Mouse traps

[olds]

We built one of these at work and it worked well.
We subsituted an aluminum can for the stick. Put a little peanut butter on it....

 

[Squisher]

When the wife put a bird feeder too close to the house we got an infestation in our old house. The last of about 20 mice was the hardest one to catch. I eventually resorted to the Ring-of-Death, four snap traps with the baits toward the center. It made a nice little drum-roll when it finally went off.

 

[TheNewbie]

We used one of those sticky traps with cheese in the middle, worked like charm, we got two of them. Its a sort of a bitch having to dispose them afterwards, since they're not dead, they're just glued to the trap and they scream, I felt sorry for them... Fucking little bastards they ruin your house and then they make you feel guilty for getting them.

 

[Linflas]

We have 10 cats just waiting for a mouse brave enough to make an appearance in our house.

 

[edro]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: edro
Live, Cheap, Easy, Mouse Trap

And who knows, if the mouse is stuck under there too long, it might die of "natural" causes once its oxygen supply runs out. But hey, at least it'll have peanut butter.

If I were to die in a small enclosed place, I would want peanut butter there as well.

 

[Modelworks]

I have not used that one, but used the tin cat version.
Its larger and works quite well.
There is no way for them to enter the tin cat and get the food without getting caught.

I then just let them loose outside.
note: if you have mice in your house, you need to find where they are getting in.
Do a walk around the house and look for holes that are as small as 1/2 inch.
Stuff the holes with steel wool, as mice hate to chew through it.

 

[waggy]

we have tried those. we never have got a mouse that way. i prefer the good old fashioned snap ones.

we had a infestation of them not to long ago. i killed one in the bathroom with my foot and have caught 5 with snap traps.

though i live in the country right behind a grain silo. So its not like i am ever going to get rid of them all.

 

[piasabird]

I have used poison and the spring loaded traps.

Wood Frame houses are particualry hard to protect against mice. Especially if they dont sit on a foundation or are raised above the ground with dirt beneath the house with a few feet of space between the first floor and the bare ground.

A good mouser cat might help.

 

[QueBert]

haven't seen it brought up yet, has anyone tried those electric cage traps? I saw them @ Home Depot, like 40 bucks a pop for the rat version (bigger) looked very interesting but I wasn't about to spend 40 bucks on one, even if it's reusable a million times. They have batteries and when the rat enters to get the food from it *ZZZZAAAAAP*

 

[D1gger]

No. We had mice a couple of years ago and tried one of those traps with absolutely no success. I then tried the old style spring trap and within two days we had five mice. That was the end of our infestation.