Mice in the basement

Spring-loaded mouse trap baited with a bit of cracker & peanut butter. Yeah...I know...you have to remove the dead mouse, but this method involves no poison and is very effective. Put on a pair of dishwashing gloves when handling the dead mouse, and then wash your glove covered hands with whatever liquid detergent you have around. Keep the toddlers out of the basement until this is over.

Then there is the sticky traps that catch the mouse's feet. Of course then you either have to let the mouse starve or kill him yourself.

The traditional method is still the best: spring traps.

Bait them with raisins. Get a good, plump, juicy raisin, and mash it down hard onto the bait pan. Then set the trap. They can't get the raisin off without springing the trap.

Thanks. I do not mind extracting mice from spring loaded traps. (I mentioned them dying from poinson because when poisoned, they tend to die in unaccessible places). I will probably buy a few spring loaded mouse traps in addition to mouse cubes.

Just a thought. You might want to remember that, once the mice figure out that their food supply has disappeared, they will find food somewhere else. They may move upstairs.

A few years ago I would have said "Get a cat". Then, I discovered my best hunting cat was depositing live mice in my basement. Apparently he wanted to have something to hunt when the weather turned cold outside and decided to set up his own game preserve.

The spring traps work best, but vary your bait - use peanut butter on one, cheese on one, fruit on another.

there are live mouse traps, trap door, like a havehart trap. work well.

easily released mice outdoors. plus its humane

They don't work worth a damn. Unless you enjoy trapping the same mice over and over and over.

Humane, maybe, but stupid. Release them outdoors, and they're back indoors within hours, if not minutes.

They are cheap enough to throw the whole thing into the bin.

Burn off the hair over the stove burner, then deep fry and serve with spicy marinara sauce as a dip, like calamari.

....bring in the spooky music here.....dum dum dum..... :-)

I am definitely going to kill them. Just a little of gasoline poured into a mouse cube, works well.

Decon, or mousetraps baited with peanut butter.

Gunner

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Raisins.

They can lick peanut butter off of the bait pan without springing the trap.

Get a cat. You don't even have to get one permanently, you can borrow it, lock it up in the basement at night with a limited amount of food and water and let nature take its course. In a week the problem should be solved unless the rodents have an entry point you have not located and neutralized.

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True indeed. I once used Bingo markers to mark some mice a lady friend had live trapped. She trapped the same group about 5 times over the next week or so. Each time she caught one..she put another big ink dot on each one. I think they finally died of in poisoning....

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Proper serving is a key. Bamboo skewer up the rectum and out the mouth is the proper way.

Plus you can deep fry them on the skewer by simply dunking em into the hot grease.

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Great theater! Pu pu platter with mice!

Some people are sure squeamish.