In the 4 years since I build my house, I have never had a mouse until this year. I saw one run from under the range to the refrigerator. So I went out, bought 4 sticky traps, 4 regular old mouse traps, and a poison house in hopes to cut this problem off at the pass. First night I snagged one in a sticky trap. Great I thought, got it. Thought that was the only one. A couple days later, I noticed that one of the traps had been stripped of it's peanut butter, so I checked and those bastards had stripped 3 out of 4 traps and not sprung. I tapped on the trap and wham, it slammed shut. How the hell did those little bastards do that. So I put a little peanut butter in the middle of a sticky trap. Just heard that trap move and went to check it out. I could see where it had eaten some of the peanut butter, but never stepped on the trap. I fancy myself a decent hunter, but these little bastards are kicking my butt.
I was hoping to avoid using the poison. I'd prefer one not to eat it, climb behind the fridge or under a cabinet and die. Stinking up the place for a couple weeks. I'm going to have to step up my game.
Ive always heard that and never had an issue with the smell. The cats won't even eat them after being poisoned.:what: Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Tapatalk 2
Try living in a 130 year old farm house. Surrounded by fields and only 200 yards from grain bins and 500 yards from the elevator. Once the crops are cut... we get mice. Heavy rain... more mice. Cold snap... mice. We buy poison by the bucket full. We have bait stations outside, bait stations in the pole barn. Poison in the basement, attic and behind the cabinets. We even have some in the duct work. (some of the ducts are wooden so the mice get in them easily enough) We use glue boards in the house too. We catch about a dozen mice in the glue boards each year. Have another dozen die from poison. About half of those I find stumbling about before they croak. The other half find some horrible, unreachable place to die and then rot. How a dinky mouse can smell like so bad, I have no idea. It's like a horse died in the wall. bleagh!! If we didn't use the poison... we'd be overrun. Particularly outside. Chicken feed and rodents.... not a good mix. BTW, jam a piece of peanut or bacon on the trigger of the trap. Wedge it good enough that the critter has to tug on it hard to pull it off. Mice will easily nibble peanut butter off the trigger. Something hard like nut meat or bacon gets them to bite down and pull.
I think many crawl off, maybe back outside... Because we only get about 4-6 stinkers a year but we must have far more killed than that. (the bait keeps disappearing) But the ones that do stink... stink good. And they time it so it's when you have friends or family over. I also had some mouse/mice move into my truck. I guess because it's been sitting for a couple months. So I tossed poison into the cab. Well, it seems to have worked because when I had to pick up some steel a couple days ago I was about overcome by the stench of mouse pee and rotting rodent. I got out a can of Nose Jammer that I have and sprayed the heck out of my truck. To be sure... nose jammer works for humans. My truck cab smells like a giant vanilla cookie now. (which is almost noxious in it's own right... but not near as much as decomposing vermin)
I had a few make it in my garage this fall... I put several different types of traps out. The "Little Pete" trap seemed to work best - I baited with a little peanut butter and a few whole peanutes... Essentially a live trap... Some of the more traditional looking traps that are made out of plastic seem to work OK too - just make sure to put peanut butter on the underneath of the top of the trap - not on the trigger... Don't get as many false trips... http://www.webstaurantstore.com/jt-...-clear-lid-galvanized-steel/605JT423CLGY.html
My dad always uses a bucket of water with a wire running across the top. Jam a pop can on the wire and put peanut butter on the middle of the can. Mouse climbs the wire up to the can, can spins when he gets on and there ya go drowned mouse. Seems to work well.
I've heard that this works great but haven't tried it myself. I'm about to though. Every winter mice try to invade my trailer and garage at my place in the woods. I keep them well stocked with poison and baited traps. Once winter really sets in it gets better. Seems like the mice have their winter homes picked out and don't come in my buildings as much.
I think that stuff dehydrates them and they go searching for water, then once they die the poison dries out there bodies. So they typically don't stink.
These work great. Just be sure to place your ramp/stick so they have to jump to the can, otherwise they'll use the wire and some will escape. we will put these out when we shut down a cabin for the winter. We get a ton in the part of the loge we live in, a 100 y/o log cabin. I've found that the oldschool wood & wire snap traps work best. You can adjust the sensitivity easy enough. We use PB on our traps. Get mice, shrews and voles. My favortie is when the shorttailed weasle comes around. The eat a ton of them! I'd rather have a single shorttail than dozens of mice
