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Gr8hound t1_j4nqmjk wrote

Snap traps with peanut butter.

Please don’t use poison. Mice don’t die immediately after eating poison. They can then be eaten by birds of prey, foxes, cats, etc., who can then die from ingesting the poisoned mice.

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elemenopppppp t1_j4o55xd wrote

I wish the whole world knew this. Also glue traps which I wish didn’t exist. So inhumane

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invalid404 t1_j4odgvt wrote

Agree. I actually found a few places they come into my house and I just stick snap traps along the wall at the opening. So there are maybe 6 traps along the row on each side of the hole with a few stuck right up to the entrance.

If one mouse gets in one and flips it, the next trap will catch the next mouse. I've had several in the traps at the same time. I catch a few dozen a year and no longer see mouse trails around the house. Better to find where they enter and put traps down. If you seal it, they'll just find another spot you can't figure out. No need for bait either when you know where they enter.

They travel along walls and will walk right through the trap. The downside is the bait encourages them to get their head snapped. No bait, you end up with the mouse in different arrangements, but still dead.

I use the plastic kind with large teeth. Other traps may not work as well with the no-bait technique:

https://www.amazon.com/Indoor-Effective-Sanitary-Catcher-Family/dp/B083LDKS6Z

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ContentDoctor t1_j4ogl8q wrote

Poison is the absolute worst. Not only does it kill birds of prey; but heaven forbid one gets caught in your walls dying from poison. It’ll smell like the worst sour milk in the world for 2 weeks.

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