Get the Rat Zapper I previously recommended ... use the supplied food and you will have a catch the first night ...

Where does one purchase a rat Zapper? I went to the local Ace hardware and they did not know what I was talking about

those ratzappers didn't work for me. I wasted $55 on two of them and they haven't caught a single mouse.

What worked the best was the glue traps sold at the dollar store. They were the only ones that caught the mice.

I supplemented them with the green mice poison pellets.

If you have a uv flashlight, you can shine it on the suspected mice infestation areas and see where they pee. Mouse urine naturally flouresces in UV light. YOu can then see where they congregate and target those areas.

Check out www.ratzapper.com I've use mine all the time since I'm out in the country and have mice and rats in the barn and shed nearly all the time. I find that a small amount of peanut butter on a cracker - slid all the way to the backof the trap works well. If no catch after 48 hours, replace with a fresh baited cracker - GOOD LUCK !

A method my dad used was to get a regular 30 gal. plastic garbage can and fill it with about 6-10 inches of water, put a dab of peanut butter a couple inches below the inside rim and lay a board or stick from the top of the can to the ground or a table etc.. when the mice find their way to the peanut butter they will eventually fall into the can and drown.

Don't laugh but I once caught a mouse this way.

Using peanut butter on the trap didn't work as the mouse was able to eat the peanut butter without setting off the trap. So I created a "peanut butter bomb". I took a carrot and sliced a small 1/2 inch slice. I cut that in half and hollowed out a small innner core in each half. I put peanut butter on the inside core and held the carrots together with little toothpick sections. The mouse had to lift off the carrot bomb to get to the peanut bu....SNAP!

We use a small piece of raw bacon tied with several turns of sewing thread to the trap trigger. The mice tug at the thread to get the bacon. The same thread could be plastered with peanut butter for the same effect.

Loved the carrot idea!!!

I place 2 or more traps in line and leave them under a piece of plywood or other board leaned against the wall. The traps are baited alternately with PB, bacon, and oatmeal/PB balls.

If you jamb the bait up on the little spike on those plastic footed traps, they'll set em off! Those traps also have adjustable sensitivity, but, I've found can also be set not to go off, so you need to test one out and make sure you're not setting it improperly.

I have your answer. I have seen it all and every mouse trap gimic made. This is what works fool proof.

You need a old fashioned wooden based mouse trap with the spring loaded bar. You need the trap also that has the small brass or steel catch that curls upward in the front of the catch plate. Now take a piece of Nacho Cheese Dorito chip and break off a piece the size of a nickle and wedge it under the curl of the catch plate keeping as much intact as possable and not hampering the trip of the trap so the mouse needs to tug on the chip to get it loose.

The point then is to feed them where you want them to go. They cannot resist the smell of the chip. I recently fired up my trap again and cought 5 mice in 2 days. I have 1 trap the has 16 kills marked on it and another that has 7. Be sure to check about every 3 hours and rebait as needed.

I tried the tip from Blindmanbruce and it worked! Used a 5gal. Sheet Rock bucket with 1x2 ramp and about 3 inch. water. It took some experimenting where to place the peanut butter, seems they can stretch down low. Went to about 2 inches above the water. I got 2 at once. This seems like a clean method. Bernie

I had the same scenario in the barn. I had a cream can with some corn in the bottom. They would jump in and couldnt get out. I could then turn several loose for the cats. The point is that they didnt swim until exhaustion and drown. I'll stick with my trap. Works every time quickly.