It was getting late one night and the wife had gone to bed, I was watching some TV by myself quietly when out of the corner of my eye a mouse sprinted across the front of the fireplace like Speedy Gonzales.. except he was pretty mahoosive.

My cat is useless.. He was fast asleep somewhere else, thinking about food.. unfortuantley the food he thinks about comes in a sachet.

I grabbed a mousetrap which has been used before with some success and crammed some chocolate in it, set it and went to bed.

Next morning I leapt out of bed like it was christmas to run downstairs to see the result.. Empty trap.. no bait!.. frustrating.

The following night repeat as before.. same result, Now I'm thinking it must be grabbing the bait from the side.. like leaning over and pinching it carefully, probably a game of dare with its mates. I can visualise them egging each other on!

So I constructed a tunnel made of card. to prevent this from happening.. only way to approach it is head on, I set the trap and next day..

No bait.

Any ideas?.. this is clearly tricker than I thought.



Trap in tunnel..

I have tried those so called humane traps some years ago.. it was the most inhumane thing I have ever seen. A mouse trapped in a confined space for 5-6 hours, Trying to eat its way out, scratching furiously, When I released it, the mouse was a sweaty panicky pulpy mess, I will never use one of those again.

I will look into the electrocution thing though.. never heard of that before.. Phssst and its all over.. I'm liking the sound of that!

Try something like a mars bar on the trap, the caramel acts like glue i.e. much hard for it to quickly grab and go, the ones in celebrations have worked well for me.

Have found peanut butter very successful in the past.

HTH

very good.. I set it when its in place..

mars bar and smeary stuff does sound better.. I will try that. failing that I could just shoot it next time I see it run past the fireplace!.

Force a pumpkin seed on to the spikes and make sure when you flip the lever over and lock it that it's got a hair trigger [test it] >

Turn the light out and go to bed > the action should take place in under an hour >

Reset trap and repeat >

I could a go pro next to it.. but i'm not sure it has infa red.

What's that got to do with it?

Trap on a tray, coat the rest of the tray in superglue and leave out overnight. (Would superglue stick to a mouse foot?)

Or instead of superglue, yellow paint, and follow the footprints back in the morning and you'll find out where he's getting in.

is that rusty because you throw them in a bucket of water to kill them afterwards?


Nice trap by the way.. I want one of those.. perfect!.