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Nov 22, 2024
6:06:40am

cougarmikey All-American

I failed to mention we caught 12 mice this way after we had a house fire and the

Contractors left our garage door open all hours of the day, and moved our food storage out in the garage while they worked…I hated it, but i became quite a mouse hunter.

The bucket traps are good, and glue traps break your heart a bit but they are quite effective once you know a path they run

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cougarmikey

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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

Nov 21, 6:33am

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

Japan Coug

Nov 21, 6:35am

Try another style of trap

dingus79

Nov 21, 6:38am

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

Crazy Joe Davola

Nov 21, 6:39am

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

mokelembembe

Nov 21, 6:40am

Try this

WhirleyPop

Nov 21, 6:40am

Here is a productized version of it

BYUnerd

Nov 21, 6:43am

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

Captain Rex

Nov 21, 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

Nov 21, 6:47am

Those look pretty gnarly.

scottfunkel

Nov 21, 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

Nov 21, 6:43am

A nearby field?

Yiowa

Nov 21, 6:53am

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

Chemish

Nov 21, 7:01am

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

AggieWeekendCougar

Nov 21, 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

Nov 21, 6:50am

The poison is designed to dehydrate them so they go outside

TheHop

Nov 21, 6:53am

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

Crazy Joe Davola

Nov 21, 7:04am

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

AggieWeekendCougar

Nov 21, 7:23am

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

AlternateShot

Nov 21, 7:25am

That's what I've done 4 straight nights. Eats the bait and mocks me

Crazy Joe Davola

Nov 21, 8:25am

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

CAPX

Nov 21, 6:52am

That's plan D (after my next attempt)

Crazy Joe Davola

Nov 21, 6:53am

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

Nov 21, 8:21am

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

whirl

Nov 21, 7:13am

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

ShinobiCoug

Nov 21, 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

Nov 21, 7:20am

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

ChiCityCoug

Nov 21, 7:20am

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

byuluvr

Nov 21, 7:33am

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

Saregreat

Nov 21, 7:34am

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

crimedog

Nov 21, 7:34am

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

Bambino

Nov 21, 7:49am

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

BW84

Nov 21, 7:57am

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

ldssdl

Nov 21, 8:20am

I have learned

BW84

Nov 21, 10:01am

Maybe this will give you some good ideas

Belboz

Nov 21, 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

Nov 21, 8:38am

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

Bambino

Nov 21, 8:41am

Sticky traps. Lots of sticky traps.

Himni

Nov 21, 8:38am

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

Jay Kay

Nov 21, 9:02am

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

Jay Kay

Nov 21, 9:08am

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

Nov 21, 11:05am

This worked for us...

reagan21

Nov 21, 9:14am

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

Crazy Joe Davola

Nov 21, 9:41am

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

scottfunkel

Nov 21, 9:54am

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

BYU Grounds

Nov 21, 5:02pm

My latest update....

Crazy Joe Davola

Nov 21, 8:11pm

RE: My latest update....

CAPX

Nov 21, 10:15pm

Alternate the orientation of the traps and stick them on top of glue traps…

cougarmikey

6:04am

I failed to mention we caught 12 mice this way after we had a house fire and the

cougarmikey

6:06am

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