From: amheater@BYE.SAILORcogeco.ca   
      
   "Gary" wrote in message   
   > I have heard about using peanut butter and tried catching mice/rats using   
   > it. It worked. I also used fresh apple to catch rats. Moles in my area   
   > have   
   > no eyes and don't need to be on the surface. They remain, mostly,   
   > underground. The English scissors trap I am using.... buried , hasn't   
   > worked   
   > with my past placement efforts. I will continue in the hunt. Maybe I will   
   > put peanut butter on it....maybe that will work although my understanding   
   > is   
   > that moles eat worms and the like that live in the ground.   
      
   The Kipper swears by the peanut butter.  Think the smell of it may be   
   stronger and more inviting, than cheese (or a worm!).  Not sure about the   
   moles only staying underground.  I don't really know anything about them.  I   
   really cannot tell the difference between a mole and a vole.  Kipper always   
   said vole, but that could be just him and they are perhaps more common in   
   the UK than the mole.  The one we kept catching in our old house was:  quite   
   blackish fur (looked like velvet), pinkish nose (tip?) and 4 feet.  I don't   
   recall seeing eyes.  Mind, I never got too close to them ... the Kipper's   
   job that was ... but they (whatever they were) were kind of cute and I felt   
   really bad we were having to kill them.  I didn't want them in my house, so   
   had no choice.  [I pick up spiders, June bugs etc, putting them outside,   
   rather than kill them.  I _ do kill _ flies though.  yuk- filthy things.]   
      
   > Maybe a worm tied   
   > to the trap will work   
      
   What did the worm ever do to you?  Don't kill a worm!  Worms help keep the   
   earth under your grass healthy, so in turn your grass is better fed.  At   
   least try the peanut butter first!   
      
   ....have you heard about a worm that was fit to be   
   > tied?   
      
    No .. but the Kipper .. oops, that's another story ..   
      
   wrcn   
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