Setting Mouse Traps. I Can't Be The Only One They Terrify.

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Husband is away hunting. I'm home alone. I go to the basement and see a mouse sitting on my dog grooming table. I back up the stairs, and regroup. I go back to the basement and retrieve a mouse trap from the pile of them. I pick carefully as I see one is sitting there still set from last fall.

I put my peanut butter on it, than comes the hard part. I hold down the killing bar and set the trap. Now I gotta figure out how to release it and set it down without setting it off. My heart is pumping and I'm terrified. Such a silly situation. I finally get it released safely and set on the table. I'm so relieved. I feel like I just successfully armed some explosives. This isn't my thing.

This morning, dead mouse. Than I realize I gotta set more traps.

Anyone else a goof like me when setting a mouse trap, or is it just me?

 

[fatcatx]

I wish we had mice! I have the same issue with rat traps. Vicious things. You just have to pray they don't go off as you set them down.

 

[L1sa]

I've trapped so many mice in this place, I feel like I'm working on a personal genocide!

There are different types of traps you can get, we use one that looks like a crocodile clip, it can go off on your finger and it doesn't hurt at all, which takes away the anxiety for setting! but it still kills the mice.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I wish we had mice! I have the same issue with rat traps. Vicious things. You just have to pray they don't go off as you set them down.

I don't have the fortitude for rat traps. I don't think I could survive those.

My husband uses rat traps to catch starlings and sparrows in my shed. I get freaked out if he doesn't put them up high enough.

 

[rosemarythyme]

Have you tried the plastic jaw type traps? Not sure if there's mouse size ones but they're much easier to set. Or electric is fantastic for ease of use.

Otherwise I admit I made hubby set the old snap traps, every time he accidentally set one off I'd jump in a panic.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Have you tried the plastic jaw type traps? Not sure if there's mouse size ones but they're much easier to set. Or electric is fantastic for ease of use.

Otherwise I admit I made hubby set the old snap traps, every time he accidentally set one off I'd jump in a panic.

You just reminded me we bought an electric one last fall but never used it. I will have to find it tomorrow, of course my second fear is electricity due to electric fences.

I think my husband tried the jaw ones once but he couldn't catch anything with them, but I could be wrong. Mouse Traps are usually his department.

 

[Big Red Roosters]

You're not alone. That's why I'm partial to sticky traps in the house. In my coops I use steel wool in any nooks and crannies, havent seen a mouse in years.
Rat traps are a no-no for me. They're taken out with either a gun or vicious roosters.

 

[coach723]

I use these, bait them with peanut butter, and they work very well. Batteries last a long time, and no snapped fingers ever, and I can put them in the coop without worrying about a bird getting hurt. They have versions at Walmart, Lowes, Tractor Supply, etc.
http://www.victorpest.com/store/mou...MI073zo7nc3gIV9v_jBx12hQNxEAAYAiAAEgL6cvD_BwE

 

[Leahs Mom]

@Big Red Roosters
Steel wool? Please elaborate.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I use these, bait them with peanut butter, and they work very well. Batteries last a long time, and no snapped fingers ever, and I can put them in the coop without worrying about a bird getting hurt. They have versions at Walmart, Lowes, Tractor Supply, etc.
http://www.victorpest.com/store/mou...MI073zo7nc3gIV9v_jBx12hQNxEAAYAiAAEgL6cvD_BwE

Definitely gonna invest in a few of them now.