Anywhere still sell mouse glue traps?

bobbysands81

Have a mouse/mice in the house, watched last night as a little fecker danced around a trap laced with Dairy Milk Buttons.

I remember their used to be mouse glue traps, anyone know where these might still be sold?

Right2Write

Never one mouse when you first find them!! Have you a cat?

coylemj

bobbysands81 wrote: »

Have a mouse/mice in the house, watched last night as a little fecker danced around a trap laced with Dairy Milk Buttons.

Chocolate You need something that gives off a smell that they can sniff from several feet away. A tiny fresh sliver of a bacon rasher from a vacuum pack (e.g. Galtee or Denny) is yer only man, the loose rashers you buy in the butcher are too dry. Make it a mix of lean and fat because they will dry out at different rates so there will be a smell to attract the feckers for several hours.

Creol1

They were banned more than a decade ago.

bobbysands81

Right2Write wrote: »

Never one mouse when you first find them!! Have you a cat?

No, but I've now thirteen traps laid to try and catch it/them.

bobbysands81

coylemj wrote: »

Chocolate You need something that gives off a smell that they can sniff from several feet away. A tiny fresh sliver of a bacon rasher from a vacuum pack (e.g. Galtee or Denny) is yer only man, the loose rashers you buy in the butcher are too dry. Make it a mix of lean and fat because they will dry out at different rates so there will be a smell to attract the feckers for several hours.

Cheers for that.

Have tiny bits of chocolate with caramel hoping they'll get slightly stuck in the caramel thus increasing chance of trap going off.

wayoutwest

Mice love peanut butter + it is sticky so they can't whip it of the trap that easily.

Alun

+1 for the peanut butter. Works every time.

Tabnabs

Mice love chocolate OP, you're on the right track. I've had 100% success with a bit of chocolate spread smeared over the 'bait box' on the trap. If you have a conventional trap with steel wire, then you need to trim a bit off the end of the wire trigger. It has to be super sensitive as mice can be too light to set off the standard trap. If the trap springs when you are placing it carefully into position, then it's just sensitive enough.

wayoutwest

I found these type of traps are more effective than the old style wooden ones, and are much easier and safer to set up.
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CathalDublin

Melt the chocolate with a lighter, chocolate with caramel works even better, works everytime

bobbysands81

Update:

3 of the 13 traps had food stolen from them without the trap going off.

One of the traps was the one that wayoutwest has posted the other two were the conventional old style wooden ones. I've reset them very sensitively this morning so I'm really hoping for success.

Gonna get some peanut butter on way home and change the bait if I haven't caught any. The mouse I saw the other night looked very small so I'm not surprised it didn't set off the trap. It looked so small that I wouldnt be surprised if it was able to sneak under the pressure pad in the trap posted by wayoutwest and get at the food without setting off the trap.

As the three traps that they took food for are in the one place, the same place that I saw one of them, then I'm going to litter the area with traps in the hope I snag them.

They're also very close to my parrot cage which would also be a source of food for them as parrots are messy eaters and bits fall on the ground. Have to keep that as clean as possible to ensure the only food source is in the traps.

Any other tips greatly appreciated.

This is war.

Tabnabs

Peanut butter or chocolate spread works well, I have also successfully used a rubber band to secure a single peanut and the little fooker has to fight to try to steal it, thereby setting off the trap <insert evil laugh>

bpmurray

Those sticky traps are nasty - I hope you have a hammer ready to off the little devil when (s)he gets caught, and have the wherewithall to bring it own sharpish on his head! I use live traps & release them down the road (near the neighbour's house), although my cats follow me so I don't know if they get away.

On that subject, the cats are great at catching all sorts of small mammals and birds outside, but the only thing they'll kill indoors are spiders - they must think that the mice are household pets.

And +1 for peanut butter & chocolate, although I like Reeces too much to sacrifice a smidgen for the rodents.

wayoutwest

O.P - Sorry to hear that they are driving you mad - hopefully you will blessed with a successfull extermination tonight.
I saw what I think was a small rat in my woodstore the other day, so I too are hoping for a little annilation this evening. Bought giant trap that was a bit scary to set and put on a bit of uncooked rasher (pushed hard through the bait securing eye) garnished with some smoked mackeral pate'.
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wayoutwest

......was a bit worried about cats getting injured so built homemade cage to put over it.
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Pkiernan

Amazon.co.uk has glue traps.
They're by far the best as they'll catch many mice.
Whenever I'm in the US I always get some.

colm_c

Or you could make your own!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eF6xwUSkT1k

wayoutwest

EXCELLENT trap - simple to make, plus drowning is a more humane way of killing them than a spring trap that could (occasionally) merely amputate, leading to slow and painfull death.

dodzy

Jesus lads WTF! , bacon with smoked mackerel patê and melted chocolate with caramel.....you sure got yourselves some posh rodents

CJhaughey

I bought a Goodnature trap. Co2 Powered , not cheap but by far the best solution for rodents that doesn't need rebaiting constantly and resets itself.

Tabnabs

It might reset itself, but you still have to remove the dead rodent... I really don't see the advantage when price is taken into consideration.

wayoutwest

Dodzy - didn't have any luck with ratrap last night....I think you might be right about the bait being too posh.....it must have been a 'common' rat that I saw.

crosstownk

When using spring traps you must ensure that the pin is within a hairs breadth of triggering. If it isn't then the mouse will eat away at the bait in relative safety as it's not heavy enough to move the trigger/hook any distance.

In the past I've used a knife to gently push the trigger/hook to the very end of the pin.

I used peanut butter as bait and pushed it down into the little circular hole on the trigger and scraped it level with the surface to force the little fcukers to work their way around the trigger.

CJhaughey

Tabnabs wrote: »

It might reset itself, but you still have to remove the dead rodent... I really don't see the advantage when price is taken into consideration.

Depends on where the trap is situated, usually the dead animals are predated upon by other animals.
If not then its just a case of digging a small hole.

vicwatson

bobbysands81 wrote: »

Update:

3 of the 13 traps had food stolen from them without the trap going off.

One of the traps was the one that wayoutwest has posted the other two were the conventional old style wooden ones. I've reset them very sensitively this morning so I'm really hoping for success.

Gonna get some peanut butter on way home and change the bait if I haven't caught any. The mouse I saw the other night looked very small so I'm not surprised it didn't set off the trap. It looked so small that I wouldnt be surprised if it was able to sneak under the pressure pad in the trap posted by wayoutwest and get at the food without setting off the trap.

As the three traps that they took food for are in the one place, the same place that I saw one of them, then I'm going to litter the area with traps in the hope I snag them.

They're also very close to my parrot cage which would also be a source of food for them as parrots are messy eaters and bits fall on the ground. Have to keep that as clean as possible to ensure the only food source is in the traps.

Any other tips greatly appreciated.

This is war.

Im having the same battles

About 3 weeks ago we heard scratching in our attic (we searched high and low outside to see where the pest(s) could have got is and we are flabbergasted as to how. They are not in the house at all and only access to attic is through attic door which is flush so no way they could have got in there. Definitely from the outside, but where?

We have only heard scratching about 6 times (2 x night, other in daytime)

Set traps and laid poison - first of the traps with smoked bacon, I tied them on the traps and left them for 2 days but didn't set them sensitively enough and even though I tied it on - both traps were nibbled at and but no result.

I reset them with twix bar and left them for 2 days, checked them and the Baxtards had been nibbling again but no result, again I probably hadn't set them sensitively enough.

No noise for about 4 days and though perhaps the poison kicked in as some had been eaten both at first and second trap change but them I heard scratching at night so went up to reset them again with Mars bar, set them much more sensitively and checked them 2 days later - not touched at all this time. Not a sniff.

That was Wednesday and no noise since last weekend but am going to check them this morning.

They are crafty buggers

Any tips greatly appreciated

CJhaughey wrote: »

I bought a Goodnature trap. Co2 Powered , not cheap but by far the best solution for rodents that doesn't need rebaiting constantly and resets itself.

Where might one get one of these?

CJhaughey

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I bought mine in NZ directly but they are available from the UK now.
http://www.ejchurchill.com/the-shop/good-nature-traps/

Lex Luthor

Ted Johnsons Naas has humane traps, small ones that shut a door and you can take them out to a field then

VladamirP

dodzy wrote: »

Jesus lads WTF! , bacon with smoked mackerel patê and melted chocolate with caramel.....you sure got yourselves some posh rodents

I normally use sushi and caviar, they won't get out of the nest for any less.

VladamirP

VladamirP wrote: »

I normally use sushi and caviar, they won't get out of the nest for any less.

When that didn't work I settled for the Andrew mark v, just to show off to the neighbors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7MXPA_tMJA

Zimmerframe

Nolan's Cheese

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiFWZ8MC2cE

VladamirP

Zimmerframe wrote: »

Nolan's Cheese

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcSBO8YAnTQ

I was going to say did the mouse wink at 22 seconds.

vicwatson

Is this after hours?

Kat1170

vicwatson wrote: »

Is this after hours?

Jebus, do you just lurch from one forum to another looking for something to bitch about ???????? :rolleyes::rolleyes:


OP, try THESE, the bait is under the ''roof'' of the trap forcing the mouse to step on the trigger plate to get at it.

vicwatson

Kat1170 wrote: »

Jebus, do you just lurch from one forum to another looking for something to bitch about ???????? :rolleyes::rolleyes:


OP, try THESE, the bait is under the ''roof'' of the trap forcing the mouse to step on the trigger plate to get at it.

No I don't, you??

vicwatson

vicwatson wrote: »

Im having the same battles

About 3 weeks ago we heard scratching in our attic (we searched high and low outside to see where the pest(s) could have got is and we are flabbergasted as to how. They are not in the house at all and only access to attic is through attic door which is flush so no way they could have got in there. Definitely from the outside, but where?

We have only heard scratching about 6 times (2 x night, other in daytime)

Set traps and laid poison - first of the traps with smoked bacon, I tied them on the traps and left them for 2 days but didn't set them sensitively enough and even though I tied it on - both traps were nibbled at and but no result.

I reset them with twix bar and left them for 2 days, checked them and the Baxtards had been nibbling again but no result, again I probably hadn't set them sensitively enough.

No noise for about 4 days and though perhaps the poison kicked in as some had been eaten both at first and second trap change but them I heard scratching at night so went up to reset them again with Mars bar, set them much more sensitively and checked them 2 days later - not touched at all this time. Not a sniff.

That was Wednesday and no noise since last weekend but am going to check them this morning.

They are crafty buggers

Any tips greatly appreciated




Where might one get one of these?

Since this I've set two more traps with peanut butter and they cleaned it off :mad:

Went and bought new Traps in woodies they look like those victor ones, 4 for 5.98, and laced them with peanut butter this evening, will let yis know results in am.

Crafty buggers though, that or I wasn't setting traps sensitively enough.

vicwatson

Yesss finally caught one on Friday morning, left 2 other traps up there, but i think it was a sole occupant, a rogue, hope I'm right !

Tabnabs

vicwatson wrote:

Crafty buggers though, that or I wasn't setting traps sensitively enough.

That's it, it has to be sensitive enough to snap at the lightest touch. Plus you're feeding them up now. Time to act quickly and decisively before they breed.

intro

A piece of thread through the likes of peanut butter onto the trigger of the mouse trap usually works. Teeth get caught on it long enough for the trap to work.