie B wrote: »
    Just looked at the prints you sent me, and im amazed thinking it would of been a rat. I believe they are prints of a stoat. There's a small chance of it being a small female mink, but stoat would be my first guess.
    Thanks again for your help. But in my kitchen?
    Could it actually live in the house?
    Something lives between the floors.


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    #51
    Eddie B
    Registered Users Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    Qu1zmaster wrote: »
    Thanks again for your help. But in my kitchen?
    Could it actually live in the house?
    Something lives between the floors.

    It must be getting in from outside. A few live traps set inside and out should reveal the culprit.


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    #52
    idnkph
    Registered Users Posts: 669 ✭✭✭idnkph


    Where in the country are you? Maybe someone on here could help with live traps of they were close to you...


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    #53
    Qu1zmaster
    Registered Users Posts: 11 ✭Qu1zmaster


    idnkph wrote: »
    Where in the country are you? Maybe someone on here could help with live traps of they were close to you...
    I'm in Donegal. I have a few contacts, thanks.


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    #54
    Qu1zmaster
    Registered Users Posts: 11 ✭Qu1zmaster


    I got some video footage last night!
    It's very grainy and might not be conclusive.
    It's loading up to YouTube right now. I'll post the link as soon as it's up.
    About 90 minutes to go.


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    #55
    Qu1zmaster
    Registered Users Posts: 11 ✭Qu1zmaster


    https://youtu.be/tF3_bFM9Ls0
    Those tiles are 32cm²
    I'm hoping to get better footage tonight.


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    #56
    Ju_Ju
    Registered Users Posts: 51 ✭✭Ju_Ju


    That's a nice looking rat you've got there.


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    #57
    deeksofdoom
    Registered Users Posts: 2,024 ✭✭✭deeksofdoom


    Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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    #58
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users Posts: 4,820 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    Rattatooey.you need to kill it with a trap asap and keep setting the trap for a few weeks to see is there more.peanut butter on ham in a trap will draw him in.
    You need to make sure there’s no hole outside for more to get in.he might have got in a door or window but make sure there’s no holes.esp around pipes etc.
    Get him quick.they spread disease and do awful damage chewing on pipes and wires


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    #59
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users Posts: 4,820 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    Don’t use poison in the house cos he will smell out the place.no harm put some in rodent boxes outside to snig his mates but make sure no dogs cats birds can get it


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    #60
    garv123
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    Probably easier to just burn the house down!!


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    #61
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users Posts: 4,820 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    garv123 wrote: »
    Probably easier to just burn the house down!!

    I hate rats and they are fierce plenty this year. I killed one last week with a shovel.stunned him with the first whack and he was wobbling like a drunk on pumpkin legs.pancaked him with the second lash.no mercy op.and when you get him pull out the dishwasher and clear out his nest and make sure he hasn’t damaged anything back there


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