[dankay123]

i have a mouse in my shed. the little bas***d has eaten my new packets of pumkin seeds for next year. i just been to get  traps and im gunning for him tonight. whats the best bait to put on the trap. he seems quite partial to pumpkin seeds. hope it it is a mouse and not a long tail lol

[pdblake]

I usually put a bit of bread on.

[Annen]

bread and butter (and keep your seeds in a tin )

[arugula]

Peanut butter or chocolate spread.

[hamstergbert]

tiny bit of flapjack works in my greenhouse.

[allot2learn]

Bread soaked in vodka. At least he'll have a happy ending and won't be able to run away.

[RichardA]

peanut butter or philly cheese spread
Put trap near wall or some thing so mouse eats sideways to the snapping action - they seem to escape if they can come at bait from end on direction but not if side on. Hope that makes sense !!!!
R

[Trillium]

Peanut butter gets them every time here.

[8doubles]

A square of chocolate melted on to the bait plate . Once it has hardened it does not come off quickly or easily....................................SNAP !!!


And you get to eat the rest of the bar !


Ps wire the trap to something if you think it may be a BIG mouse or the trap will go AWOL.

[dankay123]

ok i set 6 traps using baited with a kit kat chunky peanut butter flavour and topped it with crunchy peanut butter. i set them on my workbench and 2 under it on the floor. hopefully will have him tomorrow

[WirralWally]

............... hopefully will have him tomorrow

Maybe 'him' and a few of his offspring. 

I have a wood shed which seems to attract mice.
Peanut butter in the traps provides enough meat for a good pot of soup every week. 

[allot2learn]

............... hopefully will have him tomorrow

Maybe 'him' and a few of his offspring. 

I have a wood shed which seems to attract mice.
Peanut butter in the traps provides enough meat for a good pot of soup every week. 

Mouse soup............?
It'll make a change from mushroom. 

[hamstergbert]

Or you could make 'em into a musical instrument - a 'mouse organ'.

One of my sisters did that (not sure which sister but reckon it was our Monica)






I'll get me coat.

[Sideshoot]

 

[Salmo]

I have done a study of mouse control in sheds and garages over the years.

Snap traps are OK and the baiting advice here is fine.

Avoid the cheap easy set plastic traps. These sometimes do not kill instantly or catch by a leg and the mouse plus trap will disappear under whatever you have piled up. You hear their struggle and have to finish them off after digging them out. Often these traps are set off with no dead mouse. One presumes that a mouse has escaped, maybe injured to die a lingering death. At least with traditional spring traps it is death or nothing.

The multi live catch traps are efficient and I have caught up to 5 mice at once. The trap I have has a lid that opens but it is difficult to tip the mice out into a bag to be released a long way away. I ended up taking the whole trap in a carrier bag. Even then there was a hidy hole in the trap and usually a mouse refused to leave until poked with a stick.

You can catch a lot of mice with traps but you will never get the last one and more mice keep coming.

Poison is the most efficient control. I would not use the loose poison because I have a labrador that will eat anything. The plastic boxes with solid bait are best. Either they are one-use or you can refill with blocks. I keep them perminently on shelves in sheds and garage and also one in my loft. Any visiting mouse looking for food will have nibble and go away to die.