A better Mousetrap... Bait?

What do you guys use for bait. For years I have used peanut butter with good success, but right now I have a bastard who is finding a way to clean the trap without setting it off.

I use nutella, and peanut butter, try a different style of trap?

I have used peanut butter with great success for years in the garage. until the little buggers chewed through the plastic container and ate it before it went on the trap

I use these traps:

Amazon 6-pack $10.47
or
Home Depot 2-pack $4.99

to great success. They haven't been able to clean off a single trap. If they do manage to trip them without getting caught they can't get to the bait. I use peanut butter, too.

dculberson wrote: I use these traps: Amazon 6-pack $10.47 or Home Depot 2-pack $4.99 to great success. They haven't been able to clean off a single trap. If they do manage to trip them without getting caught they can't get to the bait. I use peanut butter, too.

I have seen those but never tried them. Time to go to HD

Do not buy traditional mouse bait/poison stuff in bulk.

I can tell you a scary story involving a bucket of the stuff which contained the liquified remains of an unknown number of guests, which came out of the bucket, out of the double garbage bags, and into the hatch of my car. I ended up drilling holes in my hatch, throwing away the carpet in a gas station, and pouring bleach all over. I can't, however, convey the smell.

D2W wrote:

dculberson wrote: I use these traps: Amazon 6-pack $10.47 or Home Depot 2-pack $4.99 to great success. They haven't been able to clean off a single trap. If they do manage to trip them without getting caught they can't get to the bait. I use peanut butter, too.

I have seen those but never tried them. Time to go to HD

They work quite well. I attached mine to blocks of wood so I could handle them easier while dead mice were in them. Also helps make sure the trap is where you left it - a trashing mouse can move traps quite a bit. It's surprising how gentle they feel on your fingers if you trip them on yourself but they sure do work, on both small and big mice. 100 times better than the old wood traps.

I mix a little bird seed into the peanut butter and jam a little bit up under the curl of the trap's trigger.

tuna55 wrote: Do not buy traditional mouse bait/poison stuff in bulk. I can tell you a scary story involving a bucket of the stuff which contained the liquified remains of an unknown number of guests, which came out of the bucket, out of the double garbage bags, and into the hatch of my car. I ended up drilling holes in my hatch, throwing away the carpet in a gas station, and pouring bleach all over. I can't, however, convey the smell.

I know that smell. Sometimes its easier to just light it on fire and abandon it.

Peanut butter with dog food stuck to it so they have to work harder on the trip lever, gets them every time

D2W wrote:

tuna55 wrote: Do not buy traditional mouse bait/poison stuff in bulk. I can tell you a scary story involving a bucket of the stuff which contained the liquified remains of an unknown number of guests, which came out of the bucket, out of the double garbage bags, and into the hatch of my car. I ended up drilling holes in my hatch, throwing away the carpet in a gas station, and pouring bleach all over. I can't, however, convey the smell.

I know that smell. Sometimes its easier to just light it on fire and abandon it.

The car?

Actually, yeah. That may have been wiser.

Cookie butter on traps, with poison elsewhere. Corn meal and cement powder is nice because they'll leave a trail to a home you can foam up and it dries them out from the inside.

It's been my experience, and for some reason I feel alone here, that mice adapt to their surroundings. Using peanut butter on the traps? They'll learn to avoid it. Store bought poison? Some are immune to some types. It requires a multi pronged approach, often involving different brand of products.

And if for some reason you cleared the mice out of somewhere and move away, then move back a year later, nothing that worked in that place before will work again.

You'll be tempted by electric traps. They're all fun and good, but as the mice evacuate themselves after death, they'll short it out and it will stop working, leaving the job only partly completed and memories passed down to the younger generations to avoid black plastic shells that buzz.

I've always had good luck with peanut butter, not so much with the cheap traps made in a warehouse by 8 year old girls.

Bend the "hold-down bar" slightly outboard and the "catch" becomes a hair trigger. Watch your fingers.

used with great success.... and is re-useable ( a few times, but will eventually break)

Cats

I use Tomcat traps. The bait goes in the little well in the center of the trip plate. No way they can get to the bait without stepping on the trip plate. I do usually change the type of bait used after I catch one.

I only use Victor traps w/ the metal catch. Wad the bait holder up w/ thin sliced, greasy pepperoni. Get it down in the hole, 1/2 slice is enough. Works great in the house and basement but for some reason the garage mice are reluctant to hit on it. Used to use peanut butter but for me pepperoni works better. Metal catch works better than the plastic in my experience. Available at W-M.

May I ask ...are you setting your traps perpendicular, with the bait facing the wall? These critters run along the walls and very rarely venture into open spaces. therefore their path is impeded by baitfooddeath.

fasted58 wrote: I only use Victor traps w/ the metal catch. Wad the bait holder up w/ thin sliced, greasy pepperoni. Get it down in the hole, 1/2 slice is enough. Works great in the house and basement but for some reason the garage mice are reluctant to hit on it. Used to use peanut butter but for me pepperoni works better. Metal catch works better than the plastic in my experience.

I swear by slim Jim's, brand name, not cheap ones, they dry out too fast. Slim Jims are super greasy and last week's. I'll have to try pepperoni some time

I only use albino beluga sturgeon caviar... What poor pauper gives their vermin peanut butter and pepperoni yeesh

I use bucket traps and use hollow containers with holes. Stuff the container with the Skippy and coat it on the outside. The smartest ones come for whats on the outside but die trying to get that inner pb.

Gummy candy pressed firmly into the bait holder so that it can't be chewed on without moving the catch. Works well. Put PB on it if you want extra scent.

I always set the traps along walls, looking for what seems to be obvious paths. I like the peperoni/slim jim idea, I'm going to give it a try.

Potato bread squeezed around the trigger. It will dry out and the only way he gets it off is by standing under it and pulling on the trigger. I have at least a 90% kill rate. Thanks for reminding me. Every year as the weather gets colder, those little buggers start coming into the garage and basement. Time to pick up more traps.

Saw this the other day. Cheap, very effective, reusable. Do a search for "bucket mouse trap".

RX8driver wrote: Gummy candy pressed firmly into the bait holder so that it can't be chewed on without moving the catch. Works well. Put PB on it if you want extra scent.

just leave out the haribo sugar free gummi bears.