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So I set both up on the counter, got a butter knife and pretended it was a mouse along for a free meal. I must say, given the butter knife test only, the fast killing trap with the bait cover worked very well. The butter knife snuck up little by little on the trap, checking around and even behind it often for predators (pesky cats!). But when actually touching the trap, there was just no way to get his little head (the tip of the butter knife) to the bait without tripping the trap. Very ingenious! That butter knife never had a chance!
So now both traps are baited and set, side by side. We shall see.
Brian
The quick and the dead?
I'm having this same issue in my garage. Those rodents aren't getting after my bike (yet) but I found a nest under the engine cover of my Jetta along with some insulation that the little bastards must have pulled from the car somewhere.
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The problem that I seemed to be having is that the mice there are VERY small and they're eating the peanut butter without springing the trap. I decided to make one of those 5 gallon bucket traps.
Bucket Mouse and Rat TrapI set the trap before I went to work one day last week and when I got home I had me a mouse! I may be too tender hearted and as such I didn't want to drown the lil critter. My plan was to catch them and carry them over to the corn field down the block from me. So after I went into the house to let the dogs out I came back out to the garage to deal with the mouse. The damn thing was gone! No way he climbed up the inside of the bucket so he must have been able to jump to freedom.
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No problem, I'll just use I taller bucket. That seems to have done the trick because the next day I had another mouse. This one wasn't the same as the lil one who escaped relocation, he was a larger mouse which did get relocated. I'm still hoping to catch that lil one who got away.