Mouse/Mice

[glass22 0]

Hello.

 

I whent into my attic yesterday where some dog food is stored to find, some has been eaten and there's a couple of droppings(mice).

 

I'm not really sure how many I have, I'm hoping just one seeing as there are so few droppings.

 

I've removed all the food from the attic and placed an old style snap trap I had laying around, So I set it with some choclate but whent up today and the bait is gone, without the trap going off!

 

I took the trap down and looked at fine tuning it, but it already looks sensative.

 

So two questions:

 

1. Is there anything I can do to make sure the trap gets the mouse?

 

2. What trap do you guys consider the best for indoor use against mice?(I don't want any live capture)

 

Thanks in advance.

Glass.

Edited February 21, 2009 by glass22

[Guest buster321c]

Funny enough ive been at the mice today . I suggest you go down the pound shop , get some break back traps and a mars bar and Bobs your Uncle .

[just jack 998]

like buster says pound shop, i had 1 last year i thought, end up catching about 10 in the traps, poisoned the rest, they were getting in through next doors house and into mine, but we sorted the entrance out, so doubt you will have just the 1 mate, i hope you do

[stubby 175]

as much as chocolate is good, it oftens dries out/becomes hard, and therefore easy to pull off the trap, far better to spread peanut butter on the paddle,

[glass22 0]

like buster says pound shop, i had 1 last year i thought, end up catching about 10 in the traps, poisoned the rest, they were getting in through next doors house and into mine, but we sorted the entrance out, so doubt you will have just the 1 mate, i hope you do

 

Yeah I know, I'm just being optimistic that there is just one.

 

I have a lot of poison that I use for rats at my fields.

 

I'm just concerned they will die and well......stink for the next 6 months.

 

I find it really bizarre that there are so few droppings, around the food they have been eating just 2 droppings.

[Guest tewkesferreter]

i brought some on ebay a couple of weeks backs,and there spot on. there black plastic with a spring that goes right round em,theyve also got a bait cage so they cant take the bait off the peddle. i was using the wooden ones before and didnt catch a thing,as stubby said the chocolate was going hard and they were just taking it off the peddle. theyre only £4 for 4 thats including postage aswell.

[akton 15]

Try a glue trap, these work quite well,if you are struggling with mice that tend not to set the spring trap off.

 

the mouse or mice cannot get off the sticky pad.

[stubby 175]

the mouse or mice cannot get off the sticky pad.

 

oh yes they can,

 

we carry out sticky board jobs on underground station platforms, upto 50 boards per platform x 4 and stay there all night, keeping check, and removing stuck mice, but Ive also seen mice run so fast, they dont stick

[ellir0305 9]

the mouse or mice cannot get off the sticky pad.

 

oh yes they can,

 

we carry out sticky board jobs on underground station platforms, upto 50 boards per platform x 4 and stay there all night, keeping check, and removing stuck mice, but Ive also seen mice run so fast, they dont stick

 

sticky boards like all trapping all fine for reducing numbers but wiping out the population might be hardertyhan you first think. simple snap traps are your best bet and as said already baits ike peanut buter are good as the mice have to make a positive movement to budge it then they die. mouse trapping is good fun really great for staarting children in the trapping game, its how my dad encouraged me.

[The one 8,592]

i just use chocolate and melt it on the tounge of the trap with a lighter

[Guest buster321c]

I know what you mean about the chocolate drying out Stubby , i ment the caramel bit in the mars bar , ive use in on rat traps too and they love it .

[glass22 0]

One mouse...............DEAD!

[just jack 998]

One mouse...............DEAD!

hope thats it mate

[glass22 0]

Placed the trap again.........bait gone, no mouse.

 

Was using Mars, going to get peanut butter for tonight.

 

Also ordered 4 traps off Ebay.

[PeakOil 352]

If you are using a standard mouse trap and having the bait stolen off the paddle. Try threading a raisin or two onto the pin that holds the snapping arm back. Be sure to leave them at the end of the pin closest to the paddle, just before where the pin contacts the paddle. If one mouse manages to steal your main bait off the paddle without setting the trap off, usually one will come back for a second bite of the raisins and get whacked.

 

HTH