Stupid Mouse (Update: Dead Mouse)

[bdosborn]

I've got a mouse in the trailer and he's not interested in the trap with the peanut butter. Anybody else catch a mouse when camping? How do you get rid of the darn thing? He runs across me at night and creeps me out!

Bruce

[nevadatear]

We have had good luck with the sticky pads when they ignored the traps.

[NathanL]

Glue traps work well. For boat for a regular trap I like peanut butter and rolled oats.

[pete42]

we never took our mice on vacation with us; that is very nice of you.....................
did you go to Wisconsin or does the mouse like cheese made from Calafornia cows?

I dislike the sticky traps I want them to die quick I just use the good old spring traps with some cheese or bacon fat

pete

[Shadow Catcher]

I have never had any success with any bait other than cheese, preferably stinky cheese, never had any of the other types of traps work. Most every fall we get a couple of field mice make it into the house (one year rats) and the sharp cheddar works every time.

[Bigwoods]

Maybe you don't have a stupid mouse but a very smart one. If so, you got problems. . I kinda envision a Caddy Shack/ gopher thing here. This could get interesting.

[asianflava]

Good thing you found it quick instead of going into the trailer a couple months later and finding a big mess.

[oth47]

No better mouse bait than 3 Musketeers bars.Try it.Never found a mouse or rat that didn't like chocolate.

[desertmoose]

Maybe you don't have a stupid mouse but a very smart one. If so, you got problems. . I kinda envision a Caddy Shack/ gopher thing here. This could get interesting.

close up of a dancing mouse...

" I'm alright Nobody worry 'bout me Why you got to gimme a fight? Can't you just let it be?".......

[Forrest747]

I have used sticky traps and there is always DECON.

When i was laid up in bed i found that we had mice and we set up traps and one of the mice came sat on the trigger ate the peanut butter jumped up and down on the spring just to taunt me and then ran back under the pocket door.

[mustangcats]

If you've got a cat that is a good mouser, stick him/her in the trailer for a few hours. A good cat is the best mouse trap ever made Of course you would have to be there to watch the cat catch the mouse, otherwise you wouldn't be certain it was caught. I'm with you...mice freak me out. Whenever I see one I freeze...then head the other way.

[kirkman]

If he does not want any thing to do with the peanut butter he must be eating something. If you can figure out what that is put that on the trap and you will catch him. That is if you have a good mouse trap not one of the 4 for a dollar traps. Most of the cheep traps are not sensitive enough for a small mouse to spring. If there is nothing in the camper for him to eat try 4 traps with 4 different baits like cheese, bread, candy, chips, and even a cotton ball with vanilla on it. Some times it will take a day or two. OH by the way I own a pest control company.

[bdosborn]

Maybe you don't have a stupid mouse but a very smart one. If so, you got problems. . I kinda envision a Caddy Shack/ gopher thing here. This could get interesting.

He couldn't be that smart or he wouldn't have run over me and motivated me to destroy him.

Next comes the cheese in the trap and if that fails; the cat that caught a Hummingbird in a daring mid air leap.


Bruce

[working on it]

"Dryer sheets and/or Irish Spring soap bars". Maybe it's an urban legend/old wives' tale or something, but that combo worked for me.My garage had a rat problem some years ago, with openings all around, and having an unlimited food supply from the adjacent goat pen at hand. I had a rat or two starting to nest in my Chevelle doorslammer (drag racer), due to unsealed openings around the rollbar and fuelcell, and had to evict them at the dragstrip itself. Embarassing. A fellow racer saw this, and told me to put "Dryer sheets and/or Irish Spring soap bars" inside my car, and the rodents would not return. It worked, and even now, 15 years later, I still use that system in the Chevelle. As a comparison, the Fiero that was parked next to it never got the "Dryer sheets and/or Irish Spring soap bars" treatment, since it was comparatively "sealed". Rodents got to it anyhow. I've since resorted to Decon, and no rodent problem has occurred in several years; but even if the "Dryer sheets and/or Irish Spring soap bars" trick doesn't drive away the mouse, your trailer will smell really good. PS: my main concern now is the venomous snakes, scorpions, and brown recluse spiders that find my garage irresistable.

[bdosborn]

That is if you have a good mouse trap not one of the 4 for a dollar traps. Most of the cheep traps are not sensitive enough for a small mouse to spring.

Well I put some cheese in the trap and the mouse ate it but the trap didn't spring. Where do you get a good trap?

Bruce