glue traps for mice

You can buy the glue in bulk from them.

I'd always been familiar with, and used the snapping kind. Never seen the sticky glue kind until doing a phone repair at a factory, when I got into them by mistake. Was lying on the floor trying to reach around and under a desk and thought that maybe the user had dropped some papers behind the desk by accident. Weren't papers at all - were 8.5"x11" sticky mouse traps, and several of them. Came out from under that dest with them things stuck to my forearms and shoulders. They stick pretty good too. Had that sticky stuff all over me. They must've been expecting rats, racoons, or bears with them things because I've seen much smaller ones in the store, about the size of snap traps. They all had one thing in common, all said "VICTOR" on them.

Years later, I'm still trying to get that sticky stuff off of me and out of my eyebrows. LOL.

By the way, is a good idea to check behind or under your desk from time to time if you have one. I find more stuff under or behind them doing phone repairs. Stuff like important papers, missing payments or bills. And usually by the time I find them and hand them back to whomever dropped them back there, it's too late, the phone bill didn't get paid, the company's getting shut down, car's getting repo'd...you've beat the kid for stealing your bag of gold when he really didn't do it... LOL.

Mark

I"ve no experience with glue traps for mice but flypaper is very sticky and might work. Here is a formula for homemade fly paper:

Combine equal parts of melted resin and castor oil, then spread over long strips of stiff writing paper with a knife warmed in a jug of hot water.

There are also bucket traps which some profess to catch mice. He is an example that was posted on another forum:

The "old standby" for a bucket trap is to run a wire across the top, and put a paper towel tube (or a 2-liter soda bottle or similar) on the wire. Smear peanut butter in a ring around the center of the tube, and put a small board for a ramp leading up to the tube. Put a few inches of water in the bottom, then leave it where the mice will find it. They will walk out on the tube to get to the peanut butter, and will slip off the tube when it rotates and fall in. This trap is standard procedure at most hunting camps--it"s self-resetting and deadly! Put anti-freeze in the water, and you can catch mice all year "round, though I wouldn"t recommend it with pets around.

Bob

Over in England, the old poachers made and used 'bird lime' which was a concoction made with holly berries or sap and mixed with shellac.....stayed gooey and sticky. They'd have a decoy bird in a cage and the wild birds would light in a bush whose limbs were smeared with this bird lime, get stuck and the poachers would catch them.

Even woven chicken wire would keep them out.