Balderdash wrote:
I have several mouse traps around the house. I've noticed that a few
of them have snapped and there is nothing in them. Both that snapped
have been there for about 1 month. Will mouse traps let go by
themselves after a lenghty period of time if they don't catch
anything.

Thanks.



You could try the kind of mousetraps I used in college about 50 years ago:

http://home.comcast.net/~jwisnia18/jeff/trap.jpg

Jeff

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