what is the best food to put on a mouse trap?
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peanut butter since your gonna be gone for so long
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CHEESE!!!!
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cheese puffs ( sometimes called cheese curls, find them in the potato chip section at the grocery )
I ve always used peanut butter and had very good luck.
If you really want to get rid of them, get a cat.
It is mean to kill little creatures. If you do get anything, get the regular spring traps so that they don't die a long and agonizing death like some other horrifying traps doom them to.
Anything really, but I would put something out that won't spoil from being left out or attract bugs.
I've always had good luck with peanut butter has done the trick every time
marshmellow fluff, since it has alot of sugar, they go for it also it sticks to the trap so the cant real quick grab it and run away, peanut butter works too, as long as its like jiff or skippy cuznatural brand don't excite them
Smear Peanut butter on it. They have to stay there and lick it off, cheese and other foods they just take and run away. You can mix a rat poison it if you want to be sure but the trap should work with peanutbutter.
a mini marshmellow just squeeze it in and use it over and over.I have a good cat.Oh by the way the secret to a good cat is only have one of them.
peanut butter----no, really---peanut butter
Bacon is the best to use without fail :)
If they have been there for some time as you say, You more than likely have way more than you realize. I would get ten traps and put them along the wall and bait them with peanut butter.If you have smart ones like I had , then you will have to be tricky and put the peanut butter under the spring to make sure they have to get on the trap and are standing there when it is sprung. I have caught two in one trap like this.Good luck.
Take a piece of bread and cover it in a thin layer of Peanut butter and roll it in birdseed, then cut it up and put a small piece in each trap. I don't think you are cruel. There is something else to think of however...Why do they come in ? Do you have unprotected grain, Cereal,Cat or Dog food, Rice, Bird seed.
All that stuff should be stored in airtight containers of some sort if possible. If not put a whole lot of MOTH FLAKES not moth balls around to confuse the odor of food! Children think moth balls are candy, that is why I said moth flakes!
Reeses Peanutbutter Cups. The mice love them.
Just beware - if you get a mouse on the first night you are gone, it's going to stink really bad by the time you get back. Your whole place is going to smell like rotten corpse.
Peanut butter, but stick it on the underside of the bait bracket. This makes them have to mess with it to get the bait, and catches them every time !
peanut butter...... or a piece of a snicker or milky way...:)
peanut butter rocks! I had 2 mice in my new home and the folks at HomeDepot advised exactly that.
Sure enough, the same night I had 2 mice caught in the traps.
Peanut butter works for me--have had a lot of fun catching large rats with a fishing rod using peanut butter on a small trebell hook
Good old fashion peanut butter. smear a gob on the tab and stand by for mouse trap action!!
P.S. no need for jelly, they bring there own....LOL....
peanut butter works. So does a payday candy bar. Try using these new sticky traps found at hardware stores or if you have to you can get them at wal-mart. They step on the sticky trap to get to the bait and cant get off. Wont smell so bad when you get back home.
I have had luck with both peanut butter and cheese.
The real trick is not to leave such a big piece of bait that the mouse can nibble without setting off the trap.
Like the responder who presses it into the spring, I use two pencil point size pieces pressed tightly into the trap release lever.
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