What one specific food item works best in trapping mice?

Question

My cousin has discovered mice in her house. A whole family of them it seems. Traps have been set, but we wondered what is the ONE BEST SPECIFIC FOOD ITEM to trap them with. The mice seem to like the cat food that has been placed inside the traps, but I heard peanut butter works best. However, is it a good idea to change the food item we've been using once mice have been caught? Would they "suspect" something is up if the food item is changed?

Answer 1

Put Peanut Butter on the unset traps a couple days. After the mice know they can get food from there, set the traps. The next day, you'll have a dead mouse or two.

Answer 2

I found peanut butter worked best, but have used cheese or bacon too. You have to think like a mice and put the trap in places they go like corners and under sofas, under the kitchen sink etc. Anywhere you see the droppings. Mice generally will run along the wall and hide under things, so whereever you have spotted them most is where you should put the focus on. Put a whole bunch out at once because they do get smart and avoid the same places, so best you go on one big mousehunt. You will usually catch the babies first as they are kind of dumb, but if you get a big one, good job...they're the ones you wanna get so the rest scat.

Put all your food into plastic containers too. They tend to go for the garbage containers as well so make sure the lid is closed. Don't stock wood outside your house by the walls and plug any holes with steel wool and seal.

Answer 3

Peanut butter does work the best! Also,put a canning jar under the sink 3/4 filled with old cooking oil from a deep frier or something,leave it under there for a week or 2. The mice will climb in it because of the smell and fall in and die.They will not smell as they are covered in oil.Take the jar out back and dump it in the weeds after you got a few in there.

Answer 4

I've had great luck with peanut butter. My mice use to eat my dogs food, but It doesn't stay well in a trap and they know they can get it elsewhere.

Answer 5

mice love to climb. lean a broom up against a tall kitchen waste can. the mice will climb up the handle to the top of the can. they will run around the top looking down into the can. if you have a sheet of newspaper in the bottom they will jump down there to chew up the paper. when they realize their mistake it's too late. simply take the can outside and dump it down the nearest street drain and they are gone. this way you don't have to kill the little beggers.

this will get rid of the younger ones. the older ones are much more clever and you'll probably need to use mouse poison on them. be sure to put it way under your refrigerator or kitchen stove where your pets or toddlers can't get to it.

for everyone you see there are 10 more in the walls.

Answer 6

People think that there's nothing mice love better than cheese. Well, that's not true. Mice ADORE peanut butter. MUCH better than cheese.

Answer 7

Bacon works best for mice and it stays in the trap better.

Answer 8

peanut butter on a wooden trap...but put it inside a shoebox or old tissue box. That way, you dont have to touch it, just throw away the whole box.

Answer 9

Crunchy peanut butter. Smear it on the bait holder, working one of the chunks into the holder. The only thing I've found that works as good is a tiny bit of raw bacon mooshed together with a tiny bit of cheese & mashed into the bait holder.

Answer 10

Peanut Butter.

Put the rat poison in it.