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I have a big barn and mice sometimes get in. Three ways I handle it:
1. Cats 2. traps 3. 22 shot shells

Oats, raisins and FixAll mixed together. Keep it dry and let them eat it. Binds them up. So I saw on Youtube. Haven't tried it yet.

Update on this
I put a trap baited with peanut butter on my desk and kinda forgot about it.
Earlier today I heard a noise coming from that room, sounded like something fell. I checked it out and didn't see anything but later I noticed the trap on the floor and knew instantly what had happened. My Black lab has a taste for peanut butter, and must have found the trap.
Don't know if it got her, but when I picked it up and showed it to her, the tail and head went down and she left the room.

Oh by the way, the partially chewed tootsie roll is the best mouse/rat bait. They can't lick it off and get snapped.

The key with this stuff is making sure the mice can't get out again after they eat the poison.

Rodents live for about 2 weeks after they eat a lethal dose of rodenticide. The amount of poison in the tissues of a dying rodent is enough to kill a dozen dogs. Your dog or cat eats the rodent, and 2 weeks later your dog or cat dies.

This happened to my bird dog last November. Neighbors were poisoning the local squirrels to keep them out of their pecan trees. We still have the squirrels a year later, but half a dozen dogs and cats in the neighborhood died.

My dad prided himself on setting the victors really "light". Peanut butter and let her rip. Heard the trap go off one morning and low an behold he caught a roach. Yep, set so light it caught a frigin cock roach.


Clyde

...havin' real good results with Victor electric mouse traps at the ranch. victor traps

Well when I was a whole lot younger I had an untrappable mouse in the kitchen. So I built an electrocution trap, a wired aluminum pie plate for him to stand on while he ate peanut butter off the other stripped end of a light cord plugged into the wall. I sat back in the living room drinking beer and he'd get in the plate and get knocked halfway across the kitchen, then he'd keep coming right back and doing it again. It was hilarious but it didn't work either so the next night I set up a backstop and shot him with the .22, while drinking beer naturally. It was funny too until I went in and saw mouse parts EVERYWHERE throughout the kitchen. Good times.

It took me a couple years to replace a cracked motor in a truck that I'm driving now and it stinks of mouse piss. A co-worker said next time buy a box of instant potatoes and set some out. The internet and he says that they can't vomit, so they eat the dehydrated spuds which swell up and ruptures their organs and they can't puke them out. Worth a try maybe.

THE best mouse traps are the old fashion spring type wooden Victors with the upgraded trigger pad that is yellow plastic and looks like cheese. It has a deep pocket to hold peanut butter. They are fool proof and NEVER miss a mouse.

I just now shoved one out the door with nothing more than a broom and a flashlight!!

Saw a new trap on the redneck teeth inventors show the other night. Involved a ping pong ball. Pretty cool actually and really worked!