How can we catch this mouse!?

Question

There's been a mouse in our house for a couple months, and we can not catch it. It rarely leaves droppings anywhere, but recently we've been seeing it more often. We've put out one of the new De-con no view mouse traps, and a couple snap traps, but after a couple of weeks, we've had no luck. One night we heard both snap traps go off within 5 minutes of eachother, but he wasn't on either of them. I want him OUT! We know he runs out of the bedroom at night, down the hall and into either the other bedroom or into the kitchen. We usually hear him in the kitchen under the stove (that's where the snap traps are). In the past we've successfully caught mice under the sink, behind the refrigerator or under the stove but this one is a little more sneaky. We don't want to use De-Con pellets (though it has worked in the past) because then the mouse will die somewhere in the house, and no one wants to find a dead mouse... HELP!

Has anyone had luck with the Riddex pest repellent things (or anything like it)

and no I don't want to be humane, i want it DEAD.

Answer 1

Perhaps you are not setting the traps with enough "zing". THere must be a hair touch to the setting off wire-y bit.

And the food, (I have used a crumb of bread soaked in bacon grease to good effect) should be the gourmet for a mouse kind. Smelly cheese, but only a teensy bit, or a bacon crumb. The idea is to get old Mousey to STEP on to the platform and poof, he's history.

Put one trap under sink, one under stove. Since they are only about 50c a trap, perhaps a couple more will do the trick.. Four may be so tempting that he goes for all and gets careless? Hope so.

Answer 2

No familiar with the "No View" traps, but I have had success with glue traps before. Use both sizes, to make sure you can catch a small mouse OR a larger rat. Put them all around the edge of the floor especially under cabinets (if they don't go all the way to the floor) and in the places where you are seeing droppings. You might also want to consider getting or at least borrowing a good mouser cat.

Good luck!

Answer 3

You're pretty much doing everything you can. Just keep setting traps (lots and lots of traps) -- eventually it'll get caught. Peanut butter or something of the like is good, so it has to really work at it to get it off the trap (and therefore stay on the trap long enough to get caught). Of course you can always borrow a cat, or adopt one. Then you'd never have mice!

Answer 4

My foolproof mouse catcher. I take and fill the kitchen sink half full of water. Next I make a diving board using a tablespoon. I put either dried or cooked oatmeal mixed with peanut butter and next I loosely put a wet dishrag on the end of the (diving board) spoon.The mouse smell and sees the bait and walks out to get it dropping everything into the sink. You will here some minor splashing and then scoop out mouse in morning and go on with your life. I have used this technique many times with excellent results. I don,t feel it,s inhumane because where theres one there is 100 and who knows what kind of disease they,re carrying.

Answer 5

i use plastic snap traps. the mouse has to actually step onto the trigger to make it work. and, unlike the metal ones, the food is placed towards the back of it, and is covered by the top of the trap, so the mouse has no choice but to step into the trap.

as for food, i use peanut butter. mice can't resist it, and it won't get bumped off the trap accidentally.

Answer 6

There are little mouse cubes that are essentially a havahart trap for mice, which you can get a Wal-mart or hardware stores. I have used them with success. Just bait the trap with peanut butter or a smelly cheesy and wait. Be sure to check the trap every few hours. Good luck!

The traps look like this:

http://www.amazon.com/Mice-Cube-Humane-Mouse-Trap/dp/B000WB11ZK

Answer 7

we set our traps where we can hardly set them down w/o goin off @ least once~ weve had 2 mice in our house this year & weve caught them within 24 hours of seeing them~ we tend to use peanutbutter or soft american cheese wrapped so they cant just pull it off. Snap traps will work if they are set sensitive enough~

Answer 8

I have heard that you bait the trap with peanut butter. That
worked for us. Once we had one that seemed to like chocolate too. We used a snap trap. I've heard the sticky ones work well too. They get stuck to it like flypaper. That sounds gross to me though. Just thinking about it is making me skeevy...

Answer 9

sticky traps. Inhumane, but they work. You also may want to try baiting your traps with bacon rind. They can't pull it off, if you get it in there good,and run away with it, and they love bacon!

Answer 10

If you have one mouse, you have ten. Bait with peanut butter