7 Reasons Why RV Owners Are Ditching Their Old Mouse Traps for This One Before Winter Storage
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7 Reasons Why RV Owners Are Ditching Their Old Mouse Traps for This One Before Winter Storage

Finding Droppings in the Drawers, Chewed Wires in the Walls? This Covered Snap Trap Ends It…Even If Mice Have Been Robbing Your Old Traps All Season

Summary: Every fall the RV gets parked, and to every mouse around the storage lot it is a warm, empty house full of insulation. You set traps, and they ate the bait and walked away. Here's why RV owners are throwing out their old traps this fall, and what they're setting instead. 👇

A retired RV owner in the door of his motorhome, black gloves, holding up the Jovia covered trap closed on a caught mouse

A mouse on an RV kitchen counter next to a chewed bread bag and droppings, an old wooden snap trap still set

1.They Got Into the Bread Drawer, and the Old Trap Never Even Went Off

You open the camper after a few weeks in storage and smell it before you see it. Droppings across the counter and in the silverware drawer, a bread bag chewed open, fluff from the ceiling vent on the stove, and the trap you set before you left still sitting there, bait gone, never sprung. That is not a cleaning problem and it is not bad luck. It is a trap problem, and the bait is in the wrong place.

Behind an RV access panel: a nest of shredded insulation around the furnace duct, droppings and chewed wires

2.If You've Seen One Mouse in the Camper, There's a Nest in the Walls

A female can have up to ten litters a year. Old traps get set where one mouse was seen once, which is exactly why one gets caught and the droppings come back the next week.

Here you set one in every spot with activity, bait end against the wall: storage bays, under the sink, beside the furnace. Each one resets after a catch, so the traps keep working night after night, and the nest runs out of mice before you run out of traps.

A mouse steps onto the bait plate of the Jovia covered trap and the cover snaps shut on it

3.Imagine Opening the RV in Spring to Clean Counters and No Smell

You know the moment. Key in the door after a winter in storage, and you hold your breath, because last spring it was droppings in every drawer, insulation snowing out of the A/C and a cleaning bill you still think about.

Set them at dusk where you found droppings, and the work happens while you sleep. In the morning the catch is under the cover, and you tip it into the trash without touching it. That is the part your old traps never did.

An RV storage bay crowded with Victor traps, d-CON, Catchmaster glue boards, Tomcat, peppermint spray and dryer sheets

4.You've Probably Tried Everything in the Storage Bay, and None of It Finished the Job

Victor snap traps. d-CON. Catchmaster glue boards. Tomcat. Then dryer sheets, peppermint pouches, steel wool and a plug-in that hums all night. Every one of those lets a mouse work around it, and plenty of RV owners watch the bait vanish without a single trap going off, because a mouse that eats and walks away comes back.

Here the bait cup sits inside the trigger plate. To eat, the mouse has to stand on the plate, and the plate is the trigger. Nothing is left on top to steal.

An RV owner kneeling at his motorhome's storage bay at dusk, setting Jovia traps baited with peanut butter

5.The Catches Come in the First Few Nights, and Then the Camper Goes Quiet

Night one, every trap goes down at once, one in every spot with droppings, a pea-sized dab of peanut butter in each cup. Every morning you empty what closed and set it again. When a week goes by with no catches and no new droppings, the RV is clear. That is the 7-night method in the free guide, in the same order exterminators work.

"Caught at least six or seven successfully in my RV using dog food and peanut butter." (an RV owner on Reddit's r/RVLiving)
Poison bait stations in a campground trash can, and a Jovia trap closed on a caught mouse by the RV step

6.It Works Even in RVs Where Poison Already Failed

Poison is what the guy at the hardware store pointed at, and the empty stations are already in the campground trash. It works by letting the mouse eat and leave, which is why you never see a catch, and in an RV it often dies inside a wall you cannot open. Then the smell rides along on every trip. This is not another poison. Nothing here is eaten, so there is nothing dying in your walls and nothing for the dog to find.

Nine RV owner photos with the Jovia covered trap, several showing caught mice

7.Join the 130,000+ Jovia Customers Who Stopped Calling RV Mice "Normal"

You are not alone, and the number is the point: mice in a stored RV get called normal because it happens every winter and nobody ever fixes it. 130,000+ Jovia customers, rated 4.8 out of 5. They stopped feeding mice off an open pedal, and their trips stopped starting with a deep clean.

Ready to open the door in spring without holding your breath?

Set them tonight, before the RV goes into storage. Caught by morning. No poison, no glue, nothing to touch.

The Jovia covered trap open with peanut butter in the bait cup and closed, with a 30-day money-back guarantee seal
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