Mice, not duck related

Mark W

Mark W

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Someone on here will have a suggestion.

We have mice at our house. They are not inside but outside and all around our AC condensor. I have seen them and have trapped many. I know there are more. I have been using the typical spring loaded traps with peanut butter as the "incentive". Has been working great and I have "recycled" well north of a dozen in a few days time. Here is my problem. My traps are disappearing. The exact ones I use have a yellow paddle upon which is placed the peanut butter. Very common spring trap. I have others out there as well but it is the yellow paddle ones that go missing. The other style traps arent catching mice.

I thought it might be a couple of stray cats that are taking the dead mice and trap away from our house and then eating the mouse. The other day my wife and I saw a squirrel running across the yard and then trying to bury something in our flower bed. Turns out it was one of these traps.

So what do I do? I can't put out poison as we have an indoor/outdoor cat that catches and eats mice. Also have a couple of strays that pay us visits once in awhile. Same thing with using a bucket and antifreeze. Glue traps have not worked in the past and I think they are a very cruel way to get rid of mice.

Thanks -

Mark
 
Have you seen the pouches of peppermint and cinnamon as a deterrent? I can't say for sure if they work, but I threw twenty of them in my enclosed trailer hoping to keep the mice away during the winter.
 
Yr hanks for rhe suggestions. The metal bix i have used before. Unfortunately it doesn't work well outdoors at this time of year (freezing weather).

The bucket idea I have seen before. It uses peanut butter as bait which hopefully the squirrels will stay away from. It uses water in the bottom of the bucket to drown the mice. Temps around here are dropping into the 20's so the water will freeze. Will the mice be able to get out

Haven't heard of the cinnamon peppermint methot
 
I use the buckets. One in the camper and 3 in the basement/garage. Water and a little antifreeze. Try one in the garage. Im rural here on the island. You can't keep them out. Put enough fluid in the bucket that they can't stand on their hind legs above the fluid line and get a dip net to get them out.
 
Capt Rich Geminski said:
Ace Hardware bucket trap. Put wire over the trap to keep squirrels away. Anti freeze and water
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Isn't antifreeze poisonous to cats? If I wasn't worried about potentially poisoning cats I have found the mice traps with those blocks of poison quite effective. We use these at our cabin where there are no stray cats wandering around.

Thanks for the suggestion.
 
I set the 5 gallon bucket traps in various locations, in the wood shed, behind the chicken coop ect...... i rarely check them unless the smell starts to get to the house. I buy them from amazon for cheap. Id screw your wooden traps to a board and stake them down.
 
Mark W said:
Someone on here will have a suggestion.

We have mice at our house. They are not inside but outside and all around our AC condensor. I have seen them and have trapped many. I know there are more. I have been using the typical spring loaded traps with peanut butter as the "incentive". Has been working great and I have "recycled" well north of a dozen in a few days time. Here is my problem. My traps are disappearing. The exact ones I use have a yellow paddle upon which is placed the peanut butter. Very common spring trap. I have others out there as well but it is the yellow paddle ones that go missing. The other style traps arent catching mice.

I thought it might be a couple of stray cats that are taking the dead mice and trap away from our house and then eating the mouse. The other day my wife and I saw a squirrel running across the yard and then trying to bury something in our flower bed. Turns out it was one of these traps.

So what do I do? I can't put out poison as we have an indoor/outdoor cat that catches and eats mice. Also have a couple of strays that pay us visits once in awhile. Same thing with using a bucket and antifreeze. Glue traps have not worked in the past and I think they are a very cruel way to get rid of mice.

Thanks -

Mar
Mark W said:
Someone on here will have a suggestion.

We have mice at our house. They are not inside but outside and all around our AC condensor. I have seen them and have trapped many. I know there are more. I have been using the typical spring loaded traps with peanut butter as the "incentive". Has been working great and I have "recycled" well north of a dozen in a few days time. Here is my problem. My traps are disappearing. The exact ones I use have a yellow paddle upon which is placed the peanut butter. Very common spring trap. I have others out there as well but it is the yellow paddle ones that go missing. The other style traps arent catching mice.

I thought it might be a couple of stray cats that are taking the dead mice and trap away from our house and then eating the mouse. The other day my wife and I saw a squirrel running across the yard and then trying to bury something in our flower bed. Turns out it was one of these traps.

So what do I do? I can't put out poison as we have an indoor/outdoor cat that catches and eats mice. Also have a couple of strays that pay us visits once in awhile. Same thing with using a bucket and antifreeze. Glue traps have not worked in the past and I think they are a very cruel way to get rid of mice.

Thanks -

Mark
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Skunk and/or Raccoon are taking them. If they are outside you have to put them IN SOMETHING or attach them TO SOMETHING. Even something as simple as running them through with a 1/8" bit and tying them to a brick with a piece of 50lb mono.
 
Chip M. said:
Skunk and/or Raccoon are taking them. If they are outside you have to put them IN SOMETHING or attach them TO SOMETHING. Even something as simple as running them through with a 1/8" bit and tying them to a brick with a piece of 50lb mono.
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No skunks or raccoons where we live.

So here is the real funny part. Whoever is stealing our sling traps only takes the ones with plastic oaddles. I have gone out more than once and was missing a trap. The day before I out out 4. Checked back there and one trap was missing. Went back this morning and the missing trap had returned. What the heck.
 
Mark Wo said:
No skunks or raccoons where we live.

So here is the real funny part. Whoever is stealing our sling traps only takes the ones with plastic oaddles. I have gone out more than once and was missing a trap. The day before I out out 4. Checked back there and one trap was missing. Went back this morning and the missing trap had returned. What the heck.
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Brought it back so you could re bait . Critter learned where its dinner table is.
 
Drill a hole in the wooden part and tie it to something so the critters can’t take it. I have had the same problem
 
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