I bought two mouse traps, the kind that does not kill the mouse. That darn mouse has not touched them. How in gods name do I catch it. I don't know if its male or female, I don't want a bunch of little mice running around. I have never in the 14 years I've been here had a mouse problem. What do I do. My dogs don't even know its there. I asked the lady at the rescue where I volenteer, and she laughed saying get a cat.
We had a mouse in our house once. We didn't use a mouse trap. My silly husband would sit on the couch with a paper towel roll and a cloth stuck in one end of it so the mouse couldn't get out. He also had a box handy and whenever he would see the mouse he would chase it around trying to get it to run into the paper towel roll. After about 4 days he caught it and put it in the box and took it out to the woods.
For the answer to your question I have always heard the mice like peanut butter. Try putting peanut butter on the trap and he/she should go right on it.
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I was just going to suggest Peant Butter. It works great! We had a ton of cats growing up but they never seemed to do anything about our mouse problem. (We lived in the country) We ALWAYS used live traps and would release them pretty far away. They may have come back but they had to work hard to do it! lol
LOL, thats funny. There is too many things for it to sneak into. That darn mouse has a little smorgasborg waiting in that trap, cheese, peanutbutter, and the doggy bisquit he was chomping on, oh my son put nacho chips too, it bit into that bag also. All that and still nothing.
I was actually referring to items such as D-Con and other poisons that can be ingested by other animals as well as the mouse that eats it can be digested by other animals and can cause sickness or death in them as well. I have had a cat die do to eating a mouse that had eaten D-con.
Also, snap traps can be horrible if the mouse does not get killed instantly. Have you ever seen a mouse get just his leg caught in one of those? If they do not die a slow painful death of starvation and dehydration they will try to chew their own leg off. It is the most horrible thing to see.
You know oddly at my work I work with animal pelts that my boss puts on his bags. But I just would rather not kill it. And being I have my dogs here, I don't want them ingesting anything. We shall see how desparate I get. My boss offered me this sticky trap, where the mouse wlaks on and is stuck and you are to just throw it away. I would feel horrible, starving it to death.
Sorry, but I still don't see justifying killing it. And I live near a wheat field. I still prefer just to trap them and take them far away and release them.
Did you put the trap in a dark corner? The best thing to do is put it somewhere and only check it every other day. Mice will be fine for that long. Usually you will hear them when you catch them anyway.
I bought two mouse traps, the kind that does not kill the mouse. That darn mouse has not touched them. How in gods name do I catch it. I don't know if its male or female, I don't want a bunch of little mice running around. I have never in the 14 years I've been here had a mouse problem. What do I do. My dogs don't even know its there. I asked the lady at the rescue where I volenteer, and she laughed saying get a cat.
From what I've read... they follow along the walls... they also pee all the time... sprinkle continuously...they have no turn off valve for urine…. try traps against the walls? with PB? I hate snap traps or worse the glue traps... those are so mean.
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