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Location: Qld Australia | As of this morning I have a few new house guests that ARE NOT welcome. I have decided to try old fashion traps instead of poison as I hate not being able to find the stinky bodies or suddenly find one where I least expect it.
Soooooo, my question is; what is the best bait you guys have used? I remember always using cheese as a kid but was wondering if there is a better food to use.
I have just set two with bits of cheerio's, (little red sausages kids love) with no luck so far. Any suggestions?
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Location: Deep in the heart of Texas. | peanut butter. |
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Location: Qld Australia | The dirty rotten blankety blanks have taken the bait without setting off the trap ALREADY!!! Grrrrrrr Peanut butter, here I come.
Edited by rockinj 2013-12-05 2:17 AM
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Location: Qld Australia | Yee Hawww txkrystal, we got TWO with one trap about 15 mins after putting peanut butter on it.
So gross lol but  . |
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Location: Central Arkansas | Snickers candy. |
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| I use peanut butter too. |
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Location: southeast Texas | What kind of peanut butter? My PB isn't luring mine. |
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| Having the same problem. Laid poison, set traps..they eat the peanut butter in the traps and avoid the poison....mice are evolving. Its bred into them now to avoid these human traps so they can invade our living spaces once and for all!! |
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Location: Washington | Used poison and traps. Agree with the poison, you start smelling them then have to do Whole house cleaning to find them, found one in a shoe once! Hate emptying the traps, would wait until husband got home to do that.
Honestly if you can, a cat is the way to go! Yeah you have little box and hair, but just the smell of the cat in the house run the varmints off! |
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| I use the Sticky Traps and put a glob of Peanut Butter in the middle. Their little feet HAVE to get onto the Sticky part to even get close to the peanut butter.
Bad part about the sticky traps is that I feel sorry for the little turds and knock them in the head with a rock or hammer. They are supposed to have a killing poison on them, but it doesn't work very fast. |
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Location: Midwest | Lopin' Leopard - 2013-12-05 6:27 AM Used poison and traps. Agree with the poison, you start smelling them then have to do Whole house cleaning to find them, found one in a shoe once! Hate emptying the traps, would wait until husband got home to do that. Honestly if you can, a cat is the way to go! Yeah you have little box and hair, but just the smell of the cat in the house run the varmints off!
I WOULD DIE OMG
Also, Peanut Butter... The one time I had a mouse, I just bought the generic brand and the old fashioned snap traps
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Location: Montana | txkrystal - 2013-12-05 1:09 AM peanut butter.
^^^^^This...we use peanut butter and if there are mice we always catch them! |
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| rockinj - 2013-12-05 2:01 AM
As of this morning I have a few new house guests that ARE NOT welcome. I have decided to try old fashion traps instead of poison as I hate not being able to find the stinky bodies or suddenly find one where I least expect it.
Soooooo, my question is; what is the best bait you guys have used? I remember always using cheese as a kid but was wondering if there is a better food to use.
I have just set two with bits of cheerio's, (little red sausages kids love ) with no luck so far. Any suggestions?
for sure peanut butter or feta cheese! You could also borrow my german shepherd she is a mouse sniffing, hunting, cold blooded mouse murdering, and all around "good dog" |
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| There is actually a plug in device that gives off a super high pitched sound that humans and dogs cannot even hear. Keeps them away. |
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Location: Qld Australia | FLITASTIC - 2013-12-06 4:58 AM
There is actually a plug in device that gives off a super high pitched sound that humans and dogs cannot even hear. Keeps them away.
I did have one of those but as we had no mice when I used it so I didn't really know if it worked lol. I will have to see if I can find it again.
I love the cat idea but trying to get my hubby to agree is impossible. We breed hunting and working dogs and his reply when I ask for a cat every now and then . . . 'Ok, if you can deal with seeing it get eaten.' The dogs are pretty hard on feral cats so he has a good point. A lot of our dogs we have purchased as adult dogs and they were not socialised with cats so it would not be fair to get after them for something another owner encouraged. (Poor kitties tho.)
With snickers and reeces cups - nnnooooooo. They are so yummy I would hate t waste them on mice lol. I just discovered reeces cups recently and o my gosh. Yum!!!
Thanks for all your replies - after my double hit last night there has not been another 'kill' during the night. Hopefully it was just two though I doubt it.
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Location: lone star state | They get smart may have to move your traps or get new ones if they have blood on them and can smell a "trap" |
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| My place for rodents is like Asgard, and I am Odin
Bait stations, strategically placed traps and good hygiene keep the little bass turds at bay.
I would burn my house down before I would live with them.
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Location: Qld Australia | firewaterfuelsme - 2013-12-06 7:37 AM
They get smart may have to move your traps or get new ones if they have blood on them and can smell a "trap"
Thanks for the tip, I will move them after work. :-) |
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | Ever hear of those Glue traps....work great and no bloody guts and they walk right into them all the way just toss away. |
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Location: never in the right place | don't use sticky paper traps- those poor suckers get caught but you can't get them off. Hubby felt real bad for the 1 he caught and then he went and got regular traps. one snap and it's over. |
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Location: LaBelle, Florida | We frequently get mice living next to the woods. Usually, PB in a snap trap works. However, we had one who did not like PB and refused to go for it. It also figured out how to get up on our Island Bar. To date the only mouse that has been able to accomplish this.
Hubby finally got the little bugger with a broom. I told him it was really sad when his first kill of the season was a mouse and asked him if he wanted to mount it.
He has since killed another one with a broom and a 3rd was done in by the snap trap. |
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Location: North Dakota | DD2012 - 2013-12-05 3:47 PM My place for rodents is like Asgard, and I am Odin Bait stations, strategically placed traps and good hygiene keep the little bass turds at bay. I would burn my house down before I would live with them.
Amen! Except I do not know who Asgard and Odin are! Hahaha, please see my name,
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I can run a trap line like no other! One piece of advice, if you are trapping in a vehicle, put newspaper under the trap, outdoor mice seem to be bloodier than indoor mice |
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Location: Red Raiderland | Ugh! Those little pains are all over our motorhome! We finally put out poison in all the back of the cabinets and deep in the drawers. My big fear is that the dogs get to them so we were very stategic. I had the rig put up for a month and there was soooo much chewed up and mouse turds everywhere!!!!!!! I thought the poison is supposed to make them thirsty and leave to get water so they mostly don't die in the house/motorhome. Am I wrong in thinking this?  |
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Location: Qld Australia | kasaj2000 - 2013-12-06 11:16 AM
We frequently get mice living next to the woods. Usually, PB in a snap trap works. However, we had one who did not like PB and refused to go for it. It also figured out how to get up on our Island Bar. To date the only mouse that has been able to accomplish this.
Hubby finally got the little bugger with a broom. I told him it was really sad when his first kill of the season was a mouse and asked him if he wanted to mount it.
He has since killed another one with a broom and a 3rd was done in by the snap trap.
I want to see THAT on the wall. |
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Location: Qld Australia | Kaycee - 2013-12-06 12:04 PM
Ugh! Those little pains are all over our motorhome! We finally put out poison in all the back of the cabinets and deep in the drawers. My big fear is that the dogs get to them so we were very stategic. I had the rig put up for a month and there was soooo much chewed up and mouse turds everywhere!!!!!!! I thought the poison is supposed to make them thirsty and leave to get water so they mostly don't die in the house/motorhome. Am I wrong in thinking this?
In theory I think that is supossed to be what happens. In reality, not so much. |
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Location: Qld Australia | LMS - 2013-12-06 11:48 AM
DD2012 - 2013-12-05 3:47 PM My place for rodents is like Asgard, and I am Odin Bait stations, strategically placed traps and good hygiene keep the little bass turds at bay. I would burn my house down before I would live with them.
Amen! Except I do not know who Asgard and Odin are! Hahaha, please see my name,
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I can run a trap line like no other! One piece of advice, if you are trapping in a vehicle, put newspaper under the trap, outdoor mice seem to be bloodier than indoor mice
LOL.
I HATE dead mice with a passion. It's my biggest weakness, go figure. Alive I don't care for them but can deal with them no worries. Once they are dead yuck. I bat my eyes at hubby and hope he is feeling nice. Last year he was MEAN and made me get a dead RAT. That was almost divorce material.
Gotta love being on a farm.
When I was about 15 there was a MASSIVE mouse plauge. In the dairy grain room, it was double walled; we ran an exhaust hose in between the two walls and gased those suckers. There were LITERALLY thousands. I think this is where my hatred of little dead bodies comes from.
Thank you everyone for your hints and funny stories! |
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Location: WA | Lopin' Leopard - 2013-12-05 4:27 AM Used poison and traps. Agree with the poison, you start smelling them then have to do Whole house cleaning to find them, found one in a shoe once! Hate emptying the traps, would wait until husband got home to do that. Honestly if you can, a cat is the way to go! Yeah you have little box and hair, but just the smell of the cat in the house run the varmints off!
Oh my Lord... I would have screamed!!! I checked a hay bin this morning feeding and a bird flew out and scared the hell out of me! Looking in a shoe and seeing a dead mouse, I am about to dry heave.
Aside from cats, we have really good luck with the sticky traps. I make my husband take them out. |
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| Kaycee - 2013-12-05 8:04 PM
Ugh! Those little pains are all over our motorhome! We finally put out poison in all the back of the cabinets and deep in the drawers. My big fear is that the dogs get to them so we were very stategic. I had the rig put up for a month and there was soooo much chewed up and mouse turds everywhere!!!!!!! I thought the poison is supposed to make them thirsty and leave to get water so they mostly don't die in the house/motorhome. Am I wrong in thinking this?
if you are using the bait from the grocery store all your doing is making green mouse turds.
Get the industrial stuff from the feed store or from an exterminator and they won't be around long |
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Location: Red Raiderland | DD2012 - 2013-12-05 10:32 PM Kaycee - 2013-12-05 8:04 PM Ugh! Those little pains are all over our motorhome! We finally put out poison in all the back of the cabinets and deep in the drawers. My big fear is that the dogs get to them so we were very stategic. I had the rig put up for a month and there was soooo much chewed up and mouse turds everywhere!!!!!!! I thought the poison is supposed to make them thirsty and leave to get water so they mostly don't die in the house/motorhome. Am I wrong in thinking this? if you are using the bait from the grocery store all your doing is making green mouse turds. Get the industrial stuff from the feed store or from an exterminator and they won't be around long
For real??? We did get it from Tractor Supply but it is just Decon in the triangle boxes. |
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Totally off topic - mouse bait . . .