I have had much better luck with the QuickSet traps from victor, available at any big box hardware store
I’ve had OK results with the traditional mouse trap, it seems sometimes it gets triggered but no dead mouse. the only problem I’ve had with the QuickSet ones is it’s sometimes touchy with setting it, sometimes it’s too sensitive and triggers before being places. the traditional mouse traps are easier to set.
But I get mice occasionally on my sill plate in the basement and nowhere else but they have climbed the walls into my attic though and make a lot of noise that is annoying so I trap them and toss them out in the trash. I get about 2-3 a month perhaps in the colder months…
I have had much better luck with the QuickSet traps from victor, available at any big box hardware store
I’ve had OK results with the traditional mouse trap, it seems sometimes it gets triggered but no dead mouse. the only problem I’ve had with the QuickSet ones is it’s sometimes touchy with setting it, sometimes it’s too sensitive and triggers before being places. the traditional mouse traps are easier to set.
But I get mice occasionally on my sill plate in the basement and nowhere else but they have climbed the walls into my attic though and make a lot of noise that is annoying so I trap them and toss them out in the trash. I get about 2-3 a month perhaps in the colder months…
Jay
Yep, this is the one that has been working great for me as well!
Somehow, I’m getting them in my attic but I never get them along the foundation top by the sill plate like I used to. They seem to have found a way to do directly into the attic or up a wall to reach it. No trees overhanging so they must be tucking under the siding somewhere and squeezing in. And they are indeed really annoying at 3-5AM when they wake you up with scratching in the wall.
Drewmo-
Can’t tell you, I,ve got one cat that is a killer- but only outdoors ! If it’s indoors, it’s there because he brought it in, or he is disintrested- just like the other lazy one, who won’t swat at a fly.
I had a problem with flying squirrels in our attic, used the “Victor method” of dealing with them - was getting some field mice at the same time. Eventually found the squirrels were getting in through a gap in the end of the ridge cap, and after filling it w/ foam they haven’t come back. Also haven’t seen much sign of mice after that.
I did find a plug in “ultrasonic” repeller, and stuck that in the outlet I put in the attic, and that also seems to be working, but it’s hard to tell.
My biggest rodent problem is in our swimming pool - I’m constantly finding dead mice (and occasionally moles) in the skimmer - annoying and I don’t like the extra chlorine load…
My prefered bait is peanut butter, but the GF reports that when she lived in Somerville, MA, that the mice there had a strange mutation that caused them to prefer the duck sauce from cheap chinese food places....
I’m of the exterminate school, not the live trap school, as releasing them somewhere else merely gives someone else the problem.
