Mouse trap bait

I liked the old metal trigger type, where you could hair trigger them. Baited with just a dab of peanut butter. Putting a lot of PB on and under the plate works too, but why should the little bastard deserve a last meal?

I have a catch and release trap in the kitchen at first I felt better for not killing the mice. Then I realized I made a mouse sized revolving door jail system. Letting the mice go a few blocks away in the woods wasnt far enough away kept coming getting skinner every time. Couple of them died in the trap over night... Oops

Even if I let them go farther away they wouldn't have any nest or food stored up so it would probably be a slow death of starvation or cold.

I have been using the spinning coke bottle coated in PB, over a bucket of water trap with a plank since.

slantvaliant wrote: Wrap a little string around the trigger, tie it off and trim. Then rub a little bit of cheese, peanut butter, or whatever into the string. That makes it where they can't steal a hunk of food without triggering the trap, and you don't feed the second varmint to come along.

Now that's a darn good idea! Wish I could say I thought of it.

Peanut butter did the trick. 2 down overnight. Time to reload.

Also, if you suspect bigass mice, tie the trap to something or nail it down. I've found where the hole in the wall was based on the trap with a dead mouse in it stuck halfway more than once.