Sticky traps don't work

[daughtersrus]

I now have at least 2 mice running around my garage with half of their hair gone.

 

[sksjasams]

We bought a couple of these and they worked well. I got ours at the grocery store. They have a no touch release when you are disposing of the mouse and they are reusable. Good luck!

http://www.acehardware.com/product/index.jsp?productId=1279062

 

[wiigirl]

I have used these with good sucess...baited them with peanut butter.

http://www.lowes.com/pd_16800-446-0320110_0__?productId=3461760&Ntt=mouse+trap&pl=1&currentURL=%3FNtt%3Dmouse%2Btrap&facetInfo=

 

[daughtersrus]

We usually use the old fashioned wood traps with peanut better with good success. The store was out of them so I got the sticky traps instead. I saw/ heard a mouse in one of them yesterday but I'm a wimp and was going to wait for DH to get home to throw it away. I went in the garage a few hours later and noticed it wad moved. It was empty with just some yucky fur stuck to it.

 

[wvjules]

Those are so inhumane. Why not get a catch and release trap?

 

[Deb in IA]

Those are so inhumane. Why not get a catch and release trap?

Where do you think the released mouse will end up?

Right back in your house.

 

[goofyintoronto]

I now have at least 2 mice running around my garage with half of their hair gone.

Im sorry, I know its mean for me to laugh, but the way you put it, its funny!

Can you borrow a couple of cats from someone for a few days? Lol.

 

[goofyintoronto]

Those are so inhumane. Why not get a catch and release trap?

I agree. I couldnt kill a mouse.

 

[daizieduck]

How could they not work? We use the rat size sticky traps all the time because we have a bit of a snake problem in our laundry room. We catch mice and small and larger snakes with them.

 

[Kim&Chris]

Those are so inhumane. Why not get a catch and release trap?

Agreed. I can't stand to see any animals suffer.

The catch/release ones are good. My sister had some in her garage a few years ago. She caught them, put them in a box, and took them to a field and released them.

 

[scrapquitler]

Those are so inhumane. Why not get a catch and release trap?

If you release them, they come right back inside.

 

[wvjules]

Really? If you take a mouse out to a field somewhere and release it it will find its way back to your house? Even so, I still feel the same way. I couldn't torture an animal like that.

 

[TinkerBelled]

Sticky traps are horribly inhumane. I understand the need to kill mice, but do it quickly and relatively painlessly--get snap traps. Glue traps make mice starve to death or, in particularly gruesome cases, chew off limbs to escape starving to death. Break their necks quickly, if you're going to kill them.

 

[scrapquitler]

Really? If you take a mouse out to a field somewhere and release it it will find its way back to your house? Even so, I still feel the same way. I couldn't torture an animal like that.

To a field somewhere? You think I want to put the mouse in a box and drive it around? NO WAY.

 

[Ginacrella]

Really? If you take a mouse out to a field somewhere and release it it will find its way back to your house? Even so, I still feel the same way. I couldn't torture an animal like that.

Exactly ,and the possibility of that mouse to spread some type of disease in the house or else where. Get rid of that mouse ASAP!

 

[daughtersrus]

Really? If you take a mouse out to a field somewhere and release it it will find its way back to your house? Even so, I still feel the same way. I couldn't torture an animal like that.

Our house backs up to an open field so yes, it's very likely that they would come right back. Unless the hawks or coyotes get them first.

 

[wvjules]

If I had a problem like that and I trapped the animal I wouldn't release them back into my yard. I would take them to a different field away from my house.

 

[Arielle22]

If I had a problem like that and I trapped the animal I wouldn't release them back into my yard. I would take them to a different field away from my house.

Close to someone else's home?

When I was growing up, after work was done on a subway nearby, the whole street got mice. I didn't like the sticky traps because you could hear the mice in them. We used the old fashioned traps and they worked well.

 

[lizabu]

How could they not work? We use the rat size sticky traps all the time because we have a bit of a snake problem in our laundry room. We catch mice and small and larger snakes with them.

I had the same exact thing happen. I found the sticky traps with the bait gone and a little fur stuck to them. I went and got some snap traps. End of problem.

 

[wvjules]

Close to someone else's home?

When I was growing up, after work was done on a subway nearby, the whole street got mice. I didn't like the sticky traps because you could hear the mice in them. We used the old fashioned traps and they worked well.

Yep. That's what I said. Release them in someone else's yard.

How hard it is to drive them to a field somewhere to release them?

I'm not a fan of any mouse trap killing but atleast use a quick kill one instead of one that will have them die a slow painful death.