The 6th mouse I trapped in about 3 days. I think this wipes out the family. BTW, you can mummify a little critter like this (or say a dead hummingbird, if you find one) by placing it on a pie plate in the freezer, wrapped in Saran wrap with air holes punched in it, and leave it for about two months. I learned this at a workshop on bones at
The Bone Room, a great natural history store in Berkeley, Calif.
Note: they
have invented a better mouse trap. The Ortho 0321110 Home Defense Max Press 'N Set Mouse Trap has a "bait well" that you fill with peanut butter, so the trap is sprung by mouse digging around in it; this solves the problem of mouse deftly removing bait without springing trap. Ortho also makes a rat trap with the same feature.
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I recently went through a spate of mouse-trap buying, I'm eager to pass along a recommendation. If a catch and release trap is amenable to your situation, the Kness Tip-Trap 109-0-001 Live-Capture Mouse Trap is a fantastic product. The only caveat I have is that, depending on the length of time the trapped mouse is allowed to remain in the trap, a small rubber-band should be used to secure the exit (Before I did this, some mice would chew and push open the door). I hate to sound like an advertisement, but I tried several different models, and the fact that this one, which I had thought least likely to work, turned out to be the only one which captured mice (see my review of a less effective product.
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We don't get a mouse in our cabin very often, but when we do we use a Havahart live trap.
http://www.havahart.com/
We use the larger one for woodrats that raid my garden. The trick is to release them far enough away so they don't return. In our case, they get a boat ride to Goat Island. Unless they can swim a long ways they're not coming home. - Margy
don't kill them- get a humane trap, and release the mice several kilometers away.
A compassionate position is the best option for every being involved!
I have another way of dealing with the "Problem of the Mouse".
Twenty four years ago I bought a 10 acre junk yard. I now have lovely out buildings, a greenhouse, garden and pond.
But, oh, the mice!! No amount of traps, cats, peanut butter, beer...nothing could keep up with the mice. So.....I created a "recipe" for their mouse parties.
Oats, rice, cat food and dry, quick setting concrete.
They eat it, they get a drink and you don't see them again.
I know this may sound inhumane to alot of people but after my neighbor used chemicals on his mice and the cats and 3 dogs including his own died of poison from eating the dead mice, I came up with this method.
I also have not had to use the method for many years. Now the cats and other preditor keep up with the mice and I don't mind the occasional visitor.
The earlybird gets the worm....but the second mouse gets the cheese.---Stephen Wright
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