Getting rid of a mouse

[Canuk]

Gotta go. Seen it, heard it tried snap traps with bait, traps with peanut butter, it ain't interested. Tried blocking off exit holes and cutting off it's water supply (it's in the loft).

It's there a foolproof method (can't get a cat, wife allergic) to get rid? Anyone with experience? It's eaten through a really cool Carradice bag! And started nibbling on me leather saddles....

 

[Spudalumps]

I had one in my new electric car a while back, get a tall bucket with a ramp leading up to it, ruffle some toilet paper inside and put some blocks of GALAXY chocolate inside the bucket. The mouse goes in eats the chocolate and then cant get out just sits in there nice and warm fat. Just take the bucket and release in a far field he wont come back

 

[doctor-bond]

Where there is an it, there is a them. Sans Cat, good quality snap traps are best: put them in an empty coffee tin or similar, so the beasties can’t get round the side. Peanut putter is the lure.

(Humane catch and release traps aren’t really that humane - either they come back to your house, go to someone else’s, or die in the countryside)

All this said as a great respecter of mices: rescued a young one from the dogs once and it lived with us for over 3 years. Very impressive creatures.

 

[Markybeau]

Foolproof? Oh yes, she doesn't suffer fools ( except me). Dynamic, effective, deadly

 

[Canuk]

Tried the snap traps with peanut butter. It just sits there untouched. Traps have been out 4 days now, been changing the bait every day. The glue traps look good, not sure how they work though.

We've no pets, does poison work well? I've heard if they creep off into a crawl space to die, pretty much the mouse is decomposed in two weeks. Can live with that. Only a new entrant to the household, about ten days. Not really interested in trap and release.

Feckan annoying. Waking everyone up at night scratching about in the walls.

 

[Markybeau]

Tried the snap traps with peanut butter. It just sits there untouched. Traps have been out 4 days now, been changing the bait every day. The glue traps look good, not sure how they work though.

We've no pets, does poison work well? I've heard if they creep off into a crawl space to die, pretty much the mouse is decomposed in two weeks. Can live with that. Only a new entrant to the household, about ten days. Not really interested in trap and release.

Feckan annoying. Waking everyone up at night scratching about in the walls.

The glue traps can be gruesome but effective. I've seen a mouse pull itself apart trying escape one - broke two of its legs and lost an eye. They normally die of exhaustion. Not nice.

 

[Suprachrgd82]

Bait the traps with what it has been eating in /near the house and attempt to remove the primary food source. Rodents are habitual and timid of nuance.

 

[doctor-bond]

If he’s ignoring the PB he’s a very smart or very well fed (or both) mouse. Putting the trap in a tin was a bit of a game changer for us: stopped them stealing the bait or getting maimed from a side attack. It could help disguise the trap in your case. Sounds like he’s got them sussed. Chocolate?

 

[moonlite]

Had a similar issue with a very persistent little critter who took a liking to the top drawer in the kitchen and would (presumably) climb up the back of the cabinet and snack on the goodies in there. We tried the snap traps with no success so got an electric one powered by a fistful of AA batteries -- the local hardware store recommended a little bolus of tinned salmon as bait. Worked a treat.

(Our Jack Russell, despite a great show of vigilance and aggression, was a total bust at actually catching the mouse).

 

[ajm]

I second the electronic trap... I've found them easily the most effective and so long as the batteries are good they almost never fail to kill the mouse. In my opinion they're the most humane kind too, obviously it's an instantaneous death, none of the horrible mangling that other traps often cause. This is the type I'm talking about: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B074XXNC9G