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Best Mousetrap * 3
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So I have mice in my house.  It is an old house and since winter is coming they are all rushing inside  Normally I just let them be unless they get into food or bother me when I am sleeping, but one has gone and died under my floor or in my wall and my room has stunk for days now, so I am declaring all-out war.  I have caught 6 or 7 in the past week using regular old spring snap-traps, but after a couple uses the spring weakens and the mice seem to escape death.  I would like something that is more re-usable, pet-safe, and effective.

I am thinking of rigging up one with a five-gallon bucket with some bait either on a roller, or a plank that tips in when weight is applied.  Here are some examples:



Has anyone ever tried a trap like this?  Has anyone had success with other sorts of traps? 

I am also going to try to find any holes in my foundation/basement and patch them up.  I have been told that exterminators use foam sealant with copper mixed in because the mice don't like that or something.  Is that true?  What else can I mix in with sealant to discourage mice?

Are there any other tricks people know of to prevent mice from entering my house?  Something I can spray in my walls and under floors that will discourage them but not be potentially toxic to the wanted inhabitants of my house?  I'd really rather not poison them and have to deal with more dead bodies where I can't reach them.

Any advice is appreciated.

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Re: Best Mousetrap [Re: moonrockmushy] * 4
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I would expect Apollyphelion to make a trap like this. No one else. :lol:

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Re: Best Mousetrap [Re: moonrockmushy] * 2
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Re: Best Mousetrap [Re: PatrickKn]
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I had a mouse problem a few weeks ago, we searched for where they were coming in. Found the hole behind the oven, the plate that covers the electrical socket was moved. Might have to move stuff around till you find it. We filled the hole with steel wool after the traps stopped catching them. Caught 12 overall. It was nuts man, had no mouse problem, then it only took a week to be over run.

The traps worked though no issue. We caught 6 in one day on the first day. Used peanut butter, supposedly it's harder for them to get at peanut butter than it is for other kinds of bait, so they mess with the trap a little harder.

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Re: Best Mousetrap [Re: PatrickKn]
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PatrickKn said:
I would expect Apollyphelion to make a trap like this. No one else. :lol:



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Re: Best Mousetrap [Re: moonrockmushy] * 1
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Get cats. Problem solved. :smile:

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Re: Best Mousetrap [Re: PatrickKn]
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Haha I tried this trap when I was living with my family in middleschool. I caught a few mice. Though the property where I have been living last 3 years has Rats almost the size of my forearm haha but they are super easy to take care of. Every year they try to get into my house when it starts freezing but if I put out enough Classic big ass wooden rat traps I can get every single one over night. They cant resist crunchy Peanut butter :evil:


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Re: Best Mousetrap [Re: The Phleg]
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I'm going to be making a large version of this with a 50 gallon barrel and a pvc slide pipe with peanut butter at the end.  No water though, I can't stand the thought of them drowning in a barrel so I'm just gonna shoot em.  That or take the barrel over to the house of this prick I hate and dump it over in his yard :lol:

Oh, rats, not mice.  Hence the barrel.


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Re: Best Mousetrap [Re: moonrockmushy]
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How do you get the dead ones out of the wall?

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Re: Best Mousetrap [Re: ShiVersblood]
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ShiVersblood said:
How do you get the dead ones out of the wall?



People usually let their house smell like rotting flesh for a couple months until the rat becomes soil or fully dehydrates hah :rofl:


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Re: Best Mousetrap [Re: applesmasher420]
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Throw a snake in there.


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Re: Best Mousetrap [Re: ShiVersblood]
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lol I made a thread the other day about mice being in my trailer... oddly enough I haven't seen them since that night. I'm sure they're somewhere in our place hiding out, but I was all about catching them but since I haven't seen them since then I just kinda said fuck it and forgot about them.

But your situation sounds like it needs taken care of. I never heard of that barrel trick. Seems pretty nifty. I don't really have anything to add other than being able to relate to having mice in the house... :shrug:

I was contemplating what it would be like to bait them with cheese/peanut butter mixed with some powerful hallucinogen like mxe/dpt and observing the reactions, but that is just too messed up so the thought didn't leave my head and become action, but it was an entertaining thought, thinking what they'd do under the effects...


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Re: Best Mousetrap [Re: Forest Sprite]
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Thanks all for the responses.  Apolly would make the coolest mousetrap ever, but I am going for simple :lol:

Peanut butter does work well.  I've had them eat it off the little metal tab without triggering it, but I found if I smeared it on the underside and below the tab also they can't steal the bait without setting it off.

We've had cats in the past but they tend to get eaten themselves out here, and I don't find indoor cats to be the best hunters.  I think just having a cat helps so much to keep them in check, because I find that it is really only the boldest mice that are a nuisance, and those are the first ones to go.  During the summer I find if I kill one the rest leave me alone, but this time of year I am getting overrun, so I think I do need a new cat.

Yeah I don't know how to get them out of the wall.  That is why I don't want to use poison.  I'm not sure exactly where it is and I was just going to wait it out if I can.  It is not a very strong smell.  I get used to it.  Thank god there's not really rats around here, I'm not sure why.

I think I'm going to go ahead and drown them.  It used to really bother me killing them, but like I have heard killers say, it gets easier  :hehehe:

I will update if I have any success.  I am going to do some trial runs in the basement and see what works.  If anyone has more ideas for traps whether homemade or cheap commercial ones let me know.

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Re: Best Mousetrap [Re: moonrockmushy] * 1
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My mom used to set those about the house. The mice swim until they are too tired and drown. If my mom saw them swimming in there she would hold their heads under water with a stick until they stopped struggling.


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Re: Best Mousetrap [Re: moonrockmushy]
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Typical wooden mouse traps work really well and are cheap. Nutella works great, so does peanut butter. Pretty quick and painless for them. You'll be less involved with the whole process, too. At most, you'll hear a SNAP, and then grab the trap and toss the trap and mouse together. I saw one get snagged and it was pretty much instant death.

Last winter at a different house, the mice were coming in through the dryer vent that lead outside. I looked behind my dryer and saw some dry wall was chewed off, and mouse shit was all behind the dryer. Maybe that's an area to look. Look for tiny bits of mouse shit, and that's a decent area to start laying traps.... If you go this route. I'd recommend it though.

Drowning sounds messy. The water, the wet dead mice and what not...

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Re: Best Mousetrap [Re: Colours]
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Colours said:
Typical wooden mouse traps work really well and are cheap. Nutella works great, so does peanut butter. Pretty quick and painless for them. You'll be less involved with the whole process, too. At most, you'll hear a SNAP, and then grab the trap and toss the trap and mouse together. I saw one get snagged and it was pretty much instant death.

Last winter at a different house, the mice were coming in through the dryer vent that lead outside. I looked behind my dryer and saw some dry wall was chewed off, and mouse shit was all behind the dryer. Maybe that's an area to look. Look for tiny bits of mouse shit, and that's a decent area to start laying traps.... If you go this route. I'd recommend it though.

Drowning sounds messy. The water, the wet dead mice and what not...



the sticky glue ones are fucked in that regard, wet dead vermin not all that different then dry dead vermin.

cats or any decent dog will fix said issues.


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Re: Best Mousetrap [Re: moonrockmushy]
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In that case I would imagine your are better off finding and sealing off all their entrances, then setting spring traps for the leftovers..

Or you can simply ask them to leave?..


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Re: Best Mousetrap [Re: zZZz] * 1
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When I clicked on this thread, I was expecting a new type of trap music.  mousetrap.

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Re: Best Mousetrap [Re: tito123]
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could try using cheese or some sort in a beer bottle (corona?)


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