A mouse in the house

Heard the clatter of traps going off and one dead intruder.

This post is useless without pictures.

This morning could have been a video.

Was woken by partner shouting at me. There was a mouse caught in a trap but still alive, scrabbling and jumping around the larder with trap attached. Had to put it out of its misery.

Did you use a gun?

Please tell me you used a gun!

More likely to use the leaf blower...

Lump of wood

classy

Waiting for a gun licence would have taken a bit too long.

Got pals that have just moved to London and are staying at mine till they find there feet.

Stay next to a park so constantly have to deal with mice. My pals are Vegan but were more than happy for me to set traps and kill the poor we bastards to stop them eating their porridge oats... i was confused.

I diligently set the traps, no luck... maybe its some Vegan Dark Arts?

Ring of Doom

Bait the traps with a small amount of peanut butter

I put four traps in a cross shape with the baited ends together. It means the victim is more likely to trigger a trap. Each successful entrapment they use setboff at least 3/4 of the traps.

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Gun for show. Lump of wood for a pro.

I have found the large metal humane traps work very well. I caught two mice at once in mine last month. Mr and Mrs. Mouse. Of course, you are then left with the task of taking the mice far enough away from the house that they are unlikely to come back, but I felt a lot better about it all than when I used a snap trap, and a billion times better than when I used the glue trap.

Yes, they probably got eaten by a cat or a fox, or died of cold, but the point is that I didn't end their adventure; I didn't write the final chapter.

Lump of wood

Traditional and low tech - I like it.

There was no Rapha/Di2/Abbey Tools collaborative option.

Have you feckers seen Mousetrap Mondays

YouTube channel reviewing a range of traps from vegan friendly to those a sadist would would feel uncomfortable using

https://youtu.be/BxxFNkNf6q8

https://youtu.be/oM09ZgY2qPM

More wtf traps

https://youtu.be/SmmFX5q7kCg

https://youtu.be/pKfviA9Mq-4

Just call these guys:
https://youtu.be/mm6cWIhWThQ

Finally moving out of my mousey house

Anyone want a job lot of humane traps let me know

I’m in E5

Swaps for boxes/brown tape welcome

(Mouse for scale, not incl.)

I used to use those black balance traps, they worked well. The scale of your problem is impressive.

I’ve been following this threat with interest, we’ve had two mice running around the house since before Christmas, they went on their hols in May but were back last week. I’ve tried about four different types of trap, poison blocks, peanut oil, peanut butter, the ring of death, nothing worked and a couple of times they managed to extract the bait from the traps without setting them off.

So last week I took at trip to b&q and got a two pack of the big cheese traps. I’d noticed they’d been sniffing round a bag of monkey nuts so put one in the trap, it fitted perfectly into the bait hole. The result was two mice caught within a couple of hours.

The thing is, the mice are still alive and wriggling in the trap when it gets them. I left them to starve of oxygen and die but I wonder if there’s a better way to put them out of their misery quickly?

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Yes, kill them, don't leave them to die a long, slow, lingering death.

I had to batter a couple of mice that had been trapped but not killed

Hammer or piece of wood ftw

I haven’t got the heart to splat them with a brick or a lump of wood.

Yeah just squish them, poor bastards

They are pretty much your best option

Just stamp on them

Stick some newspaper over them if you must first.