How can a mouse trap be tripped and no mouse?

Glue traps. No bruised fingers. No escaped mice.

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Limp Arbor
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Those are cruel. Just get a snaptrap and be done about it.

Jon

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Jon Danniken

Mice can lick the peanut butter off of the bait pan. Use a raisin instead; crush it on to the pan, and they'll never get it off without tripping the trap.

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Doug Miller

Get a rat zapper. Check them out on ebay. they work awesome.

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jimmydahgeek

Crazy glue the peanut on.

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clare

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jimmy

Never, ever have I kept food, seeds, anything edible (insulation doesn't count!) in my basement or my detached garage. The little vermin overrun both anyway, since those are the only two places the cats don't go since neither are accessible from inside the house. I have no problem with live and let live, but that stops at the foundation of my house. You come in uninvited, you get what you get.

That's the rule at our house, too. You can get some nasty stuff from mice, and having anything that they can eat or nest in invites problems.

Steve

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Steve B

"aemeijers" wrote

Then they do what mice do after they have eaten. Yuck. It must smell at your house.

Steve

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Steve B

Glue traps are expensive. And have you ever heard a mice screaming that has been caught in one? It's terrible.

Steve

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Steve B

yeah, sort of like cancer.

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Tony

You've got a bad trigger or some other fault. I suspect too much of a hair trigger. We use the Victor traps, too, but when I get a trap with confirmed kills I use it forever. We used to keep track by drawing little "killed" lines on the sides, but all the really good ones are completely marked up now. Once you find a good one (snapped the mouse cleanly and quickly on the neck) you'll get good at figuring out how much of a hair trigger it needs to have to work well. Too much and it goes off in a draft (opening a door) and too little and the mouse can do jumping jacks while eating the PB.

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h

True. I had rat traps set, but they kept getting licked clean without tripping. Huh? Then, one night, I looked out the window to see a rat approaching. I'm 2' away, behind glass, so he doesn't see me. Not only did he lick it clean... He held the bait shoe with both hands while he was licking it! Amazing. Unfortunately for him, I smear some peanut butter on the underside of the bait shoe. When he was all done licking the top, he stuck his head underneath to get that last little bit.... WHAM! The trap did a backwards cartwheel, I jumped a foot in the air. I survived. He didn't.

;-{

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uncle K

I always smear some on the wood under the bait lever. Maybe that's why I have a high catch rate.

Steve

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Steve B

Never, ever have I kept food, seeds, anything edible (insulation doesn't count!) in my basement or my detached garage. The little vermin overrun both anyway, since those are the only two places the cats don't go (neither are accessible from inside the house). I have no problem with live and let live, but that stops at the foundation of my house. You come in uninvited, you get what you get.

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tmclone

It could have something to do with the brand of cheese. It better not be Nolan's.

See this documentary:

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HeyBub

Years ago, I set up mouse traps. I was sitting at the computer one time, and a mouse came out to eat off the trap. I tried to get a picture, but every time I moved, the mouse fled. It was small enough and gentle enough not to trip the trap. I put down some mouse food baits, and havn't seen mousie since then. Perhaps your mouse population likes mouse food baits.

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Stormin Mormon

Nope. No food or crumbs, no mice. I was using the teeter-totter traps baited with peanut butter, and relocating them, 2 or 3 a week, to a park on other side of river. But 4-5 months ago. I noticed the bait was vanishing, but the door was still open, and the trap hadn't tottered. Dunno how, trap still functioned fine, and hinge pins weren't gummed up. Maybe 2 mice cooperating- one eating, and one holding door end down and open? So I quit setting the traps out, and quit seeing mice. I keep the bird seed in tightly sealed 5 gallon buckets. In the kitchen, only food not in fridge is sealed cans or bottles- no paper boxes or plastic bags in pantry. Even keep the bread in the fridge. And I have trained myself to not eat anywhere but kitchen table any more, so no crumbs in other rooms either.

I'll take the occasional whiff of mouse over a the constant stench of a cat litter box, any day. And litter boxes ALL stink. Cat owners that claim otherwise are in denial, or they are so used to it that they don't smell it any more. But guests sure do.

-- aem sends...

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aemeijers

You're probably right. But so what?

I am indifferent to whether my guests are offended.

Conversely, if I don't like an environment with which I have an occasion to visit, I leave and don't go back.

Or set the place on fire.

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HeyBub

Funny mouse story from years ago.

The company I worked at WG Johnston was closing:( The remaining workers were moved to a small area in the building. I was in field service still working, came in and checked the box of donuts in the adjacent kitchen like area.

Kinda peeked in box to find a mouse looking back at me:)

So I walked in office and said lennys here. Leonard lewis bought the company to shut it down and was universally despised.

Fear gripped them every time he visited more were let go:(

I said no not lenny lewis:)

Lenny the mouse in the donut box:):):)

The mouse was long gone. the donuts tossed.

After this the donuts lived on a small table in the middle of the office where everyone could watch them!!!

Johnstons was a great job, worked there 9 years and went in business for myself as it closed........

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hallerb

Here in NYC we have some giant roaches.

12/08 I found a termite nest in the closet above where we once had termites. Termite trap installed then goes off six months later. Identical termite trap immediately replacing it doesn't respond. Conclusion: the trap flag sprung from rot not termites.

I contacted an entomolgy professor who once taught my bio lab. She said check if any plants touch the house. Sure enough, it dawned on me a pine-like tree with sweet berries attracted the termites to begin with. Sadly, we removed the trees after forty years.

Lesson: Get to the ROOT of the problem.

In this case, literally.

The only time I ever had problems with mice was when the grubmint was messing with the sewers. At said time, some rats were the size of oppossums. I know because in my part of NYC we've always had a racoon a month and an oppossum a year. THough now it seems the geese, that brought down that plane, are scaring them away.

- = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist

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