Smithers MINNEAPOLIS

i tried those when we had our issues. i could never get them with anything other than the glue traps baited with bacon. the glue traps work well but you have to listen to them screaming. once i located the source and plugged it up with steel wool, we have not seen one. which probably just means they are just living in the walls.

Get a cat. Or I can rent out Nermal.

those work for me with peanut butter. Steven CX, some of us are deathly allergic of cats, we need a better mousetrap…

Hmm… wonder if there is something odd this year (mouse population wise). We’re having mice issues too, first time since moving into the house 5 years ago.

The cat is earning his keep this year (has taken out 5 of the buggers.) Still trying to figure out where they’re coming in.

Good luck on the war.

I used a lot of those traps when we lived in an older house. I liked the fact that I could chuck the mouse out the door and re-set the trap with one hand.

Don’t use too much peanut butter, though. Just a smidge. If you put it on too thick, the mice reach in with a single paw to pull it off and you catch them by the leg. Then they drag the trap all over the house. Once I found a wet mouse, trapped by the front leg, sitting in the bottom of my sump basket. That was the second most disgusting thing I ever saw in that house.

Oh, what was the first most disgusting thing?

The household pest I hate more than any other is the centipede. Our house was ~90 years old and we’d go for 6 months or so without seeing one. Then, occasionally, they’d ‘bloom’. They were everywhere. If you came downstairs at night and turned on a light, you could count on seeing a couple of them scurry away. (They’re really fast.)

I went to the basement once and found two of them sitting side by side on the wall. If you include the antennae and the legs off the back they were at least 6″ long. They were so big they didn’t even run away when the light came on. I don’t think they could move anymore. And of course, killing them was tricky since even the small ones stain the walls when you squish them. It was at once stomach turning and infuriating.

I heard once that mice will eat centipedes, but I couldn’t convince my wife to let me throw the traps away.

I heard once that mice will eat centipedes,

Hmm… Maybe I had it backwards. This scene is even more disgusting than the giant centipedes and mice in the sump basket of my 90 year old basement. You’ve been warned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoXfYvoUsxg

those work for me with peanut butter

Your mice must not be picky. I can only catch them with Gouda or Camembert. And they’re eating me out of house n home this year.

Time to get a new cat….