Mouse does the Limbo

Always amazes me how tight of a space they can squeeze through.
Old Hikvision 2032 bullet. I should turn off motion rectangles, not sure why I have them on....

There's a reason they recommend placing traps against walls so that a mouse traveling along the wall will enter or trip the trap.

On the classical mousetrap, this means placing the trap perpendicular to the wall. With this trap, it means placing the tunnel parallel with the wall. Things you learn when you RTFM on a mousetrap Turn the trap and you'll likely see a large increase in the number of caught mice.

tangent said:

There's a reason they recommend placing traps against walls so that a mouse travelling along the wall will enter or trip the trap.

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Normally I'd agree with you, have trapped 18 mice in the last couple of years.
This particular location, it works best in this orientation, they tend to not go along the wall (it's blocked by a few items just off cam. Have caught 2 of the 3 seen on this cam.
This one did go in a couple times, just not quite far enough.

The_Penguin said:

Normally I'd agree with you, have trapped 18 mice in the last couple of years.
This particular location, it works best in this orientation, they tend to not go along the wall (it's blocked by a few items just off cam. Have caught 2 of the 3 seen on this cam.
This one did go in a couple times, just not quite far enough.

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I usually put multiple traps near garage doors.

We had an amazing mouse infestation in our garage a number of years back. I learned a lot about trapping mice from that.

Since then, I use the inexpensive spring traps, and always place the trigger end up against a wall if possible. I prefer peanut butter in the trigger, and I tweak the traps to be quite sensitive.

Supposedly, a mouse can fit through any opening they can get their head through. And that generally means any opening the diameter of a pencil will let a mouse through!

They can also jump and climb a lot better than you'd think!

Very adaptable little critters.