Need to trap a rodent in the house! Ideas?

[bocefus78]

You are educating your prey by missing him. Place items around the trap site so he has to go over the trap. Basically only give him 1 path to and from the hole....a "channel of death" if you will. Keep in mind, they climb about anything. Create a complete tunnel if possible. Load that channel with multiple traps.

 

[OutdoorDad]

3 inch hole?

Its not a mouse.

You'll be better served with a rat trap.



And the most upscale hotels in the world have rats.
Nothing to be ashamed of.

Just need to address. Which you are doing.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Best advice will be in these two threads.

https://www.indianagunowners.com/forums/break-room/210553-bat-trapped-our-bathroom-need-advice.html

https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...5-hummingbird-trapped-garage-need-advice.html

 

[Rookie]

Nuke it from orbit.

 

[CindyE]

Best advice will be in these two threads.

https://www.indianagunowners.com/forums/break-room/210553-bat-trapped-our-bathroom-need-advice.html

https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...5-hummingbird-trapped-garage-need-advice.html

I'd much rather have a bat or hummingbird in the house! Just like those people who brag about morel mushrooms popping up in their yard- and we only get toadstools!

 

[1775usmarine]

I hear the cool kids use a 22.

 

[IndyDave1776]

The hole is around 3" in diameter. Scary, huh? I used to think only trashy people had rats in the house. We do live just a block away from a woods, on the edge of town. I've never seen anything other than a mouse in our house, but my husband said he did see the dogs chasing something toward the house not long ago, and I know there are some critters under the deck.

This is an understandable misconception. It is similar to the way that it was once considered gold standard that only trashy people who lived on the 'wrong' side of the railroad track through town ever had problems with crime, drunkenness, teenage children becoming pregnant, and so forth. It makes for a nice narrative for those who want to live in the fantasy that it can't happen to them, but eventually, they get an appointment with reality. Similarly, you have just had your introduction to the fact that rodents don't have any particular respect for hygiene or socioeconomic status.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Rich kids get lice and heiress can get genital herpes too

 

[IndyDave1776]

Rich kids get lice and heiress can get genital herpes too

If you mean the one who shares her name with a hotel, multiple strains at that.

 

[RustyHornet]

I hear the cool kids use a 22.

No the cool kids would use a CZ.

 

[BE Mike]

I've had some buddies use Coca Cola to get rid of mice where kids and pets are present. You have to use the "Real Thing", put it in a shallow lid and make sure that it is refreshed frequently (kept fizzy). They say the mice drink up the stuff and get swollen up and either die or barely move and can easily be picked up and dispatched.

 

[SchwansManDan]

I've had some buddies use Coca Cola to get rid of mice where kids and pets are present. You have to use the "Real Thing", put it in a shallow lid and make sure that it is refreshed frequently (kept fizzy). They say the mice drink up the stuff and get swollen up and either die or barely move and can easily be picked up and dispatched.

DO NOT add rum to the Coca Cola. The mice will invite their friends over for a party.

I've always had good luck with the old fashioned Victor traps, baited with peanut butter. I keep them up against a wall or the inside of a cabinet, depending on where I find evidence of their presence. Seems like I get a few mice in my kitchen every fall. They do not survive for long.

The only bad thing I can report after many years of this is forgetting to check in the cabinet ... until I noticed a really bad smell in the kitchen. The whole trap went into the trash can, along with the maggot infested mouse carcass.

 

[singlesix]

Recently I had a family of mice move into my garage, I know this after the fact. I used PB and Victor Traps and they were able to get the PB without setting off the traps. I used a piece of string and smear PB on it and tied it to the trigger plate of the trap, next day had two mice in the trap and the PB and string was gone, so I knew there were more mice. The only trap I had left were glue traps, never had any luck with them, this time I put a glob of PB in the middle of the trap. Next day tiny baby mouse stuck in the glue trap. The thing was so small it would have never been caught in the snap trap.

 

[BE Mike]

DO NOT add rum to the Coca Cola. The mice will invite their friends over for a party.

That's the idea! Actually this is a very old tip that was published in Mother Earth News many years ago. When I suggested it to a buddy who had a small farm and rodents were getting to his grain, he thought I was crazy. He had small children, pets (no mousers) and goats. He was desperate, so he tried it. He was shocked to report back that the mice were swollen and dying and some were dead, after putting Coca Cola in a lid. It solved his problem. Some squeamish folks might not be able to cope with the results, as it is not a quick death for the rodents.

 

[CindyE]

Interesting about the Coca Cola. I haven't heard or seen any evidence of the rodent since the trap went off the other morning. I doubt it is gone, though.