# Mousetrap suggestions **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 13, 2006, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mousetrap-suggestions/380247 "2006-11-13T15:41:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mousetrap-suggestions/380247/21 "2006-11-14T03:27:11Z")
My cat killed every mouse around the neighborhood and destroyed a beginning rat problem. Also a few birds. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mousetrap-suggestions/380247/22 "2006-11-14T18:38:59Z")
[QUOTE=RealityChuck] The traditional Victor trap is also good, if baited with peanut butter. Victor has actually made a less effective version in the past few years, replacing their “three way action” in favor of a larger, flat pedal made of plastic that looks like cheese (for humans) and which supposedly has mouse pheremones. I’ve had less luck with them, but much more with the older version with a smaller, metal pedal and peanut butter. **They are theoretically reusable, but only if you want to pry back the metal bar while the dead mouse is in it (yuck). Generally, they are treated as disposable.** [/QUOTE] **Bolding Mine** :smack: I have always taken the dead mouse out of the trap and re-used it. I wasn’t supposed to? It never occured to me to throw the whole thing away…and I’m not even one of those frugal-use-everything-twice sort of people. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mousetrap-suggestions/380247/23 "2006-11-14T21:53:28Z")
[QUOTE=zoogirl] I’d go live trap and a nice trip FAR into the woods. Failing that, snap trap. NO GLUETRAPS!!! Sorry for yelling but I hate the things and I’d love to see them banned. They just cause totally unnessacary suffering and there’s no good excuse for using them over a quick and effective snap trap. [/QUOTE] Unless, you have an idiot cat and a video camera. A bottle of baby oil and scissors will also be needed… ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mousetrap-suggestions/380247/24 "2006-11-14T23:28:11Z")
If you want to make one yourself, there are many of them. Here’s the simplest. [http://glass.typepad.com/journal/2005/09/how\_to\_catch\_a\_.html](http://glass.typepad.com/journal/2005/09/how_to_catch_a_.html) ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2006, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mousetrap-suggestions/380247/25 "2006-11-15T00:34:57Z")
Get a cat. ---
**Author:** ![robz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac8455/32.png) [@robz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robz)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2006, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mousetrap-suggestions/380247/26 "2006-11-15T14:52:41Z")
Walmart sells ($2) a reusable plasic box trap about 6" long and 2" square it has a hinged door on one end. Peanut butter in the closed end and a little on the door. Mouse goes in, and can’t get out. They worked very well for me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mousetrap-suggestions/380247.md?page=1)