Best Mouse Trap?

JCally

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So last night my wife heard squeaking in our new apartment. I pulled out the fridge a bit, and there was a mouse. While I went to get the broom to shoo it out it disappeared, but I know it's still around because I found new droppings this morning. I got a couple of the snap traps and a glue traps this morning, but no luck yet. I'm guessing their nocturnal (never had one before). But in the meantime is there any advice on best kinds to get? I also pluegged the holes with steel wool.
 
Snap traps and a fat hunk of peanut butter. Make sure to really squish the peanut butter into the holder so they can't just pull it off.

I hate that I know that so well.
 
I prefer glue traps. I had some mice in my attic once and set up snap traps all around up there, and woke up in the middle of the night to "pop! pop! pop!" followed immediately by the high-pitched howling screams of mice in excruciating agony. I couldn't go back to sleep.
 
I would recommend using snap ones that are of the plastic kind (instead of the traditional wood kind), they're much easier to set plus you're a lot less likely to hurt your fingers.

Also, I would suggest not to use the glue ones just for humane purposes. You will "hear" them more with the glue I'm pretty sure of that. At least with the snappers it's fairly quick for the mice. With the glue ones it takes a while, and it's not nice. One time I used a glue one the first time we had a mice problem, and from another room actually heard the tiny mouse squeaking in panic as it was trying to get away. Even though it was a nuisance I actually felt really sorry for it.
 
Snap traps and glue traps are going to be "inhumane" if you care about those things. I've seen a mouse gnaw off its own leg to free itself from a glue trap.

The enclosure traps work pretty well, provided you then have a place to go set the mouse free. It probably would work for someone near rural areas where you can drive 10 minutes, let it go, and not have to worry about it finding its way back. If you're stuck in suburban sprawl it may be harder to find a "naturey" area to set it free. And if you're trapped in an urban environment if you set it free you're just going to create a nuisance for someone else, unfortunately.

The downside to the "no-kill" traps is that they take a little longer to work. If the mouse isn't looking for the food you put in the inside, its not going to go into it. Where as with a glue trap, the mouse accidentally walks on it and eventually it'll die. If you can set up the no-kill traps facing a hole the mouse uses or along a wall where the mouse commonly runs, that usually increases your chances of catching them. Sometimes you just get unlucky and they smarten up and run over or around the no-kill traps.
 
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Flatten half of a toilet paper roll and hang it off the edge of a table, put some peanut butter on the end. Mouse goes in, tips it into a stainless steel trashcan, and supposedly the stainless steel doesn't allow him to get enough grip with his claws to climb out. Then toss his ass into the backyard.
 
[quote name='keithp']I prefer glue traps. I had some mice in my attic once and set up snap traps all around up there, and woke up in the middle of the night to "pop! pop! pop!" followed immediately by the high-pitched howling screams of mice in excruciating agony. I couldn't go back to sleep.[/QUOTE]

For some twisted reason, your description made me laugh out loud. :)
 
[quote name='crunchb3rry']Then toss his ass into the backyard.[/QUOTE]

You do know that they will come back right? You gotta put them somewhere really far away from your house (like several miles) or else they'll just keep coming back.

I've used the glue traps before and they seem to work the best. Sure it's not humane but it gets the job done for me.
 
Ugh, woke to droppings around the traps, but the bait wasn't even touched. Normally I'd be more inclined to not use the glue traps for humane purposes, but my wife is pregnant, and I hate the idea of how unsanitary the mice are and just want them gone, and we're having company next week.
 
It's not like monopoly where there's a million different variations.

Mouse Trap is mouse trap, it's the same game it's always been.

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[quote name='keithp']I prefer glue traps. I had some mice in my attic once and set up snap traps all around up there, and woke up in the middle of the night to "pop! pop! pop!" followed immediately by the high-pitched howling screams of mice in excruciating agony. I couldn't go back to sleep.[/QUOTE]

Glue traps can be just as brutal. I've seen fur, limbs and tails adhered to glue traps... yet no mouse. So, if the mouse is vigilant enough, he can live the rest of his life as a cripple.
 
Snap traps with good bait work great. As other have said, peanut butter works well since it is sticky and you hope they can't just run away with it. My dad caught two mice within hours with one trap yesterday.
 
[quote name='crunchb3rry']
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Flatten half of a toilet paper roll and hang it off the edge of a table, put some peanut butter on the end. Mouse goes in, tips it into a stainless steel trashcan, and supposedly the stainless steel doesn't allow him to get enough grip with his claws to climb out. Then toss his ass into the backyard.[/QUOTE]

The only problem with that is you have to find a tiny little ladder so the mouse can climb up on the table first.

;)
 
When you use glue traps, put a dollop of peanut butter in the middle so that they are more tempted to come on.

Rat poison is cool too. One time when I was a kid I remember my mother was cooking and forgot to put out the rat poison so she stopped what she was doing and tossed a bag into a corner and washed her hands.She had salmon on her hands at the time, and no sooner had she tossed the poison than the sound of paper crinkling came. I was standing right there when it happened and couldn't believe that it worked that fast. We couldn't see the rat because there were boxes and a table obscuring our vision but he was all over that stuff.

Within a day my dog found it and took it out.The rat had been so careful not to be seen that past week so it was weird that the rat actually came out-I've since learned that rats, upon eating the poison, seek to go outside in search of water where they die. It was probably on its way outside when it got taken out.
 
[quote name='Moltres423']Within a day my dog found it and took it out.The rat had been so careful not to be seen that past week so it was weird that the rat actually came out-I've since learned that rats, upon eating the poison, seek to go outside in search of water where they die. It was probably on its way outside when it got taken out.[/QUOTE]

Jebus... that's a depressing, yet intriguing story.
 
You really don't want to use poisons if you have pets. I'm pretty sure its explicitly stated on most poison products. I don't know if you'd want to be using poisons if your wife is pregnant.

If you want them gone ASAP without hearing them die in agony with glue traps or waiting for them to fall into non-kill traps, just get better bait for snap traps.

Alternatively, certain dogs are great at killing mice and rats if they can get to them. They just snap their necks and BAM its over. I've seen it done with huskies and beagles. I'm sure any number of dogs could help you take out rodents.
 
My cat once caught a mouse. At first I though it was dead, missing a foot and lying still in a pool of blood, but then it started twitching and making a terrible squeal while I was putting it in a plastic bag. At this point my cat had left the scene, leaving me the grisly task of finishing what he had started. Mercy killing that mouse hopefully will be the most unnerving thing I do until I die.
 
Yeah definitely no poisons, we've got 2 small dogs, plus I would worry about it dying in a wall and smelling. Picked up a 4 pack of Victor traps and some more glue boards, so should be able to get better coverage tonight...just a waiting game at some point. Is this more common in cold climates? Never knew anyone to have a mouse when I lived in Florida.
 
[quote name='JCally']Yeah definitely no poisons, we've got 2 small dogs, plus I would worry about it dying in a wall and smelling. Picked up a 4 pack of Victor traps and some more glue boards, so should be able to get better coverage tonight...just a waiting game at some point. Is this more common in cold climates? Never knew anyone to have a mouse when I lived in Florida.[/QUOTE]
They want out of your house when they eat that poison. They physically can't throw it up so they seek out a supply of water hoping that it will fix it. My family has used poison for years and never had a problem with rats dying in the walls.

We don't rely on them necessarily finding the poison though. We setup glue and snap traps anywhere they've been sighted/ evidence of them being there too.
 
Update: Good new, the mouse is dead! I pulled out the dishwasher and set a couple of snap traps under it. About half an hour later we're watching tv and hear the snap. Yep, dead mouse. I'm going to leave the traps out in case there are more, but I'm stoked we got the one, and hopefully only.
 
[quote name='TheRock88']You do know that they will come back right? You gotta put them somewhere really far away from your house (like several miles) or else they'll just keep coming back.
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Not for me they don't. They only get in when the garage door is left open. There are no holes in the foundation or anything like that to get in. And I live in farm country, so there's plenty of mice that could get in if there was a better way.

[quote name='ced']Mercy killing that mouse hopefully will be the most unnerving thing I do until I die.[/QUOTE]

We had a "sick" possum in the bushes that wound up being put out of its "misery" with a shot to the head...actually two shots, the first one didn't do it. Then tossed it out in the fields. It was a little too close to the property so I went out to bury it so coyotes and shit wouldn't come around and discovered it was actually pregnant. There was a baby possum a few feet away wiggling around. I had to pop its head off with the shovel because it definitely would have starved to death. Normally I loathe possums, they're about the nastiest animal on the planet, but that was still some sad shit.
 
I have had mice for about 2 months now. I used them new traps that have been on tv from I think black and decker. The worked great on the ones but now are doing nothing. Damn things are just taking the bate and it says on the pack that it will kill them. Have some from Tomcat and the same thing is happening with them. Hell the damn cat saw one about to go into a trap and went after it. After playing with the damn thing it just left it and went to sleep. The mouse just ran off to hide.
 
[quote name='ced']My cat once caught a mouse. At first I though it was dead, missing a foot and lying still in a pool of blood, but then it started twitching and making a terrible squeal while I was putting it in a plastic bag. At this point my cat had left the scene, leaving me the grisly task of finishing what he had started. Mercy killing that mouse hopefully will be the most unnerving thing I do until I die.[/QUOTE]

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He was a fighter..

i would go for the humane ones
For example, the DIY 2 liter bottle trap

or this one works too

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You can use a steel bucket to maximize your trap
 
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