Whats the best way to catch a mouse in my home?
Question:i have 2 mouse traps, but the mouse isnt taking the bait .
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depends on the bait you are using. our house backs into a wooded area so we get mice in our [finished] basement (where i live!) every winter so i'm getting to be a mice-catching pro. LOL. I've tried all sorts of things & strangely enough, the ones that have worked best are the old skool wooden snap traps. For the bait I use a square of sliced american cheese (like you'd put on a sandwich) & it's lured them every time. Placement always helps too. Don't put it out in the open..keep it mostly along the perimeter but maybe a foot & a half out. They'll usually only come out at night when the house is quiet & everyone is asleep because they're pretty afraid of people..although I had a pretty gutsy one one time. It was sitting on my nightstand about a foot or two from my bed & staring at me as I slept. I only knew about it cause I just happened to wake up & was practically staring at it face to face.
get a cat
Buy some Rentokill mouse and rat poison works just great.
My husband uses a sticky trap instead of mousetraps - he gets them at home depot.
Good luck!
try some peanut butter,on the traps
peanut butter spread on cheese should work,,,,when the weather gets warm the mice move out doors ..so be patient...it may take a little longer.
i recommend sticky papers. you know the ones you can use to trap flies? just get a sticky sheet, lay it in a corner of your house where the mouse usually hangs out. put food in the middle, then wait. a mouse is bound to pass by and get stuck. check from time to time though as you might not notice that there is already a mouse there trying to come out loose
Put a cat or two with no food for a day or two, that works great.
We use peanut butter in our traps and we get them catch them like crazy!
Also the best form of poison that we have found is Tomcat brand of poison blocks. They are green and rectangular shaped. The mice ate those over the traps sometimes.
Tomcat poison blocks and peanut butter really works!I know so try if first ok?
The best way to catch mice in your home depends on the situation. If you have kids or pets they can get into the poison if you aren't careful. The traditional snap traps will kill them but they can be pretty messy and there is still a risk for children and pets. I learned about controling pests while I worked in a food warehouse. The best method was the sticky traps they work well if you understand how to use them. Mice travel along the edges of walls or obstacles and are creatures of habit. You can bait the sticky traps also but if they are placed in a travel path you will have the best luck. Mice travel in the dark with the end of their whiskers just brushing along a wall to guide them especially if they are frightened. Set the glue trap against the wall and you will catch them. If one gets caught and you have several, others will check out what has happened to the first one and you can get more than one at a time. Hope this helps.
Put peanut butter on both of the traps, look for the areas where there are mouse droppings, mouse poop! Put the traps up against the wall area side ways, so that when they run over to the food the lever will snap over them.
You need to make sure they are located where the mice are running. That's why you need to find the dropping, as that will be the area to keep putting your traps.
You will get them, just keep at it. Or you can borrow a cat and hope that it doesn't do like mine did. My cat Honey caught a mouse in my kitchen, after which she wanted to come into the living room and tell me all about it. You got it, as soon as she opened her mouth to meow the mouse scooted right out of her mouth. Needless to say she was hunting high and low for the mouse all night long, I found it running around the bathtub the next morning. It was a just a little one that had gotten in the house via a box that had been brought into the house from my garage. I got the little sucker!!
She has this habit of trying to tell me every thing that she catches. It's OK when its out side, but it doesn't work so well in side the house. She loves to talk to me about it all, she's really quite cute. Little tortoiseshell, I should have named her gabby, since she like to talk so much. But she really is sweet.
Good luck catching your mouse. Hey I now am using a product that is called mouse movers, I keep one on my patio and one in my garage. It is from the Sharper Image, it costs like $50.00 but, I haven't seen any mice this year at all.
Click on web site: Then to top of right side of page and type in mouse movers and click search. This should open the page right up and if you scroll down it will take you right to it. Note: once it opens click on the picture of it and it will open it all the way up and you will be able to read about the product and it will enlarge the picturel.
See web site: http://www.sharperimage.com
put a old news paper on box leave passage open, cover three sides .so that rat should not be able make out the shape of the box.
if the trap is open type keep in a suitable box, one end open which allows entry to rat.
grill coconut and give for bite
I have had mice in the house myself. We have a cat, and have set the spring traps in the basement. The mice get smart to these. I hate finding mice stuck still alive in the glue traps so I don't use them. My suggestion is getting an battery operated trap. It runs on AA batteries, and is a little black box. You bait the trap with peanut butter and place it along the wall where you have seen mouse activity. When the mouse finds the trap, it has a small opening to enter in, and when it crosses the two metal plates to get the peanut butter at the end it is zapped. It has a small light which will blink when there is a mouse in the trap dead. Then you just take the whole box outside or to your garbage and dump it out. You don't have to touch the mouse at all. It is quick and I would think mostly painless. They are about $18 at Fleet Farm but could be found elsewhere I'm sure. Just make sure to check the trap everyday for a blinking light.
A Rentokil plastic mouse trap loaded with something like corned beef, bacon or fat.
Leave it where the mice run and bingo!
If you place it inside a tin, side on the trap makes a hell of a din and you know you've caught one.
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