Mice Avoiding Trap

[kenjonbro]

i've used a baited plastic mouse snap trap in kitchen which had been VERY effective BUT now the pests somehow are mangaing to eat the bait without getting snapped.First time it happened i thought mouse just got lucky ,but this is now 7 times!.Surely these mice cannot have tactics/planning ?
I've checked traps and they still snap as expected
I've also placed trap near a glue board so they have to step on or bear very near glue board to access bait - and they have still managed to avoid this aswell!

[murraymints]

put some melted chocolate in so that it is stuck to the bottom with a bit protruding so they will really have to wriggle to get it !

[weecalf]

Are you allowed to use them now .remember a pest control guy was going round the place I work and there were a couple there quite a while ago .he just said look weecalf I have not seen them .Was he short sighted or should they not have been there ?

[EDDIE51]

The only traps I found that worked were the old fashioned spring type.

[marval]

Those are the ones we used Eddie, they worked a treat with peanut butter.

[Sparkles62]

I have always used a little bit of Mars bar, sticky side down, it seems to work well.
Mice generelly run around the walls of a room, not in the middle,
you should put the trap down with the short end (where the bait is) against the wall, that way they will run through it.
Good Luck, X

[EDDIE51]

Live capture traps are useless , unless you take the mice a mile away or more to release them they just come back 'home'. You end up catching the same mouse again.

[inksplotter]

"Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door."

Ralph Waldo Emerson.

[Beswad]

I use three to four glue traps enforced by added extra glue paste on top, place it close to each other at irregular patterns, then sprinkle oat meal near the edges of the glue traps. Been catching mice for years this way. When they are caught, pull them out by their tail, they will likely to be still alive, place the mouse on toilet paper, roll it up and squish them and flush them down the toilet.

I only manage to free my kitchen from mice is to block all the floor piping with aluminium duct tape.

[starone]

Crafty little devils! You can't help but admire them!

[RATTER15]

Remove the glue board, they are dreadful things, I have seen rats and mice chew their own legs and tails off to get away from these things, a dreadful way to die, they really need to be banned!

[SpikeyBush]

The only thing my old sprung mousetraps caught recently was my wife's thumb. That landed me in the dog house for a week.

I could do with Les Dawson's mother-in-law coming to visit. That would make the mice throw themselves on the traps voluntarily.

[petal54]

bucket of water with pole across(withpeanutbutter on it)

[SpikeyBush]

I did come down to the kitchen one morning to find a mouse floating, dead, in the dog's water bowl. Must have climbed in for a drink, not been able to get out again and drowned. Dog didn't look too pleased.

[Svejk]

these are good
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=b3vmsg&;s=8#.U9l9Dyx0zmQ

[Svejk]

http://m.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1354233.html

[RATTER15]

A "specific" mouse poison and lots of it spread around different locations is the way to go with mice. Mice are not as stupid as some people may think.