I use the Victor electronic trap. Works great!

https://youtu.be/DEAMT7eU35k

If you're really squeamish you can cock the trap and set it in a paper bag. That way you won't have to touch nothin' when disposing of the cadaver.

Gorgonzola (blue) cheese. Caught two at once, twenty seconds after I walked away from the set trap.

My trap with 6” of water in the bottom. Use peanut butter. Caught at least a couple dozen last winter in the garage. One night I caught three. So it’s not a one at a time deal. Put it in a corner with a ramp to help them to the spinning can of death. Inhuman? Yes. Lethal? Very yes.

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I think those spinning traps are only unethical when people use ethylene glycol....

In this house the guy reuses them, the guy’s spousal unit puts on a hasmat suit, gloves, and gas mask and disposes of the trap and victim.

The ethylene glycol is used so that in freezing temperatures the trap still functions. I don't think the drowning in the different liquid is any more inhuman than in water.

I need to use the water/anti-freeze bucket. I spend time at two houses 700 miles apart. The anti-freeze preserves them so it takes a long time to decompose. Generally no stink and I've come back with up to nine in a bucket at a time.

Crawl space has the spinner set up and the basement has "Walk the Plank" ramp.

The second house has enough neighborhood cats, a red tail hawk and an owl protecting the perimeter.

Hard to feel bad on the method as they don't feel too bad about the damage/disease they can cause.

I used to use the old snap trap multiple times over until they sensed death on them and then no activity. Also coming back to that stench and little fur/bone pile is nasty. And peanut butter all the way, they seem to prefer the crunchy over the smooth.

Terry

I set one of those traps and it went MISSING!:eek:

I reuse the snap traps. When the weather gets cold, that's when the little f_ers try to move inside...typically its a blood bath for a few weeks with multiple kills almost daily. If I let them get a toe-hold, its game over and I have mouse turds in the pantry all winter. The Lysol disinfecting wipes with bleach are my go to cleaning tool for any decomposed mouse bits where the traps lay.

We have a lot of these guys around keeping the population down. I am always finding the pellets that they cough up and break them open. Mostly just mouse bones.
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I re-use.

The mice do not seem to care.

I Was thinking of it as use of poison and not freezing point.
Nevermind!

My mother used a sticky pad and the rather large sob was able to get up and take the trap with him. Dog ended up catching that one.

With any type of trap..it's best to wear gloves, when setting them, to keep your scent off of it.

If you put out a bucket of anti-freeze, just make sure not non-stray dogs/cats can get to it. Would not use anything poison like that. If a mouse gets a dose and gets away only to be nabbed by local mouse eating wildlife, there goes the wildlife. I know, had a pet great horned owl for 12 years. Finallay passed because it gobbled a poisoned mouse that had strayed into range. Died snuggling close to me and coughing up blood. It was heart breaking.

In our shop we always used the snap traps glued to a chunk of cardboard. Would reuse them unless they got real nasty. Cardboard keeps them from taking off with the trap, and doesn’t leave a mess if they bleed out.

i like the suggestion of single point entry to the business end.

another proven fact, is that they like to run the length of wall, so dont put the trap in the middle of a room.



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You, too! I'm still trying to think how they got away.

I had a rat that rolled on its side and got out of the glue trap.

Back in the days when I listened to the radio, the lady DJ was talking about the mouse problem she was having. She was a softie, and used a live trap, and took them to a field across the street. Her boyfriend kept telling her it was the same mice over and over. To prove him wrong, she died the fur of a few of them before release. The next day, the colored mice were back.

She relented and became the mouse terminator.