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Simple Yet Most Effective Mouse Trap
Remember the adage if you build a better mouse trap, the world will beat a path to your door? Well, many people took this idea seriously because there must be a gazillion different types of devices to trap your friendly, but annoying mouse.
If you have ever watched a children’s cartoon in the last 50 years, you probably know about the most effective and simple type of mouse trap. It is a small piece of wood with a heavy spring device that slams down on the mouse while he is trying to get a free dinner. The thing is that these work very well.
However, inventors are still looking for fame and fortune designing a better mouse trap, so they did not stop with something that simple. And besides, this is the high tech 21st century.
The first problem though with any mouse trap is getting the mouse into the trap. Cheese has always been considered first choice to bait the trap. A very strong second is peanut butter, followed by rice and a small piece of fish mixed in with the rice.
Now that you have prepared your mice a rodent’s gourmet feast, what happen next? The common spring mouse trap has the primary purpose of trapping and hopefully killing the mouse at the same time. Case closed.
However, some people are sensitive to that idea and therefore, a mouse trap that is more of a mouse jail has been developed. Here the mouse comes in to the trap but cannot escape. These mouse trap mazes or mouse tunnels require that you take care of the little critter after you have caught it. Some of these are made of clear plastic so you can see what you rodent prisoner is doing while in confinement. One mouse trap model I once saw advertised said that it could hold up to 30 mice. No comment. Also, I am sorry to say, the directions really do not give good ideas what to do next. I mean you certainly do not want to release the mouse or you just have to go through the whole process again.
Some of the more advanced style of mouse trap involves electricity. No, no we are not talking about an execution, although there are models like that on the market that gives the mouse a lethal shock. Others though are battery powered and automatically close a door behind your visitor.
Another type of mouse trap that I like is simpler, cheap, and a very effective, although it can be a little messy. Buy a sheet or two of fly paper. Before you go to bed, place the sticky sheet with some bait in the middle of it on the kitchen floor. The mouse usually will walk onto the flypaper. You can easily fold the flypaper in the morning and put everything is the trash.
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