We have a mouse

Whatever you do to get rid of your "Mouse" be sure to be ready to do it again in a month or so. This is the period of time when pregnant females (mice) build a nest to deliver their young in. They make a lot of racket tearing up stuff for bedding and dragging food off to hide it for later.

When the clusters of little pink mice are born the first thing that the Ma Ma mouse does is sneak out and get pregnant again. Then about the time she boots the first litter out of the nest she is nursing another litter along. This helps to assure that you will never be bothered with having only one mouse.

I have 5 snap traps in the basement and have caught 5 so far this spring. They were getting the peanut butter without getting caught so stuck a few sunflower seeds on top of the peanut butter. They really like that but sometimes they get the seeds and never even trip the trap. Sooner or later, they do make the wrong move and another one is gone.

But doesn't the peanut butter on the trap attract other critters, like bugs? I don't want bugs, either.

That's a great idea about the sunflower seeds, Homebody!

I was buying the humane traps for awhile, but then I'd forget about it, and the poor thing would die of neglect....sigh....I'm even embarrassed to admit that here.

So, I started buying the snap traps, because my cat is getting lazier and lazier (or blinder and more hard of hearing). But, I was using peanut butter, and now I'll do what you suggest and stick a few sunflower seeds in it from my birdseed.
Great idea!

Cindy H
Hard Brown Sugar

I use pieces of cinamon rolls or bread. Put it under the lever and smash it between my fingers. Once it dries out some; it is unstealable by mice as they must chew the hard bread. I can go a couple weeks before having to replace the stale bread. A used trap does seem to draw more of them to the same place.

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Iris
The Last Straw (aka Helinbak Farm)
Once a Marine; always a Marine

That's what we did

He used to be a fat, lazy cat but now he's a slim, excellent mouser bent on total yard domination. LOL!

The kids came in the other day and told me he was eating grasshoppers out of the garden. Our fearless protector!

Peta disclaimer: We do still feed him, just half a cup 2x day. Morning and night.

After lying in bed last night thinking about black lights and mouse urine I decided that I didn't care about being humane, I just want those things gone.

I got 8 sticky traps and a cheap jar of peanut butter. I really couldn't care less if the soon to be dead mice eat high fructose corn syrup of not. I'll be setting them out tonight before bed.