Best bait for catching mice.

I use pieces of slim jim. Yup Slim Jim. The rodents can't resist it and it sticks really good to the trap trigger.
 
+1 on a tangle of thread on the trigger smeared with peanut butter.
Makes the little beasties work hard for their feed and ensures they trip the trap.
 
I use the old fashioned spring traps and shove a half of a peanut on it. Many times I can even reuse the nut.
 
Bacon sticks well to traps, the smell is a good attractant, and the mouse has to work at it, thus setting off traps.
 
Yup cats are good but if you don't have any, pieces of peanuts work pretty well on the spring traps. Peanut butter is good but the nuts are less messy.
 
The only "trick" with peanut butter is you have to use very little. Enough so that they have to push their tongue or face or whatever on the trigger to try to get it. Make them work for it. If you just put a glob of it, I have had them get most of it without springing the trap.

KR
 
Just throw on some Celine Dion cds crank up the volume and they will evacuate the area before you can say pied pieper . In a pinch cher works to but thats just cruel .
 
mycroftt said:
Two words: four cats.

Before we had the cats I used peanut butter as bait.
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Cats???...Hell, all my cats do is bring mice (& birds) in the house, play with 'em alittle, then let 'em loose for me & my wife to deal with.:D.
 
The thing I've found, and as a couple have mentioned, with the peanut butter on the trap, is that putting it on the underside of the trigger works more frequently.
 
mycroftt said:
Two words: four cats.

Before we had the cats I used peanut butter as bait.
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Two words: one feral cat. She lives in our back yard and we give her food. Since she showed up we've had no mice. Before that the mice would come into the house from the canyon in the spring and fall. We used peanut butter baited sticky traps.
 
peterinct said:
Yup cats are good but if you don't have any, pieces of peanuts work pretty well on the spring traps. Peanut butter is good but the nuts are less messy.
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"less messy"? What are you, a nine year old girl? Grab your sack man, we have animals to kill here! I have a feral cat constantly on patrol in the kitchen. I stalk the perimeter of my building with a .177 air rifle. No quarter, no surrender!

:D
 
Mice fill an ancient niche,
living between bigger beasts,
hoping for scraps to snitch,
turning refuse into feasts.

Hiding in holes behind walls,
silently roaming at night,
whispering their careful calls,
no reason at all for fright.

Mice are happiest unseen;
they find most people are mean.

-- EB
 
I worked at a place that had rats, we tried everything. They would eat it without springing the traps.....until we tried some blueberry cheescake! That one did the trick. :thumbup:
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Mice fill an ancient niche,
living between bigger beasts,
hoping for scraps to snitch,
turning refuse into feasts.

Hiding in holes behind walls,
silently roaming at night,
whispering their careful calls,
no reason at all for fright.

Mice are happiest unseen;
they find most people are mean.

-- EB
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Esav, that's great! You're quite the poet but I betcha don't know it.

Still, mice are prey.
 
proud2deviate said:
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Self setting, even:thumbup:
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My friends grandfather used a trap like that when they closed their cabin up for the winter. He would use a 5 gallon bucket with a disc that was just smaller than the inside of the bucket. He put an upside down jar lid on the disc with bait in it and hung it from the center about a forth of the way down the bucket. he then filled the bucket 1/2 way with water. The part I thought was brilliant was that he added a bunch of pickleing (sp?) lime to the water so it wouldn't smell so bad. When they returned in the spring, just snap the lid on the bucket and toss the whole thing.

Bruceter
 
Peanut butter works the best, it has a strong smell that most scavengers including mice, can't resist, don't use a lot outside in bear populated areas, it will attract them. Mice also hate the smell of mint, try growing some in flower pots and place them in trouble areas. Cats also work well, one of mine just kills them for fun and doesn't mutilate them or anything, once they die he gets bored and goes looking for another to play with.
 
We did the peanut butter can trick on a hunting trip to Colorado one year.We made a mistake the first night when you we used a styrofoam cooler. You could hear them hit the water then climb out. Used a 2 1/2 gallon tin bucket the second night and did a pot on how many we would catch. next morning 11 won the pot.
 
I heat up the trigger with a lighter and put a small piece of sliced cheese on it. It melts to the metal and they have to work at it to get it off.........snap:D
 
thanka to proud to deviate for his trap idea. we will instigate this at the ranch where we store cattle feed. wo'nt have to keep buying those sticky pads.thanks again.
 
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