I feel that using a bucket in the middle of the room
with a ramp leading up to the top of the bucket. Make
a trail of snacks up the ramp and fill the bucket with
food.Check the bucket every hour or so and soon your
little friend will be inside waiting to go home
--- Deb Rebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >A few weeks ago I posted here re: a humane trap,
> called a Ketch-all,
> >available from Real Goods. Please do NOT use one of
> these to trap
> >escaped gerbils.
> >
> >I bought one of these b/c I thought it would be
> useful in case of a
> >gerbil escape. To test it out, I set it up and let
> Pippin climb in. It
> >caught his back foot and tail! What was worse, I
> hadn't read the
> >directions closely enough to open the trap quickly.
> I eventually got
> >the thing open and rescued poor Pippin. He was
> smart enough to remain
> >still, and he had no apparent injuries. He lost a
> little fur from his
> >tail, but no blood. Quite possibly I was more upset
> than he was.
> >
> >Anyway, I just wanted to make sure nobody used one
> of these for
> >gerbils! Based on my experience, I believe it could
> cause significant
> >injury to a trapped gerbil.
>
>
> Julie, I have a cousin to that trap, a "Havahart"
> sized 'for squirrels'.
> I purchased it to catch syrian hamsters who seemed
> to delight in
> running loose through the house.
>
> For a tailless animal, like a syrian over four
> weeks, or a dwarf
> campbell over three months, or any chinese dwarf
> over four
> months, it worked well. Once I bent the pan trigger
> so it was
> really really sensitive. The animal would have to
> go so far into
> the trap to set it off, that the ends dropping would
> not catch it.
>
> Any dwarf campbell younger than three months, would
> not trip
> it. And any gerbil I have had, won't trip it. The
> campbell, is
> too light and small to trip the pan. The gerbils
> are too sneaky
> to trip the pan.
>
> I have always had to manually 'run down' sneak up
> and corner
> and hand catch, my gerbils. The live trap if I'd
> bought it for
> them I consider it to have been a waste. It still
> works for errant
> hamsters, and is still set up in the rodentry.
>
> Last night I had a gerbil manage to pop a hatch and
> get out
> of his cage; and he totally ignored the smorgasboard
> glued
> to the pan of the live trap with peanut butter, and
> came out to
> the family room to thump in the corner....and was
> rounded up
> by hand quickly.
>
> So. I think everyone would do better to just work
> on their sneaking
> techniques so they can sneak up to their loose
> gerbils...
>
> Deb
> Rebel's Rodent Ranch
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GEOCHAMP
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