How can I catch a crafty mouse?
Question:I set a couple of mousetraps w/peanut butter twice today. The first time I put a nice "mini-mound" of peanut butter, the second, a much smaller amount. Both times, the mousetraps were empty, with the peanut butter licked off cleanly. The traps seem to respond to light pressure when I checked them before resetting them w/the peanut butter, so I'm not quite sure what's going on. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
Answers:
Copious amounts of duct tape, sticky side up!
get a cat!
Use something more solid, like cheese, bread, or part of a cookie. They'll have to work harder to get it out which should make the trap snap.
get a glue trap!!
You catch a crafty mouse with a crafty mouse trap. Try the glue ones, they go on but can't get off.
if you aren't squeamish put out a shallow bowl of root beer, mice love it, but mice can't burp, and they sort of implode.
use a piece of slim jim on trap it works for me
let the mouse be its self! Never try 2 kill it!!
Use cheese-American is good. Hold the trap by a corner, using pliers. Toast the cheese with a match or lighter, then move the flame lightly over the whole trap to remove human scent.
They love the toasted cheese, and will work real hard at getting it all out. That usually is enough to spring the trap.
You can play around with the catch to give it a hair trigger, too. Just bend the part that the arm catches.
With popsical sticks, glue and finger paint. LOL
There are sticky traps, they step in it and are glued into it. It likes Peanut buttere, tie a peanut to it with the end cracked just a little. So it will have to pull a little to open the shell the rest of the way. Or what ever you think it might pull on instead of sitting there and licking it off.
Hugs Kim Lynn
How to catch a crafty mouse? With gift certificates to a fabric store, of course. No, wait, that's what works for me.
Here is a way that is both humane and involves that great passion of mice: peanut butter. The down side is that it requires a fair bit of patience and sitting still. Empty and clean out a tall-ish kitchen trash can, lay it on its side with a piece of paper smeared with peanut butter. You sit next to it, keeping very still and quiet. When the mouse comes to check out the peanut butter, you quickly tip the trash can back to an upright position. This traps the mouse at the bottom, and you can take it outside for a release into the wild.
I used a half a peanut, superglued on so that the little critter had to put some effort into removing it!
hook some steel wool onto the bait part of the trap so that it won't come off easily and then spread the peanut butter on the steel wool so the moouse will get caught up in the bait and..WHACK!!
first off you need a tall pail not a regular mop and pail but a tall sided pail. Fill the pail with water about a third full, then get a small margerine round lid, put peanutbutter on the centre of lid and let the lid float on water. last but not least make a ramp for the mouse to climb up the pail and jump on the rafting peanutbutter lid and when he jumps on the lid the lid tips over and the little crafty mouse drowns. sounds cruel but you out craft crafty.
I had a mouse evade my traps for about 2 weeks. My problem though was that it was eating dropped seeds from around my bird's cage, so it wasnt real hungry. Try buying live traps, they walk into them and a door closes behind them. They can't eat the food without getting trapped.
Live trap with some bird seed or peanut butter on the inside. They also love stroganoff!
this will work for you . get some whole corn . the hard type . and hot glue it to the tripper part of the trap .(this is the spring loaded type of trap. ) they will chew on the corn and set the trap off. for every trap I set it will get a mouse and the bait will last for along time or until the spring throw it off PS tie a piece of string about five feet long to the trap . sometimes they will drag the trap away
Get a large sticky pad with that peanut butter,that will get him.Th one that will not get away..
be as crafty as he is.
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