What was wrong with the old moustraps?

-Easy. Put the trap with the mouse in it in a plastic shopping bag or two, and give it a good wack on the floor! Mouse is dead and all ready for the trash...

L8R,
Matt

This is the one: http://www.amazon.com/Intruder-16000.../dp/B000NCTKTM

As I've always contended, "Build a better mouse trap...and better mice will evolve!"

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Maybe I'm the only one who reads directions? The new traps with the yellow fake cheese looking trigger do not need any bait. Put the trap against the wall with the pan closest to the wall. Mouse runs along the wall and WHAM! Dead mouse. I put some grain against the wall, and a trap on either side.

DH is working from home this week so he could hear me trying to set one of the new Victor traps with the yellow bait pan. I'd set it and it would release almost as soon as I had the trip wire in place. Even if I managed to keep the trip in place, it would snap the instant I had it on the floor. He could hear SNAP! "----!" SNAP "----!" as I tried over and over to set this particular trap. Finally I gave up and came back upstairs. He was laughing so hard he was almost in tears. Then HE managed to set it, carried it still set all the way downstairs and set it on the floor. This morning it was still set--no mice.

I have some "Mice Cubes" that I like. I bait the trap with a bit of cracker spread with peanut butter. Mouse is live trapped but soon dies. If you find him still alive, drop trap and all into a bucket of water, then dump mouse, let trap dry and go again. No blood, no mess.

Oops! My mistake.

The word I was using while trying to set the trap (d---) is pretty innocuous compared to others that are 4 letters--word I don't use. So sorry to have possibly created a different thought in some minds because that isn't me.

Thanks for your forebearance.

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LOL! I was thinking, "If that was ME setting those traps and getting my fingers snapped, there would be a blue cloud hanging over the county from my cussin'!"

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Well, Pony, as bad as getting my fingers snapped was, it was the ease with which my husband set the cotton-pickin' thing and put it on the floor after having walked downstairs that REALLY aggravated me. He thought the whole episode was a hoot. Me? Not so much.

People have taken the old line about "build a better mousetrap..." to heart. I read recently that the mousetrap holds the record at the Patent Office for the most applications--over 4000 designs over the years. If you don't like one type I am sure you can find several others.

Got a big kick out of this one somebody showed me a while back, it uses castration bands.

http://www.nooski.com/

You would have to make sure you didn't get one too close to your equipment! Well, I guess any mouse trap for that matter!

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No, you aren't the only one! I use them the same way you do, except I don't bother with the grain. I set them against a wall and let them do their thing. I like the fact that you can fine tune the trigger release. I like a hair trigger.

I can never get the old ones with the metal plate to release. I always lose the bait, and the trap is still set. Not a problem with the new ones with the yellow plate.

Only problem I have is in the barn. We have mice and chipmunks sharing the same runs. I've lost quite a few traps this year because of the chipmunks.

For those trap challenged among us, have you tried the old 5 gallon bucket trap? They work great in my henhouse, where the hens would not leave my mousetraps alone.

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A beer bottle with a little dab of bacon grease in the bottom makes a good mouse trap, too. You have to set it somewhere that they can get to the mouth of the bottle, though.
next to a wood pile, or beneath a window sill, etc.
The little buggers will dive right in, but cannot get out.
I use these in my shop because I have lots of mice out there.
I also seem to have plenty of Leinies bottles too, for some reason.