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[soc_puppet]

I don't know a whole lot about mouse traps, but I can definitively say this:

If I can set a trap and drop it on the floor without it going off? That trap will not catch a mouse.

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[pikkugen]

like... a cat? (teehee i'm so funny)

[soc_puppet]

Hmm; I'm pretty sure that if I dropped a cat and it wasn't expecting it, there's a decent chance it would go off on me, so I'm going with "it depends" for that 😛

[pikkugen]

Well, true. (And I've known cats who couldn't catch a mouse if it was wrapped in giftpaper in front of their noses.)

[mistressofmuses]

No kidding! That is NOT a good mousetrap.

[soc_puppet]

Either I'm doing something wrong, or someone at Quality Check has really let their game slide. And I'm reasonably sure it's not me...

[mistressofmuses]

Yeah, that definitely doesn't sound like it's just you. That is not a working mousetrap!

[soc_puppet]

Of course, we also seem to have at least one (god, I hope it's only one) mouse that has learned how to eat the peanut butter off of the good, working traps without setting them off. I've upped my game a bit by using peanut butter to "glue" some flatter food down on the two traps I currently have out (a bit of cheese on one trap, a scrap of egg on the other), but there's been no results yet. And I'm fairly certain the fucker is still here, because the egg trap is new as of this morning; yesterday, I had one PB and Cheese trap and one Just PB trap out, and the peanut butter was gone from the latter trap this morning.

[mistressofmuses]

I swear, there's always at least one mouse that gets smart to whatever traps you set. They work excellently... until that ONE figures it out. My younger sibling looked up some different traps and found some electric ones that worked very well for several mice that had gotten into my mom's recently... until the remaining one or two got wise and then they caught nothing.

Peanut butter is usually a pretty good bait, and is better than something more easily grabable, but somehow some of them still figure it out, and I don't know how! That was always our go-to when we had mice at the house I grew up in, but somehow there were always ones that were too smart for it. :/