Any Ideas for Catching Mice?

Vanity | 1/17/24 | Week71

[week 71]

Woke up the other morning with my better half screaming, ran into the kitchen and she was on her hands and knees on the kitchen counter due to Mickey.

I have taken two down so far. I used peanut butter and Nutella to bait them. Maybe that is all, but need to be sure.

[Boomer]

Peanut butter works great too.

I've found peanut butter to work the best.

[epluribus_2]

Agreed. Search and destroy missions don’t win this war, the enemy plays the Long Game.

Permanent complete areal denial is the only way, but permanent needs annual maintenance.

Oh, and seal up/eliminate food sources - can’t fully describe how much mess a partially open bag of turkey seed for hunting enabled. Was in a tough plastic bin as well.

No exterior holes/loose wires, pipes.

[fso301]

[PIF]

Ma Duce?

[Pollster1]

I have traps behind my stove, behind my refrigerator, and behind other appliances where kids cannot reach.
I have about 50 traps set, and I’ve had no mice this year (after many fruitful years).

[theyreallthesame]

Build a wall around the area and leave a mouse dressed up as an immigration attorney mouse at a small opening in the wall, then place a tiny cell phone and visa card in a trap. Works every time, but you may see a tremendous influx of them waiting to get in.

[Pilsner]

There is only one way to be sure.

[conductor john]

My father in law ( poultry farmer turned sweet corn king) taught me to tie bacon on with dental floss- cannot pull off without snapping

[TChad]

Be careful. Mice can be cute. Before long you’ve given them names, and somehow your “kill the mice” plans are forgotten. Then they reproduce.

[Hot Tabasco]

If I had a rodent infestation in my house, I certainly wouldn't be advertising it on the internet...........

.Who knows how creepy and filthy your house might be that you have that infestation........Yuk!

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

This looks promising for tree rats. 😄

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4VVxWuIvBto&pp=ygUQc3F1aXJyZWwgZmxpbmdlcg%3D%3D

[noiseman]

Empty aerosol can with a rod driven through top to bottom suspended across the top of a 5 gallon bucket with a few inches of water in it and a ramp up to the can. Smear some peanut butter on the can.

Yep, the most effective traps I’ve seen were various forms of this design. All rely upon some type of ramp over a bucket of water, with the ramp designed so that it tips and drops the mouse into the water when it tries to get the bait at the center. They’ll just keep following each other to their doom, like lemmings, by the dozens with such a trap.

[Beowulf9]

Yes, cats and a dog. Doesn’t bother them at all. We had rats in our attic and walls, I did not believe it would work. Cost about 35 dollars and you put on in all the plugs you can, you get 4 or so in one buy.

I live in Phoenix, Arcadia area. It’s a very beautiful and upscale area, we had an infestation of roof rats or something around here. All the beautiful homes got them, million dollar ones even, my house is not cheap, but these things banged around like crazy and I honestly thought there was someone in our attic or ghosts or something.

Friend back east told me about it and I really did not believe it but I called a pest control guy who wanted a half a thousand to just check it out and hundreds more to ‘fix’ it. Started telling me you have to plug up where they get in. Get real! These things fit in every tiny space and it’s not really realistic but you would spend beaucoup bucks to find out the hard way. We had the problem for a while, and I thought well, it’s not so expensive let me see if this works.

It really did. I hope you find it does for you. I got mine off Amazon, had no idea what one to buy. The one I have is ‘defender pro’. I don’t know if the price has gone up but Amazon has a lot of choices in there under ‘sonic pest control indoor’ says also controls insects and stuff. We do not have any bugs but I do not know if it is due to the sonic thing.

Hope you find it helps. Let me know :)

[dgbrown]

I have an old farm house. Keeping them out is futile. I have a lazy cat who will take care of the stupid mice that wander through. But I think just the smell of cat keeps most of them out + my neighbor’s cat who hunts my barn a couple times a day. I can leave my butter out and it remains untouched.

[week 71]

Seriously? shut up

[Chickensoup]

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bucket+mouse+traps

Bucket mouse traps

The you tubes show them falling on sawdust.

Because you cannot show on utube the correct way to do it which is to fill the bucket with 10 inches of water and drown the little MFs

[Pox]

They did that to me too. I put a small piece of paper towel around the spring loaded portion that would not come off and then spread the peanut butter on it and that fixed the issue of just licking it off.

Apparently, they try to get that piece of paper towel soaked in the PB and set off the trap. Has worked every time for me so far.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Good bait but “smoke” the trap before you set it out. Just run a candle flame under the trap for a second or two. This gets rid of your scent.

Good hunting.

[Pilsner]

On a more serious note, mice have poor eyesight, and a powerful sense of smell. I had a rent house left with a terrible mice infestation, and I caught thirty + using glue boards, which came with an artificial peanut butter smell, additionally baited with smoked almonds, and pieces of Slim Jims.

I used smoked almonds, and Slim Jims, because they were the strongest smelling foods suitable for bait to be found at the gas station.

[chopperk]

Cats are natural mousers. Keep the cat healthy and he will do his job.