It is big news up our way that the mice and other rodent population is out of control.
It has been horrendous.
I have been using snap traps, glue traps, two cats, de-con.....
Never enough.
Finally the day before yesterday I set up the perfect trap using this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FTQ6SM1/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I bought a couple and two 5 gallon buckets.
I installed them on the buckets, filled the buckets about 1/3 full of water, smeared peanut butter on the roller, and laid three pieces of firewoord with dabs of peanut butter on them against the bucket. Like little peanut butter dabbed ladders to the motherlode.
Have caught 5 in the garage in two days and 3 in the basement today.
Just carry them outside and toss them into the snow bank by the bushes. add more water and re-set.
The Mouse Murders Continue!!
Thanks, we have that same problem - been using Tomcat poison blocks that do disappear so don’t know where they crawl off to die - your bucket thing sounds great and will look into it.
I’ve seen those. Also bought a trap door type trap to be used with a bucket. However, wife’s cat will not allow samples for testing. Maybe when the cat dies (don’t tell my wife). lolol
Glue Trap + Hammer is fine for me.
This thread is rated “R” for violence. :^)
Sounds like a winner to me.
Once up north I had a bucket with some water in it - plus a dead mouse.
Maybe putting a glass with peanut butter (on a small rock) in the middle of a bucket with some water might work.
Just placed the order.
Neighbors all have the same complaint.
This is the 1st time in 30 years at our home that we have mice in the house. Snap traps w/ peanut butter is working fine, but no end in sight. The Mouse Jihad continues!.
Works better if you replace the water with muriatic acid.
Works great outside too with mice, chipmunks and squirrels. We use a 10 gallon bucket though and use sunflower seeds floating on the water. I did the dry bucket in the barn too putting it up next to a 2X4. I don’t think I even used any bait, they just fell in one after another, had the bottom of the bucket covered in a few days. Gross but effective.
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someone told me to fill 5 gallon buckets with water and spread dry corn on top....mice go for the corn and can’t get out....
I’ve had good luck with Tomcat snap traps. Zero times the mice have gotten the bait or snapped the trap without being caught and only I had one mouse not killed. They always seemed to be able to get the bait from the old Victor wooden traps.
I’ve done the same thing with a wire coat hanger and an empty water bottle. Just push the coat hanger through the water bottle, put a couple of small notches on either side of the bucket and hang the hanger in those notches. Works just as well.
One thing though. Don’t forget to check the bucket every other day. Those things tend to get to stinkin’ pretty bad. I used it for chipmunks last year.
As noted above, the new D-con is a joke.
I got a metal box trap at Ace Hardware about the size of a cigar box but twice as tall. No bait needed but I put in some peanut butter. Forgot about it for a while and when I checked it there were over a dozen in there. Just put it close to the interior garage wall where I’d seen some scat. I don’t get them in the house (cat) but they love the garage when it gets cold.
The big glue traps with a Ritz cracker in the middle and a bucket of water nearby to toss them in.
The only problem is the alarm light only blinks for the first 24 hours, so if you don't glance at it daily, you may have a decomposing mouse inside the trap that you don't know about for a week or more. Don't ask me how I know.
I've used glue traps where the mouse was still alive when I checked. I'd just put the trap upside down in a bucket of water or the toilet. (Just have to make sure it's not the wife's bathroom!)
Thanks...I hates the moussies! Don’t like poison because I don’t want to kill anything that eats rodents. Tomcat spring traps are best. I like to see a body count. This year hasn’t been bad as I have two new neighbors, both with terriers.
My Grandparents always kept a black cat. The idea that it made them harder to spot in the dark.
When I first moved into this house I saw a few roaches. I put out a bunch of roach motels and they seem to have worked.
I live in a rural area and a beautiful stray started hanging around. I fed her and she stayed. Now has four kittens. She has turned out to be an excellent mouser. I have seen the remains of rats where she and the kittens have fed on them.