Best mouse trap?

[Spade_Cooley]

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?

[w2dart]

Cat

[magicbus]

2oldman wrote:
I hope these responses are helpful to the OP.

: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.

Dave

[Rick_Jay]

These are the ones I've had the best luck with. They're fairly inexpensive, re-usable and they help force the mouse to hit the trap head-on.

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,

~Rick

[2oldman]

I hope these responses are helpful to the OP.

[magicbus]

Seon wrote:
I set a video cam towards an old style mouse trap and got this footage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a-KW9xk2wM

He needs a spotter!

Dave

[Seon]

I set a video cam towards an old style mouse trap and got this footage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a-KW9xk2wM

[mobeewan]

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?

[jkwilson]

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.

[Seon]

I've tried mouse/rat traps using peanut butter, chocolate, grain, etc with very little luck. I tried glue pad but only get one mouse and my barn is full of mice so that gets expensive having to throw away a rat glue pad for one mouse. I tried the 5 gal bucket with a rolls dabbed with peanut butter drowning just a couple at a time then nothing.

I even got a barn cat but then I got bitten up from their fleas.

[ppine]

I set a trapline each spring and fall with snap traps and peanut butter. The best ones are plastic with names like Jaws. No poison.

[azdryheat]

I used an old fashioned mouse trap baited with peanut butter just today. One dead mouse.

[Ron3rd]

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

[MEXICOWANDERER]

Female felines before tossing a litter can be hunters without parallel. The trick of course is finding one. I had WW III one night in my kitchen between a bobtail "manx"? And a pound and a half rat (the norm down here). Nose to tip of tail 13" and they eat tomato.

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.

[Sjm9911]

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.

[magicbus]

Bobbo wrote:
A Rat Zapper, while expensive, also works.

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.

Dave