[Closed] MOUSE HUNT!!! That's it you four legged, thieving little ninja b@stard it's WAR!

Poor mousey. 🙁

Try Peanut butter on the trap. Heard they cant resist the stuff.

go careful;

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Nutella as bait, maybe on a little bit of Ritz cracker / biscuit. Use miniscule amounts of bait and the type of trap with a bait cup, so they really have to get onto the trap to get it. That minimises the number of times you'll get up and find the bait mysteriously gone.

Place traps by the skirting board, put plenty down and keep trapping for a long time. My advice would be to leave traps down for a week or two after you catch the "last" mouse to be sure that you have cleared the house.

nutella- its the holy grail of mouse trap bait

Peanut butter is normally the badger's favourite!

Tracker bar inside a new camelbak worked a treat for me.

Make sure the bar is contained within a zipped up section of the camelbak so that the mouse has an opportunity to chew through the zip and ruin it.

Grrrr.

+1 for peanut butter, I hear mice a drawn to it like moths to a flame.

Just dont drown it or you may end in court...you have to take it to the vet to be put down.

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Photo's of dead ones would also be good, just so I know that it's possible.

You probably don't want to see that, might put you off 😀

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Mmmmm, mouse, you say?

Oh by christ, +1 the above.

Don't get sticky traps, "humane" traps or any of that rubbish.

Get proper traps that kill outright by breaking the neck - that is a genuinely humane trap. Wild animals will do anything to get free, including pulling off their own feet. And you still have the problem of killing them. As for humane traps, the best I ever heard was someone catching housemice in Sheffield and releasing them up in the peak district. Surely it's pretty obvious what habitat they've adapted to from the hame? All you're doing is feeding up the local Kestrel population at best, and at worst, they'll be back in the house before you are.

I used this on 2 occasions after the bu££ers chewed through my camelbak. Failed once and worked once, mouse released about 2 miles away... never to come back!!

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What tron said. Put them along their 'runs', that way they don't have to be on the scavenge, they just trip over them.

I'm not sure I would want to take photos of mice that have been done over by a trap. I'm sure it ends their life in the blink of an eyelid, but the results are pretty brutal.

As above, get an old-skool trap (cheap as chips from hardware stores), one chocolate button as bait and voila - dead mousey.

What we did was live with it for a while until it got really lazy, fat and slow, then we chased it around the downstairs and finally trapped it with a box.

We did take it out into the countryside knowing full well that it wouldn't last five minutes - but at least that way it'd feed an owl for a day instead of decomposing in the garden.

I'll catch your shark I mean mouse...

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We had a plague of mice in the office a couple of years ago. I experimented with making tiny signs that read "**** off and crap smewhere else you hideous little bastards. By Order" and leaving them on my desk at night. I can confirm that this was not effective. Mice do not respect authority, or signs.

You're going to need a bigger trap.

[i]Mice do not respect authority, or signs.[/i]

Sooner or later the paw will catch them.

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A mate decided to pacify his wife who didn't like to find mice in traps displaying signs of suffering. He soldered razor blades to the bits that smakcs your fingers! instant 2 piece mouse.

+n for peanut butter bait, I had a 'visitation' a few years back and it was very effective.

Prompt treatment is key, they breed like wildfire.

Mars bars work a treat to, well not a whole one obviously!

or belt them with a spade - flat mouses don't like mars bars though

A mate found just an eyeball and optic nerve on the trap in the morning. He got the fear about revenge from renegade 1 eyed mouse after that and went with humane traps!

chocolate or liquorice always works well for my dad.

You lure your dad into mouse traps?

chocolate or liquorice always works well for my dad.

You're trying to catch your dad?

Edit - not quick enough.

I had a mouse problem some years ago and caught it by complete accident. I had a bucket under the sink acting as a bin and it was clear that it would go in there at night to munch on scraps. Before I left for work I emptied the bin (bucket) and forgot to put a bag inside. I returned home after 3am and could hear intermittent knocking noises coming from under the sink. There was Mr Mouse, just less than 1" away from jumping out of the bin having dropped in from climbing on nearby junk (you know cleaning stuff)So Mr Mouse met Mr Vistalite battery, they didn't get along needless to say.

I recall a mouse who invaded my Portsmouth bedsit back in the 90s. I kept a squash racquet by the bed, intending to thwack it when it came out at night.

Sure enough, the rustling bin woke me up, I leapt up brandishing the racquet and flicked on the light. It looked up me with it's shiny little eyes and I hesitated. It ran off. Traps got in the end.

I really am a softy,

I found patience and knowing their route to be pretty effective.

Our "little visitor" ran across the skirting board and up a little step to get through our living room to our kitchen. I proceeded to test how willing they are to change this route by placing a piece of cardboard in front of the step.
this lead to *skitter skitter BANG skitter skitter* it ran clean into it and back the opposite way in a shamefaced manner. turns out once they have a path they rarely deviate...

following this we put a sticky trap down and got the bugger (this was humane, putting veggie oil on the trap removes its stickyness and it can get off harmlessly) we took it out to the peaks and released it, albeit with a message: you come to ours and we'll grease you, set you out in the middle of nowhere and leave you to the birds... i think is understood...

Vermin I would not release nothing as when previously done mouse got back home sameday. Only hanging or drowning for me from now on!

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I used a humane trap and released the creature on the way to work. My landlord said 'they home, it'll be back'.

I thought "well if it can travel cross country for 15 miles to get back then it probably deserves to live here"

Big old fashioned rat trap near took the head off the one rat (no, not a mouse, this was a big bugger) who kept pestering. Nutella was the bait, and it worked a treat. Made a hell of a mess, but I guess it was quick.

Now we have 3 cats and 2 dogs, so no vermin would be stupid enough to come in

I have the same problem with a rat. It has so far managed to evade 5 traps, 6-7 feral cats, numerous attempts by my own cats and out classed a terrier dog thing. Damm thing burrows up from the river into the chicken run, and provided the chickens arent out, munches the food. If they're out, they give the it some grief and peck at it untill it scrurries off squealing into the corner. It may be a clever little git, but its not man enough to stand up to the chickens.

Maybe i should get some bombers or wee in its shoes.....

I used to live on a farm when I was very little.

My gran once cornered a rat whilst armed with a muck shovel (she had the shovel, not the rat).

She had a bit of a 'turn', you know like you see in movies where the hero is eventually dragged off the bad guy by his assistant, going "dude, he's dead now..."?

By the time my grandad intercepted things and calmed her down, the rat was four foot by three across and 2mm thick.

Cougar - I bet you were *very* well behaved after that...

Peanut butter here too.
I've found it works better than anything else.
I use the classic Tom & Jerry spring traps and chuck them out in the garden afterwards.
They're always gone in a day or so. Probably the crows taking them.

What's the problem with the mouse in the first place?