What is the best bait to catch a mouse?
17.September, 2009
Its that time of year again, and mice are already starting to look for shelter inside of my house. I bought some old-fashioned mouse traps, but I am unsure what the best bait is the catch them. I thought about using cheese, or peanut butter, but if anything else works better, just let me know. Thank you!
I’ve caught more mice with pbutter than anything else. The key is not putting too much otherwise they just lick it off without springing the trap. Just a little dab about the size of a flattened pea so that they are more prone to putting preasure on the release mechanism.
Glue pads are no good. I have had many mice get stuck on them only to chew themselves (the pad) off of it.
17.September, 2009 um 1:50 pm
"One Bite" bait packets. Glue pads are better. I glue a piece of field corn to the trigger on the trap when I use old fashion traps.
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17.September, 2009 um 2:03 pm
Peanut butter works the best for me. I have tried cheese but they seem to like peanut butter over everything i’ve tried.
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17.September, 2009 um 2:13 pm
Peanut butter works the best.
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17.September, 2009 um 2:49 pm
Mice don’t actually like cheese. Peanut butter is great for attracting them.
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17.September, 2009 um 3:28 pm
I’ve caught more mice with pbutter than anything else. The key is not putting too much otherwise they just lick it off without springing the trap. Just a little dab about the size of a flattened pea so that they are more prone to putting preasure on the release mechanism.
Glue pads are no good. I have had many mice get stuck on them only to chew themselves (the pad) off of it.
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17.September, 2009 um 3:35 pm
the peanut butter is the best thing i’ve found so far that attracts the field mice to the trap. we also use decon rat bait packets that we place out of reach of animals and kids.
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17.September, 2009 um 4:11 pm
ive used chocolate, worked well.
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17.September, 2009 um 4:41 pm
Peanut butter. Agreed.
We had professional pest control come in to rid some problem rodents. One of the things they used was an old-fashioned mouse trap with peanut butter on it.
It worked.
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17.September, 2009 um 4:52 pm
I agree, peanut butter always works best for me, just don’t over do it on the amount. as for cheese, american cheese works better tha chedder or other kinds, just "knead" a small amount into a ball and squeesh it onto the trigger. Again, a small amount.
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17.September, 2009 um 5:33 pm
Peanut butter always works for me. Or you can get those traps that the mice walk into and don’t come back out.
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17.September, 2009 um 6:10 pm
Peanut butter is the beast..But do this also…Take some bread wet it a little, smash it together in a ball on the trip plate and let it dry hard. then smear the peanut butter on the bread. The peanut butter will soak in a little and the hardened bread will keep them from just licking all of it off… they will go for the bread….SNAP….your job is done…lol
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17.September, 2009 um 6:51 pm
Peanut Butter .
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17.September, 2009 um 6:56 pm
I had some luck with banana and dog biscuits funnily enough.
We used the banana on a regular mouse trap but the dog biscuits we put into an electronic mouse trap called the Rat Zapper.
http://www.ratzapper.org/
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17.September, 2009 um 7:22 pm
nutter butters or just peanut butter like everyone said
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