So, here at SUPERPROOF, we have developed the most advanced system of mouse proofing in the UK. Then, they come out at night and enter your living space to get their food. They live in the cavities of your home’s walls, ceilings and floors to get the shelter and warmth. Mice live with humans because they offer three things – shelter, warmth, and food. If your home is burgled because you left your front door open, you don’t go to bed again the next night, with your front door open, do you? Not mouse proofing your home would be exactly the same. So, if you agree now that buying the best mouse trap might not be the best way to get rid of mice in your home, what is the answer? We say it is to stop mice getting in. Most people find the experience is not very nice at all. Then they can decompose in your home, spreading nasty smells. On top of that (hope you are not squeamish) the few mice that are actually caught in traps, including sticky mouse traps, can die slow, painful deaths. This gives them more to do, so they make more money, at your expense. Setting mouse traps means they have to come back again and again to check them and bait them. They aim to control mice, because they know they cannot stop them. Mouse traps relate to that concept that pest controllers follow – mouse control. Mice that have learned to avoid them, or are not tempted by the bait inside them, because there are much nicer things to eat, carry on regardless, and will breed and multiply quite happily. Mouse traps will capture the weakest mice, and those most desperate for food. Putting down a mouse trap or two will catch one or two mice, but that just leaves space for more mice to move into. That is because there are multiple entry points. You are seeing mice in the home because mice can get in. Mice traps do not tackle the underlying issue. Then, as soon as you stop using the traps, the mouse population will expand once more, and you will be back to square one. Mice breed so rapidly that no amount of mice traps can eradicate a well-established mouse infestation. This could contribute to a growing learned resistance to traps within mouse populations, making them less and less effective.” Learned traits are passed from one generation of mice to another. Because of the rapid breeding cycle, mice evolve quickly. SUPERPROOF Technical Director explains: “There is a comparison with antibiotic resistance.

In fact, experts say mice are developing behavioural resistance to mouse traps. So, mouse traps might work briefly, but then mice will change their habits to avoid them. They avoid areas and objects that present a risk. Mice have evolved to live with humans, and they have developed the ability to respond to all our tricks. Well, here are 4 reasons why that is not the case: But surely the best mouse trap on the market should do the business? In this day and age – we’ve put humans on the moon for chrissake, there must be mouse trap with enough gizmos on it to make it work? You might think there are mouse traps, and then there are mouse traps. More on that later.įirst, a bit about mouse traps. The answer is to mouse proof your house, flat or business. The one method for getting rid of mice in the home that does work is this: stop them getting into the property in the first place. Put bluntly, mouse traps don’t work.Īlso, as we have made clear in a previous blog post – Best mouse poison? That’s no Mice Poison – the other caveman response, trying to kill mice with rodent poison, or rodenticide, also doesn’t work. This understandable, but slightly primitive, response (no offence intended) doesn’t take account of one thing. Conventional responses to mice infestation are coloured with violent language: Mouse traps – back to cavemenįor such a small and generally timid animal, mice bring out the killer instinct in humans.

Sadly, it is no more effictive at getting rid of mice now than it was more than 100 years ago. Patended by UK inventor James Atkinson in 1898, and still being sold in their millions today.

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