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Ugh. Last night, a mouse decided to enter our humble abode. After a great deal of effort, we got him out the back door, but tonight, I saw him darting around behind the TV again.

The traps are set, let's just hope for a jackpot in the morning...

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  • D E C C G (Score:2)

    by rk ( 6314 ) *

    Maybe you can try to teach it a new tonal vocabulary.

    Don't mind me, it's late and I'm using everybody's journal as a free-association test, it seems.

  • My parents have an old house that has mice and they have bunches of traps. The very best bait has proven to be peanut butter. If you didn't get him last night and you used something other than peanut butter in the traps, give it a try.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by TopShelf ( 92521 )
      Yup, that's what I'm using - cube traps with a one-way door, with some peanut butter on a cracker inside, and a little peanut butter smeared on the door to lure him in. We had some in the garage in the spring, and I caught six mice with two traps in just a few hours. We hadn't seen any signs since until the other night...

      It's annoying because I haven't had mice in the house since I was a kid, and back then, we had the natural solution (three outdoor cats that you could bring inside for a couple days and l

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by ellem ( 147712 ) *
        By cube trap you mean it cubes the mouse? More Jullian than cubing I suppose. Put Peanut Butter in a blender... mmm Mouse Hair soup...
  • We have never caught a mouse in one of our traps. We even sprung for rat traps in a moment of desperation. (Of course, we're limited in the traps that we can use due to the curiosity of you-know-who.)
    • Of course, we're limited in the traps that we can use due to the curiosity of you-know-who.

      Some Guy REALLY loves peanut butter and/or cheese. :-)

      Actually, the last time I saw a mouse, I was out of both cheese and peanut butter. So I just watched where he walked. Mice usually follow the same "trail" once they find one they think is safe. I just put the empty trap in his path and he ran right over it and *SPROING* it snapped his little neck.

  • A couple years ago my wife and I had moved into a new rental house. We noticed some signs of mouse habitation in the detached garage. So I got some of the standard mouse traps with the flipper spring attached to a little board. I set them up around the garage, baited with peanut butter.

    The next day when I checked the traps they were all gone.

    After some pondering of the twilight-zone-like implications and a brief search I found the traps in a small pile on a shelf behind some paint cans.

    The next night I set
  • I've had issues in my house too. Our cats live in the downstairs family room and they take care of them there. Victor (http://victorpest.com/) now makes an electric trap that appeals to my inner geek. It's kinda like giving the mice the chair. I haven't gotten one yet though. The standard traps work fine.

    There is also another way. A couple of years ago I left the turkey fryer in the garage with oil in it (hey, it gets busy around the holidays) and when I got it to use the next year I found a bunch of dead m

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