Best mouse trap

you could try a few of those plug-in pest repellers.

we had a brazen mouse in the kitchen who was not very afraid of us.

after plugging them in, it was gone the following day...

We used those sticky pads which worked great. Very sad to say they either died of fright or we had to drown them.

There is a hole in the trigger part of a trap. Try putting a string or a bread tie through the hole and then use it to tie down the bait. Bread tie works best for me.

There's a technique to placing mousetraps, as well. Mice have established runs along walls. Even unbaited traps will catch them if placed back-to-back along the runs; running mice will get trapped from either direction. I've set up boards that direct them into this "runway of death". Also, (dumb question) are you sure you set the traps correctly? Are they the ones with the plastic bait trays or is the mechanism all metal? I think the latter are more sensitive and a bit harder to set.

I thought we had a mouse last winter. Considered him harmless and put down live traps until holes started spontaneously appearing in my dishwasher drain line. Then I was done trying to spare him.

At that point I went and bought two four packs of these:



Baited then with peanut butter and set them by the drain hose they’d chewed holes in. Turns out a mouse was 4 mice, and the traps were amazing. Took 3 days and my mouse problem was solved.

Sometimes traditional traps might not do the trick, especially if the mice are avoiding them.