These are the traps that most people know about. The snap traps are the most common type of mouse trap but the have a few drawbacks in the sense that things can easily get messy and they sometimes don’t kill a mouse right away meaning that you will have to play god with the mouse in person….not the most pleasant thing. According to experienced professionals like mouse control Oakville, who use snap traps all they time, sometimes they don’t work at all. Check out this video.

You can find these at your local dollars store and they come in carious sizes and cost very little. In order to use them you will also need some kind of bait like cheese or peanut butter.

For best results set these traps along walls so that the mice will be more likely to run into them. A good idea is to hide these traps under sawdust or cornmeal so that the mice are not sceptical about walking on them.