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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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