Sherman Traps Work
Channel: Sean Anderson
Date: 2018-12-29

One of our friendly, local neighborhood field mice decided she wanted to spend Christmas in and around our kitchen.  Enough was enough when we found her in our garbage can under the kitchen sink and we upgraded our trapping efforts to lethal snap traps in addition to an array of Sherman Live traps.  Happily she decided to choose the "I'll get caught alive" rather than the "I'll have my neck snapped" option.

I release our trapped rodents in our nearby protected areas.  In this case, I released her in the Rancho Sierra Vista/Satwiwa unit of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.

The successful bait is a mix of peanut butter (mostly peanut oil), frosted flakes, and parmesan cheese.  The Sherman Live traps I use are about 30 years old, but similar to these Extra Large Kangaroo Rat Traps: https://www.shermantraps.com/order-online/product/56-xlk-folding-trap