Nobody wants to share and compromise their living space with mice. Also, to make your house unpleasant, mice carry different kind of diseases and can destroy your home and personal items. So, this is very important to keep you house clean and mouse free. In this blog, we’ll discuss about how to catch a Mouse with mouse trap.

To get rid of mice in your house, all you need to do is set mouse traps and wait until they’re caught, right? Well, yes that is true. But there is a possibility you may not complete the task as quickly and effectively as possible. You can check this common mouse trap so that you can easily catch a Mouse and keep your house clean.

Why Traps are Ideal for Catching Mice?

There are different type of mouse control options to catch a mouse, including baits and rodenticides. But using trap is more recommended. Do you know why?

Here are a some reasons why we should use trapping:

• Fast results – We cannot say trapping program would remove large mouse infestations completely by its own, but traps can provide us quick resolution for small mouse infestations.
• Pesticide-free treatment – Pesticides, rodenticides, and baits have their place in a mouse control program, but they can be dangerous to use – especially indoors. Mouse traps, on the other hand, are pesticide- and chemical-free, which makes them a safer choice.
• Easy disposal – As we can see a mouse traps catch and contain mice, which makes it easy to dispose of them.
• No smell issues – When we use chemical baits and a mouse consume it, sometimes they die hard-to-reach areas. Including some areas like vents and wall voids. And this will make you house smell terrible for weeks. Fortunately, these traps help you avoid this smell issue and allow you to dispose of all dead mice on time.

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Different types of mouse trap to catch a Mouse

Wooden snap traps:

Wooden snap traps are most popular trap because they’re affordable and easy to find at any hardware stores. It is also easy to place and dispose of – you need to toss the entire trap in the trash once it’s caught a mouse! Also, there are some reusable varieties you can prefer. It is durable plastic snap traps like the ones made by Trapper Mini T-Rex. These traps are very easy to clean and re-set again.

Pros:

• They are very easy to use
• Also it is strong snap
• Instant kill

Cons:

• Though the snap traps kill mice quickly but it can accidentally injure kids and pets, we should careful
• Sometimes mice can steal bait from these traps without triggering them
• You can openly visible dead mice in snap traps

Glue traps:

Glue traps are also very simple to use. It has flat boards with a sticky coating. When a mouse step onto glue trap board, they get stuck and can’t (usually) pull themselves free.

Sometimes glue traps are less effective than snap or multiple-catch traps. it can be useful for monitoring mouse infestations. It can also help to reduce severe mouse infestations as long as you also employ other, more effective mouse control methods.

Pros:

• Non-toxic
• Affordable
• Easy to use
• No need to bait these traps

Cons:

• You can not use in places where dirt, dust, or water are present since those elements will degrade the sticky coating
• This trap must be secured to the ground
• Sometimes mice can pull themselves off the trap
• Glue traps can be dangerous for kids and pets, especially if it gets stuck to their mouth, face, or nose

Multiple-catch traps (automatic)

Multiple-catch traps (curiosity traps) are designed specifically to catch mice automatically.

These traps are perfect option to control mouse infestations. There are two types of multiple-catch traps on the market today –

• Wind-up-style traps basically use a spring-loaded trap platform to flip mice into a holding chamber.
• Low-profile traps use a trap door to drop mice into a holding compartment.

If you can place them correctly, both the trap will catch mice effectively. These traps usually made from plastic, which allows you to see whether there are any mouse. Also it has removable plastic trays and covers which help these traps easy to clean.

Also the Low-profile traps are very slim to fit beneath furniture and in suspended ceilings.

How to Catch a Mouse

• Choosing and Baiting Traps – As there are several traps available in the market. You can select any of them to catch mouse in your house. You can select either wooden snap trap or glue trap. Also multiple catch trap will be effective if there are huge number of mouse in your house.
• Pick a bait – In your wooden snap trap, you can use cheese, grains, fruit, and seeds etc. Also Peanut butter mice love to eat. You can use high-fat, high-protein food as bait in the trap such as bacon and chocolate.
• Bait a trap – Don’t use too much bait in the trap. You should keep your bait to the size of a pea and place it firmly inside the trap.
• Find a suitable location where you think the mice will be – Often mice like enclosed dark spaces, such as in a cupboard or under furniture. They sometimes stick near walls when scurrying about. You may try to find rat droppings or smell urine.

In this way you can catch and remove mouse from your house. Hope you find this article useful and follow us for more useful artical.