I use balls of old dog hair, that I have picked up with my vacuum
cleaner. I put them around my TR6 in the winter and it's never been
touched. Obviously it helps to have a dog:) John Mitchell
On 12/7/2016 7:39 AM, Jim Franklin wrote:
> Bait brings the poison outside where cats and owls ingest it. Glue traps
> cause considerable discomfort when the mouse chews off its own limbs to get
> away.
>
> Spring traps need to be placed against a wall since that's how mice usually
> travel. But put the short end against the wall, not the long end. Use peanut
> butter for bait, and smoosh it into the bait tab, don't just lay it on top.
> Make them work for it so they put pressure on the bait tab. I've caught
> dozens this way. You likely have a few nests in different parts of the house,
> so put traps all over if you'll be gone for a while. Once they set up shop,
> they multiply quickly. Given what I just went through with them in my
> ceiling, I'd buy 20 traps and lay them all out.
>
> I've also heard good things about the rat zapper but they're pricier and fill
> up.
>
> Baby mice (which you likely have by now) may be too small to get trapped by
> the arm, and might be too gentle to spring the trap, but will be big enough
> in a few weeks.
>
> I use the Home Depot $1 Victor traps with the copper bait tab. I've also used
> the ones wit the "fake cheese" bait tab (but with peanut butter) and they
> have a sensitivity adjustment that I put on max sensitive.
>
> Good luck. Mine are crawling up the concrete foundation and through gaps
> under the siding.
>
> jim
>
> On Dec 6, 2016, at 7:33 PM, Scott Hall <scott.hall.personal@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Guys,
>>
>> I left my house in earlier this fall for an extended work trip. I got back a
>> week ago. Gone maybe...three months total?
>>
>> I had gnats in the fridge. I'm not sure how I managed that but I cleaned
>> everything out and haven't seen them again.
>>
>> I also have a mouse problem in the kitchen. I didn't see any evidence of
>> mice when I got home initially, but I left a chocolate bar on the kitchen
>> counter the second night (wrapped in its wrapper, sealed) and the mouse ate
>> through the wrapper.
>>
>> I put out spring mice traps--the mouse ate the bait and didn't spring the
>> trap.
>>
>> I put out glue traps. The thing flipped over the trap and clearly was stuck
>> to it, but got away.
>>
>> I've seen the thing once--it looks tiny. There might be many (in fact, I
>> assume there are), but I've just seen the one.
>>
>> I'm not real excited about poisoning it and having it (or them) die in the
>> walls.
>>
>> I have no idea how they're getting up on the counter to start with--I don't
>> see any openings in anything and I can't believe the thing is crawling up
>> the side of the counter, but whatever. I just want it/them done for.
>>
>> Any ideas about how to go about it? Am I baiting the trap wrong? More glue
>> traps?
>>
>> I'm leaving again until after new years--the house will be cold enough that
>> I don't mind a dead mouse in a trap while I'm gone (and people will be
>> checking the house for me, this time).
>>
>> Any advice welcome.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Scott
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