I left my travel trailer at a repair shop for a couple of weeks in order to fix some scrape marks I put on the left rear side. When going into my compartments I found evidence of Mice, Turds and a couple of broken wild nuts. We never leave any food in the trailer when not in use. I have had bad luck using glue traps because I've never been able to get them to work. A neighbor came by with the larger rat glue trap and said this is the way to go. He told me the small glue traps are too light and they will not get the job done. Just put one tiny dab of peanut butter in the middle of the rat glue trap, that's all. I baited two of them along with two more regular traps baited with peanut butter. Two days later I have not caught anything but after cleaning up I do not see any turds. I know others who swear baiting with a small bit of flower. Now all I have to do is figure out how they got in. The weather warmed recently and I figure they left the trailer no doubt looking for food. What do yo use?

A glue trap is not very humane in my opinion. How would you like to be trapped by your hair. The best trap is an old-fashioned bang on the head baited with peanut butter.However, I use the green poison bait that you can get at Lowe's or Home Depot. This is basically a blood thinner. After they eat it they get thirsty and go outside in search of water and die. The bait is a green cake about an inch long that I throw behind the drawers underneath the couch by the water heater any place out of sight.

Spade Cooley wrote:I left my travel trailer at a repair shop for a couple of weeks in order to fix some scrape marks I put on the left rear side. When going into my compartments I found evidence of Mice, Turds and a couple of broken wild nuts. We never leave any food in the trailer when not in use. What do yo use?If you found shells from nuts it wasn’t a mouse, it was a squirrel. The little green rodent blocks work very well, the rodent eats from it then goes to find water and dies upon drinking, away from where you placed the bait. No need to dispose of a body and reset trap either.

JaxDad wrote:Spade Cooley wrote: If you found shells from nuts it wasn’t a mouse, it was a squirrel. Not necessarily. We had mice issues at our old place and they would gather acorns just like squirrels. They eat them differently as their mouths are smaller, but they eats nuts and we found plenty of shells in mice nests.To the OP, we used to use live traps and I would then let them go about a mile or so from the house. That or a snap trap. Glue traps are cruel and poison always adds the risk of them dying in a wall somewhere and then you have a different problem.

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Peanut butter on a simple snap trap will tell you if there are mice in there. If they are getting away, “glue” a chocolate chip to the trip mechanism with Karo syrup. The mouse will have to work at it and even the sneakiest mouse will be caught.I maintain bait stations all over the farm and around the house. Never had a mouse die inside something. I’ve heard they seek water when the poison takes effect which causes them to go outdoors. I have no idea if this is true or not, but since the poisons cause internal bleeding it would seem reasonable.

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Bobbo
Explorer II
Feb 09, 2021
udidwht wrote:
Bobbo wrote:
profdant139 wrote:
We took the trap far away from the trailer and released it.

So it would be someone else's problem.

Not to mention that it may violate state regulations. I know that in Tennessee, if you trap any kind of wildlife, TWRA regulations require you to either release it where it was trapped, euthanize it, or get a permit from TWRA to relocate it. That is to prevent the spread of disease from one area to another.

Animals are capable of doing that all on their own. A fine example of idiotic legislation. Same as agriculture checkpoints like in Ca.

Can't fix stupid. But we can eliminate it from the face of this planet.

The regulation is not to prevent the animals from spreading the disease. It is to prevent humans from spreading the animal's disease over a much wider area much faster. You can consider it "idiotic legislation" if you wish, but it serves a purpose, even if you don't agree with that purpose. At least this regulation does no harm, unlike legislation discussed in other threads on different government mandates.
profdant139
Explorer II
Feb 10, 2021
Someone suggested that I should have offered the mouse a cigarette as he entered the trap. I did, but he said he was trying to quit. ;)
wopachop
Explorer
Feb 10, 2021
How do you guys seal up your generator holes? Mine has lots of access points. Are people really stuffing things around the oil filter?

Had a mouse live in my genny. Hasnt run right since then. I think his nest pieces got into the area that creates the electricity.

Been over a year and several cleanings with compressed air and a vacuum. I will still see pieces of nest fly out.

I love animals and dont even smash spiders. Unfortunately we are forced to kill at times.

People often judge the value of life by how cute the animal looks. Row of ants?? Kill them all. Thousands at a time.

Cute puppy gets run over by a car? People feel sad.
profdant139
Explorer II
Feb 10, 2021
After our mouse invasion, I spent a lot of time under my trailer with spray foam, closing up every hole I could find. Pro tip: when you use spray foam while reaching above your body, wear a face shield and your least favorite clothes. And a tight fitting hat.
donut_dave
Explorer
Feb 16, 2021
after using mousetraps for a number of years i decided to get several tubes of caulk and crawled under my trailer sealing up any and every opening. i left the traps anyway and haven't had a mouse in 5 years. pay particular attention around wheel wells as a main way they get off the ground are the tires and anything else that touches the ground like jacks and cords.
Gdetrailer
Explorer III
Feb 16, 2021
donut dave wrote:
after using mousetraps for a number of years i decided to get several tubes of caulk and crawled under my trailer sealing up any and every opening. i left the traps anyway and haven't had a mouse in 5 years. pay particular attention around wheel wells as a main way they get off the ground are the tires and anything else that touches the ground like jacks and cords.

X2!

But when I mention that to folks on this forum I get scoffed at..

They would much rather continue to have mouse infestations and use traps, poisons and those so called "natural predators" that for me, have totally ignored the mice issue and attempted to feed on other things like birds..
Steeeveee
Explorer
Mar 30, 2021
I once called specialists because I had mice in the basement and I could not get rid of them. They used both traps and some kind of chemicals. Sometimes one trap is not enough. In general, the pest control industry is now developing and is even overgrown with software ( ***Link Removed*** ), maybe soon something advanced for ordinary people will appear.

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