[Mr Ramsbotham]

What do you do when you've got a mouse that refuses to be caught in a conventional trap, even though he flirts with them and comes right to the brink of annihilation before dashing away? That was my plight from mid-January through Valentine's Day of this year. Watch the mouse elude every effort to catch him, as he ends up making me almost pity him for his ultimate demise.

[nickcarraway]

Can’t you get a cat or a Jack Russell terrier?

[ifinnegan]

I was going to watch this, clicked over and saw 24 minutes.

No thanks.

[Olog-hai]

You’re going to have to deal with this a little better, or else you’ll have snakes in the house when the weather warms up.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Put double sided tape on the suspected traffic areas.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Namely, you spot one, set a trap,***

You spot one, you probably have ten.

[SamAdams76]

One of my earlier houses had a mouse problem. I finally got sick of laying traps, which tended to snap back on my fingers all the time, and we got a cat.

Problem solved. Not a big fan of cats but neither were the mice and that was good for us!

[The people have spoken]

Peanuts or peanut butter has worked well for us.

[ConservativeMind]

Glue traps

[Scram1]

Impressive Mousetrap Catches 20 Mice In One Night. Mousetrap Monday

https://tinyurl.com/s8zqca8

Beep... Beep...

[xenia]

:-) I’ve had some smart ones too. Peanut Butter gone and trap not sprung.

[W.]

I could write a paragraph on “Mouse hunting with the mighty .44 magnum!”

Made mother happy!

[bobrlbob]

Root beer, they can not belch.

[JayGalt]

I don’t know about you but I get hav-a-heart traps bait with peanut butter and let them go outside. Why do you need to kill them? We had quite a few at one time because the cat brought them in alive through the cat door. Two hav-a-heart traps and we had them all gone in a week or so & they didn’t come back.

[SkyDancer]

We use Tom Cat bait blocks, they work like a charm. They also come with a bait holder so that kids or other larger animals can get to it. They do smell quite nice.

[Leaning Right]

I would suggest the old ramp-and-bucket trick. It has never failed for me. Put peanut butter on the rotating can. Mouse jumps onto the can, falls into the water.

[Joe 6-pack]

When I lived in Louisiana, my property abutted a sugar cane field. The mice were happy to stay in the cane field all summer and into the fall, but in late October/early November, the farmer would harvest the cane and torch the fields. An air wing of hawks and kestrels filled the skies and the mice would come charging for the house in droves.

I found the traditional Victor traps with the metal bait holder were best. I tried a number of baits and found that while American cheese would attract them, and occasionally catch them, it was also the bait they could also work loose without springing the trap. Gumdrops did not impress them. I finally found the optimum bait to be tootsie rolls. I would chew them until they got soft and gooey, then wrap a little around the bait holder. The tootsie roll would harden and the mice would have to work hard to get it off, tripping the trap virtually 100% of the time.

[mountainlion]

Use a piece of bacon tied to the trigger of a trap with string.

There are some poisons that a dog can eat 10 pounds of it with being killed.

[AlaskaErik]

I’ve found that glue traps work better than anything else. And unlike snap traps, which only work once each time, if they work at all, I’ve caught as many as four mice on just one glue trap.

[moehoward]

Similar problem here, but it was a rat. The thing was a frickin genius. The balls on this thing. It would run right past you. It ate my daughters shoes and a couch in the guest room. We tried everything. The exterminators said they had never seen that kind of damage from a rodent before.

Went to PAWS and got the biggest cat they had available. I asked if it came with a saddle. I’m talking big cat here. The rat vanished. Still have the cat, and we do what ever he says.

[suthener]

Yesterday me and my German Shepherd spent about 15 minutes chasing a mouse around the barn. Two things happened that I didn’t expect; first, she caught it. Then, when I tried to get it from her she casually crushed it up and swallowed it whole. No more recreational mouse chasing.