I highly suggest anyone planning on setting conventional mouse traps drill a hole in one corner, and tie a string to it. This way you can anchor the string to something. My mother was having trouble with mice in her car. We set a few traps, and a few mice were caught. The next time, the trap was gone from inside the car. By a week later you couldn't stand the smell inside the car. We tore that car apart trying to find that mouse. We thought it was behind the dash, so we sent in to a garage so they could disassemble the dash. Turns out the mouse, with the trap still attached, made it two feet up the air duct under the passenger seat then got stuck. They found it with a camera scope inserted up the ductwork. It cost us $500 bucks to find that rodent, plus the effort trying to get the smell out of the car. I will no longer put traps anywhere without securing them down. Maybe a different style might be better, but someone needs to invent a better mouse trap.
