Bait / food for mice???

[sirbob]

I’m trying everything I can and it’s not working!

I have put cheese, chocolate and peanut butter on the traps so far. No takers yet!

They won’t eat the rat poison and somehow they are shitting on the sticky traps and not getting caught!?!?

Who has the magic bait that will get the rodents to eat???

Help!!

 

[pixrthis]

Amazon.com

These work great, I’ve killed thousands in my barn over the last 2 years.

 

[4Waters]

 

[shintoooo]

I think you have way too much going on in one small area. Put the baits and traps against the wall and in areas where it's not exposed, like behind a box or something similar. Mice and rats are way smarter than you think.

 

[ltbaney1]

put the traps along the wall and in corners. peanut butter on the traps has always worked for me.

 

[rivrrts429]

How can they be shitting on the sticky pad and not getting stuck? You sure they’re running around on the floor and not from above? Could they be above in the roof?

I feel your pain. They drive me nuts. My angry cat does a good job but lately the fucker has only been killing birds and leaving them at the front door.

 

[bowtiejunkie]

Black licorice candy. Orkin mentioned this years ago. Never tried it myself as mice drop dead after feeding at the bait boxes at exterior of house.

 

[Badchoices03]

I use cream cheese....it has been the most successful for me...I smear a bit on the trigger and just under the trigger...looks like your trap has too much peanut butter, you want to put just a bit so that they have to work for it...

 

[2Driver]

Thats a lot of turds.

You need some bait on the glue. I use dried cranberries or part of a prune. Sometimes I get a smart one and I set my hava-hart trap with a prune and nab him. I just did that last night.

 

[NicPaus]

Ramik bars sold at the feed store. CA law is it must be sold in 4 lb packages or more. The small package stuff under 4lbs is not as effective.

 

[coolchange]

Wrap the trigger in twine then add pb. Not too much.

 

[evantwheeler]

I’m trying everything I can and it’s not working!

I have put cheese, chocolate and peanut butter on the traps so far. No takers yet!

They won’t eat the rat poison and somehow they are shitting on the sticky traps and not getting caught!?!?

Who has the magic bait that will get the rodents to eat???

Help!!


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I'm not a pro, but I would take a couple dozen of those snap traps and put them all along the walls of this room, some perpendicular and some parallel with the walls. Cover the perimeter. These fuckers run along walls, and you may not necessarily catch them by their desire to stop and snack, but just in the act of travelling their normal route to whatever food source they have found. That is how I caught a rat recently. I put the snap traps in the path I thought it was taking, and it walked over the trap and set it off and got the bastard.

 

[Gramps]

traps against the wall and try bacon

 

[Gramps]

the best way is to find where they are getting in

 

[CCXHAL]

Look up!

 

[J&k beer can]

Put along walls and behind stuff like others have said..
I where nlyon gloves to keep scent off traps and keep changing traps out.. they are smart and learn what to avoid after a lil bit..

try using these..

Amazon.com

 

[DWRAT]

Baking soda with anything you choose. 50-50.
Don't need traps at all.
The baking soda will give them gas and they can't pass gas so they will die.

 

[DarkHorseRacing]

Baking soda with anything you choose. 50-50.
Don't need traps at all.
The baking soda will give them gas and they can't pass gas so they will die.

I heard the same thing for pigeons. Urban legend?

 

[DLC]

I do peanut butter and some small bits of dry Dog food stuck in the PB - they have to work the DF out of the PB …

 

[Bigbore500r]

Rats / mice tend to run the same exact path every night. When something new appears in their way, they usually don't go near it for a few days. If your moving your traps around often and not letting them sit for 3-4 days in one spot, that is probably the issue.

They also tend to run along the base of walls, even though you have droppings where your placing the traps, you might want to find out the path they are taking to get to that area, and put a trap there and leave it for a while till they get used to it.

Peanut butter usually works awesome,, but don't put too much - they can actually take some and not trigger the trap if you have a ton on there.

Put that bait block in a safety container with holes in it, and place it along a wall where they are traveling.

Or my favorite - lie in wait, perched on a ladder with a mag light taped to a BB gun. Blast them in the head. No mercy.

 

[Riverfamlee]

Need to make sure remove there food source. Something is attracting them to begin with. Then put the traps against the walls . They love dog food, make sure if you have pets that shit is covered in a container.

 

[Bigbore500r]

This outta do it

 

[Travmon]

Amazon.com

These work great, I’ve killed thousands in my barn over the last 2 years.

I have the same, cracker dust up the steps and in da pool bitches

 

[Gelcoater]

I’m trying everything I can and it’s not working!

I have put cheese, chocolate and peanut butter on the traps so far. No takers yet!

They won’t eat the rat poison and somehow they are shitting on the sticky traps and not getting caught!?!?

Who has the magic bait that will get the rodents to eat???

Help!!


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Get some of this.
Non poisonous and you won’t need bait or traps.

 

[elco]

I had good luck with these style traps placed along the wall and used dry dog food super glued into the trap. Before I glued the food down the small mice could pick it up without setting the trap off.

 

[2Driver]

I had zero luck with this thing after 2 weeks. A friend in Bend swears by it….go figure.

 

[sirbob]

Amazon.com

These work great, I’ve killed thousands in my barn over the last 2 years.

I had zero luck with this thing after 2 weeks. A friend in Bend swears by it….go figure.

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I’ve tried both of these - the mice don’t go up the ramp. What bait have you used?


I’ve had the traps against the walls for two weeks - nothing.

I’ve had this stuff in the area they are shitting hoping they might at least bump into one!

This is on my patio outside my bedroom sliding g glass door.

I don’t want to bag the house and fumigate the whole fucking thing but I getting to a point I might just do that!!

 

[Gelcoater]

I’ve tried both of these - the mice don’t go up the ramp. What bait have you used?


I’ve had the traps against the walls for two weeks - nothing.

I’ve had this stuff in the area they are shitting hoping they might at least bump into one!

This is on my patio outside my bedroom sliding g glass door.

I don’t want to bag the house and fumigate the whole fucking thing but I getting to a point I might just do that!!

I’m yelling ya, Bob.
Try Gus’s repellant.
We had an issue in the house when we came back from vacation in August.
Tried traps a couple days with little luck.
I think we caught one, the dog killed one.
But could still hear lil bastards in the wall behind the fridge, and evidence in the garage around the dog food.

Set out 4 of these packets after cleaning up all the droppings and scraps.

Not one speck of evidence after. No traps have been tripped either. They packed their shit and left!

 

[lbhsbz]

Try a Honda wiring harness

 

[evantwheeler]

We had a mouse problem in the office and I set 3 of these out along the walls, got 2 little guys and not another dropping since. Baited with PB. They get shocked by batteries and a conductive plate when they try to get to the PB.

Amazon.com

 

[Taboma]

Try a Honda wiring harness

They love Toyotas as well according to a neighbor with a Landcruiser.

 

[petie6464]

Use those glue stick pads. They marked them as humane... Yeah. . I use them and when I see them glued down and squirming I have to stomp them out of there misery.

 

[2Driver]

I’ve tried both of these - the mice don’t go up the ramp. What bait have you used?


I’ve had the traps against the walls for two weeks - nothing.

I’ve had this stuff in the area they are shitting hoping they might at least bump into one!

This is on my patio outside my bedroom sliding g glass door.

I don’t want to bag the house and fumigate the whole fucking thing but I getting to a point I might just do that!!

The best thing I did was buy bait boxes and use Contract brand poison. It came highly recommended by our pest guy. You cant get this chemical at home stores or most places that sell poison. We would have 2-3 rodents in our pool a week, now we have 3 a year. I also run a hava hart trap in places

Contrac All-Weather Blox Rodenticide

Contrac All-Weather Blox Rodenticide

www.domyown.com

Protecta Mouse Bait Stations

Protecta Mouse Bait Stations

www.domyown.com

 

[lbhsbz]

They love Toyotas as well according to a neighbor with a Landcruiser.

Yeah, but Honda recognizes the issue and makes the cure...lol

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[Cray Paper]

Best device to control rats, mice, shrews, squirrels, bird, batts, rabbits, humming birds, dragon flies, big grass hoppers, bees etc. is this one of these - This 2YO female cat has killed almost every rodent in the surrounding 2 blocks and gone after ducks and Canadian honker geese. She killed a bat last weekend and brought in the house to show off to momma. The other female cat is the blue jay, crow, pretty much anything that fly's killer. Get a young cat and don't lock it indoors, problem solved. Cat litter is much cheaper than replacing things in your home that rats and mice piss and shit on.

My neighbors have spent a lot of time and money on trying to kill moles over the last 5 years. This cat is an expert at exterminating them. They quite coming in to our yard last year and I have noticed that the neighbors yards 5 lots away on either side of our home don't have issues with them this year.

 

[Taboma]

Yeah, but Honda recognizes the issue and makes the cure...lol

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I'll have to tell a few neighbors who've had problems with their motorhomes and other vehicles parked outside about this tape. Some have had great luck with certain brands of sonic repellers they keep on under their stored vehicles.

 

[lbhsbz]

I'll have to tell a few neighbors who've had problems with their motorhomes and other vehicles parked outside about this tape. Some have had great luck with certain brands of sonic repellers they keep on under their stored vehicles.

It’s just vinyl tape with capsaicin. A trail of some sort of pepper powder around the parked rig should keep them away, I’d think

 

[endobear]

I’m yelling ya, Bob.
Try Gus’s repellant.
We had an issue in the house when we came back from vacation in August.
Tried traps a couple days with little luck.
I think we caught one, the dog killed one.
But could still hear lil bastards in the wall behind the fridge, and evidence in the garage around the dog food.

Set out 4 of these packets after cleaning up all the droppings and scraps.

Not one speck of evidence after. No traps have been tripped either. They packed their shit and left!

Ordered some this morning

$30 for 10 packs at Amazon.

 

[Member: 71]

Heard this works well.

 

[Orange Juice]

I would get a motion camera in that area, and figure out where they’re getting in.

 

[JM21]

I have ultra sonic devices under the hoods of all the cars and those have seemed to help.

Poison bait boxes all around the house. I stock up on the smaller pellet style when I go to AZ or NV as dems don't allow it here. That helped a lot.

I also run traps in the warmer months. Peanut butter with dog food stuck in it. Sometimes if I set 5 traps I get 5, sometimes I get none. Depends on other animal activity where I live with lots of owls, bobcats, coyotes etc.

 

[17 10 Flat]

Make a mouse house, small cardboard box like an old shoe box. Cut a small hole arch doorway if you will. Set trap down I always used peanut butter. Put box over trap with opening up against trap one way in.

 

[Bear Down]

Had a problem a few years ago and before figuring out the entry point and sealing it, it was the biggest effen game. But one sure thing that worked for me was jerky smothered in peanut butter for the snap trap as these little fuckers are so smooth, they will lick it almost off without fear, but the jerky will cause it to trigger if they try to take a nibble and lick. Just make sure to slide/pierce the jerky on the trigger pointy thingy. Used it on the glue traps as well and would usually get a leg stuck and you'd find them somewhere in the area tired from trying to get out of the glue trap.

 

[YeahYeah01]

Good timing on this thread. I've never had mice until now. They are kicking my ass. Tried a bunch of shit and thought maybe I was winning since I didn't see any more signs of them the last week. Then last night I hear scratching in my bedroom wall, I think it's the coming from the exterior wall but the shit is hard to pin point. ALL night this bastard scratched. I have those sonic plugs, guess they are not working. Poisen in pet and kid safe things, and then traps where they go in a get stuck baited with PB. I haven't caught anything, I was thinking the sonic plugs or maybe the posien, or maybe the dog got them but I guess not.

I just order the grandp guss things on amazon and also waiting in the HD parking lot for them to open to see what they have in stock for this little bastard.

 

[pixrthis]

I’ve tried both of these - the mice don’t go up the ramp. What bait have you used?


I’ve had the traps against the walls for two weeks - nothing.

I’ve had this stuff in the area they are shitting hoping they might at least bump into one!

This is on my patio outside my bedroom sliding g glass door.

I don’t want to bag the house and fumigate the whole fucking thing but I getting to a point I might just do that!!

I don’t bait the bucket lid traps at all, I just make sure the end of the ladders are against a wall. It’s not uncommon to get two or three between two buckets in a night.

 

[Mandelon]

Mouse Trap Monday:

 

[endobear]

I've had good success with rice crispy treats on the old school mouse traps.
You can even warm it up a little to get it to stick and mold to thd trigger real good.

 

[Taboma]

I don’t bait the bucket lid traps at all, I just make sure the end of the ladders are against a wall. It’s not uncommon to get two or three between two buckets in a night.

My best night with my bucket lid trap was what appears to be a family of seven. After that I'd get one or two, then finally nothing and after awhile I put it away.
I've encountered that with other types of traps as well regardless if it's gopher, mice, rats or even squirrels. You'd almost swear they were communicating some warning to others --- but how, the ones that fall prey are dead ?

Thinking it was the odor, I've cleaned them and let them bake in the sun, still nothing.
Perhaps it's like natural selection, you get the dumb ones initially, then you run up against the reason some critters grow to be older and larger, because they're wiser or just more cautious and easily spooked ?
Also I've found a certain seasonal trend, I believe it has to do with the abundance of natural foods and their nature of when they start storing food for winter that alters their behavior.

I've got one very large rat I've be trying to trap for months. I spotted him on a game cam, relocated the cam aiming it where he emerges from under the fence most every night. Tried numerous varieties of traps and baits and it's frustrating to watch the videos and how he's obviously ignoring the traps, regardless of the type or bait.



Here's the big "Seven" night.

 

[YeahYeah01]

Good timing on this thread. I've never had mice until now. They are kicking my ass. Tried a bunch of shit and thought maybe I was winning since I didn't see any more signs of them the last week. Then last night I hear scratching in my bedroom wall, I think it's the coming from the exterior wall but the shit is hard to pin point. ALL night this bastard scratched. I have those sonic plugs, guess they are not working. Poisen in pet and kid safe things, and then traps where they go in a get stuck baited with PB. I haven't caught anything, I was thinking the sonic plugs or maybe the posien, or maybe the dog got them but I guess not.

I just order the grandp guss things on amazon and also waiting in the HD parking lot for them to open to see what they have in stock for this little bastard.

This mouse is winning the battle. Sprayed a bunch of the deterrent this morning and got the odor packs.. then this afternoon I got a scope and drilled a hole in the upper wall where I thought the noise was, interior wall. Found out I have insulation in my interior walls, cool but shitty for looking in the wall. But I managed to find where it is chewing, right through the top plate and drywall. I sprayed the deterrent inside the hole and packed it with steal wool and played some tapes in the attic opening not that far from my room.

Then when to go to bed and then the noise started again. Bastard. I also put a bunch of odor packs all through the attic. Will see tomorrow but either way I'm going in and to seal it up.

 

[NicPaus]

I saw this earlier and forgot to mention. When putting out Ramik bars or other similar poison. Put out a few throw away bowls full of water. Otherwise they will destroy pipes and in my case the windshield washer fluid container under the hood of my truck.