Let me give you a piece of very good advice on mouse trap making. These traps are by far the absolute best and all they take is a 5gal pickle bucket a 12oz bottle, a dowel, antifreeze, and some peanut butter.
How its made: Drill 2 holes on opposite sides of the bucket as close to the lip as you can, slightly bigger than the dowel so it can spin freely. Drill through the cap of the 12oz plastic bottle and a hole at the bottom of the bottle so you can insert the dowel. Assemble the dowel, bucket, bottle combo by sliding the dowel through one hole in the bucket, through the bottle, and then through the other side of the bucket. Now you spread some peanut butter on the outside of the bottle, pour in some antifreeze to a deapth of about 2" in the bucket. Place the bucket in the desired place you would like to catch the mice getting into the house, and make sure there is a ramp leading up to the rim of the bucket. Once they climb up the ramp, they try to make it to the peanut butter but fall in as they try to hold on to the plastic bottle thats now spinning from their unbalanced weight as they step on to it.
The antifreeze will stop the decomposing mice from smelling like death if you forget to check the trap for a week or 2, the peanut butter really attracts the mice. We have 2 of these at our cabin to combat the small number of mice that get into the place. Havent seen a mouse in a year now.
Hope this helps.
