We have mice in the kitchen at work and after a failed £500 treatment by Rentosh1te we have decided to take things into our own hand.
10 members of staff have all bought traps and put a pound in the pot. At the end of the week the winner is the one with the most pelts.
I want to win! What is the best bait to catch the common house mouse?
chocolate raisins/ chocolate peanuts or salted peanuts work at our house.
cheese=fail.
Chocolate
Specialized road bar gel (that goes under the bar tape). The little ****ers in my garage stripped my bars and ate all the gel stuff when the bike was stored upside down.
War was declared and I won - for the time being!
Peanut butter worked for us, good luck!
I read somewhere mice can count calories with their noses.
As above, peanut butter. Anything fatty is good though. Put your bait box along the wall up against it, or in the corner. They tend to stick to corners when moving around
Just use a razor blade on its edge. The mouse walks up to it, looke over the edge and says WOT NO CHEESE as its shaking its head from side to side.
Chocolate and talcum powder spread around, they walk over the talcum , and leaves a trail so you know where theyre coming in from, and they love chocolate.
Beer also works,but they get pissed and usually drink themselves to almost death, then you can just pick them up, and dispatch them.
Sultanas worked well for me. Just killed the last two in my garage, no more bait being taken now thank god.
A CAT!
+1for chocolate warmed in pocket so its soft squidged onto trap so it won`t come off easily check traps lots as once sprung they catch no more! back of fridge or under units are good spots normally
cheese...but only that stuff with the holes in it.
at least thats what they use in the cartoons
The packet on my mouse traps and that said choccy spread and or peanut butter. I didn't catch any mice but I think they might not have been there in the first place.
Dried dog food if you have any, especially the pink cubed ones out of Bakers Complete. But I had to superglue it to the spike on the trap as they were very good at taking the dog food without setting the trap off. Once they had to wrestle it off it seemed to do the trick. Had about 8 that way.
peanut butter worked for me with one mouse - first night, but another resisted any bait for weeks until I put some mild cheddar on it
Glacé cherries worked for me. The cat, on the other hand, is an old lazy failure.
maltesers work a treat. either that or a cruel child desperate for money equipped with a baseball bat 😉
bacon. seriously. we're talking hundreds of pelts.
Salami
+1 Peanut butter plus cheese combo - hard to resist for me let alone a mouse
bacon+1 it`s the duct tape of the food world 😆
mushy peas
I leave the traps set all the time with chocolate. It lasts months and every now and then you get the odd surprise when you go to pick up your bike.
Chunks of Mars Bar.
Doh! Can you believe it?
Came into work this morning and discovered one of the traps had caught a mouse.... the bosses trap. Typical!
BTW It was baited with peanut butter.
Icing worked for us, for catching rats.
chocolate squashed into the bait holder.
baby food
Take a tip from my Dad, who has eighty years' experience, and singe the bait with a lighter or match once you have it on the trap. He uses bacon rind tied on with string and then singed, but cheese also gives off a nice toasted aroma after a few seconds of naked flame.
In the House of Lords, it was suggested that they use hypoallergenic cats to control mice level: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200910/ldhansrd/text/100303-0001.htm
Peanut butter worked for me.
I used crunchy. Smooth may also work.
I've always used peanut butter... It's crack for mice! Although, last time I had a mouse in the flat, no food-stuffs were harm, just my Haynes manual at considerable velocity; the Mouse War of Ealing was won... 😀
my dad always used a bit of toasted bread ie crust with marmite on.reconded it was a good un!
Without doubt THE no1 mouse trap meal of choice is.............the humble fishmeal trout pellet!
Just grab a bag of 4mm sinking feed pellets from your local angling shop.
Set the trap, gently sprinkle them on the killing plate and wait for Trixie and Dixie to come a picnicking!
They won't be going to mouseville with Mr Jangles anymore, no siree!! 😆
They had free reign of my kitchen and chose chocolate and weetabix.
We used Cadbury's drinking chocolate powder.