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Originally Posted by hlh1
Have these worked for you? My mice are ignoring them.
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Your mice may not be "ignoring the traps" but they may be too small to trip the counterweight on the "trap door lids" on the buckets. We've got several species of "field mice" that call the woods around our property and our pole barn home. When the fifth wheel is parked in the pole barn, it becomes a "curiosity to be explored" by anything that ventures into the pole barn.
Some of the "field mice", along with the chipmunks, will venture onto the trap door and fall to their doom. Other's, quite a bit smaller, walk around freely on the trap doors and never seem to trigger the door to fall open. Why? They just don't weigh enough to make the door work. But they're big enough to leave droppings with equal angst to anyone trying to keep an RV clean.
But, even the small ones do like to venture onto a mouse trap with peanut butter on a cotton ball and they are "big enough to pull the trigger on those traps"..... Quite a few (but never all of them) have become owl food, cat food and fox food behind the pole barn.