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Mice in the basement (Question) Bill 04-20-2008
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Posted by C & E on April 20, 2008, 8:52 pm

>I recently had some food in my basement spoiled by mice.
> I set 6 traps and got 3 overnight.
> I reset those 3 and got 1 more today.
>
> My question is... How are these things surviving in my basement?
> Aside from that box of cereal, I have never had food down there and there
> is no water that I know of.
>
> I seems any mouse would starve down there.
> And then the bigger question, how are they getting inside?

Indeed, mice carry food with them back to their lair. In fact, at our cabin
we found that mice had carried the rat poison pellets to their new lair
between the quilt and the blanket - ewwwww!! We changed over to blocks so
that they were more likely to eat at the bait site. One other neat trick
with the traps that was posted here was to turn the traps perpendicular to
the wall. I don't know why this worked better but we had a better catch
rate when we changed to this set up. And, BTW, for those of you at cabins,
check the peanut butter expiration date. Ours was OD but thought it would
be good enough for a mouse. WRONG! THey knew the diff and avoided the
traps but went for the poison. HTH!



Posted by HeyBub on April 20, 2008, 10:29 pm
C & E wrote:
> One other neat trick with the traps that was posted here
> was to turn the traps perpendicular to the wall. I don't know why
> this worked better but we had a better catch rate when we changed to
> this set up.

Mice are EXTREMELY near-sighted. That's why they hover near walls when they
scamper. You'll almost never see one in the middle of the room.

Placing a trap perpendicular to the wall (bait side next to wall) will
double your chances.



Posted by Red Green on April 21, 2008, 9:59 pm

> C & E wrote:
>> One other neat trick with the traps that was posted here
>> was to turn the traps perpendicular to the wall. I don't know why
>> this worked better but we had a better catch rate when we changed to
>> this set up.
>
> Mice are EXTREMELY near-sighted. That's why they hover near walls when
> they scamper. You'll almost never see one in the middle of the room.
>
> Placing a trap perpendicular to the wall (bait side next to wall) will
> double your chances.
>
>

On legdes, if I couldn't put it perpendicular, I would put two traps bait
side on approach from each direction.

Posted by Red Green on April 20, 2008, 9:28 pm

> I recently had some food in my basement spoiled by mice.
> I set 6 traps and got 3 overnight.
> I reset those 3 and got 1 more today.
>
> My question is... How are these things surviving in my basement?
> Aside from that box of cereal, I have never had food down there and
> there is no water that I know of.

Cell phones and Domino's. Extra cheese of course.

>
> I seems any mouse would starve down there.
> And then the bigger question, how are they getting inside?
>
>


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