What is the best bait for a mousetrap?

Question

Is this the best way to get rid of them. Poison seems unkind and the mouse may die elsewhere and decay. Mousetrap must be instant death. How did I get the mice in the first place?

Answer 1

Bait your snap trap with peanut butter. or get a good cat.

Answer 2

Honestly! sweetie you do not need a trap. There are sticky traps where you can lay them down, when the mouse goes in the trap they will get stuck. The reason being mice dont eat off of traps are because they smell the humans scent, which makes them flee. If you decide to put ither cheese or peanut butter on a trap use a plastic glove so that the rodent does not smell your scent. Or they have poision that is green and you place it wherever they are at, and the poison will want them to drink water. Once they drink the water it will cause them to die. But as along as they eat the poison without the consumption of drinking water they will stay alive, but they wont get very far once they have drunk the water if they have already ate the poision.

Answer 3

Can you not use a humane trap? You don't have to touch the mouse, you leave the trap where the mouse are and it closes behind them. You can then let them out far away from your house (or into an enemies garden hehe).
Its be recently proven that mice do not like cheese, so if you decide to go for an instant death trap, the best thing to use is dried fruit.

Answer 4

Use a old-fashioned mouse trap with peanut butter on the trap--all set into a large paper grocery bag . The mouse will step inside to the bait and get snapped into the trap and guess what -- no mess to pick up.

Answer 5

The best kind of baits for rats and mice:
Cheese,
Peanut butter
Oats,
Bacon
Nesting materials,
Fruits,
vegetables,
Chocolate,
Cereals,
Water (live catch)
Meat,
Pretzel (tie with string)
Combination of any of the above

Hey,, hope my answer helped you. Good luck! You know... you could always get a good mice killing cat.. they soom to do the trick!

Answer 6

get a small bucket and a flat piece of wood leading up to the rim of the bucket making a ramp.Place pieces of fruit on the ramp and also in the bucket, so the mice go up the ramp eating the fruit and then fall in the bucket.They are still alive but trapped so you can take the bucket and release the mice wherever you choose.

Answer 7

Use Peanut Butter. For either humane traps or the traditional traps. Peanut Butter even works better than cheese.

Answer 8

Peanut butter or cream cheese. Put one down under the kitchen sink and litterally 5 minutes later we heard a snap!

Answer 9

Without a doubt Peanut Butter. I have captured many of the little varmints with a dollop of the stuff.

Answer 10

My grandfather had mice, rats, moles & voles. He would put salami on the trap, then heat it up with a lighter to make it more fragrent and harder for the mouse to get it off the trap.