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Although mice look so small, cute, and innocent, they can cause a lot of gnawing damage to your belongings and cause all kinds of diseases. You only discover a mouse problem much later. If you see one mouse walking in your house, you can assume more because mice live in a family context. You don’t want to hear this, but it is. It is, therefore, wise to always set multiple traps. This way, you increase the chance of being caught.
Types of fall:
With a mousetrap, you can control mice, and you can prevent pests from pests for the environment. There are different types of mousetraps for sale on the market. Certain species are animal-friendly, while certain species stress the mice.
A mousetrap is animal-friendly if you handle it like that. Mice cannot live in a stressful environment. If they are caught alive and not taken out quickly enough, they will still die. If you catch a mouse alive, you must release the mouse as soon as possible. Some types of mousetraps are:
Classic mousetrap:
The classic mousetrap is a good and inexpensive way to get rid of mice. With some treats such as a small bacon cube or piece of cheese, you lure the mouse into a trap, and the mouse is dead in one fell swoop. The classic mousetrap is a blow trap. If the mouse gets into it properly, it will die instantly and will not suffer.
The blow traps or mouse clamps used to be made of wood and iron and were difficult to tension. Today these traps have improved a lot. It has a sensitive trigger platform, and the trap’s force creates a great chance of being caught. Besides, you no longer have to touch the animals if you want to empty and reuse the clamp.
Electric mousetrap:
Would you rather not fight the mice with poison? Then the electric mousetrap is an alternative. This mousetrap is efficient, and unique, and kills the mice with an electric shock. This mousetrap works on batteries or accumulators and is safe for pets and children due to its construction. You can easily empty this mousetrap without having to touch the mouse.
Live mousetrap:
This mouse trap has one transparent entrance. You catch the animals alive with this mouse trap to release them safely later in an animal-friendly way. You can then release the captured mouse somewhere in the forest or the field. Please do this at a great distance from your house to prevent it from returning. It is not certain whether the mouse will survive this because the catch can cause the animal a lot of stress. To keep the stress as low as possible and prevent death, empty the mousetrap on time, so check regularly. Read all about this type of mousetrap in the article ‘An animal-friendly mouse trap, catch mice alive.’
Adhesive strip/glue board:
With an adhesive strip, mice walk on the trap and stick to it with glue. This control method is very animal unfriendly because it causes the mice to stress a lot and try to get loose by gnawing their own legs to get free. Unfortunately, they cannot. They panic and die in an animal-unfriendly way. Glue traps are generally prohibited when fighting mice, provided you have an exemption for them. If you use them anyway and you get caught, you can expect a fine.
How does it work?
Mousetraps are a very effective pesticide. It certainly is rapidly reducing the mouse population but is only part of a sustainable solution to get rid of mice. If you want better results, you will also have to take other measures. You can place mouse traps in your garage, kitchen cupboard, garden, attic, cellar, etc.
The classic mousetrap is an old-fashioned wooden mousetrap. To prepare the mousetrap, start by pinning the bait to the pin. You then pull the clamp to the other side, and the pin goes over it, creating tension. If the mouse places its paw on the trigger, the trap will close, and the mouse storage is dead.
Before placing the mouse traps, do the following:
- Before the mouse traps are placed, it is important to know where the mice are. The mouse droppings or half-eaten food scraps in a certain area of your house indicate that the mice often pass by. Their tracks are easy to spot, and you can quickly trace their walkways, entrances, and passageways. In these places, you can often find abdominal wax left behind by the mice. Belly grease is a blackish, greasy deposit that sits under their bellies and remains on the surfaces from scraping. Mice also leave feces such as poo and urine, all of which indicate a mouse in the house. You can start your search for their tracks at remote corners, under cabinets, between furniture, openings in ceilings,
- Also, check outside your house or your attic to see if there is a mouse nest. Check areas such as dead fruit trees, openings in walls and floors in upper and attic floors, under low-hanging shrubs, in-wall openings in a brick foundation, along with power and water lines, and under tile walkways or porches.
- Place the mouse traps in places where the mice are hiding. Place the mouse traps along the walls or baseboards because mice will stay very close to the wall when running. They don’t run through the middle of a room. By placing mouse traps along the walls, you have a greater chance of catching the mice. Prevent accidents by not placing them in the middle of the walkway. Keep pets and small children away from the mouse traps.
Some tips for using mouse traps effectively:
- Do not place the mouse traps in an open area. Mice are nocturnal and cannot see well in the dark. You place a mouse trap along the wall or wall so that when the trap closes, it is directed towards the wall or wall.
- Set multiple mouse traps. Placing multiple mouse traps at the same time helps to have more success in chasing the mice away. Just be sure to place multiple traps on the mice’s passageways and walkways.
- Check the traps every day. Check if you caught a mouse every day.
- Keep in mind safety. When placing mouse traps, make sure that children or pets cannot reach them. Use a box that you place over the trap to protect your children and pets.
What can you best use as ground bait?
Use bait that mice love. There are various foods suitable as bait on a mousetrap, but mice can only eat between three and five grams of food per day. When they are full, they don’t even get a nice piece of cheese. Often enough, you hear that mice do not get trapped and do not eat the bait.
As bait for a mouse, it is best to use a cube of cheese, peanut butter with canary seed on top, or a bacon cube. The peanut butter will last longer, while cheese or bacon can mold over time.
You can always alternate bait to see which lures them earlier. Other ground foods you can use are canary seed, diced bacon, nuts, farmer’s sausage, liver sausage, chocolate spread, cream cheese, smelly cheeses, jam,
Some tips for setting bait:
- The bait can be replaced after ten days because then it has lost its appeal. Mice quickly make baits dirty and unattractive, so you should replace them after ten days.
- Never touch the bait because mice recognize the smell of people and are deterred from it.
- If you notice that the mice are not approaching the bait, switch to another bait. If it doesn’t disappear, that means the mice are all dead.
- Dispose of the bait that has been left for 10 days in a sealed container.
How can you best clean them?
Mice leave poo and urine everywhere they walk. Mouse feces and urine are dangerous to human health because they are contaminated with pathogenic bacteria and viruses. Take the cleaning of areas infected by mice seriously. If you suffer from mice, cleaning and disinfection are of great importance for food safety and health—the areas where mice are and have walked smell sharply of urine and mouse feces. If you’re cleaning up an old mouse nest, gently wipe it off as the dust particles can also contain dried feces that can make you sick if you breathe it in.
You can protect yourself during the cleaning in several ways:
- Always wear rubber gloves.
- First, spray your gloves with disinfectant.
- Dispose of the clothes immediately after use
- First, wipe everything well.
- Scrub the area with a good detergent
- Disinfect the infected areas well
- Provide good ventilation for the infected areas. Always wear a mask if you need to clean an area with little ventilation.
If you are not very alert, cross-contamination can easily take place. Cross-contamination is lurking and can make you very sick. Mouse poo and urine can make you very sick, so handle them with care. Even if the mice have been eating your food, this is a risk to your health.
