Moues traps

[ktheodos]

Which ones/methods have people found to be effective?

[oldbuddy]

In our last house I found a 12 gauge shotgun worked pretty well, but the house got so tore up we had to move.

[bigedshult]

poisen is the best I think dcom is one of the best

[mrsmere]

We had a mouse once and my mom put a piece of meat on there (no cheese), thing snapped in 30 minutes.  She said if they eat the poison they may go  inside your walls and die and then that would be another problem (may have to tear up some walls) too expensive.

[BlackSheepNY]

In our last house I found a 12 gauge shotgun worked pretty well, but the house got so tore up we had to move.

Bahahahahaha!!!  Thanks for the laugh! 

As far as mouse traps go, a regular spring loaded trap smeared in lots of peanut butter will work.  They get stuck in the peanut butter before they get to taste it and SNAP!, they're goners!  LOL!

[Segun15]

i find a live trap works for mice

[mrrangerrick]

There's an online video going around with a plastic bottle sitting on a pivot (with a block of wood blocking their exit). The mouse is trapped inside the bottle and it is humane. Once caught, you just take the trap outside and place the bottle on the ground and let the mouse go.

[vickysue]

So far we are luck where we live that we don't have mice. Of course  it could happen at anytime. So we keep  special posion packets in the barn, shop and under the house. They have been there for 5 years still no mice. But when we lived in th southern part of N.M. there was a population explosion and they were every where. Oh those nasty things. But we and lots of other people started putting out 5 gallon buckets of water with a rim of peanut butter on the inside down about an inch and a little ladder for them to clim up and when they reached down to try to get the peanut butter they would fall in.  There was one RV park out in the country that were catching over a hundred a day for almost 3 months they were so bad.  I am glad we no longer live there but miss my friends.

[Liquidfire_43]

I think regular or glue mouse traps work pretty well... I don't think poison bait is a good idea since its not instant, they might die somewhere inconvenient and then rot

A cat is a good way to keep mouse away

[catchow]

 I hate mice with a passion, but do NOT use those glue traps It doesnt kill the mouse, just makes it stick to this piece of cardboard, trying to break itself free, so then you throw it away where it just starves to death.

A friend of mine long time ago used one of those, and it was horrid

[Tresbn00]

The first house that I shared with my wife was the first one in a new subdivision. As such the mice found this to be there only place to relax! They say that for every one mouse that you see there are at least ten more. My wife asked that I take them out humanely with catch and release traps that kept the mouse alive. That was until she found that they had destroyed one of her shoes. Then she showed no mercy. I think that she have  gone out of her way to look for traps that would inflict more pain (just kidding). I don't like to use poison because I am never sure how far a mouse can get with that in their system and worry that they may affect other parts of nature. Just the good old snapping traps seem to work the best.

[marciaenglish]

I can't bear mice!  My husband sets the traps and empties them!  I can't even bear to see them dead!  Gives me the creeps!!!

[lvstephanie]

I can attest to how poison may not be the best option... My parents had a mouse problem too and used poison to kill them. After a couple of weeks, they noticed a terrible odor coming from one of the bedrooms. Came to find out that a mouse had died inside the bedroom wall, and was now decomposing giving off that horrid smell. Had to spend more time trying to fish the corpse out of the wall and clean the bedroom to remove the stink.

[gsdoss]

Yes,we use them but hate them

[sdenimandlace1]

we use poison, they do not smell after they die. It works well.