Mice!

[Dragonryder]

IRISH SPRING Soap - The Regular kind.

In the country, Watched 3 prized Fat Cats - loose weight then run away and no mice.

All within 1 month, mice problem solved immediatly. Cats had to venture off further for the Hunt

 

[ferniesnow]

I'll just bring this up again as it is always a topic of conversation this time of year.

My holiday trailer is all cleaned out and Victor traps are all set in strategic place using peanut butter for bail.

 

[imdoo'n]

I'll just bring this up again as it is always a topic of conversation this time of year.

My holiday trailer is all cleaned out and Victor traps are all set in strategic place using peanut butter for bail.

did you put paper plates or a news paper under your traps?

 

[ferniesnow]

did you put paper plates or a news paper under your traps?

No paper in the trailer. No paper plates. Just traps with peanut butter sitting in the bottom cupboards.

 

[sc800]

I'll just bring this up again as it is always a topic of conversation this time of year.

My holiday trailer is all cleaned out and Victor traps are all set in strategic place using peanut butter for bail.

Doug, I find mice are smarter than peanut butter. They can ever so gently lick it and not set the trap off. I did some reading and found a guy that put some Tootsie roll in his mouth and softened it and then made a ball around the victor bait point on the trap. It hardens very quick again and the nice have to be a lot more aggressive with it and this catches more mice!

 

[ferniesnow]

Doug, I find mice are smarter than peanut butter. They can ever so gently lick it and not set the trap off. I did some reading and found a guy that put some Tootsie roll in his mouth and softened it and then made a ball around the victor bait point on the trap. It hardens very quick again and the nice have to be a lot more aggressive with it and this catches more mice!

Shawn, yes it can be a chore and particularly with the baby mice as they have a more gentle touch. I have found that working with the "holding mechanism" to lessen the pressure works good for me. The Tootsie roll idea looks like it would work also.

 

[tejay]

Paper gives them nesting material. If they don’t set the trap off you are supplying home building materials.

 

[arff]

I found peppermint oil on a makeup pad seems to help keep them out.

I also set a trap line.

Yes have had mice in the trailer. Found some trailers worse than others. Always tried spray foaming all openings etc etc.

 

[FastFarmer]

We use the grey plastic traps that you plus press the back to open and set and catch the small mice, they have to put their body onto the trigger to get the PB. Not a lot of pressure when it snaps but it gets the little ones. The wooden traps that have the big yellow plastic flapper on them are the ticket. We don’t use the metal hook in the side ones anymore, the yellow flap you can set it at a high angle so they ha e to crawl up onto it to get the PB, the plastic you can bend it out to get a true hair trigger.

You can can also take a 5 gallon pail, fill it up about 4” with water, put a string across it with bait in the middle and a ramp going up it, works really good.

 

[Stompin Tom]

We use the grey plastic traps that you plus press the back to open and set and catch the small mice, they have to put their body onto the trigger to get the PB. Not a lot of pressure when it snaps but it gets the little ones. The wooden traps that have the big yellow plastic flapper on them are the ticket. We don’t use the metal hook in the side ones anymore, the yellow flap you can set it at a high angle so they ha e to crawl up onto it to get the PB, the plastic you can bend it out to get a true hair trigger.

You can can also take a 5 gallon pail, fill it up about 4” with water, put a string across it with bait in the middle and a ramp going up it, works really good.

we do a version of the 5 gallon pail trap, run a wire across the middle with an empty tin can with a hole centered in each end through the wire, put some peanut butter on the tin can, run a 1x3 up to the lip near the wire. 5 or 6 inches of water in the bottom. Even works in the winter, just takes longer for the mice to die because they dont drown.

 

[niner]

These sticky pads work great. My dad caught a momma mouse who gave birth while stuck. Babies got stuck too. Trying to find the pic.

 

[FastFarmer]

Yeah those are the good ones...the others a mouse can get off of somehow, must be the big ones, extra torque.

 

[Greg5658]

Ever had a chipmunk in your house? My wife's aunt went to use the can and when she opened the toilet lid a saturated chipmunk shot out and ricochet around the bathroom. She called her brother in to kill it and he didn't believe her but opened the bathroom door and it was climbing the shower curtain. He caught it in a fish net and released it outside. They figured it got in the sewer vent. Ya and we don't let our aunt forget about it either.

 

[imdoo'n]

No paper in the trailer. No paper plates. Just traps with peanut butter sitting in the bottom cupboards.

well then you may have more clean up when they break down, get jelly like. they tend to stink also.


if the mouse is interested in the paper plate you are not using the right bait,

 

[imdoo'n]

we do a version of the 5 gallon pail trap, run a wire across the middle with an empty tin can with a hole centered in each end through the wire, put some peanut butter on the tin can, run a 1x3 up to the lip near the wire. 5 or 6 inches of water in the bottom. Even works in the winter, just takes longer for the mice to die because they dont drown.

i put windshield washer antifreeze in bucket in winter, seen mice jump out of a 5 gallon pail! i would have to agree this may be the best mouse trap going.

 

[medler]

I use the sticky traps all year round. Had one in my new trailer. Think I found where the bugger got in. Steel wool and expanding foam Check your slides where the ram slides in. That’s a easy place to. I gotta get mine sealed better

 

[imdoo'n]

i have heard these rodents can squeeze through a hole the siz of a pencil! no idea if true or false, just heard it .

 

[rknight111]

The sticky traps work great in warmer temps. After about -5 they turn to ice so the mice can run all over the place and don't stick.

 

[imdoo'n]

The sticky traps work great in warmer temps. After about -5 they turn to ice so the mice can run all over the place and don't stick.

i tend to get them stuck to everything, i do like the metal traps with the window on top. can be real messy though?

 

[snochuk]

These sticky pads work great. My dad caught a momma mouse who gave birth while stuck. Babies got stuck too. Trying to find the pic.

Hahaha
Same thing in my trailer.
Almost pulled her front leg out of shoulder to.
Pretty gross actually.....I did not take pictures.