Trapping has several advantages:
- Safer than potential hazardous poison baits
- Quick, immediate results
- Easy disposal of dead rodents avoiding odor problems that will occur if rodenticides kill rodents in inaccessible areas.
Place mice traps up against walls, behind objects, and in secluded areas where mouse droppings, gnawing and damage are evident.
Snap traps should be oriented perpendicular to the wall, with the trigger end against the vertical surface.
Multiple-catch traps should be placed with the entrance hole parallel to the wall.
Traps and glue boards should be checked daily and dead mice disposed of in plastic bags. Gloves should be worn when handling mouse carcasses to prevent any chance of disease.
Place mouse traps about 6 to 10 feet apart, since mice tend to travel very short distances.
You may need more snap traps than you think! Check the mouse snap traps daily. If nothing happens in a couple of days, move the traps to a new location. Mice are not afraid of new things or bothered by the smell of humans or dead mice on traps.
Successful baiting for mice is to have many bait placements containing a small amount of bait, rather than a large amount of bait in fewer locations.
If there is a source of food (other than the mouse bait), regardless of the quaility of the bait, the mouse may never touch the mouse bait.
