Mice will come into a building to get food. If you have food or crumbs lying around, that is a big problem. You probably won't have just one mouse btw. If you bait a trap, use chocolate and/or peanuts/peanut butter, not cheese (unless you live in a cartoon).
A good trap: cut the spout end off a 2 litre coke bottle and put peanut butter in the bottom. Put a cardboard box on the floor (open end upwards) and make a staircase for the mouse out of books. Balance the coke bottle on the edge of the box, with the mouth on the top of the books. You can balance it by taping pennies to the bottle until it's weighted perfectly. The mouse will go for the bait and as he strolls into the far end of the bottle, his weight will tip it into the box, and he'll be trapped at the bottom. Now the thing is, you need to take him outside quickly, because, little known fact about mice, they can jump really ****ing high. They CAN jump out of a 2 litre coke bottle from the bottom, but when he first falls in he will probably be too terrified to try, so you need to listen for when he disturbs the trap, and then jump on the bastard.
A good trap: cut the spout end off a 2 litre coke bottle and put peanut butter in the bottom. Put a cardboard box on the floor (open end upwards) and make a staircase for the mouse out of books. Balance the coke bottle on the edge of the box, with the mouth on the top of the books. You can balance it by taping pennies to the bottle until it's weighted perfectly. The mouse will go for the bait and as he strolls into the far end of the bottle, his weight will tip it into the box, and he'll be trapped at the bottom. Now the thing is, you need to take him outside quickly, because, little known fact about mice, they can jump really ****ing high. They CAN jump out of a 2 litre coke bottle from the bottom, but when he first falls in he will probably be too terrified to try, so you need to listen for when he disturbs the trap, and then jump on the bastard.
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