My puppy went after a bait trap in the closet.

Now I only put them where he can not get at them. I only put them in the crawl space and the attic.

Unless he learns to climb ladders he is safe.

Other disadvantage to glue trap - you'll forget you put one hidden away really well, under a cabinet with opening underneath where you'd seen a lizard darting in and out. Your Roomba, however, WILL most definitely find it and glue up the wheels and rollers really well before locking up and sending a help request.

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I use the electric mailbox looking one or the snap traps, wouldn't mess with a glue trap for anything, who wants to deal with a live mouse or rat.

I shared this story recently elsewhere: Our daughter’s 29YO friend described her issues with her 30-day house rental in Gulf Shores.

Apparently she had signs of a mouse, some nibbles out of a potato and avocado on counter overnight. She contacted owner for remedy but emphasized she did not want the precious little mouse harmed.

Exterminator who showed up to place glue traps assured her that they had a solvent to release the glue and would take mouse back to shop and turn him loose.

She's been shocked that everybody she told that to reacted like us, with laughter!

I've used glue traps with success, in a building or house, as long as out of reach for the worthless cats,


in the garage I did catch more lizards, so went back to snaps,

smear or run peanut butter into a cotton ball and wird (bread bag tie or fishing line) the cotton ball to the trigger,

mice will try to suck pull the peanut butter off the cotton, and it releases the trigger, and dead mouse,

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Originally posted by sig2392:
My puppy went after a bait trap in the closet.

Now I only put them where he can not get at them. I only put them in the crawl space and the attic.

Unless he learns to climb ladders he is safe.

Hope he's not a mini-Shnauzer...

Glue traps for mice are exceptionally cruel IMO. I do have them for crickets that come under my front door this time of year and they work well for catching the robot vacuum.

Bucket traps are for sticking somewhere for a while and forgetting about. For more immediate results, most things work better. I say that because I have a "walk the plank" style one, use it with a half height bucket up at the cabin. I've NEVER caught a mouse in it, because in other parts of the building there are regular mouse traps. They don't bother exploring and climbing up things when there's food at floor level.

Somewhere in my mind is the memory of some mouse feet stuck to the edge of a glue trap with no mouse. I don't remember when or where, but I have it, and it bothered me.

The electric traps work really well. At once place I worked, we had a bad mouse problem and the owner refused to do anything to kill them because it made her feel bad. When I came to work one day and found mouse shit all over my work bench, I had a chat with the inventory guy and the shop supervisor and said I would take all responsibility if it was discovered, and later that day, I was in the mouse killing business. I checked it four times a day, and stopped counting after about the first week. It was daily, every morning, sometimes a couple a day. I don't remember what I used for bait, but they never got to it, they died on the way in. Those work really well. No mess, no constantly fiddling with the bait, and all you have to do is dump it out, put it back, and hit the reset button. I supposed changing batteries at some point as well, but you're not messing with mouse guts or body parts if it goes wrong, so that's a tradeoff I would gladly take.

The hardest rodent to trap is the Norway Rat, also known as Pack Rat. They're clever and nocturnal. They won't touch snap traps or glue traps.
I use small cage traps baited with pieces of banana or strawberry. Tend traps often. wear rubber gloves so they don't smell human scent. They see their buddy in a trap and they will never enter one.
Years ago I tried to use large snap traps and they would use a stick to snap the trap, then steal the bait. That's how smart they are.