Once you have mice in your house, your biggest question is: do you mind killing the mouse in order to get rid of it? As blunt as that sounds, it’s going to determine the types of traps you use to get rid of them. Mousetraps, the type that snap shut on them, are brutal and efficient, but being clever and baiting them with food is a good way to get them out of the house without actually hurting them. Here are a few of the more common options.
For those of you who don’t want to harm the fuzzy guys, the food trap is going to be your ticket. You could buy traps at the store for example, something that you can bait with cheese or peanut butter that will close on them when they climb into it. If you don’t want to buy a trap, you can also try putting something together. Here’s an idea: take a toilet paper tube and balance it on the edge of your countertop (or anyplace up high where you know the mouse has been moving around) and put a bit of food at the end of it. Put a trash can with steep sides below the tube. When the mouse climbs in to grab the food the tube will fall, trapping it in the trash can. This is a fairly simple setup to put together, and if it doesn’t work for whatever reason, no harm done. You can try something else later.
If you don’t particularly care for the health of the mouse, then simple mousetraps are your most effective way to catch them. Be sure to use a type of cheese that sticks to the trap, or peanut butter that sticks. If you just put a piece of sliced cheese on it the mouse may be able to just lift it off without setting the trap off. You could also try setting up poison around the house as well. As the boxes will tell you, the poison is dangerous to children and animals, so this may not be the best option if you have either. But it is brutally effective.
Having a mouse in the house is not pleasant – it can actually be bad for your health thanks to the mouse poop they will end up leaving all over. But catching them is not too hard. Whether you’re worried about the mouse’s health or not, you shouldn’t have to take more than a night or two to get the guy out of your home.
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