Posted on 12/01/2018 1:27:41 PM PST by Chickensoup
Finally using the perfect mouse trap!
It is big news up our way that the mice and other rodent population is out of control.
It has been horrendous.
I have been using snap traps, glue traps, two cats, de-con.....
Never enough.
Finally the day before yesterday I set up the perfect trap using this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FTQ6SM1/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I bought a couple and two 5 gallon buckets.
I installed them on the buckets, filled the buckets about 1/3 full of water, smeared peanut butter on the roller, and laid three pieces of firewoord with dabs of peanut butter on them against the bucket. Like little peanut butter dabbed ladders to the motherlode.
Have caught 5 in the garage in two days and 3 in the basement today.
Just carry them outside and toss them into the snow bank by the bushes. add more water and re-set.
The Mouse Murders Continue!!
It is big news up our way that the mice and other rodent population is out of control.
It has been horrendous.
I have been using snap traps, glue traps, two cats, de-con.....
Never enough.
Finally the day before yesterday I set up the perfect trap using this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FTQ6SM1/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I bought a couple and two 5 gallon buckets.
I installed them on the buckets, filled the buckets about 1/3 full of water, smeared peanut butter on the roller, and laid three pieces of firewoord with dabs of peanut butter on them against the bucket. Like little peanut butter dabbed ladders to the motherlode.
Have caught 5 in the garage in two days and 3 in the basement today.
Just carry them outside and toss them into the snow bank by the bushes. add more water and re-set.
The Mouse Murders Continue!!
Thanks, we have that same problem - been using Tomcat poison blocks that do disappear so don’t know where they crawl off to die - your bucket thing sounds great and will look into it.
I’ve seen those. Also bought a trap door type trap to be used with a bucket. However, wife’s cat will not allow samples for testing. Maybe when the cat dies (don’t tell my wife). lolol
Glue Trap + Hammer is fine for me.
This thread is rated “R” for violence. :^)
Sounds like a winner to me.
Once up north I had a bucket with some water in it - plus a dead mouse.
Maybe putting a glass with peanut butter (on a small rock) in the middle of a bucket with some water might work.
Just placed the order.
I was using the big glue traps, the little ones, well the mice are so fat this year that the little ones are ineffective.
These roller cost 9.99 which is almost the price of a package of big glue traps.
Neighbors all have the same complaint.
I am so pleased and much less expensive in the long run.
I think d-con is like mouse vitamins.
This is the 1st time in 30 years at our home that we have mice in the house. Snap traps w/ peanut butter is working fine, but no end in sight. The Mouse Jihad continues!.
Works better if you replace the water with muriatic acid.
Works great outside too with mice, chipmunks and squirrels. We use a 10 gallon bucket though and use sunflower seeds floating on the water. I did the dry bucket in the barn too putting it up next to a 2X4. I don’t think I even used any bait, they just fell in one after another, had the bottom of the bucket covered in a few days. Gross but effective.
The link doesn’t work for me.
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I looked at the trap door ones, thought of getting them instead.
However I have a building with red squirrel problems so I am thinking of putting one in the attic there with deeper water.
The blocks do have a nice smell - the Tomcat ones that is.
A more stubborn and bigger (in my opinion) problem is a roach infestation. If anyone is willing to admit they have them or had them, what’s the best way of getting rid of them? If the world wasn’t engaged in exterminating them we’d be waist-deep in them in no time.
someone told me to fill 5 gallon buckets with water and spread dry corn on top....mice go for the corn and can’t get out....
I’ve had good luck with Tomcat snap traps. Zero times the mice have gotten the bait or snapped the trap without being caught and only I had one mouse not killed. They always seemed to be able to get the bait from the old Victor wooden traps.
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