suggestions- mouse in the house!

[red]

I think they are genetically engineering smarter mice! I had on in the kitchen but finally caught him in trap. Now I've got them in garage. They take the p-nut butter or cheese off the trap without tripping it. They are so bold that they have left calling cards in the heeler's food bowl.
Now remember, catching mice is beneath KK. Since Poolie dispatched the barn kitten I can't use her as a back up. The heeler kills cats & rats but not mice. I've tried several different spring loaded traps. Not sure I'd like the sticky ones. Don't want to put poisin out because of the dogs. also because they go off & die & you smell them for days.

Anybody built a better mouse trap or have suggestions? 

Red

 

[mooch]

Get the traps that have the yellow trigger pad that looks like swiss cheese .smear the peanut butterinto the holes.They work at getting it out and that usually gets them.

 

[red]

Get the traps that have the yellow trigger pad that looks like swiss cheese .smear the peanut butterinto the holes.They work at getting it out and that usually gets them.

tried it

 

[Davis Shorthorns]

glue trap?  also the live traps work ok and they can catch multiple mice.

 

[red]

glue trap?  also the live traps work ok and they can catch multiple mice.

uhg, like my mice dead!

 

[knabe]

try the electronic ones.  i use them.  will probably switch the the live multiple ones.

 

[ROAD WARRIOR]

I live in an old house that was built in 1875, it has a hand laid limestone foundation. Ideal for mice one would think - BUT - we also have a colony of King snakes that live in the crawl spaces under the house so we seldom ever have mice. Alot of people freak out when I tell them this but truthfully, unless you spend alot of time looking for them you would never know that they are here. They are a very shy animal that doesn't want to be bothered with humans. We kind of have a deal worked out - I leave them alone and they leave me alone - works good for both of us! RW

 

[DMAF]

12 gauge with bird shot works well.

 

[knabe]

another thing that works good is a water bowl with the water low enough from the brim that they can't get out and drown.

this works great for squirrels too.  get a plastic waterer, put it along a fence half filled.  check every day.

two years ago i killed over 25 squirrels in about 2 weeks by this method.

 

[simtal]

we also have a colony of King snakes that live in the crawl spaces under the house so we seldom ever have mice.

No way.

 

[knabe]

way, total.

i have a colony in my barn.  still have some mice though.

 

[oakbar]

A twelve gauge with Double O buckshot works even better but it causes a lot of collateral damage.

I have a friend who told me he caught heck from his former wife once for sitting on the basement stairs in his underwear while he was shooting mice with his 22 caliber and bird shot.  I wonder why she is his former wife??  Go figure!!  All I could think of is, knowing him, he probably would shoot an LP line or something and blow up the whole house!  He might be a redneck!!

 

[dori36]

I think they are genetically engineering smarter mice! I had on in the kitchen but finally caught him in trap. Now I've got them in garage. They take the p-nut butter or cheese off the trap without tripping it. They are so bold that they have left calling cards in the heeler's food bowl.
Now remember, catching mice is beneath KK. Since Poolie dispatched the barn kitten I can't use her as a back up. The heeler kills cats & rats but not mice. I've tried several different spring loaded traps. Not sure I'd like the sticky ones. Don't want to put poisin out because of the dogs. also because they go off & die & you smell them for days.

Anybody built a better mouse trap or have suggestions? 

Red

I know you aren't sure about the glue boards, but I've found that the ones that steal and steal and steal from the conventional traps are usually quite tiny and just don't trip 'em.  I use the glue boards in an enclosed area (otherwise they sometime drag the board away and I never find them!) and have had good success with them.  I find I have to put something besides the little handful of seeds that are already on them.  I, ironically, put one of those marble sized, green, poison balls right in the middle of the glueboard and, bingo, it always works.  Now, for the gross part:  Many times the mouse is still alive but stuck.  So, I carefully pick up the board with mouse still on board and use the "mouse bucket" and drown it.  I just weight it down and walk away.  When I come back, the critter has gone to "a better place"!!   (clapping)

 

[klintdog]

We had a really smart one last year that figured out the glue board. I set it out on the counter since we kept seeing him dart behind the stove and run across teh counter. The little sucker got half his body stuck on the glue board, so he pulled it across the counter, wedged it between the burner grate on the stove, and then proceeded to gnaw off half the corner of the glue board to get stuck.

I bought one of these square plastic live traps and have had really good luck with it. You put a cracker with peanut butter in the trap and the mouse pushes the door open to get into it, Once he's in the door shuts and he can't get out. It's so simple it's ridiculous!

 

[JoeDirt]

BARN CAT  MOUSER


Should get them

 

[fluffer]

- we also have a colony of King snakes that live in the crawl spaces under the house

Never coming to your house  (lol)

 

[jbw]

I have had good luck with the glue traps as well,  the Mrs. saw a mouse in our house and put out a bunch of snap traps and glue traps. In two weeks snap traps-0    glue traps-8.  In the garage I have used the rat type glue traps and have gotten up to three mice at one time.

 

[mooch]

Get the traps that have the yellow trigger pad that looks like swiss cheese .smear the peanut butterinto the holes.They work at getting it out and that usually gets them.

tried it

Try using the peanut butter they are talking about on the news

 

[justme]

My husband has found two new traps (at least to us) that are working great finally.  One is a white plastic and the other is a gray plastic.  He smears peanut butter on them and wow I call him the mighty mouse hunter now!  What I like about them compare to the old regular mouse traps...no blood.

He still uses the glue traps for the sneaky little ones.  Wish I could find out what killed my cats outside!

 

[linnettejane]

have used the glue boards, but found that just one generally doesnt work, i put out 4 in a square shape in a corner with food in the corner, so they are forced to try and walk across them to get to the food...when i would just use one, they would somehow manage to get the food off without getting stuck or take off with the one board...this way, they get stuck on at least two boards and they cant carry them off...

but we have an inside cat now and havent had a mouse that i have seen in over a year...