The metal and wood ones work better. If they tend to escape, take the serrated edge from an empty box of tinfoil and use small brads to attach that to the end of the trap. Not sharp enough to stop the mouse from going in but it helps to hold them from slipping out. Also put the traps where the sides are closed in so the mouse has to center itself in the trap to get to the bait. They make some really big traps for rats which can break a human finger when sprung so upsize if your quarry keeps escaping. Sometimes you have to wire or fasten the trap in place or they will run away with the trap on them. Just make doubly sure your pets can’t possibly get to those big traps
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why not use humane traps, and release the poor mice out in the woods where they can try to live, and get into the food chain ??
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excuse is not believable. use humane traps. release out in woods.
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Because its a pest vermin. Thats why. Also because if you RELEASE IT? its just coming back in again and again anyways. Like a freaking merry go round.
Myself? I have a better mousetrap… its commonly referred to as a “C-A-T”, ha ha. have you ever SEEN what a cat DOES when it catches a mousie? Jesus, it plays with it, it tortures it, then it eats it alive. The mouse is better off getting caught in a trap than by a cat, really.
I will terminate, with extreme prejudice? PEST VERMIN that enter my house and will not vacate. I kill mice, rats, raccoons and possums if they enter the house.
i catch and release snakes and bats, i like them, i dont feel they cause any harm inside the house, so, i do not terminate them with extreme prejudice.
Say that after you are the one that has to routinely repair the damage done by the little guys. They are incredibly bad for a house. They chew through wiring, they defecate everywhere you really don’t want them to, ruin insulation, so on and so on.
Unfortunately, they breed like crazy so if you can’t stomach killing them you’re going to be dealing with them forever.
If you choose to deny reality thats your problem, not mine.
I wanted to catch and release but failed, if you can then the next time i have a mouse your welcome to come to my house and remove it.
Tarver, I would like to introduce you to a few Grizzly bears which that technique was tried on, but after they returned and wreaked havoc again the proper solution was implemented and I don’t know where those carcasses went to >-)
Mice and rats are fast-breeding disease-carrying vermin. They are so prevalent that they will not ever be made extinct through human trapping. They are adapted to urban environments and if you dump them in a forest somewhere the odds are that they will starve to death or quickly become predator food, dying anyway. You don’t solve a problem by moving it around.
Yeah we have some of those rat traps because usually we have rats, not mice.
I was thinking of doing something similar to improve the trap; I had an idea to file the bar into like a blade and maybe serrate it so that the trap will really hurt the mouse so that it won’t go anywhere.
Edit: woah how did a whole bunch of other messages appear between this and the message I was replying too
Not all cats will pwn a mouse… some cats might be scared of mice but I think many or most house cats will just look and sniff it but not care about it. A better option may be a terrier dog.
Yesterday we got so caught up in mice that I forgot to mention something I saw at Home Depot…
Remember the 16 gal wet vac for $40 last christmas? I saw them again! Except this time they were discounted to $37.00 from $39.97 or whatever.
So so far, the mouse traps have been 50% effective at holding mice in (if you count by the attempts) or 66% effective (if you could by the mice). The first mouse was successfully caught, though it was holding on the corner and it might have escaped if I didn’t take it out sooner; the second mouse escaped twice (I think, or maybe they were different mice); the third mouse successfully trapped well.