I've found that if you channel them into the trap, they work better.

Nov 21, 2024
7:13:31am

whirl All-American

I've gotten them to work better when I force them to approach the trap from the front by putting it between a couple of cereal boxes.

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whirl

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I'm not a man. I am a child who is getting completely dominated by a freaking mouse

Crazy Joe Davola Truly Addicted User

6:33am

Buy a cat. Or maybe two. Call it Plan C.

Japan Coug

6:35am

Try another style of trap

dingus79

6:38am

That's plan D. I'm on plan C. My determination and pride is my current motivation

Crazy Joe Davola

6:39am

I don't know that protein shakes are good bait.

mokelembembe

6:40am

Try this

WhirleyPop

6:40am

Here is a productized version of it

BYUnerd

6:43am

Have you tried Tomcat press and set or kill and contain? Those have worked

Captain Rex

6:43am

Gonna level with you. This is first mouse (that we know of) I've had in my house in my adult life. Tons of cats around.

Crazy Joe Davola

6:47am

Those look pretty gnarly.

scottfunkel

9:50am

We had this issue. We eventually got a live trap off Amazon. The mouse has to actually enter the trap and when it

Chemish

6:43am

A nearby field?

Yiowa

6:53am

I'm pretty sure he would have been amoung many friends there

Chemish

7:01am

Just buy some poison. We had a small mouse problem a few years ago. We put a

AggieWeekendCougar

6:47am

Ya. Its living under our fridge (hear it at times) and eating in pantry, so dont want a rotting mouse there

Crazy Joe Davola

6:50am

The poison is designed to dehydrate them so they go outside

TheHop

6:53am

Right know, I know where it is. If it moves, looking for water, I would worry where it went.

Crazy Joe Davola

7:04am

Don’t let it go too long. Mice can reproduce every 20 days and have litter of 15

AggieWeekendCougar

7:23am

Take all the food out of the pantry, put a trap with some peanut

AlternateShot

7:25am

That's what I've done 5 straight nights. Eats the bait and mocks me

Crazy Joe Davola

8:25am

use the sticky pads, just add a chocolate chip or two on them. works for me.

CAPX

6:52am

That's plan D (after my next attempt)

Crazy Joe Davola

6:53am

Buy a bunch of the largest size sticky pads and make a barrier to the pantry . .

El Paso Coug

8:21am

I've found that if you channel them into the trap, they work better.

whirl

7:13am

We had a mouse running amok in our house. I was going to try the snap trap like

ShinobiCoug

7:18am

We call those hippy traps in my house. I want this mouse's severed head on a stick for all to see.

Crazy Joe Davola

7:20am

Is it in the garage where it’s cold? Or in your house? Peanutbutter can harden

ChiCityCoug

7:20am

The only thing that worked for us was Tomcat poison. They all died and we never smelled them.

byuluvr

7:33am

Bend this bit back a tiny bit, the trap should be so sensitive that

Saregreat

7:34am

less is better. just spred a bit of peanut butter on the trop to cover the metal but not piled on

crimedog

7:34am

Try a chocolate chip. The mouse will have to gnaw instead of lick it clean.

Bambino

7:49am

A few years back I had one in a wall. I let him come to me.

BW84

7:57am

Why is she so scared of mice? Mice would much rather run away than attack

ldssdl

8:20am

I have learned

BW84

10:01am

Maybe this will give you some good ideas

Belboz

8:30am

I mentioned this in the other thread, but you have to bait it with something difficult to remove. You need to wedge a

durandal

8:38am

^This. I've had good luck with semi-sweet chocolate chips.

Bambino

8:41am

Sticky traps. Lots of sticky traps.

Himni

8:38am

Peanut butter has never worked for me. This works 100 percent of the time:

Jay Kay

9:02am

actually, I misspoke. Don't use superglue. I use a hot glue gun and glue the

Jay Kay

9:08am

Yep, PB doesn't work. I use taffy. It is so sticky. Has worked every time.

Mr. Rumsfield

11:05am

This worked for us...

reagan21

9:14am

Thanks everyone. I'm going full court press tonight!!

Crazy Joe Davola

9:41am

RE: Thanks everyone. I'm going full court press tonight!!

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