need help killing mouse

I had good results with dried fish twist tied to the spring trap. I've seen my aunty use the sticky traps, caught a few mice, but a million roaches, her cat, dog got the cat, aunty got the dog. It was interesting.

Isn't there a new trap where the mouse runs into this hockey puck thing, runs in a circle inside it then when it reaches the end (?) then it gets zapped or something? Or was that for roaches?
 
The best way to be sure you get a mouse is to sit up very quietly late at night with a shotgun. Use a red light, which won't spook him. Leave food all over the floor to tempt him. When he shows up -- boom!

I used sticky traps myself. Very successful. Mouse got caught, squealed his little head off, waking me. I got up, put the trap with attached mouse in a jar, filled it with water, he was gone in a minute. I'd have used the shotgun trick, but I hate loud noises in the middle of the night. In a New York City apartment. :p
 
I'm partial to blue, doesn't spook them too much (more than red), and helps clean-up because it helps you see the blood. :cool:
 
Blue is hard on my night vision. For someone who stays up all night, night vision is very important. The blood will have to wait till morning, or till I find my Inova X5T UV.
 
Blue Jays said:
Hi All-

Using a .410 in the kitchen is probably out-of-the-question unless you have a really rustic place.

~ Blue Jays ~
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Shot shells from a .22 revolver work for me.

(Wear safety glasses....)
 
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maximus otter
 
:barf: We used the sticky traps at a nursery where I used to work. Though they worked quite well I was so revolted I forbade, at pain of firing, their use and I raised enough of a stink at the next manager's meeting we quit carrying them for sale.
Be nice. Smack 'em quick. Git 'er DONE.
 
We used to catch 'em with this when we were kids:

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Oh yea, that's right they weren't real mice :o nevermind :rolleyes:
 
Put poison in the peanut butter or whatever you use. Then follow the stench of dead flesh.

Or bring a girl/boy mouse to tempt him/her.

Don't you ever watch Tom and Jerry? The cat never gets the mouse.
 
Ingredients:
(1) 5 gallon bucket
(1) 1" dowl cut to span the diameter of bucket
(1) Empty soda can
(1) Dollop of peanut butter

Cooking Directions:
Widen the drinking hole of soda can. cut new hole in bottom of soda can.
Fill bucket with 3-4 gallons of water.
Place bucket in mouse vicinity.
Thread dowl through soda can.
Place dowl across top of bucket.
Put dollop of peanut butter on middle of can.
Go to bed.

The mouse won't be able to resist the peanut butter on the can. He'll climb up the bucket and onto the dowl. When he steps on the can it will spin, he'll fall into the water and be waiting for you the next morning. Can't miss.
 
Point44 said:
Put poison in the peanut butter or whatever you use. Then follow the stench of dead flesh.
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Don't use poison if you have any other animals in the house.

Live/humane traps really do work well. I put peanut butter in the back of it. Just be sure to check it frequently so the poor thing doesn't starve to death in there. It's easy enough to take him away and dump him in the woods or something. I know mice are a pain in the ass, but they don't need to suffer either.

~ashes
 
Ashes said:
Don't use poison if you have any other animals in the house.

Live/humane traps really do work well. I put peanut butter in the back of it. Just be sure to check it frequently so the poor thing doesn't starve to death in there. It's easy enough to take him away and dump him in the woods or something. I know mice are a pain in the ass, but they don't need to suffer either.

~ashes
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I have two boxers, and I have a fear that the mouse will crawl into a wall or something and I'll never find its dead, stinky body. But as far a s mice not suffering, When I put the traps out the first time, i felt really bad. now that he has eaten peanut butter off of the traps without springing them, and managed to remove a piece of cheese without springing a trap, I am driven to kill him for outsmarting me.

Glue may be the way to go, but one question-what do you do with the mouse on the trap? can you get it off? or do you have to kill it?
--thanks, joe
 
Hi Joe-

Once the mouse is trapped in the glue, you'll need to kill it in humane fashion. I suppose you could try and shake the mouse loose, but you would probably severely injure or kill it in the process.

If "up close and personal" isn't your style, press the sticky side containing the mouse against a backstop and blast it with a shotgun. This could get to be a pain-in-the-butt if you're dealing with a considerable number of mice.

~ Blue Jays ~
 
T. Erdelyi said:
We used to catch 'em with this when we were kids:

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Oh yea, that's right they weren't real mice :o nevermind :rolleyes:
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I love that game! An interesting character I used to work with would mount 2 mini mags to his fire helmet and hunt in the apperatus bay with a blow gun! :eek:
 
OK, first off, you don't have a mouse. You have mice. They all dress the same so it looks like only one.
Mice are vermin, they spead disease and should not live in your house.
Check the back of your cabinet, they may be coming thru the walls where your plumbing is. Seal these and all other similiar holes (radiators, etc) with 000steel wool. Pack it in tight.
All of the trap advice is right on. The only thing I'd add is Bosco.
If you use glue traps and feel like the little bugger shouldn't suffer...put him and the trap in a plastic bag, lay it on the ground outside and...
STOMP ON IT. That will put him out of his misery good and quick.
It sounds cruel, but it's over quick for mickey. I've lived in a house overrun by mice (demolition of an abandoned bldg next door) it doesn't look like alot of them in the beginning, but once they find a safe haven and begin breeding you're in trouble. They will move into your furniture and your closets, even compete with your pets for their food.

Another thing to do is clean up with amonia or bleach any droppings you see. They leave a scent trail that tells their buddies that it is safe to go here.

I bought 2 of those sonic mouse repellers. They seem to work. But then again it was after I sealed every nook and cranny in my new house. And killed the little buggers that were trapped outside of the walls :grumpy:

To quote a great television hero:
"I hate those meeces to pieces!"
 
Before I switched to poison, I would catch them in live traps, then put the trap in the deep freeze for a fairly quick, and quiet, death.
 
Rats and mice follow the urine trail left by those before them. The trails have wee poops and stains, so they are easy to spot. Set the traps along those routes and you should have better success.

The best are the old standard snap traps. Don't get the ones with the yellow plastic bait holder though, they are no good. Get the all copper and wood ones. Take a piece of bread and mold it good and tight around the bait holder. Make sure it does not interfer with the release bar. And don't use so much that they can reach it from outside the snapping bar area. The idea is to make them have to get inside the kill-zone and pull on the bread to get it. They want to take some back to their nests and will tug at it. I have used these traps for many, many years with excellent results.

What I will say is if you are continually losing bait, springing the trap and no mouse is in there, it could be rats. If they are rats, you'll need to use the rat sized snap trap. Or you are simply not placing the bait correctly.

Poison, I'm not real fond of. They tend to die somewhere you can't reach but can smell for a long time after. And, if you can smell them that means flies are laying eggs and making more flies. Not so nifty if it's somewhere inside your house. Also, the poison causes massive internal bleeding and isn't all that great a way to die.

Fly-paper type traps are just messed up man. You want to kill the thing, not torture it to death.

Cats tend to eat them then barf at like midnight somewhere you wind up stepping on it later. Dogs are actually better mousers in my opinion than cats are.

And like Ebbtide said, bleach everything down, they are major health hazards.
 
We had mice getting into our home (and we had 3-5 cats at the time!). They were mostly in the kitchen area so I finally cut a hole in the board near the sink drain. Yep, the gap for the drain pipe was wide enough for them to get up through. I mixed up a buck of concrete and plugged the hole up and we never heard/saw them since.

Peanut butter works great for other things too. We kept have raccoons knocking over the trash, so I fashioned my own box trap for them. Tried a bunch of things before I found out that a popsickle stick slathered in PB was enough to get them to go in deep enough to trigger the door to close. (catfood only trapped my daughter's cat!)(Then my son and I would drive 30 miles to the middle of nowhere and I'd make him sit on the hood of my truck as we let them go. Ended up catching three of them before they decided to leave us alone for a while (and I got tired of rebuilding my trap each time))
 
Flinx said:
Forget the spring-loaded traps. My wife and I lived in an apartment next to a field that was being developed. IE: they were bulldozing down the trees, cutting out the weeds, etc. So... we ended up with mice trying to move in with us all the time. We tried the regular traps. They did the same thing. Ate the bait, but never tripped the trap. I went to Wal-Mart and picked up about five packs of the little plastic "sticky" glue traps. Those things work great!! You just place them anywhere you think the mice might run across. Once they do: they get stuck in place. You wake up the next morning, check to see which traps have mice, pick up trap with pliers, place in trash bag, place in outside trash can and you're done!

Flinx
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Exactly what I use, except I place a small pile of real bacon bits in the center of the trap.

Works every time.
 
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