"Magic" Mouse Bait

Quick Kill Victor is one of the several I have pictured in my earlier post in this thread (Post #19, with the Chrome pedal poking out). Very sensitive. If a mouse gets near it, it will snap. I caught myself twice with it.
kris

 

Hope you caught the one and only...
kris

 

I know the possibility exists, but I feel it is pretty low. I used to alcohol my hands after handling mouse traps at home, but I have stopped doing that unless I am going to be handling food or something in the near time.

For work, required to sterilize after any sort of contact with critters, traps, etc., but it is a bit of overkill.

The only time I worry about traps and dying is when it is rattlesnake traps...and won't be doing that until spring (not at home, for work). Actually, if we had rattlers around the house, the mouse population would be smaller.

Well, the boas and garters do what they can...

 

Yes, for the most part the rattlesnake populations are fairly mellow, unless pestered -- how else could all those snake handling preachers survive.

When I was in the Midwest, the timber rattlesnakes were a bit cranky, but not too bad, and I have heard tales that a population of Mojave Green rattlesnakes in the desert southwest is very aggressive, but have never had the pleasure. My thing is mostly amphibians and they and their other water dwelling friends are pretty laid back here. I only volunteer to help out with snake census because they need the help and its a job not suited for amateurs.

As for wasps, I was getting attacked by yellow jackets the first week of December as I was hiking through the woods. Unheard of. They were pretty sluggish though and I managed to kill the two that tried to attack me.
kris

 

Would not post, but after seven days an observation or two, neither which hold up under investigation.

First, nine traps out last night and one mouse caught.

Exactly one week ago started this campaign with peanut butter and my old standby traps.

Three nights of traps baited with peanut butter -- no mice.

Switched to cheese dip and a day or so later also used Nutella while adding three NEW model types of traps, which were different than my old standby traps.

So new traps, new bait. I start catching mice. ONLY ONE mouse in a new trap, the rest were all caught in traps I have been using for a few years. Bait-wise, the cheese dip caught a few mice. The rest were caught with Nutella. The live trap I set out has caught none.

Anything proven, nope, but interesting, nonetheless.

I will continue with what I am doing, but I think I am beginning to doubt that the mice have learned to avoid old traps.
kris

 

I don't have a garage. Live in the backwoods several miles from town off a network of dirt, unmaintained roads. Traps are set at dark and removed before daylight to avoid catching birds.
kris

 

I write down how many I set ... But usually 8 around tires and the remaining along walls, all in giant square of sorts. At 5 a.m., sometimes it takes a bit to recall, but haven't lost one yet

 

Trapping them at all is not my idea of fun but they started the battle by invading my Prius. I have posted pix of how they filled the air filter box...once totally packed with dog food and once totally packed with Cheerios -- where they got the cereal?

Not to mention chewing wires and nesting on the cabin filter. This has all been discussed to death in the forums. The only real solution for me is a trapping campaign. Screening off parts of the car works, but does not stop them getting under the hood and nesting and chewing various areas.