How to Get Rid of a Mouse Inside Home

I put out eight mouse traps, but was thinking - is there a better way.

Anyone have any ideas????? ?

Oh well!!! :-|

Also, to keep them out, I stuffed steel wool around all the pipes in the floor and around the dryer vent, etc. So far so good.

Mark Hill
Dearborn,MO

Poor guy we had would sit and stare under the stove for hours. He sure had a frustrated look on his fuzzy face!

What you do is take a plastic pail and pour 2" or more of antifreeze (windshield washer fluid or what ever even bleach & water) then you smear a big gob of peanut butter on the inside of the bucket about 2" down from the top. Now put a nail through the end of a board and put the board up to the top of the pail just above the peanut butter, like a ramp, with the nail inside the pail to prevent the board form falling.

What will happen is the mice will smell the peanut butter and go up the board (ramp) to investigate. They will see the peanut butter and fall into the pail to try and get it. They then land in the antifreeze (or what ever you use) and drown.

This is a great unmanned trap. We use it in our hunting cabbin where there is nobody around for months at a time. You can get a lot of mice in one trap too, I think our record was around 50.

Probably not something you want in your kitchen but it would work good in an attic or a workshop.

Oh and the antifreeze works good to keep the smell down too, don't ask me why, but it does.

Ramp up the outside of the bucket to the can smeared with PB. Keep the ramp about 4" away....whatever distance it takes....as they stretch out for the PB, can rolls and they lose the balance and into the water they go. Dump the bucket out, not touch, no mess.

At fire house best way to get rid of mice , if you see one get all of the shift after them , 5 firefighters runing after the little rodent better than T V . Firefighters are better than the Canadian Mountys as they don't like liveing with mice and have large feet to stomp them . To get the mice you don't see , best use glue type as mice that pass over trap get caught . No bait to use no spring wire to hit fingers and best fo all no need to throw trap out with mouse . Give pliers to Probationary Firefighter tell to remove mouse and keep blood off trap as we need to get other mice with that trap . Snowey

I may have to try this around the bin shed! Cheap entertainment if it works!

I may have to try this around the bin shed! Cheap entertainment if it works!

How you ask? Peppermint extract from your kitchen cupboard--or the store if you don't have any. Put drops of it around any entry point. They don't care for the smell and will stay out. I have even seen evidence of a mouse trying to gnaw their way out of a building once the buiding was treated. $2 and a pleasant smell is all it takes.

If you have a crawl space dump a bunch there too.
I would also treat around the foundation if it were me doing it.

However since you have a mouse already in the house, you might also bait one trap by tying a string to the bait pan, then smearing it with bacon grease. They like it as well as peanut butter. Oh what the heck, smear the string on a different trap with peanut butter.

Last month my neighbor made me get the new Victor plastic mouse traps. Gets 'em every time. Got 15 in the first weekend with no mess and they are cheap and you don't get hurt setting them. They work like a big plastic clothes pin and we used peanut butter on the underside.

I really hate them.

I have found an almost fool-proof way of catching mice with plain old snap-traps. I used to have a lot of misses with a snap trap. The little buggers would just lick the soft peanut butter off the trigger, I would nearly snap myself in the trap trying to set a "hair-trigger". Many times I would find a snapped trap with no mouse in it... But one time I watched a mouse at the trap... and it climbed on the bail and spring to get to the food (bait). When the trigger released... it launched the mouse and the trap was empty (most likely teaching the mouse to stay away from traps).

I figured that I needed to focus access, to the bait, for the mouse... The access needed to be at end of the trap where the bail would hit the mouse in the head. With this reasoning in mind I cut a small box (a 12 gauge shotgun shell box), so that it had no top and only 3 sides, so that the "set" trap could then be slid into the box with just the trigger end of the trap exposed. The 12g shotgun shell box is the perfect size for a snap trap! I cut it so that there are 3 sides to the box (plus having a bottom). A mouse will circle a structure before climbing over it (looking for access). It will come to the open end of the box and enter the trap with nothing in the way to stop the bail from killing it!!!! Works nearly every time (rough figure: 99% of the time).

I also did start using pecan nuts in the trigger... the pecan is hard, compared to peanut butter. And the mouse cannot just lick the pecan off the trigger like it can do with peanut butter. The mouse has to use its teeth to try to dislodge the pecan, and in doing so... trips the trigger! I never worry about setting a "hair-trigger" anymore! I do squeeze the pecan lightly as I put it in the trigger so that some of the nut's oils are released for an aromatic effect to draw the mouse into the trap.

Good luck! If you need pics of the trap setup I can post some!

Works like a charm!!!!

Neighbors didn't hear a thang!

See ya!

If you saw one, he has 10 buddies that you don't see and they are trying to set up residence in your house.

The best cure I've ever used is that commercial poison that they sell at TSC and outlets like that. It is a bait type in a plastic sack; you have to "plant" it around your structure. It really seems to work.

Allan