Indoors Tuck your trousers into your socks!

I bought a big cheap non branded metal one from our local proper farmer country store. It’s just a classic mousetrap times three. I am sure it would do the job with a lump of peanut butter or Nutella on the bait point. In the end I didn’t use it as the rat was in the garden and I couldn’t think of a way of deploying it safely re cats and birds.

What did get the dirty rat was that he began using the bird table in daylight. He was so bold that I just set up,a mound of blue bait on the table, sat inside to watch for birds, and within minutes he was up there scoffing the lot. I never found the corpse.which is the issue with poison of course.

There are special glue traps for indoor usage. We catch all mice this way.

How do you despatch a live mouse stuck on one (or do you just let them starve to death)?

(I have a very efficient tabby cat, so no mice indoors, I sometime rescue wood-mice and shrews she is playing with outdoors, they are usually unharmed and run off into the wood)