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"Dave Stadt" wrote:
I use sticky tent shaped traps and place them along the walls. Seems mice
like to travel along walls. Never had a mouse last long enough to cause a
problem.

Mice will travel along walls. When you place snap traps, you are
supposed to place them with the activation pedal toward the wall.
However, the mice must move so fast along the walls in my hangar that
their rear legs, and not their body, most often get trapped. Sometimes
they are able to free themselves (the trap will be dragged across the
hangar, but empty) and sometimes they are able to set it off but not get
trapped (the trap will be set off but not moved). I have actually
watched a mouse, with its rear leg trapped, free itself after a couple
minutes worth of effort. I have never had a problem with the traps in
my house. I suspect that the glue traps would be more effective.

However, the bait blocks appear to be working. It took about a week for
obvious signs of feeding, but the "food source" must have been
discovered because the baits were chewed pretty well by the end of the
second week. Some of the blocks were actually missing from the hangar,
so the mice must have moved them (didn't know they could do that.) I
may set more snap traps, or glue traps, to see what happens. However,
mice are plentiful and I'm not sure that I could set enough traps to
ensure that the hangar stays mouse-free.



JKG