Trapping Tips - The T-Rex/Tomcat Rat Snap-Trap

I agree, all of my 24 tunnel-boxes have a mouse trap at the rear of the T-Rex rat trap resulting in a regular catch of a mouse and a rat together.
I’m also convinced that when a mouse is caught it acts as an attraction to a rat to predate/cosume the mouse.
So many caught rats and mice are consumed by something!. Leaving just the head inside the trap.

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Rats and mice cohabitate in the bush and in manmade environments. More rats = fewer mice, fewer rats = more mice, due to competition for resources and/or predation.

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We use a mouse trap in the back of the tunnel with T-rex’s. I find Victor rat traps have less foul-traps and catch mice better than a T-rex and are now replacing the T-rex’s, as they wear out/break with Victors - which we’ve also caught weasels in. I also have a toothbrush and pottle of Prolan to clean the springs and metal bits.

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