I need some ideas on how to catch a mouse in my LQ. I have tried peanut butter, cheese, dog food and grain on sticky traps. Plus I have the old fashioned traps and the new fangled plastic traps. All together 14 traps in a 15 foot LQ!
Mousy has main been lurking under the sink and in the hot water tank closet which is across from the sink cabinets. I have santized the trailer twice and really want to catch this varment!
Posted 2009-05-15 1:09 PM (#104977 - in reply to #104976) Subject: RE: Smart Mouse
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Is he stealing your peanut butter off of the trap?
I had one in a trailer stealing my peanut butter. I finally went back to two traps (old style) tied a small piece of bread crust on it with thread and then smeared it with peanut butter. Got him the first time he tried. He could clean the peanut butter off of a trap better than washing it and never set it off.
Posted 2009-05-15 1:42 PM (#104979 - in reply to #104978) Subject: RE: Smart Mouse
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Originally written by dawnb on 2009-05-15 2:29 PM
Here kitty, kitty, a good barn cat.
Ding, Ding!! LOL!!
Yep, a hungry barn cat will take care of that problem in short order. Shut one up in a cage for a coupledays with water and no food, then turn it loose in that LQ!!! We'll need some pictures!
Posted 2009-05-15 4:56 PM (#104989 - in reply to #104976) Subject: RE: Smart Mouse
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I had the same problem. About a year or more ago there was a thread on here that said to use dryer sheets to keep mice out of your trailer. Believe me, it works. We haven't had a varmint lay claim to our LQ since keeping an open a box of dryer sheets in it.
Posted 2009-05-16 12:11 AM (#104999 - in reply to #104976) Subject: RE: Smart Mouse
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Thanks for the replies so far. Too funny on the hungry kitties! I have barn kitties around the farm. But I am allergic to them so don't want to put on in the LQ...probably end up with fleas in the trailer then. And I have a rat terrier, but he likes to herd chickens.
Mousy hasn't tried to eat the peanut butter, one trap was sprung today, but no mouse trapped. I'm gonna try the string and bread trick with peanut butter. Wanna get this free loader caught before the Holiday weekend.
Posted 2009-05-16 3:24 PM (#105023 - in reply to #104976) Subject: RE: Smart Mouse
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A good mouser doesn't need to be starved...They do it for fun... In fact, every set of kittens that show up at our farm get trained from the Alpha female... And flea treatments work on barn cats...
Posted 2009-05-16 10:59 PM (#105029 - in reply to #104976) Subject: RE: Smart Mouse
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Get a 5 gallon bucket, fill it about 4-5 inches with water. Smear some peanut butter on the inside of the bucket about 3-4 inches from the top. Take a piece of wood about 3 feet long and make a ramp from the floor to the top of the bucket. Works great unless the mouse can tread water until his friend saves him.
Posted 2009-05-17 9:42 PM (#105051 - in reply to #104976) Subject: RE: Smart Mouse
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Just thought of another mouse trap. Items needed: 5 gallon bucket, electric fence charger, fence wire, piece of wood long enough to cross the top of the bucket and not fall in and a piece of wood for the ramp. Also that peanut butter. Take piece of wire from the ground post of the charger to one side of the wood. Bend the wire around the wood to make it solid around the wood so the mouse will have to step on it. Take another piece of wire from the hot side of the charger to that same piece of wood and wrap it around the wood in the same fashion about and inch from the other wire. Put the other wood from the floor to the wired piece of wood and make a ramp. Put peanut butter on the farthest wire from the ramp where it wraps around the wood so the mouse will be touching the hot and ground at the same time when he sits to dine. Fries the mouse's brain.
Posted 2010-05-10 10:01 AM (#119965 - in reply to #104976) Subject: RE: Smart Mouse
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Never had a mouse problem in my trailer before I finished my LQ. Didn't use the trailer much last year as my horse was injured, but I checked on it every so often...then one day... MICE!... they were eating up any paper products - there was no food left in the trailer. We set some traps and got rid of them, but I'm skeeved and now I have to clean the whole thing out with clorox or something!!! and as for that barn cat, she is so helpful, she brought my husband a live chipmunk into the house last week and dropped it. It took us 3 days and a whole bunch of peanut butter to catch it. It got into my bedroom, so I put the cat in there for the whole day... she just slept on the bed. The chipmunk was under my husband's pillow... I was skeeved again - slept in the spare room until I knew it was caught. Ahhh... farm life...
Smart Mouse
And I have a rat terrier, but he likes to herd chickens. 
In fact, every set of kittens that show up at our farm get trained from the Alpha female...
And flea treatments work on barn cats...