[bloomer]

I have just cleared out my garage (wow i had a lot of crap)


I have found evidence of a mouse (not sure how fresh)


I need to set some traps to be safe, never done this before so whats the best bait!!!


Oh and before anyone suggests it there is no humane option as far as mousy is concerned he's eaten the fuel pipe on my wakker plate and its going to be a pig to repair!!!

[Sbom]

Chocolate! Our mice just love it 

[Bramblecot]

Mars bars!

[cans]

chocolate, mars bars, cheese, raisins.............
If you are going to hit them hard then give them a choice.... you are bound to get some of them.
don't set just a single trap set lots, you will get them quicker

[plumseverywhere]

Peanut butter on toast, chocolate, oats, some say cooked chicken legs but haven't tried that one!

[ballingall]

Snickers bars, gives them the peanut smell and taste as well as chocolate. Agree, set two or three traps.


Beth

[SallyintNorth]

Peanut butter.  Best by far, it sticks to the peg so they have to get right onto the trap to lick it off.   Anything that falls off the trap is likely to result in a sprung trap no mouse, or a mouse caught by a paw or the tip of its nose - not nice for you and especially horrid for the mouse.

Set traps in places mice would like to go - alongside something, dark corridor type places.  Sometimes you can see droppings that tell you where they run, so set them along there.

[bloomer]

theres an obvious run so have set 2 along that...


not convinced mouse is still in the garage this is just me being doubly sure...

[AndynJ]

Chicken pellets
Unopened cereal boxes
Dinner suit
Electrical cables
Anything of any value

oops you mean't poison i'll let someone answer that then

 

[midtown]

Chocolate and/or peanut butter. Works for rats as well!

[Womble]

The best bait we ever found was snickers sandwich spread. It turned out to be far too sickly for human consumption, but it was oh so smelly, peanuty, chocolatey and sweet - the mice went absolutely mad for it! 

[Deere]

Peanut butter works a treat, far too mean to use a piece of Snickers!

[chrismahon]

Another vote for peanut butter here. But I have found that a chocolate drop melted onto the metal bait arm extremely effective. The mice can't eat it without setting off the trap, so the bait lasts for ages.

[paddy1200]

Have caught 8 in the past week and have no bait on the traps at all, just place them where the mice run and bingo!

[Steph Hen]

Snickers bars, gives them the peanut smell and taste as well as chocolate. Agree, set two or three traps.


Beth

Or peanut butter. Don't just rest a piece of chocolate on the trap as they can carefully sneak off with it. Multiple traps set right next to each other... I wonder if more mice come to investigate (or feed on) their fallen comrade, but this seems to work quite well too.