I used smoked almonds, and Slim Jims, because they were the strongest smelling foods suitable for bait to be found at the gas station.
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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
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.
I used smoked almonds, and Slim Jims, because they were the strongest smelling foods suitable for bait to be found at the gas station.
Cats are natural mousers. Keep the cat healthy and he will do his job.
Have not read the replys. 1) cats are your friends.
2) a mixture of 3 parts plaster of paris and 1 part oatmeal locks their guts up good.
Find the source of their entry into your home.
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I have a 35 foot travel trailer with sliders on both sides that expand the interior space. I’ve been trying to figure out how to stop the mice from coming in for the last 8 years without success. I’m sure it is around one of the sliders but the seal looks to be tight all around both when the sliders are in or out. I’m thinking about using one of the sonic devices but I normally switch the power off all winter. What I typically end up doing when closing down in the late fall is a mix of things that get put under the camper.... multi-catch mouse traps, glue traps and Tomcat mouse poison.
I tell ya, opening up the trailer in the spring is always ‘interesting’ to see what surprises might be found there. I sure would like to figure this one out..... not sure what I’m going to do.
First it is essential that you plug any holes/gaps,etc. the mice are using to gain entry. Remember if the mouse can get its head through it can get its body through.
Second remove any food source. Including pet food. You will probably have to store grains and other pantry food in metal or glass containers as mice can chew through plastic. Third old style traps work best. If you don’t want to see dead mice there are traps that the mouse has to enter. Don’t use glue traps!! Fourth have an exterminator check for nests in the attic and other out of the way spots.
Fifth, Trim back any trees that mice can be using as a way to get to your roof and into the attic.
Oh and borrow a terrier.
There are never just two mice.
My wife and I returned home from a two day wildfire evacuation to find that mice had taken over our home.
She used the Victor mousetraps baited with peanut butter and eventually caught over 30 mice.
In some cases, my wife observed that some of her traps went missing. We discovered that mousetraps are a good source of food for rats. We ordered about a dozen Victor rat traps and baited them with almonds which we hot-glued to the triggers.
Oddly, we never found a rat caught in the trap. Every one of them was found dead lying next to the trap. We theorize that the bail hit them in the head killing them almost instantly.
Rats are much more intelligent than mice and can chew the plastic lid off of a Home Depot plastic bucket. The cage/trap door rat trap I bought never got used. The problem went away before it was delivered. I kept it just in case.
Last time I had a mouse in the house, I used a combination of glue traps and snap traps. One snap trap in a corner baited with peanutbutter, and surrounded by glue traps. The little bastard maneuvered around the glue traps a few times, but eventually he got sloppy, and got his head caught in the snap trap.
Google “bucket mouse trap” - you can make one or buy the roller and ramps on Amazon.
Not only lots of dead mousies, but the word spreads somehow. I haven’t had to empty my trap in a year.
Bought at Lowe’s a battery powered mouse trap very humane mouse walks in to get to peanut butter steps on two metal sheets inside and zap electrocuted. cost under $20 they also have larger traps for rats and other rodents.
Bought at Lowe’s a battery powered mouse trap very humane mouse walks in to get to peanut butter steps on two metal sheets inside and zap electrocuted. cost under $20 they also have larger traps for rats and other rodents.
Once you have smacked a rodent to death with theold-fashioned wood/wire trsp, throw it away. It seems to emit a death odor to its inquisitive pal. But the cheap old-style one with the meal (not plastic) bait-trigger works better than almost anything else. Put a tiny dab of peanut butter also in two or three harmless places on the wood base to lull the wary mouse. Also, fresh bread emits a very tantalizing invitation, and grips to the trigger quite well.
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Victor Power Kill Mouse Trap 2 pk., M142B
SKU: 224172799
Product Rating is 5
$4.99
Bait with peanut butter. Usually you won’t even have to rebait.
THIS trap, NOT “similar” ones.
Nothing beats these Tomcat Press-N-Set traps.
But remember if “you feed ‘em, you breed ‘em”, you have to get rid of their food source and seal up the entry point to the house.
My Antique shop had mice. It is an old building on pier and beam. Impossible to trap them all. A couple of stray cats decided to live under the house. No mice since. I reward them well with food, petting, and veterinary care.
