Best mouse trap?
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Nov-10-2020 03:20 AM
trailer no doubt looking for food. What do yo use?
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Nov-12-2020 02:03 PM
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Nov-12-2020 01:17 PM
2oldman wrote::r Were on page 3 of an often discussed topic. If the OP didn’t get enough direction by now they aren’t going to.
I hope these responses are helpful to the OP.
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Nov-12-2020 08:56 AM
The problem I've had with the traditional cheap traps is that the mouse might approach it from the side, and I've had instances where a leg of the mouse is caught, instead of an instant snap of the neck. THEN, I had to go looking for the mouse & trap as death wasn't quick. And in one case, the poor critter was still alive.
Since using the style I linked to above they get snagged the first time. They're easy to dump the dead mouse, and reset.
One word of advice. IF you dump the mouse out of the trap and you notice the peanut butter is GONE, that means there was a second little rodent that came by later to clean up. That means you need to rebait the trap and set it out again.
Oh...check them frequently, put them along a wall where a mouse might typically run (dark, safe, not out in the open). If you trap a mouse and forget about the trap for several weeks or longer, it AIN'T pretty. THAT's when I just throw the trap and what's left of the mouse away.
Good Luck,
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Nov-12-2020 05:44 AM
Seon wrote:He needs a spotter!
I set a video cam towards an old style mouse trap and got this footage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a-KW9xk2wM
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Nov-12-2020 04:59 AM
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Nov-11-2020 03:21 PM
TenOC wrote:
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.
So dying of thirst and a huge belly ache is better?
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Nov-11-2020 02:34 PM
Ron3rd wrote:coolmom42 wrote:
Please do not use poison. Eating a poisoned rodent is one of the main causes of death for raptor-type birds. It might also be found by a dog or cat who is someone's loved pet.
I prefer the snap traps.
Possibly the mice are long gone. Just keep an eye out.
X2 because as noted you potentially introduce a poisoned mouse into the food chain
It’s only an issue for animals the size of a mouse. The most common poison is Coumadin, the drug used for people with clotting issues. Called warfarin when used as poison, but the fatal dose for a mouse won’t cause an issue for a larger animal.
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Nov-11-2020 12:26 PM
I even got a barn cat but then I got bitten up from their fleas.
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Nov-10-2020 02:31 PM
coolmom42 wrote:
Please do not use poison. Eating a poisoned rodent is one of the main causes of death for raptor-type birds. It might also be found by a dog or cat who is someone's loved pet.
I prefer the snap traps.
Possibly the mice are long gone. Just keep an eye out.
X2 because as noted you potentially introduce a poisoned mouse into the food chain
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Nov-10-2020 02:14 PM
Crash went the coffee grinder and coffeemaker. Pots and frying pans fell from the wall (not in the rig). Cat hisses, rat hisses and bodies tumbling. I was a little antsy so I put on my boots. The cat had the rat by the neck but the rat was struggling so hard it shook the cat. I opened the kitchen door and the cat with rat shot out into the night.
That occurred early on. I rat proofed the kitchen and when the 8 foot long Mexican whip snake took up residence on the roof all rodents fled.
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Nov-10-2020 02:07 PM
coolmom42 wrote:
Please do not use poison. Eating a poisoned rodent is one of the main causes of death for raptor-type birds. It might also be found by a dog or cat who is someone's loved pet.
I prefer the snap traps.
Possibly the mice are long gone. Just keep an eye out.
That was true in like the 1970s /1980s times and posions have changed.
Poison them, keep the poison in the hard type case so cats dogs can't eat eat it. Ive never had a dead rodent in my wall, and even if you did the smell will go away in a week or so, there small. I put out traps, poison and use like ortho home defense. Adding Irish spring or whatever they says works. Why take a chance.
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Nov-10-2020 01:25 PM
Bobbo wrote:My choice too. As a kid I was in charge of the snap traps, but I got tired of them snapping (on me). This thing works as advertised.
A Rat Zapper, while expensive, also works.
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