Tricking the Mice (Page 2): Interesting. I often thought about putting a camera in the room with traps, but I wouldn't want to see the video.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

EdJ0307 wrote:

I was in my garage a few years ago (a previous hou... (show quote)

Interesting. I often thought about putting a camera in the room with traps, but I wouldn't want to see the video.

kenArchi Loc: Seal Beach, CA

No mice here just rats.
Unfortunately trapped a bird, and a rat got a a free meal. I had to quickly hide the feathers so my wife would not see what has happened.

DavidPhares Loc: Chandler, Arizona

jerryc41 wrote:

If you've ever put down mouse traps, you know that they can sometimes eat the bait without springing the trap. I thought of a possible solution. Put baited mouse traps down in your regular locations, but do not set them. Just leave them there as food offerings. After doing that for a few nights, set the traps.

INSTEAD OF CHEESE, TRY GUMMY BEARS!

Dalbon

I've found that glue trap work great also.
David

jessandcheryl

The best thing I have ever found was to put peanut butter on the trap, then set either a sunflower seed or a cheerio into it. Let it sit a couple hours so that the peanut butter gets firm. I have caught up to four mice without even rebaiting it!

camshot Loc: Peterborough ontario Canada

Many years ago, my mother would take a glass bowl, turn it upside down on the counter, pack a thimble with cheese
and put it under the lip of the bowl, the cheese facing in, The mouse would go under the edge of the bowl and when pocking at the cheese, the thimble would slip out and trap the beast, She would then put a piece of cardboard under the bowl take it outside and give it a big toss. She, of course ran the danger of a further visit from the same guy.

EdJ0307 Loc: out west someplace

Dalbon wrote:

I've found that glue trap work great also.
David

But how long does it take for the critter to die?
I found this on the International Humane Society website:
Q: What happens to animals caught by a glue trap?

A: Depending on how frequently the trap is checked, animals can be stuck anywhere from a hours to days. They may be trapped on their side, or face down, by all legs or just one, and will often cry out in distress. Trapped animals struggle to free themselves and may become more and more embedded in the glue. Some rodents break bones and tear off, or even bite through, their own limbs in an attempt to free themselves. After a fruitless struggle, they may succumb to exhaustion, collapse face down in the glue, and die of suffocation when the glue lodges in their nasal passages. Most often death comes from a combination of exhaustion, dehydration, and starvation. This can take anywhere from three to 24 hours, or more.

This is why I don't use or like glue traps. They may be only mice but as I said in another post I don't want to torture or torment them.

drucker Loc: Oregon

We've seldom had mice in the house but recently the door to the garage was left open a bit overnight and a couple of days later we discovered some "tracks." I set two traps baited with our usual peanut butter. One dead mouse in the morning. I reset the trap but forgot to check them that evening. The next morning the traps were still set but the bait was gone. So I added more peanut butter and the next morning again the bait was gone from one trap but there was a line of ants polishing off the last of the peanut butter on the other. Foiled by ants, not a smart or very lucky mouse! On to plan two . . .

Reuss Griffiths Loc: Ravenna, Ohio

The answer is bacon. Bacon makes anything better. We all know this. If you bait the trap with a small piece of bacon then singe it with a match it will out draw peanut butter any day. It works for basement mice, attic mice, city mice, country mice even your neighbors mice. I learned this trick from my grandfather and it never fails.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

jessandcheryl wrote:

The best thing I have ever found was to put peanut butter on the trap, then set either a sunflower seed or a cheerio into it. Let it sit a couple hours so that the peanut butter gets firm. I have caught up to four mice without even rebaiting it!

Clever

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Reuss Griffiths wrote:

The answer is bacon. Bacon makes anything better. We all know this. If you bait the trap with a small piece of bacon then singe it with a match it will out draw peanut butter any day. It works for basement mice, attic mice, city mice, country mice even your neighbors mice. I learned this trick from my grandfather and it never fails.

I don't think a mouse is going to look at food and say, "Nah! I'm waiting for gummy bears or bacon."

Reuss Griffiths Loc: Ravenna, Ohio

jerryc41 wrote:

I don't think a mouse is going to look at food and say, "Nah! I'm waiting for gummy bears or bacon."

The difference is that a mouse in the attic can't smell the gummy bears or peanut butter in the basement. But he can smell the bacon and follows his nose. When ever you fry bacon, the smell permeates the whole house.