What's the best way to catch a mouse?

Question

Not entirely sure how many are in my apt., considering I've seen one in the living room only once, but heard one in my bedroom and in the kitchen bottom cabinets. I've set out glue traps, D-Con round traps, the gray no-mess clamp, suffocate & release (and reusable! ick, no thanks) traps, and the old-fashioned wood-and-spring traps. Yes, they're all out. I've got a 3 yr old so I didn't want any of the out-in-the-open poison baits where you wait 4-5 days and discover dead mice all over the place. *shudder* Which of these will work the best, so I can invest in the most responsive and not waste money on the others again? I caught one today who made its way into my garbage bag so I luckily just had to throw that one away in the dumpster! But, then I heard the one in the kitchen cabinets...so,...yeah. Please help? I lie awake all night listening to the sounds...I can't focus at work for being crabby and underslept.

Answer 1

OMG!  MOVE!  

SOunds like you've done everything that can possibly be done!  I love sticky traps if I have someone around to take it off & smash it or dispose of it, but I'ma tell ya rite now--your 3 yr old WILL find it & get stuck on it.

I guess the snap traps for most efficient, (but also bad w/ child around)...  but YUK at the blood & stuff.

Are there some where they crawl in & then can't get out?  Where you don't have to touch them?  That sounds best to me.

Answer 2

Yea we had alot of mice before. Dcon (not the trap) but the box that you open one end for them to feed worked best for us. They eat it and go away somewhere and die; it makes them dehydrated so don't leave any open water anywhere. The peanut butter in the wood traps also worked well.

Since you live in an apartment, the people in the ajoining apartments may have them as well. So look for small holes or passages that they may be coming in through and plugged it with steel wool.

Good Luck

Answer 3

Wooden snap traps work best for us. We catch the intruder and no smell later. Baited with pepperoni and a smear of peanut butter. Tie the pepperoni with a wire bread tie. Place the set trap skinny bait side against a wall where you think the mice are travelling. Their eyesight isn't as good as their sense of smell so they may run right to it. Traps are cheap enough to be disposable. Happy hunting.