{"id":1076,"date":"2015-07-14T12:24:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T12:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/?p=950"},"modified":"2015-07-14T12:24:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T12:24:31","slug":"better-mousetrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/better-mousetrap\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Mousetrap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;This has been a pursuit for inventors for years&#8230;.to build a better mousetrap. &nbsp;I&#8217;ve got numerous bait stations, strategically placed bait (where the dogs can&#8217;t get to it), traps and a well armed Duke that can shoot to kill at any mice or rats. &nbsp;But the most effective mouse killing device on our place is a water tank. &nbsp;It is nothing but a round plastic tank that was originally a plastic container for a protein tub. &nbsp;I have 9 or 10 of these in use, but there is only one that consistently has a drowned mouse in it. &nbsp;Four or 5 days a week, I have to dump this one tank to get rid of the drowned mouse. &nbsp;It normally has one, but I have caught as many as 5 in one night (must have been a good rodent party). &nbsp;I have even caught a rat&#8211;yeah, a big one. &nbsp;The only thing that is different about this is the fill pipe from the hydrant comes out above it about 8 or 10 inches. &nbsp;I guess these rodents crawl to the end of the pipe and then drop into the pool of death. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;This has been a pursuit for inventors for years&#8230;.to build a better mousetrap. &nbsp;I&#8217;ve got numerous bait stations, strategically placed bait (where the dogs can&#8217;t get to it), traps and a well armed Duke that can shoot to kill at any mice or rats. &nbsp;But the most effective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}