Ideas for baiting a mouse trap.?

Question

Having problems with mice again. Have used all of the following baits, which WERE successful, but not not attracting now: cheese, peanut butter, banana bread, chocolate, pumpkin bread, crackers, chocolate bread. Also used a bait gel from the hardware store.

Answer 1

Get a angry CAT!

Buy the movie Mouse Hunt! It is funny!

=)

Good luck!

Answer 2

have found that bacon wrapped around the trap works. Just on the end. They will take the cheese without snapping the trap and they l**k the peanut butter off, I swear.

Another thing is you need to make sure if you reuse the trap you are cleaning the part that snaps properly. If they smell their relatives on there they won't go near it.

just clean it by placing over a flame to burn off any scent of previous mice.

Also you want to move the traps around some make sure you don't leave it in one place all the time or you wont catch anything.  Hope this helps.

If none of this works you can try glue traps but they are alive and you have to throw them out...I couldn't deal with it.

You can try decon but that leaves them dieing all over the place or you could  get a cat.

Answer 3

WOW!  No ideas you haven't tried, just wanted to let you know you have my sympathies!  Want to borrow my cat?!  Peanut butter always does it for us...