Darn mice!

[BHopkins]

The electric mouse traps have worked quite well for me too. I've used the Victor traps.

https://www.amazon.com/Victor-M250B...lectric+mouse+trap,lawngarden,930&sr=1-5&th=1

 

[Elkins45]

The best traps I've found are the Victor Quick Kill. The Tomcat ones are good but all of mine broke after the second or third use. These are super sensitive and have lasted for multiple kills.

 

[Kira]

and have lasted for multiple kills.

Ohhhh...so you have a wife and daughters who'll empty and reset a moust trap? <<That's a joke.

The bucket traps and old fashioned wood snappers from Victor seem to work quite well.
Glad to see some things are still made here. <<That's sarcasm.

 

[Dave Sherman]

Thanks all. An update, the plastic traps are working, just not all the time. I've caught 3 so far. Seems they were the ones that were giving me trouble, because tonight they haven't tripped and nobody took the bait. I like the bucket trap idea, I might have to look for one of those. For sure, I need to fix the opening in the overhead door gasket, and figure out where they were hiding out.

 

[PandaBear]

Having a little mouse issue in my garage. Started noticing some mouse droppings, though thankfully it doesn't look like they have caused damage to the vehicles (yet). Set out the spring traps (plastic jaw type) that have usually worked in the past, but these critters seem to have figured out how to eat the bait without tripping them. Baited them again, and finally, I heard one snap while I was out working on the Lincoln. Except it kept rattling. Caught the rodent's leg and tail, and it was still kicking. Great... Got a bucket of water and drowned it. I'm reluctant to use the baits because I don't want it disappearing and decomposing somewhere inaccessible, and I've heard they'll chew off their own leg to get out of a glue trap. I've also heard the ultrasonic repellers don't work, otherwise I'd plug one in.

Any ideas?

Ultrasonic never works.

I found that adding a bit of wire mesh to a snap trap then add peanut butter on it will make it easier to trigger than just smearing on the trigger.

 

[wlk]

I used bait until a few years ago when we found a sick hawk in the bushes near our home. I threw a towel over the hawk and put him in a cardboard box to take him to a local bird rescue facility near us. The hawk ended up dying and I suspect that it may have eaten poisoned mice so I stopped doing that.

The amount of secondary poisoning is extremely low with the rodenticides that are out. The hawk would have had to eaten many many dead mice in a row and I seriously doubt the hawk was poisoned. I killed bugs for many years and it just doesn't happen as much, if ever, as it is portrayed all the time.

 

[wlk]

Victor wooden snap traps are the best you can get, use just a small touch of pb on the pedal. Most problems is people put way too much on them and they can nibble away without working for it and tripping the trap.