Mice in the new building - floor installer is coming tomorrow

Borrow a cat

Hello Bertram

Take Hanuta. The wafer can go, only the chocolate. Mice love Hanuta.

Steven

sorry for the off-topic, but maybe sell Hanuta in the pet food store :)

Chocolate causes the animals to perish, so you don’t need live traps.

At least with marzipan inside, they can apparently tolerate dark chocolate quite well, at least as sheet metal garage mice. They can smell it through the packaging – I found their droppings near the packaging scraps, but no carcasses anywhere on the premises.

The mice are not supposed to die on the chocolate but from the metal bar that breaks their neck as soon as they try to take the chocolate from the trap trigger ;) That usually worked for me (old building) as well. The tip about the chocolate (contrary to popular belief, mice prefer cheese) was well received, even better were ready-made plastic traps with integrated bait. The traps could be tied down! (sometimes the mice unfortunately were not immediately dead if hit awkwardly by the bar and then dragged the trap away). The bait substance was almost invisible but sticky and apparently irresistible to mice. By the way, rats (which I also had once due to a tenant who always left food out) I got rid of with sticky poison foam from the can. You don’t want to see them die in the house. It smells terrible (happened once too)

We previously lived in an old large natural stone house.
Mice had settled there from the cellar through vacant apartments, in the masonry and floorboards up to the roof.
In one year, we stopped counting at 300 dead mice around mid-year.
The record was 9 dead mice in one day.

We used chocolate, nicely shaped into soft balls between the fingers and then firmly pressed into the recess of the snap traps.
A mouse definitely triggers the trap by nibbling on it.
It did not matter whether the chocolate was from old Easter or Christmas hollow figures or from bar chocolate.

The plastic traps with permanent bait barely worked for us. No idea if the mice noticed that a mouse had already died on the bait.

permanent dog. Nice typo ;)