Dang, there's a mouse in the house

[Arkitech]

So I walk in the kitchen the other night to get a beer from the fridge and almost jump out of my skin when I see a mouse run across the floor. The next morning I ran out to the local hardware store looking for a trap but the only ones I see are the old school medieval style traps that are guaranteed to make the kind of mess I'm not interested in seeing much less cleaning up.

Anyone know of a good trap maybe like a box or enclosure that will capture the mouse and then I can just toss it out?

 

[mooglemania85]

link

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

glue traps work well

 

[PingSpike]

Personally I'd consider those classic traps more humane then say, those sticky pads that the mouse gets stuck on.

 

[dartworth]

Just a standard mouse trap and some peanut butter...cheap and effective, and they don't make a mess...

 

[PBMangan]

mooglemania85 is a smartass.

 

[everman]

Did it pop out of the air conditioner?

 

[Shaotai]

Originally posted by: dartworth
Just a standard mouse trap and some peanut butter...cheap and effective, and they don't make a mess...

QFT, this works great. PB and old style trap.
They really don't get squashed and guts flying.
All it does is basically suffocate them.. I've caught 4-5 when we had a slight infestation.

No sight of them now!

 

[Arkitech]

Originally posted by: mooglemania85
link

hmm not sure if that one will fit in my kitchen

 

[Arkitech]

Originally posted by: dartworth
Just a standard mouse trap and some peanut butter...cheap and effective, and they don't make a mess...

I'm squeamish (don't laugh) I don't really want to see it dead or alive.

 

[Kaspian]

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
glue traps work well

I agree. The good thing is you can set them anywhere.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: Arkitech

Originally posted by: dartworth
Just a standard mouse trap and some peanut butter...cheap and effective, and they don't make a mess...

I'm squeamish (don't laugh) I don't really want to see it dead or alive.

Unfortunatley that isn't an option. If you don't take care of it now you'll have an infestation (if you don't already).

A few years ago we had a small infestation of around 14 of these little buggers. We used both traps and I prefer the old school ones. IMHO the only "mess" was a little blood splatter, maybe half a teaspoon? You could put the mousetrap on 3-4 paper towels.

Old school mouse trap + peanut butter FTW

 

[Tiamat]

Peanut butter + old school spring traps with papertowels setup underneath trap.

 

[Jeff7]

I liked using dried cherries with Victor-brand mousetraps. I used a needle-nose pliers to bend the trigger upward, so that the cherry could be secured underneath the fold of metal. The tough skin meant that the mouse would try to work it loose, rather than gingerly licking away peanut butter (the trap would often be licked clean but not set off). One cherry would give a clean kill every time, right across the neck, often with the mouse's teeth still gripping the cherry. One bad year, one cherry killed at least 6 mice. Eventually it just got too old and uninteresting to be good bait, and it had to be switched out for a fresh one.


Hilariously gruesome mouse deaths: They'd live in the storage space above the rafters in the garage (which consists of sheets of plywood nailed to the rafters. I set up some traps near the edge of one of the sheets, and tied strings to the traps, which is a normal measure to take. The string prevents the mouse from wandering away and dying in a wall somewhere, should it get a leg or tail, or just its nose caught in the trap. Well, these were also clean kills, but the force of the snap flung the trap over the edge of the plywood. I came out the next day to see two dead mice hanging, in the traps, from the rafters. My mom saw it too and couldn't stop laughing for several minutes. I guess it was like something out of a bad Stephen King book.

 

[George P Burdell]

http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/.../trapomatic/index.html

 

[Kelemvor]

Get a cat.

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: Kelemvor
Get a cat.

yep

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
glue traps work well

 

[Chunky Monster]

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: Kelemvor
Get a cat.

yep

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[Gunslinger08]

Originally posted by: Arkitech

Originally posted by: dartworth
Just a standard mouse trap and some peanut butter...cheap and effective, and they don't make a mess...

I'm squeamish (don't laugh) I don't really want to see it dead or alive.

If you really can't handle seeing them at all, you can get the "humane" traps that are basically just a small box with a door the closes when they enter it. Just be sure you check them every day, because they'll fill the box with urine and feces and it will stink up the place.

 

[bctbct]

Originally posted by: Kelemvor
Get a cat.

Years ago our cat was so lazy he waited for the old style trap to catch the mouse, then he proceeded to drag the mouse (in the trap) upstairs to the living room where he proceeded to rip it in half on the carpet to eat it.

Just so you know.

 

[Captante]

Another vote for the old-fashioned trap with bait of choice ... they work by far the best & 95% of the time result in a clean kill rather then the suffering + potential still-twitching mouse on a glue pad.

 

[Sluggo]

Put the old fashioned trap in a little paper sack, like a lunch sack.

When it has a mouse, just fold over the top and toss the whole bag in the trash. No muss, no fuss.

 

[pradeep1]

If you are worried about killing the little sucker, then get one of those humane traps that has a oneway door. My father used to use those to catch squirrels that got into the house in India and he'd release them outside.

If you want to kill them, then the good old mousetrap you see work very well. Just make sure you get the proper sized trap. Someone I knew who set a big rat trap and it snapped on a little mouse. That mouse had its eyeballs and guts squished out from the force.

 

[raad11]

a cat.