You know those roach traps like little bug motels with the sticky floor? They make them a little bigger to catch mice, and then a fair bit bigger for rats. Would it be possible to make them suburban cat size? What could a person use for the sticky? I know we have some scientific types around. Eh? ned

Not sure where you can get it , but I know that the stuff they coat on /glue is available in a can that you can paint your own boards .... Had a guy I knew that worked for the local (Boston Franklin Park Zoo) zoo and for pest control he made his own .... it worked on woodchucks when he had the time and the boss was not looking , also painted the boss's chair several time over the years he was their , he now works on Blue Hills state park out door crew ...
Woodchucks would skin themselfs out try'n to get away ....
bill G.

Go to your local livestock auction co., see if you can buy a can of tag glue. This is the stuff that they use to glue numbered tags for a temperary id. It will dry exentaly, but it will pull the hair off of a cow when you go to remove it from her hide. I promise it will hold a crat.

Hog Killer

Even better than my duct tape suggestion in a previous thread


Toolmaker

Hmmm..I think we got something here.
Spray verticle side of garage,attach crats.
Garage wall is now 'Art'.
Go for guvment artsy grant to take show on the road.

Red Green has already touched on this subject by stapleing stick on "floor tiles" backwards on to a door. It would work for crats until it got clogged with hair! derf

My psyche has migrated from CATatonic Shock to Transcendental Twitching after reading this post, I am able to t-type a l-little now.

Saw one of those traps a FEDERAL Building some years back, little mouse still struggling, half skinned, looking pathetic. If you lay a newspaper on top of the whole thing a good heel stomp will end the suffering. Only use I ever found for the heel stomp as taught at Ft. Polk in '68 I might add. I wondered at the time as to the outcome if there had been a tour at the time, Washington delegates, Rotary Club, GSA, or PETA. OH WHAT FUN!!! Aushwitz Part Deux?

Well, this whole thing defines my limits on critters I guess. Only thing I could skin alive would be a Rosy O'Donnel or something like that. Mebbe a few polyticians, or a Sheet head terrorist. Not that I'm lookin' to do that, it's just the thought doesn't give me the willies. Animals don't have the IQ to appreciate it, nor the malice to deserve it. Even crats.

Watched a Bald Eagle pluck and eat a duck alive once through a spotting scope, a friend even got some video of the whole process. Wished I coulda put a bullet thru the duck several times. Ben Franklin was right about the Eagle IMO.

Dan

Pres., TYHC

www.BulletsBe.Quicker

Dan,

I personally, would never go to the trouble of building a sticky trap for anything. Live traps, steel traps, and bullets are all much easier to use. They are also easier to handle, no sticky stuff to get off of yourself.

Hog Killer

I was probably around eight or nine(still there) and came up with a brilliant idea to further torture mom's crat.
Dad was painting the living room and he had a roll of wide masking tape just laying there asking me to play with it.
In the thresh hold of my sisters bedroom, I placed 4 or 5 strips sticky side up.I then proceeded to step over this trap and scared the long haired crat off the bed.
Sure enough,it's front foot tangled first and it somersaulted and thrashed around until it looked like a mummy.
Talk about yer howling.
Mom had to use baby oil to get the crat free and dad used a wire screen fly swatter to set me free. I still remember that whooping.

ROTFLMAO!!!!!

Poletax, that is well within parameters! Never quite did it that well, but I remember the fly swatter too.

Dan

Pres., TYHC

www.Whackety.Whack

I don't qualify as a veteran by any means. I'm more on the theoretical side of things for now.

For example, a few of the posts inspired an idea.
Ingredients:
Glue spray of choice, whatever has the best duration of super-stick before drying.
A few 2x4s and nails/screws. (or some rope)
Old jeans or burlap. Any tough fabric will do.
Catnip

Assemble 2x4s into a rack, or a gallow's pole for visual effect (Use rope if there's a convenient tree branch). Hang a strap of fabric so it's dangling freely. Spice fabric with some catnip and coat generously with glue.

A little experimentation may be required to get it right. Some way to anchor the contraption would be useful. If built large enough the crat wouldn't have anything to use for leverage in its struggle and be stuck permanently. Maybe hang multiple straps and it will tie itself up like poletax's masking tape kitty.

If this is done far enough from civilization I suggest setting up a video camera and dispatching with a 12ga.

Any thoughts, improvements, suggestions? Most importantly, anyone willing or able to try this?

After a few misadventures of my youth,,I have a great amount of respect for bruce solid wood flooring . May try scraping numerous glue rat traps into one of your wifes 13x9 baking trays?,,Good luck!Clay

Neighbor's cat gets locked in garage by accident (honest!) before I take off for coyote hunt.
While prowling through my garage cat manages to knock over several paint cans from top shelf near
ceiling of garage. These are 1 gallon cans. It was a large cat. Cat eventually jumps down and
inspects spilled cans some of which popped open. One of cans is expensive can of contact cement
that I was going to use to put Formica on kitchen cabinets. Cat must have liked the smell because
the foot prints it left behind showd that it walked through the contact cement. Cat wanders around
very clean garage, except for spilled chemicals, for rest of weekend. Stupid cat returns to area
around the now almost dry contact cement and discovers the wonders of instant adhesion. Evidence shows
that cat must have been there awhile judging from urine and feces. I come home and find my neighbors
waiting for me as I drive up. The want me to hurredly open my garage because they can hear the plaintive
and now weak crys of their missing puddy-tat. As the garage door opens the cat is visible in my
headlights. The neighbors thought I was heartless because all I could do was laugh as the disgusted
husband of neighbor tried to unglue a cat from my garage floor. 3M makes good contact cement.