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Any Ideas for Catching Mice?
Vanity | 1/17/24 | Week71

Posted on 01/17/2024 1:05:02 PM PST by 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.


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KEYWORDS: mice; mouse; mousebait; vanity
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I agree,a trim,lively,short-hair cat works wonders.


41 posted on 01/17/2024 1:41:14 PM PST by MiddleEarth (With hope or without hope we'll follow the trail of our enemies. Woe to them, if we prove the faster)
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To: right way right

Brilliant! Never thought to try to adjust the trigger.


42 posted on 01/17/2024 1:44:52 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: week 71

I use D-Con pellets or small block bait in my basement. Sometimes I find the bodies, sometimes I don’t. Last year a few small rabbits got into the basement and the critter guys came and after they sealed up the windows where they entered, they noticed some mice poop and put some mouse bait down that the mice would eat then go outside and die. Don’t know what it was.


43 posted on 01/17/2024 1:44:54 PM PST by peggybac (My will is what I wanted. God's will is what I got.)
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To: week 71
Five gallon bucket with potable anti-freeze in it, ramp, steel rod with 1/2" PVC tube on it, peanut butter on PVC...see link to Youtube...is all I use. I get dozens in each one.
44 posted on 01/17/2024 1:45:11 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (The Truth is like a lion. You don't need to defend it. Let it loose and it will defend itself.)
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To: week 71

Don’t go for the glue traps. You might offend Rep Ted Lieu (see link below). However, I find them useful. I then just throw the trap..mouse and all...into the burning bin. If you live in the city, that is probably not an option. Like others I recommend peanut butter. Also, Tractor Supply sells some decent traps (another link below) if you just want to catch and release to outside.

https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/jt-eaton-repeater-multi-catch-live-trap-1330141?store=1264&cid=Shopping-Google-Local_Feed&utm_medium=Google&utm_source=Shopping&utm_campaign=&utm_content=Local_Feed&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAkp6tBhB5EiwANTCx1LjnZn-Gii0oW_rFGEtSx9lg3qIK8L9bcCKVL4GIRpGJLymOhl7P5hoC-QwQAvD_BwE

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/rep-ted-lieu-introduces-bill-calling-nationwide-ban/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rep-ted-lieu-introduces-bill-calling-nationwide-ban


45 posted on 01/17/2024 1:46:03 PM PST by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: week 71

I can’t tell you HOW to catch them but if you watch a few hours of Tom and Jerry you’ll definitely learn HOW NOT to do it.


46 posted on 01/17/2024 1:46:56 PM PST by Tucsonican
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To: Clay Moore

1 of my outside dogs water buckets always has a mouse or mice in it.

One day he had like 8 dead one in it. Mom & dad and all the babies


47 posted on 01/17/2024 1:49:41 PM PST by shotgun
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To: week 71

I use 2 five gallon buckets each filled with 6 inches of water and a freely rotating horizontal rod across the diameter of the top opening. I then put two pieces of wood to connect each edge of the top near the roller and floor, a ramp. Bait the center of the rod. Have yet to see a rodent successfully endure the “log roller” process. Dump the bucket of water with the dead creatures in the yard for scavengers and repeat.

Emptied my barn of such creatures - about a dozen of them. Clean process and reusable.


48 posted on 01/17/2024 1:49:55 PM PST by rigelkentaurus
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To: week 71
I use old-fashioned "Victor" brand metal bait-pedal mousetraps baited with chocolate. My brother disagrees with me only in so far as that he uses peanut butter. We've also both used ham fat.

Accept no substitutes.

49 posted on 01/17/2024 1:50:09 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: mrmeyer

I also set glue traps with bait in the middle. The glue traps are now gone? WTH. I assume there are mice running around with a glue trap stuck on their a$$.


50 posted on 01/17/2024 1:51:20 PM PST by week 71
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To: irishjuggler
smashing a bit of sharp cheddar on the bait piece.

A softer bait like chocolate or peanut butter needs to be shoved all the way into the curl of the bait pedal. Make the little bastards work for it ...

51 posted on 01/17/2024 1:51:31 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: week 71

Call the chinese. They need them for experiments.

wy69


52 posted on 01/17/2024 1:54:30 PM PST by whitney69 (yption tunnels)
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To: conservativeimage

I tie on a small piece of raw bacon with a bit of sewing thread.


53 posted on 01/17/2024 1:56:54 PM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: whitney69

Yeah, but our own CDC uses mice to test safety for human use. Sigh....


54 posted on 01/17/2024 1:58:12 PM PST by week 71
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To: week 71

Use the good old fashioned spring traps. Bait them with peanut butter. Mice like to run next to walls. Put the traps next to walls or in corners where you have previuosly seen them.


55 posted on 01/17/2024 1:58:50 PM PST by caver
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To: NautiNurse

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.


56 posted on 01/17/2024 1:58:55 PM PST by epluribus_2
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To: week 71

I have an ultrasonic device. Victor model M792. It emits an annoying high frequency sound that is painful to rodents.
I used to have mice in my garage, but this thing works very well.


57 posted on 01/17/2024 2:00:09 PM PST by Texas resident (Biden=Obama=Jarrett=Soros)
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To: week 71

Peanut butter and snap traps....gets em every time!

58 posted on 01/17/2024 2:05:12 PM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: JonPreston

I tried one of those but it didn’t work. What did work on a couple dozen mice of all ages was these things.

https://www.amazon.com/Motel-Mouse-Humane-Traps-Release/dp/B0C4Y6S3NT/ref=sr_1_23?crid=2XYOV6S47A5G9&keywords=mouse%2Btraps&qid=1705528886&sprefix=mouse%2Btrap%2Caps%2C222&sr=8-23&th=1

What’s really great, besides them working the best of any trap I’ve tried, is you don’t have to bait the trap again. I’d catch 2 to 4 a day then put them in 5 gallon bucket then take them out to the country to give them a chance at life or to be part of the natural food chain.


59 posted on 01/17/2024 2:05:14 PM PST by Boomer (The Long Winter is coming...)
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To: epluribus_2

Agree. I had to replace a sprinkler head that had been chewed up by mice.


60 posted on 01/17/2024 2:05:51 PM PST by Texas resident (Biden=Obama=Jarrett=Soros)
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