How to outsmart super mouse?

**Nai** · March 3rd, 2011, 08:02 AM

Ok it seems we have a mouse in the house - and not just any old mouse! The mouse appears to have super-mouse powers of extreme intelligence!

This mouse has outsmarted the 2 traps we have set and managed to get away - now it won't go near them even though we have changed to food attractant (have used dog biscuits, peanut butter, pinenuts, cheese) and the locations. This little blighter is keeping me awake at night and needs to go!

What strategies can I now employ to outsmart this vermin?

**Junglemum** · March 3rd, 2011, 08:06 AM

Borrow a cat???? Or if desperate bait it. It will probably die and stink to high heaven for a few days, but sometimes it's the only way!

**Nai** · March 3rd, 2011, 08:09 AM

Unfortunately our dog might eat the cat

I could borrow the neighbours cats but I think they are a little on the lazy/well fed side. I may have to resort to bait - is ratsack still the thing to use these days?

**Junglemum** · March 3rd, 2011, 08:12 AM

I think so. Your local bunnings or even just supermarket will have the latest weapon on the shelf.

Good luck!!

**briggsy's girl** · March 3rd, 2011, 08:16 AM

do you have any jellybeans?? my parents swear by that as bait on a trap!!

ummmm, do you know where it is getting in? can you block the gaps? or put the traps along a wall where you know it's going (where you've found droppings?)

**Nai** · March 3rd, 2011, 08:22 AM

I will get some jelly beans at lunch time today (and hope I don't eat them all before I get home

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The mouse leaves no droppings! It is stealthy! I have been putting traps where I have seen it and where I have heard it. The house is about 100 years old so it could be getting in from anywhere to be honest - we also have fireplaces so it could also be coming in from there.

**Fuzzywuzzy** · March 3rd, 2011, 08:24 AM

Try some sticky traps, they walk over them and get stuck. Then you can either dispose of them humanely or just kill them. If you put them along the edges of the wall behind/under places the mouse hides it should be relatively easy to catch it. Good luck!

**StrawberryFields** · March 3rd, 2011, 01:29 PM

My big sister always uses pumpkin seeds and it hasn't failed her yet! Plus pumpkin soup is an added by product

My parents also had a rat problem after the floods, and found that if they left the BBQ unclean and put traps under there in the dark they would always get something, even without any bait!

And mice are like ants - there's no such thing as just one!

**Ozziehoffy** · March 3rd, 2011, 02:52 PM

Hmmm I have peppermint oil cos someone told me about that for ants.... which not sure if it's overly successful for but hell I have it and I'll try it... downside... MAKES ME WANT CHOCOLATE!! lol Love the smell!

**inlove** · March 3rd, 2011, 06:48 PM

We have mice really bad at the moment to the point that we can hear them in our roof and walls during the day and they wake us up at night it has only been this bad for about three days we have put bait in the roof and i am off tomorrow to buy traps and as much peppermint as i can find!! I hate them, they are freaking me out!!!!! I hate the sound of them scratching on the inside of the walls and in the roof!! It is very unnerving i wish they would hurry up and go away!!!