I can't believe what I just saw the mouse do!

What do you have it baited with? Mice love peanut butter, so if you smear that on it, it should smell it and investigate. I sympathize, I hate mice, too.

Hi Phillygirl, Wow that does sound like an amazing mouse to have jumped over the trap, do you have special labs there doing testing? lol! Whenever we have had mice here (I hate them too) we have used a humane trap thing that they run into. It tips up and catches them inside, not sure if they work better than traps but they did the job for us. You also have to make sure that where the trap is is where the mice go. If you have areas where you store food that have been eaten (we put ours near the flour) then it will go there. If there is a place they run through which is a small gap then it is a good place too since they have no choice, though I am going by the way wildlife people catch animals with that suggestion lol. I wish you luck catching it Dranz

I had to put out a glue board myself. My cat caught two of them but seems like I found another one. This cool weather is bringing them in. I used to be really frustrated until my father-in-law said to bait any trap with raw hamburger. I never thought it would work, but it worked every single time. I don't know what it is but raw hamburger is like a magnet for them. Good luck and I share your distaste for them. Eww, I just think they are dirty little critters.

Some mouse are smart because they know if that is a trap, mouse here in our country are immune to the poison. Although you put a mouse poison in the food they will just ignore that because i think that they already know the smell of the poison. Sometimes they will just jumped over the trap. It's really hard to get rid of them because there population is so big that when you killed one, on the next day there would be another mouse running around your house.

I think you should leave some good lure on the trap.

Those little sticky pads work really well. During the winter we use to have come into our basement from the fields. The pads worked great! I don't think a traditional mouse trap ever caught one, lol Oh yeah, lay some bait in the middle of it, peanut butter works pretty good believe it or not :-)

I have same experience as you.There is a mice living on our ceiling in kitchen. yesterday, we bought an iron box for catching it. however, we didn't get it. I put a meat in the box, but i think it must be know what it is. what a smart mice. how can we do? maybe what we can do is just bear living with it.

Who finally ditched you? The mouse trap or the mouse? I guess the mouse was too smart to smell rotten fishes around the corner and applying all its wit it saved itself. Now sorry, I do not own a cat. I wish I could give you one though.