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Peanut butter being the clear winner when it comes to the attractant factor is clear! Tootsie Rolls work well, because it makes the mice and rats tug at the bait triggering the trap. Here's my Momma's answer for mouse trap bait! I would know...I mixed it up for her. Mix a 1/2 jar of Peanut butter you placed in a mixing bowl, roll up your sleeves and start tearing up cotton or cotton balls and smashing it into the peanut butter. Mix it up until it is one stringy wad! Tear off a piece, and catch it under the tab, or through the hole in the bait holder. The trick is to tangle it up so they have to tug to remove it! My mother said that a female will set off the trap try to get plain cotton for nesting. Eliminate the females, and you reduce breeding. With the combination of the cotton and peanut better for attractant, it's deadly. Turns out my Saintly Mother was diabolical! Should I worry about that Shawn? (I was always a little suspicious when she'd offer me a Peanut Butter Cookie after that...scarred for LIFE!)
I had 4 Tom Cat Live Catch mousetraps set up in my apartment for over a month once. I had natural PB as bait. The mouse was never interested. I finally changed to cashews with toffee covering (leftover from a coworker’s snack). The mouse went for it that evening. A few months later I had another mouse visiting... caught him within 3 hours with vanilla flavored cashews. I got some high maintenance mice in my area.
My neighbor cleared his backyard and quite a few rats decided to use my garage as their new home. I tried bacon, peanut butter, dog food, nuts, etc. Nothing worked as well as Nutella.
That rat probably kept saying to himself. ."This is the greatest day of my life" He will be telling his grandkids about the time when he found a treat buffet.
thechadexperience There will be grand rodent myths passed from generation to generation about the land where the sunflower seeds are as plentiful as blades of grass in a field and where there are more Reese's peanut butter cups than stars in the sky. They will form a religion around this land. Then a mouse prophet will rise only to be tragically slain in a mouse trap for mousekind's sins.
A tip for peanut butter on a trap - I wind thread or dental floss around the bait area, then force the peanut butter into the fibers. This makes it harder for the mouse/rat to get and they'll pull on the threads, setting off the trap. Works great!
Great video Shawn! We had a rat problem and used gauze strips smeared with peanut butter and wrapped around the trigger of a spring loaded bar trap. The gauze gave the rat something to tug at and needless to say it worked like a charm. Peanut butter all the way imo.
Great video! Your test were more complete than any other video I have viewed. Many other videos talk about 1 or 2 baits but your video showed many type and the mouse reactions, that is great and more helpful. Thanks!
On the wooden snap traps, I drill a 3/8 inch hole under the trigger through the wood base. Then fill it with peanut butter. None on the trigger itself, they can't get to the bait without pushing the trigger out of the way.......SNAP! Mouse has a bad day!
Update on Drilling the hole under the trigger of the trap, WOW! I have caught over Six large rats in less than 1 week!!! Incredible how this one little detail to modify this stock trap increased the catch ratio. Additionally I tethered a string from another small hole I drilled and attached it to a small brick as a anchor to prevent any lost traps that perhaps were carried off by a bigger predator....thanks for the great tips and ill be sure to pass them foward to help others.
@@staytrue8596 muskrat Outdoors gave me some solid advice, I've drilled holes in my traps and have caught some really big rats! Solid catches too, no foul catches, quick kills....try it uou won't be disappointed. I've taken the next step and have anchored mine to a brick as I have lost traps to predators, but none since I've anchored them....
Hi Shawn! Whenever I have a moment to sip cappuccino and watch a TH-cam, I always ALWAYS enjoy your presentations. This is a fantastic method for observing what they really do go after. LOVE YOUR videos and please keep them coming. PERFECT so informative. Thank you as always, I appreciate all of your work!
My comment is not bait related. Here is a modification improvement tip for today's basic mouse or rat trap. Take a plastic soda bottle CAP. Cut a slit in the flat top side if the cap. Then on the trap trigger bend the little triangle up. ( This is the triangle that normally holds the bait. ) Insert that triangle into the slit you cut in the cap, then bent the triangle down as much as possible to securely hold the cap. When using the trap put the bait into the bottom 'cup-like area' of the cap. The mice seem to put their feet on the raised edge/side of the cap as they lean in the eat the bait in the bottom of the cup. This causes the trap to trigger much easier. I'm less likely to find untriggered traps with food gone and more likely to find a dead mouse.
When trapping for a college museum, we used a mix of peanut butter, oatmeal and beacon grease as a " universal bait." It was thought to catch shrews and voles as well as mice and rats. It stored well in baby food jars.
Slim Jim’s work great in many types of mouse or rat traps. A wire twist tie can be passed through a piece of the meat stick to secure it to the trap/trigger. Sprinkle some bird seed or sunflower seeds around and wait for them to come in
Shawn, For those hard to trap rats and mice I've found nothing better than BACON! Not the burned up thin cut stuff - use thick cut & well seared as if will not dry out quickly, and the sear offers both resistance to being stolen as well as an amazing amount of scent to "RING" that dinner bell response. I'll go $10 on bacon against your peanut butter!
How long do you think the bacon bait lasts? Several days? What about cured ham? same? different? thanks for the bacon suggestion, I use it for wasps, maybe rats and mice also ==
@want to try something for those hard to find wasp nests? Tie tiny slivers of bacon with 24 inch long strands of reflective Mylar thread - as they feed and return to the nest, watch for the parade and "visit" them at home!
Shawn, I have a request. Could you do a test of two new mousetraps, one that you've handled and baited with bare hands and the other that you've handled and baited while wearing new medical or food-service gloves? Some websites I've read suggest that you'll catch more mice if you never touch the traps or the bait with bare hands and I'm curious if that's really the case.
@@hunter1776 i agree, as long as there is a food source they will eat. just imagine left over foods aside from people touch it there are also human saliva in it. so it really doesnt matter
Great point ! Although rats may overcome their fear of human smell and take the bait , doesnt mean that they arent very cautious and avoid that trap . Ive known trappers that would boil their steel traps to get rid of human smell
It's true, they don't particularly like cheese. The reason cheese was associated with mice and rats because in olden times (before ice deliveries and later, refrigerators) cheese was stored in cupboards, often wrapped only in paper or not at all. It was the easiest thing for the mice/rats to get at - so that's why the ''mice/rats love cheese'' thing came to be.
Thanks Shawn for the effort you put into these videos. I have tried a number of baits including tootsie rolls, pretty much given up on cheese, but the best for me by far is nacho cheese Doritos. The tough part is using the chip with certain traps, but I’ve had traps set with various baits and yet the mice will eat a hole through a nacho cheese Doritos bag before it goes for the achievable bait in the traps. So we started using the chips and adding a dab of peanut butter to make it stick to the traps. You might try adding this one for your “Part 2”.
I'd been having mixed results with bread, chocolate, peanut butter and cheese, catching maybe one mouse every couple of weeks in my workshop. I just tried bits of tangy cheese Doritos (my supermarket didn't have nacho cheese ones) stuck in peanut butter after reading this yesterday, and got 2 in 15 minutes with the same trap. Thanks for the tip!
I had a mouse problem in my kitchen. I bought a few victor mouse traps and set them with peanut butter as bait. I caught a few mice, but often the bait pedal/trigger was licked clean. I then reset and rebaited the traps. This time, I put the peanut butter on the pedal and wrapped a piece of scotch tape horizontally around the pedal / trigger over the pb bait I haven't missed a mouse since. thought this info might be of use. You have a beautiful family. Stay well, stay safe.
From Colombia ... Excellent test, I am a biologist and it seems to me that you did a good scientific job when performing this test. I consider this information very important. Thank you
Shawn, Great video. Here are a couple of suggestions. I have had a good amount of luck with store bought caramels (Caramel contains butter, cream, sugar and salt). Caramel is fairly sticky and if you soften it up by working for a second or two between your fingers, is easily molded into a trigger (Once it cools back down to ambient temperature, the caramel becomes fairly solid once again.). Additionally, caramel is not as easily licked off as peanut butter, which forces the vermin to physically chew and tug at it. I have even used the softened caramel as a sort of glue to adhere sunflower seeds onto the trigger plate. Another bait that I have had great luck with are black walnuts (I harvest my own from local stands of black walnut trees). I crack the walnuts into manageable pieces with a hammer or a pair of vice grips and then I hot glue smaller pieces of the shells containing bits of nutmeat onto the trigger and onto the board around the traps (Works great on a Log-roll bucket trap as well). Once again, thanks for the videos!
poot111111 😹😹😹 To get rid of mice/rats...I will use caviar if I have to! I almost went out and bought s Sphynx cat cause I hate them so much. Why a Sphynx you say? Cause I hate cat hair more than I hate mice!!! Catch 22
I had a lot of trouble using peanut butter because we have large wood roaches and they will lick the peanut butter off without setting off the trap. I tried different things and have had good luck with cotton balls. wrap it around the trigger and they try to steal it for bedding materials. I read once that for every food foraging trip a rodent makes it will make 4 bedding trips. So I decided to try it and it worked okay. I did have to use gloves though. I think the rats objected to sleep with my smell all over their bed. I think food baits are probably better over all but in my situation it didn't
totallyfrozen not for roaches they aren't inhumane. Who cares about a nasty roach? If you put a box around it maybe, to keep out mammals and the like for the bugs to get through. How do you have mice and roaches? Do you live in a barn? Lol
Jeff Adams, I agree. I do my own pest control and always take a multimodal approach. For insects, I use a combination of permethrin spray, diatomaceous earth dusting, and Roach Motel glue traps. I was referring specifically to rodents in my post. I do think they are inhumane; however, that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t use them. If I had rodents that were, for some reason, not being eliminated by poison and kill traps, I’d certainly use glue traps. My compassion only goes so far. It’s certainly possible for an animal to piss me off beyond my level of compassion. There have even been times when I’ve contemplated catching a rat or squirrel in a live trap and lowering it into my swimming pool with a rope to finish it off. To be clear, though, I live in Texas and live trapping and relocating animals is illegal here in most cases. The law allows the killing of nuisance animals but not the live trapping/relocating in most cases. As far as the OP having mice AND roaches, that’s VERY easy to have. Roaches are in nearly every climate. Mice and roaches eat the same things too.
Shawn, Peanut butter works great, but I have trouble with ants all over the bait. What I found that works as well as peanut butter is, raw in the shell peanuts. I just wire it to the trigger and have been very successful. Raw in the shell peanuts also work great in my Havaheart traps to catch raccoons and squirrels, and ants are not attracted to them.
My best success in baiting a mouse trap is to apply the bait only on the bottom of the trigger and under the trigger. Bait on top gets carefully licked off. Bait on the bottom and under the staple area requires moving the trigger to access which is the goal of a trap to function.
I've been using Rolo's, which is a combination of chocolate and caramel, with a decent rate of success. I've also tried Goetze's "Cowtails", which is a tube of caramel and some sort of powdered sugary stuff. They don't seem interested in the Cowtails, but love the Rolo's, and after watching your tests, I'm guessing they don't like caramel so much, but go for the chocolate instead. I've also found the traps licked clean of peanut butter, so I've taken to tying a piece of thick cotton string to the trigger plate of the traps, so when I apply the PB, the oils soak into the string really nicely and give the mice something to pull on to get the last bit of PB. It helps out. It might also help catch the mice who are actually just looking for bits of string for nesting material.
Tootsie roll is like crack for mice in my experience, with peanut butter a close second. To keep them from licking the PB off, wrap a piece of twine or shoelace around the bait bar and tie a tight knot. Smear on a tiny bit of PB. Works 10x better than PB alone.
Best bait I have ever tried is cookie dough, in particular the molasses/ginger variety of dough one uses to make gingerbread men. I have used it on a variety of snap traps, and it is easy to mould it around the bait holder to make it less likely to be removed. Works a treat on both mice and voles. They just cannot resist it. Because a lady I know named Joyce made the dough, I call it Joyce's Cookie Dough Of Death. Accurate, although Joyce is not as happy with the name for some reason.
I am thinking that it would. Those Kraft Caramels (or anything similar) should be easy to mould onto a bait holder, and it does sound like something they would like...to their own peril. Another thing that has worked well for me: dried apple rings. Those are harder to attach to the bait holder, so I have attached these with a piece of thin wire stuck through them, and that worked quite well with both mice and voles. Local bulk food stores around here carry them, so you should be able to find them as well. Since they have already been dried, they last a long time without going bad.
After catching one I burn the trap wires with a torch very lightly to get scent from victim off trap. Will work numerous times. Peanut half with a smear of pb on it works great .
I used bacon grease dribbled into soft bread dough. Some dough recipe calls for butter so use bacon grease instead and no bother with yeast. Better still was wrapping the dough around few sunflower seed so that the sunflower seed stayed on the trigger. Managed to reuse the bait (reset the trap) on multiple occasions. you can substitute whole grain in place of sunflower. Cereal rye, wheat berries, oat... They like whole grain.
I have great luck using peanut butter on traditional mouse traps by putting it on the bottom of the trigger, not the top. This way they are more likely to move the trigger, also play with the trigger, sometimes they take way too mucj force to trigger, place the baited trap, then move the trigger a bit with a pencil (takes practice) you can get a hair trigger this way, my record is 11 mice, same trap, same bait.
We had dog food out in our house, for our dogs, and we found that the rats had been stealing it and storing it under an old fridge. So perhaps, you should try Kirkland brand dog food as bait. Thanks for your video! It was very informative. We also used it as an example of the scientific method for our children which we homeschool.
Shawn, in a snap trap, I wedge a raisin in the trigger with a 2" +/- length of wool yarn & smear it all with peanut butter. They're really good at licking off the PB, but when they get to the yarn, they'll pull on it, & trigger the trap
Have used the teddy gram chocolate crackers and honey nut cheerios cereal. Also chocolate Graham crackers with sugar. I have found out once you use one of the above for a while the mice are not interested in going for it. When it gets to this point change the bait to something else and when you go through all your bait try mixing two different baits together the smell of the two baits draws their attention and they go after it again and keep doing this until you have mixed each bait together and with luck your issues is done. If not it is time to find new bait to temp them with till your issue is gone. I have seen Peanut butter work but hasn't for me. I am going to try some of the ideas here.
Shawn just wanted to say thanks for making these videos . People may hate but it takes some time going through all this footage and editing and putting it in a video . Again thanks man !
hershey bar squares work well but need thread wrapped around it of some sort to hold it in place. nature valley cruchy granola bar pieces also thread or fine copper wire wrapped around it to hold it in place. Reeses peanutbutter cups are also great baits, but again best to tie the bait down so they are likelier to trip the trigger on the trap. I usually use a fine copper wire as my bait tie down material.
For mice, I have had great success with chunky peanut butter mixed with wheat flour (50/50). It stiffens up the peanut butter and the mice like flour almost as much as the peanut butter.
I remember reading something, a long time ago, about what bait to use in mousetraps. Those mice didn't like cheese very much, and the bait they seemed to like the best was gumdrops, especially *yellow* gumdrops, regardless of what flavor they were.
I only use block parmesan cheese dried out a little bit on a wooden victor metal trigger and metal bait holder mouse trap. I bend upward the bait holder a little so it holds the piece of cheese better and holds more cheese. Than I bend the metal that holds the trigger so it gives it a hair trigger. I have completely eradicated my homes with this method. Love your videos
I have a few bird feeders which are the source of my problem and I am seriously consider removing them or making them squirrel proof. It seams to me the rats and mice prefer peanuts over sunflower seeds. It also would be interesting to see how liquid attractants, compare against each other. Apparently Peanut oil works, but what about sunflower, corn and canola.
Hi! I Like your videos. 👌 Here, in Poland, we used to put some sausage in mouse trap. Pinebutter is not our traditional food, so grandfathers didn't know that bait. Nice work 👍
Exactly what i was waiting to see!!!!!!! was only just thinking about which bait was best last week * I used oranges on wild river rats, they can't say no :D THANKS BRO !!MERRY XMAS!!
I had no way to get tootsie rolls but I had lifesaver gummies, you know, the ones that look like giant lifesaver candies but are gummies. Broke off a small piece, rolled it between my palms to warm and soften it. Formed it around the trap trigger, allowed to cool a few minutes then smeared with peanut butter, jamming it around the bottom so they had to work a little. Worked great!!. Seems more durable than tootsie rolls. I quit replacing the peanut butter after about a week and over 20 mice between 3 traps ... almost two months later I'm still catching the occasional mouse that wonders in.They were lifesaver fruit flavored gummies. I would be interested in which fruit flavors work best.
What Mingue Kwak said. Shawn lives in a rural area. His farmer friends and neighbours get free pest removal, Shawn gets the opportunity to shoot more clips, and it's poison-free. Also, because it's poison-free, local owls and other wildlife and scavengers get plenty free meals off the rodents killed, since Shawn leaves those out for animals to eat, and we get to enjoy Shawn's content. Win-win-win-win-win.
I use chocolate as a bait, soften a piece of Hershey chocolate and mold it around the trigger. It will harden and make the mice work harder for the bait making it way more likely to be caught. For 30 years I've lives in the country in corn and bean fields battling mice and rats, thank you for a great resource that helps tip the odds in my favor
13 year PMP here. I use almond butter and it has never failed. Peanut butter has been hit or miss. Apparently cinnamon works when mixed in so I plan to try that this winter.
You wont get all the mice with the same trap/bait combo. They all have their own preference and some are trap shy. Use multiple baits and methods at the same time.
Snickers Bar! Roll a small piece into a ball and stick to the trigger. This sticky mix of chocolate, peanuts, and caramel has all the characteristics you mentioned. My dad has used this for years at his auto shop in the country and it works great.
I’ve set out traps with peanutbutter; everything from natural to sweet and cheap, I even tried bacon grease; but the one mix that worked like magic was a mix of bacon grease and honey. Utterly lethal. It’s greasy, sweet and sticky and rodents seem to love it.
That was very informative on the mice as we all have a mouse every now and then . Can you test out Nutella ? someone told me that mice love Nutella but I don't have any evidence of that . Thank you
I forgot about some grass seed I left in a five gallon pail one winter. Lots of mice in my potting shed in spring. Plus they kept jumping in the pail after it was empty. Made them easy to find for the dog. Left the door open and my Jack Russell cleaned up my problem.
Hey shawn, for rats I've tried Nutella mixed with chopped walnuts....I like the idea about drilling a hole under the trigger hook. Thanks for all the help, I'm waiting for a rolling pin coming soon, but understand its not the best idea for Rats? Thanks for all your informative ideas....Sam
I think Tootsy rools we're designed by the American Dental Assocation, to pull the fillings out while attempting to eat them. Thanks for the Valuable test, Shaun.
Hello Shawn. I really enjoy this video, could you do one with a fresh piece of a green apple? I discovered that bait a few years ago when I was younger and have used that for rats ever since. I had so much success with it for rats that I haven't cared for using anything else.
So glad I found this video. After living in the same house for 14-years, I've suddenly been invaded by mice and I can't fathom why! They're filthy and disgusting!! Cuteness is the last thing I think of when I see their droppings and pee all over the place. I'm out for blood at this point.
Good video I noticed that the mice were bigger the next night. Rats are smart and I've got four different kinds of traps - walk the plank, dizzy spin and some of the ones where they tip and then it puts them into the bucket I've tried all different types and MY mice and rats are smart so I also dissented everything.... It's near a chicken RUN/coop so I wore gloves and I rubbed everything down with the chicken scent and then I rubbed it down with soil just to be able to drown out the human scent.
Good idea!? I've accidentally caught a bird that i believe was eating the walnuts and peanut butter, next day the rats ate the bird from the trap.....Crazy huh
I use peanut butter coated with bird seed. They are attracted to the bird seed from the bird feeder in my yard when the birds flick out seeds on the ground. Smearing peanut butter on the trigger and sprinkling seeds on it works like a charm.
I have and will always use just plain wheat bread. The plainer and coarser the better, and multi-grain works well too. Wad it up into a ball and press it into the trigger of the trap.
Hi Shawn, Thanks for all your effort in making your videos. As a kid a family friend taught me to use cream cheese but when I worked at a candy wholesaler I discovered mice love (original) Milky Way and Snickers bars and they proved the best bait (including Reese's) in Victor snap traps.
Many thanks for your work Do you have to wear gloves when putting the baits? I got told that mouses feel human smell if uou don t wear gloves. Is it true? i m watching tons of your videos because i have mouse problems in my small coop.
Peanut butter is my choice , it has worked in seconds for me. Set a mouse trap once in my laundry room went back inside and started to get into bed, snap got the mouse in no time
I've had that happen with PB also. Put the trap in a closet under the stars. Closed the door and walked across the room to wash my hands at the kitchen sink. I heard the trap snap and thought the trigger had slipped. I went back to reset it and there was Mr. Mouse.
My suggestion to try out are cherries, and other fruits, I had a plum tree and cherry tree the rats really chewed on them, mice wont climb fruit trees like rats do also try something like dried fruit, meat sticks mentioned earlier by a poster, bird seed, sesame seeds or its oil. try using super glue attaching bait to the trap.
Granola bars and sunflower seeds worked for me me and the whole street i live in recently got a ton of mice due to the council replacing a storm drain outside my house i got over 20 traps from the council the day I saw the mice and they were going off within seconds of me setting them i ended up killing 198 mice in 2 weeks peanut butter didn't seem to work well i still get a few mice but nothing like i got a few weeks ago my neighbors threw some bait in my ceiling and around my house to control what was left everyday i pick up dead mice and the traps still go off there are 17 houses on my street we all counted the mice we trapped or baited in 2 weeks the number Was around 2093 mice! Everyone lost all their dry packaged food and paperwork they chewed up my birth certificate that's $70 to replace I'm a financially challenged disabled person that has expensive medicine that I have to take to stay alive i still can't afford to replace the food and other stuff that was destroyed i used to love mice not anymore they are vermin that destroy your food and almost everything! I haven't eaten properly in ages i would keep food in containers if i could afford them
I have a fool proof bait chunky pb pushed into a rat or mouse trap from the bottom of the trigger. The peanut chunk's lodge in the trigger and they have to chew to get them out works about 95% of the time. Besides I like chunky!
I have found that peanut butter works the best for me however the small mice are often able to lick it off without setting the trap. But I now tie a small piece of thread around the trigger and mush the peanut butter with it and now I get them almost every time when they inevitably pull on the thread. FYI, Dog food has vitamin K in it and is apparently an antidote for mouse poison. I'm not sure about cat food. Just something I heard. Love the videos.
coming from a licensed pct, if the rodent is in your house, give them what they've gotten into, they will go to what they're used too. peanut butter is go to though. pre-baiting is what shawn does when he puts traps out without setting them, then putting the trap out and setting it with the same bait. rats are more skittish and more careful then mice, mice are way more curious of traps and food.
*Imagine having a Channel with a million+ Subs that is dedicated to trapping and killing mice.* Thank you for the info! I hope you get plenty of views and TH-cam pays you handsomely. I'm here because I bought the attractant gel and I was wondering what other people thought about it. It does appear that the attractant gel works really great to pull them in but as soon as the mouse or rat gets close to the gel they see the other food and go for that. It would be a little bit more work but what I think would be a really cool video is to place multiple cameras in an area and separate the types of bait to see which one they go toward.
Great review....try searching for the baking soda & rat or plaster of pairs, people add all dry ingredients to control rats.. mix these ingredients with your baits....curious on the results
For trigger/killing traps, go for tootsie roll for the sole reason you explained very well: The mice have to bite and pull rather than lick. Put some chocolate or peanut butter at the back of the pin for smell. For live catch/non lethal traps you only need smell. The Tomcat attractant gel is great and long lasting. I didnt expect it to be good. The only traps I will use now are non lethal traps (much more efficient in every aspects because you catch multiple mice / no reset).
I have used Bacon my whole life on Rats and Mice and it works 100% of the time. I cook the bacon till its floppy, not crispy. Then wrap the bacon around the trigger. Then wrap a wire around the bacon so that it can not be taken off so easily. Then drip some of the grease on the wood trap to help attract the rats or mice. My Grandma taught me this method and I have been using it to this very day. You do have to put the traps where cats and dogs will got them though.
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Natella, you could try that appreciate it.
Peanut butter being the clear winner when it comes to the attractant factor is clear! Tootsie Rolls work well, because it makes the mice and rats tug at the bait triggering the trap. Here's my Momma's answer for mouse trap bait! I would know...I mixed it up for her. Mix a 1/2 jar of Peanut butter you placed in a mixing bowl, roll up your sleeves and start tearing up cotton or cotton balls and smashing it into the peanut butter. Mix it up until it is one stringy wad! Tear off a piece, and catch it under the tab, or through the hole in the bait holder. The trick is to tangle it up so they have to tug to remove it! My mother said that a female will set off the trap try to get plain cotton for nesting. Eliminate the females, and you reduce breeding. With the combination of the cotton and peanut better for attractant, it's deadly. Turns out my Saintly Mother was diabolical! Should I worry about that Shawn? (I was always a little suspicious when she'd offer me a Peanut Butter Cookie after that...scarred for LIFE!)
i will try that thank you
Sounds like a good plan. I'm trying this. They just clean a trap of peanut butter and almost never set off the trap.
Mother knows best!
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I had 4 Tom Cat Live Catch mousetraps set up in my apartment for over a month once. I had natural PB as bait. The mouse was never interested. I finally changed to cashews with toffee covering (leftover from a coworker’s snack). The mouse went for it that evening. A few months later I had another mouse visiting... caught him within 3 hours with vanilla flavored cashews. I got some high maintenance mice in my area.
My guess is the added sugar was what probably attracted them more to it.
Downright culinary rats
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My neighbor cleared his backyard and quite a few rats decided to use my garage as their new home. I tried bacon, peanut butter, dog food, nuts, etc. Nothing worked as well as Nutella.
Ah you got sophisticated mice with expensive tastes 😂
That rat probably kept saying to himself. ."This is the greatest day of my life" He will be telling his grandkids about the time when he found a treat buffet.
thechadexperience There will be grand rodent myths passed from generation to generation about the land where the sunflower seeds are as plentiful as blades of grass in a field and where there are more Reese's peanut butter cups than stars in the sky. They will form a religion around this land. Then a mouse prophet will rise only to be tragically slain in a mouse trap for mousekind's sins.
@@openSUSE5 LMFAO
I wonder about fishing and the catch and release experience for fishies. Do they tell all their friend fishies they were abducted by aliens?
Those mice would've spread their tales of yore! The great kingdom filled with much food. A shangrila. A valley of food gold!
Good one 🤣 that’s exactly the type of thing I’d say 😝
A tip for peanut butter on a trap - I wind thread or dental floss around the bait area, then force the peanut butter into the fibers. This makes it harder for the mouse/rat to get and they'll pull on the threads, setting off the trap. Works great!
Genius!!! Thanks for the tip!!
Great video Shawn! We had a rat problem and used gauze strips smeared with peanut butter and wrapped around the trigger of a spring loaded bar trap. The gauze gave the rat something to tug at and needless to say it worked like a charm. Peanut butter all the way imo.
Great video! Your test were more complete than any other video I have viewed. Many other videos talk about 1 or 2 baits but your video showed many type and the mouse reactions, that is great and more helpful. Thanks!
This test reminds me of Ratatouille. All the different flavors combined.
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want solid peanut butter? dry french bread with peanut butter on it.
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On the wooden snap traps, I drill a 3/8 inch hole under the trigger through the wood base. Then fill it with peanut butter. None on the trigger itself, they can't get to the bait without pushing the trigger out of the way.......SNAP! Mouse has a bad day!
Muskrat Outdoors /what about rats, they are much smarter
Sounds like a good plan. I will try this one.
I like this idea, i will try this tonight....thanks
Update on Drilling the hole under the trigger of the trap, WOW! I have caught over Six large rats in less than 1 week!!! Incredible how this one little detail to modify this stock trap increased the catch ratio. Additionally I tethered a string from another small hole I drilled and attached it to a small brick as a anchor to prevent any lost traps that perhaps were carried off by a bigger predator....thanks for the great tips and ill be sure to pass them foward to help others.
@@staytrue8596 muskrat Outdoors gave me some solid advice, I've drilled holes in my traps and have caught some really big rats! Solid catches too, no foul catches, quick kills....try it uou won't be disappointed. I've taken the next step and have anchored mine to a brick as I have lost traps to predators, but none since I've anchored them....
Hi Shawn! Whenever I have a moment to sip cappuccino and watch a TH-cam, I always ALWAYS enjoy your presentations. This is a fantastic method for observing what they really do go after. LOVE YOUR videos and please keep them coming. PERFECT so informative. Thank you as always, I appreciate all of your work!
For other baits to try.. what about Qaker Oats? like, make peanut butter balls with the oats? Thanks Shawn...
That sounds delicious.
mice will eat anything ive seen them eat expired food and even old carton boxes
@yous gon git dem cheeks took my nigga,
I think the point was NOT what will they eat, but rather what do they LIKE BEST to eat.
My comment is not bait related. Here is a modification improvement tip for today's basic mouse or rat trap. Take a plastic soda bottle CAP. Cut a slit in the flat top side if the cap. Then on the trap trigger bend the little triangle up. ( This is the triangle that normally holds the bait. ) Insert that triangle into the slit you cut in the cap, then bent the triangle down as much as possible to securely hold the cap.
When using the trap put the bait into the bottom 'cup-like area' of the cap. The mice seem to put their feet on the raised edge/side of the cap as they lean in the eat the bait in the bottom of the cup. This causes the trap to trigger much easier. I'm less likely to find untriggered traps with food gone and more likely to find a dead mouse.
Sell home.
excellent idea!
How about hot glue the cap down?
@@righteousbigot911 Yes, that would work too 👍
If you put a reese cup on a trap you'll catch me xD
Those are delicious,
109367 lol lol
When trapping for a college museum, we used a mix of peanut butter, oatmeal and beacon grease as a " universal bait." It was thought to catch shrews and voles as well as mice and rats. It stored well in baby food jars.
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Slim Jim’s work great in many types of mouse or rat traps. A wire twist tie can be passed through a piece of the meat stick to secure it to the trap/trigger. Sprinkle some bird seed or sunflower seeds around and wait for them to come in
Shawn,
For those hard to trap rats and mice I've found nothing better than BACON! Not the burned up thin cut stuff - use thick cut & well seared as if will not dry out quickly, and the sear offers both resistance to being stolen as well as an amazing amount of scent to "RING" that dinner bell response. I'll go $10 on bacon against your peanut butter!
my father would put a piece of raw bacon on the trap and cook it with his zippo and always had good results, i use peanut butter because its easier.
How long do you think the bacon bait lasts? Several days? What about cured ham? same? different? thanks for the bacon suggestion, I use it for wasps, maybe rats and mice also ==
If I leave bacon grease out over night it a pan it has always been eaten by mice. Great idea. Not sure if I’m willing so sacrifice some bacon.
Anders moore i agree keep the bacon for personal consumption an well peanut butter ya there is plenty to spare
@want to try something for those hard to find wasp nests? Tie tiny slivers of bacon with 24 inch long strands of reflective Mylar thread - as they feed and return to the nest, watch for the parade and "visit" them at home!
Shawn, I have a request. Could you do a test of two new mousetraps, one that you've handled and baited with bare hands and the other that you've handled and baited while wearing new medical or food-service gloves? Some websites I've read suggest that you'll catch more mice if you never touch the traps or the bait with bare hands and I'm curious if that's really the case.
iv never worried about this and i have cought over 1000 grain rats on my farm, i dont think they realy care as long as they eat
@@hunter1776 i agree, as long as there is a food source they will eat. just imagine left over foods aside from people touch it there are also human saliva in it. so it really doesnt matter
I trapped a lot back when their was a fur trade and never thought of that. I will use my old trapping gloves again.
Great point ! Although rats may overcome their fear of human smell and take the bait , doesnt mean that they arent very cautious and avoid that trap . Ive known trappers that would boil their steel traps to get rid of human smell
@@idiot-983rats and mice furs? What would those be used for? Where are you just playing us? 😂
Tom and Jerry was a lie!? Then my whole childhood was also a lie!?
They keep trolling each other with the cheese thing !!!!
Shikay Hawken Swamp gas!!!
It's true, they don't particularly like cheese. The reason cheese was associated with mice and rats because in olden times (before ice deliveries and later, refrigerators) cheese was stored in cupboards, often wrapped only in paper or not at all. It was the easiest thing for the mice/rats to get at - so that's why the ''mice/rats love cheese'' thing came to be.
Don't say that! Tom & Jerry was real! I have 3 house cats yet still have a new mouse problem. Atleast Tom was trying. My cats are worthless.
@@scott1lori282Maybe you should stop feeding the cats
Thanks Shawn for the effort you put into these videos. I have tried a number of baits including tootsie rolls, pretty much given up on cheese, but the best for me by far is nacho cheese Doritos. The tough part is using the chip with certain traps, but I’ve had traps set with various baits and yet the mice will eat a hole through a nacho cheese Doritos bag before it goes for the achievable bait in the traps. So we started using the chips and adding a dab of peanut butter to make it stick to the traps. You might try adding this one for your “Part 2”.
I'd been having mixed results with bread, chocolate, peanut butter and cheese, catching maybe one mouse every couple of weeks in my workshop. I just tried bits of tangy cheese Doritos (my supermarket didn't have nacho cheese ones) stuck in peanut butter after reading this yesterday, and got 2 in 15 minutes with the same trap. Thanks for the tip!
I had a mouse problem in my kitchen. I bought a few victor mouse traps and set them with peanut butter as bait. I caught a few mice, but often the bait pedal/trigger was licked clean. I then reset and rebaited the traps. This time, I put the peanut butter on the pedal and wrapped a piece of scotch tape horizontally around the pedal / trigger over the pb bait I haven't missed a mouse since. thought this info might be of use. You have a beautiful family. Stay well, stay safe.
From Colombia ... Excellent test, I am a biologist and it seems to me that you did a good scientific job when performing this test. I consider this information very important. Thank you
It showed the preferences of a rat (possibly more) and a few mice, in a single environment & season. Good information, not robust though.
Shawn, Great video. Here are a couple of suggestions.
I have had a good amount of luck with store bought caramels (Caramel contains butter, cream, sugar and salt). Caramel is fairly sticky and if you soften it up by working for a second or two between your fingers, is easily molded into a trigger (Once it cools back down to ambient temperature, the caramel becomes fairly solid once again.). Additionally, caramel is not as easily licked off as peanut butter, which forces the vermin to physically chew and tug at it. I have even used the softened caramel as a sort of glue to adhere sunflower seeds onto the trigger plate.
Another bait that I have had great luck with are black walnuts (I harvest my own from local stands of black walnut trees). I crack the walnuts into manageable pieces with a hammer or a pair of vice grips and then I hot glue smaller pieces of the shells containing bits of nutmeat onto the trigger and onto the board around the traps (Works great on a Log-roll bucket trap as well).
Once again, thanks for the videos!
I will be damned before I use Reese's on a mouse!
Agreed, such a waste.
I second that motion lol
poot111111 😹😹😹 To get rid of mice/rats...I will use caviar if I have to! I almost went out and bought s Sphynx cat cause I hate them so much. Why a Sphynx you say? Cause I hate cat hair more than I hate mice!!! Catch 22
Thats because you have a stomach to feed
poot111111 lmao
I had a lot of trouble using peanut butter because we have large wood roaches and they will lick the peanut butter off without setting off the trap. I tried different things and have had good luck with cotton balls. wrap it around the trigger and they try to steal it for bedding materials. I read once that for every food foraging trip a rodent makes it will make 4 bedding trips. So I decided to try it and it worked okay. I did have to use gloves though. I think the rats objected to sleep with my smell all over their bed. I think food baits are probably better over all but in my situation it didn't
i wonder if cotton balls dipped in hot melted jif would do both? they cant lick it off and try to take it all?
TheKajunkat Use glue traps with peanut butter. Roaches won't escape.
BootyClapn, glue traps are extremely inhumane.
totallyfrozen not for roaches they aren't inhumane. Who cares about a nasty roach? If you put a box around it maybe, to keep out mammals and the like for the bugs to get through. How do you have mice and roaches? Do you live in a barn? Lol
Jeff Adams, I agree. I do my own pest control and always take a multimodal approach. For insects, I use a combination of permethrin spray, diatomaceous earth dusting, and Roach Motel glue traps. I was referring specifically to rodents in my post. I do think they are inhumane; however, that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t use them. If I had rodents that were, for some reason, not being eliminated by poison and kill traps, I’d certainly use glue traps. My compassion only goes so far. It’s certainly possible for an animal to piss me off beyond my level of compassion. There have even been times when I’ve contemplated catching a rat or squirrel in a live trap and lowering it into my swimming pool with a rope to finish it off. To be clear, though, I live in Texas and live trapping and relocating animals is illegal here in most cases. The law allows the killing of nuisance animals but not the live trapping/relocating in most cases.
As far as the OP having mice AND roaches, that’s VERY easy to have. Roaches are in nearly every climate. Mice and roaches eat the same things too.
Shawn, Peanut butter works great, but I have trouble with ants all over the bait. What I found that works as well as peanut butter is, raw in the shell peanuts. I just wire it to the trigger and have been very successful. Raw in the shell peanuts also work great in my Havaheart traps to catch raccoons and squirrels, and ants are not attracted to them.
Great video. It was especially fun watching the mice grab entire peanut butter cups and take off with them.
Frank. From the U.K. on mouse or rat traps I use jelly babies tied on the traps with a piece of wire the sweet smell works well
My best success in baiting a mouse trap is to apply the bait only on the bottom of the trigger and under the trigger. Bait on top gets carefully licked off. Bait on the bottom and under the staple area requires moving the trigger to access which is the goal of a trap to function.
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You took the bait *snap*
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* takes off fake head* hahaha!
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Fun sized Snickers bar smashed on the pan, works every time up here in the frozen tundra!
Toothpaste works wonders, will never use any other bait again! Keep up the good work Shawn, love the channel.
Any brand/type?
Omg, brilliant idea !
I've been using Rolo's, which is a combination of chocolate and caramel, with a decent rate of success. I've also tried Goetze's "Cowtails", which is a tube of caramel and some sort of powdered sugary stuff. They don't seem interested in the Cowtails, but love the Rolo's, and after watching your tests, I'm guessing they don't like caramel so much, but go for the chocolate instead.
I've also found the traps licked clean of peanut butter, so I've taken to tying a piece of thick cotton string to the trigger plate of the traps, so when I apply the PB, the oils soak into the string really nicely and give the mice something to pull on to get the last bit of PB. It helps out. It might also help catch the mice who are actually just looking for bits of string for nesting material.
Peanut butter cups works on me too. I’m stuck in a trap while typing this.
Are you an invasive species?
Tootsie roll is like crack for mice in my experience, with peanut butter a close second.
To keep them from licking the PB off, wrap a piece of twine or shoelace around the bait bar and tie a tight knot. Smear on a tiny bit of PB. Works 10x better than PB alone.
Best bait I have ever tried is cookie dough, in particular the molasses/ginger variety of dough one uses to make gingerbread men. I have used it on a variety of snap traps, and it is easy to mould it around the bait holder to make it less likely to be removed. Works a treat on both mice and voles. They just cannot resist it. Because a lady I know named Joyce made the dough, I call it Joyce's Cookie Dough Of Death. Accurate, although Joyce is not as happy with the name for some reason.
Lincoln Lincoln, makes sense. Strong fragrance, lots of sugar, sticky. Makes me think maybe caramel would work too.
I am thinking that it would. Those Kraft Caramels (or anything similar) should be easy to mould onto a bait holder, and it does sound like something they would like...to their own peril. Another thing that has worked well for me: dried apple rings. Those are harder to attach to the bait holder, so I have attached these with a piece of thin wire stuck through them, and that worked quite well with both mice and voles. Local bulk food stores around here carry them, so you should be able to find them as well. Since they have already been dried, they last a long time without going bad.
After catching one I burn the trap wires with a torch very lightly to get scent from victim off trap. Will work numerous times. Peanut half with a smear of pb on it works great .
Shawn: I’ve used, and had success with, Rice Krispie treats for rats. They also can be squeezed into different shapes for different triggers.
demongo2007 ooh! Great idea! Smells sweet, tastes sweet, cereal based, and sticky. I’m going to try that on the roof rats!
Forget all of these, McDonalds fries works the best.
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I haven't touched clown food in over 30 years but it figures. They were the grossest from what I remember.
Nooo corne is really good working
Also pepperoni and butter popcorn
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I used bacon grease dribbled into soft bread dough. Some dough recipe calls for butter so use bacon grease instead and no bother with yeast. Better still was wrapping the dough around few sunflower seed so that the sunflower seed stayed on the trigger. Managed to reuse the bait (reset the trap) on multiple occasions. you can substitute whole grain in place of sunflower. Cereal rye, wheat berries, oat... They like whole grain.
Shawn Ueda now I've heard everything, health conscious mice! Can vegan eating, gluten avoiding mice be far behind?
Hahahah mouse gastronomy xD so funny,
With thos mouse bait ideas ya guys should just open a mouse restaurant
I've used just plane bacon
BowedArmodillo 7 : So you must have caught a flying pig!!
I have great luck using peanut butter on traditional mouse traps by putting it on the bottom of the trigger, not the top. This way they are more likely to move the trigger, also play with the trigger, sometimes they take way too mucj force to trigger, place the baited trap, then move the trigger a bit with a pencil (takes practice) you can get a hair trigger this way, my record is 11 mice, same trap, same bait.
We had dog food out in our house, for our dogs, and we found that the rats had been stealing it and storing it under an old fridge. So perhaps, you should try Kirkland brand dog food as bait. Thanks for your video! It was very informative. We also used it as an example of the scientific method for our children which we homeschool.
Shawn, in a snap trap, I wedge a raisin in the trigger with a 2" +/- length of wool yarn & smear it all with peanut butter. They're really good at licking off the PB, but when they get to the yarn, they'll pull on it, & trigger the trap
Lol, looks like the cartoon rule of mice eating cheese is busted. XD
The mice did leave bite marks on the cheddar. The rats totally ignored it though.
Bacon grease works well. I always put it on the underside of the 'cheese pedal'. Makes them have to reach through for it. Makes a strike more likely.
A video from Shaun? What a bday gift!
Mousetrap Tuesday ! :)
Happy Birthday! It is my birthday too! 😁
Scamazon Prime its shawn
Happy holidays, Calleb.
Have used the teddy gram chocolate crackers and honey nut cheerios cereal. Also chocolate Graham crackers with sugar. I have found out once you use one of the above for a while the mice are not interested in going for it. When it gets to this point change the bait to something else and when you go through all your bait try mixing two different baits together the smell of the two baits draws their attention and they go after it again and keep doing this until you have mixed each bait together and with luck your issues is done. If not it is time to find new bait to temp them with till your issue is gone. I have seen Peanut butter work but hasn't for me. I am going to try some of the ideas here.
Shawn just wanted to say thanks for making these videos . People may hate but it takes some time going through all this footage and editing and putting it in a video . Again thanks man !
hershey bar squares work well but need thread wrapped around it of some sort to hold it in place.
nature valley cruchy granola bar pieces also thread or fine copper wire wrapped around it to hold it in place. Reeses peanutbutter cups are also great baits, but again best to tie the bait down so they are likelier to trip the trigger on the trap. I usually use a fine copper wire as my bait tie down material.
A good dry bait for electrical⚡ rat traps is Peanut granola bars I use them and it worked
For mice, I have had great success with chunky peanut butter mixed with wheat flour (50/50). It stiffens up the peanut butter and the mice like flour almost as much as the peanut butter.
I remember reading something, a long time ago, about what bait to use in mousetraps. Those mice didn't like cheese very much, and the bait they seemed to like the best was gumdrops, especially *yellow* gumdrops, regardless of what flavor they were.
I only use block parmesan cheese dried out a little bit on a wooden victor metal trigger and metal bait holder mouse trap. I bend upward the bait holder a little so it holds the piece of cheese better and holds more cheese. Than I bend the metal that holds the trigger so it gives it a hair trigger. I have completely eradicated my homes with this method. Love your videos
I have a few bird feeders which are the source of my problem and I am seriously consider removing them or making them squirrel proof. It seams to me the rats and mice prefer peanuts over sunflower seeds. It also would be interesting to see how liquid attractants, compare against each other. Apparently Peanut oil works, but what about sunflower, corn and canola.
Hi! I Like your videos. 👌 Here, in Poland, we used to put some sausage in mouse trap. Pinebutter is not our traditional food, so grandfathers didn't know that bait. Nice work 👍
Exactly what i was waiting to see!!!!!!! was only just thinking about which bait was best last week * I used oranges on wild river rats, they can't say no :D THANKS BRO !!MERRY XMAS!!
I had no way to get tootsie rolls but I had lifesaver gummies, you know, the ones that look like giant lifesaver candies but are gummies. Broke off a small piece, rolled it between my palms to warm and soften it. Formed it around the trap trigger, allowed to cool a few minutes then smeared with peanut butter, jamming it around the bottom so they had to work a little. Worked great!!. Seems more durable than tootsie rolls. I quit replacing the peanut butter after about a week and over 20 mice between 3 traps ... almost two months later I'm still catching the occasional mouse that wonders in.They were lifesaver fruit flavored gummies. I would be interested in which fruit flavors work best.
How many barns do you have!?
Several...
He has seven barns and outbuildings with a continuing supply of rodents for videos and testing.
How many motion cameras does he have?
What Mingue Kwak said. Shawn lives in a rural area. His farmer friends and neighbours get free pest removal, Shawn gets the opportunity to shoot more clips, and it's poison-free. Also, because it's poison-free, local owls and other wildlife and scavengers get plenty free meals off the rodents killed, since Shawn leaves those out for animals to eat, and we get to enjoy Shawn's content. Win-win-win-win-win.
I use chocolate as a bait, soften a piece of Hershey chocolate and mold it around the trigger. It will harden and make the mice work harder for the bait making it way more likely to be caught.
For 30 years I've lives in the country in corn and bean fields battling mice and rats, thank you for a great resource that helps tip the odds in my favor
I wrap peanut butter in cheese cloth and wire-tie that to the trigger. Gets them every time - and they don't get to the PB.
i was about to try mesh cloth packed with peanut butter on my next test sets.... great to see someone else that had results with that already
13 year PMP here. I use almond butter and it has never failed. Peanut butter has been hit or miss. Apparently cinnamon works when mixed in so I plan to try that this winter.
You wont get all the mice with the same trap/bait combo. They all have their own preference and some are trap shy. Use multiple baits and methods at the same time.
Snickers Bar! Roll a small piece into a ball and stick to the trigger. This sticky mix of chocolate, peanuts, and caramel has all the characteristics you mentioned. My dad has used this for years at his auto shop in the country and it works great.
I've had good results with a slim Jim meat stick zip tied to the trigger. Add a little peanut butter to get them on it.
I’ve set out traps with peanutbutter; everything from natural to sweet and cheap, I even tried bacon grease; but the one mix that worked like magic was a mix of bacon grease and honey. Utterly lethal. It’s greasy, sweet and sticky and rodents seem to love it.
How about warming Tootsie Rolls and Peanut Butter in a microwave and kneading them into a paste?
Yea that’s a good idea warm it up so it’s easier to knead into putty
that might work
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There's an older candy bar similar to that I suggested!! :-D Abba Zabba peanut butter taffy bar is an amazing rodent bait!
@@grandmatweed makin me hungry
Thanks for all the hard work ! This was really helpful
That was very informative on the mice as we all have a mouse every now and then .
Can you test out Nutella ? someone told me that mice love Nutella but I don't have any evidence of that .
Thank you
I forgot about some grass seed I left in a five gallon pail one winter. Lots of mice in my potting shed in spring. Plus they kept jumping in the pail after it was empty. Made them easy to find for the dog. Left the door open and my Jack Russell cleaned up my problem.
Hey shawn, for rats I've tried Nutella mixed with chopped walnuts....I like the idea about drilling a hole under the trigger hook. Thanks for all the help, I'm waiting for a rolling pin coming soon, but understand its not the best idea for Rats?
Thanks for all your informative ideas....Sam
I think Tootsy rools we're designed by the American Dental Assocation, to pull the fillings out while attempting to eat them. Thanks for the Valuable test, Shaun.
Hello Shawn. I really enjoy this video, could you do one with a fresh piece of a green apple? I discovered that bait a few years ago when I was younger and have used that for rats ever since. I had so much success with it for rats that I haven't cared for using anything else.
The mice and rats around here won't touch peanut butter or tootsie rolls. I guess I'll try sunflower seeds next. Thanks for the video.
So glad I found this video. After living in the same house for 14-years, I've suddenly been invaded by mice and I can't fathom why! They're filthy and disgusting!! Cuteness is the last thing I think of when I see their droppings and pee all over the place. I'm out for blood at this point.
Maybe coyotes. They cause all animals to move closer to man.
Good video I noticed that the mice were bigger the next night.
Rats are smart and I've got four different kinds of traps - walk the plank, dizzy spin and some of the ones where they tip and then it puts them into the bucket I've tried all different types and MY mice and rats are smart so I also dissented everything.... It's near a chicken RUN/coop so I wore gloves and I rubbed everything down with the chicken scent and then I rubbed it down with soil just to be able to drown out the human scent.
I was recommended beef sticks. So far, 4 rats caught, old style rat snap trap.
Good idea!? I've accidentally caught a bird that i believe was eating the walnuts and peanut butter, next day the rats ate the bird from the trap.....Crazy huh
I use peanut butter coated with bird seed. They are attracted to the bird seed from the bird feeder in my yard when the birds flick out seeds on the ground. Smearing peanut butter on the trigger and sprinkling seeds on it works like a charm.
What I'm gonna do after watching this is enbed sunflower seeds in peanut butter.
I have and will always use just plain wheat bread. The plainer and coarser the better, and multi-grain works well too. Wad it up into a ball and press it into the trigger of the trap.
Hi Shawn,
Thanks for all your effort in making your videos.
As a kid a family friend taught me to use cream cheese but when I worked at a candy wholesaler I discovered mice love (original) Milky Way and Snickers bars and they proved the best bait (including Reese's) in Victor snap traps.
Many thanks for your work
Do you have to wear gloves when putting the baits?
I got told that mouses feel human smell if uou don t wear gloves. Is it true?
i m watching tons of your videos because i have mouse problems in my small coop.
This is way too scientific, well executed and well presented for youtube. What are you trying to do, class up the joint?
I LOL'd pretty hard at the mice just _YOINK!_ -ing the peanut butter cups and running off with them~
Peanut butter is my choice , it has worked in seconds for me. Set a mouse trap once in my laundry room went back inside and started to get into bed, snap got the mouse in no time
I've had that happen with PB also. Put the trap in a closet under the stars. Closed the door and walked across the room to wash my hands at the kitchen sink. I heard the trap snap and thought the trigger had slipped. I went back to reset it and there was Mr. Mouse.
Seems to work for mice and all species of rats.
@@hughbrackett343 yep I can tell nearly the same story!
My suggestion to try out are cherries, and other fruits, I had a plum tree and cherry tree the rats really chewed on them, mice wont climb fruit trees like rats do also try something like dried fruit, meat sticks mentioned earlier by a poster, bird seed, sesame seeds or its oil. try using super glue attaching bait to the trap.
Granola bars and sunflower seeds worked for me me and the whole street i live in recently got a ton of mice due to the council replacing a storm drain outside my house i got over 20 traps from the council the day I saw the mice and they were going off within seconds of me setting them i ended up killing 198 mice in 2 weeks peanut butter didn't seem to work well i still get a few mice but nothing like i got a few weeks ago my neighbors threw some bait in my ceiling and around my house to control what was left everyday i pick up dead mice and the traps still go off there are 17 houses on my street we all counted the mice we trapped or baited in 2 weeks the number Was around 2093 mice! Everyone lost all their dry packaged food and paperwork they chewed up my birth certificate that's $70 to replace I'm a financially challenged disabled person that has expensive medicine that I have to take to stay alive i still can't afford to replace the food and other stuff that was destroyed i used to love mice not anymore they are vermin that destroy your food and almost everything! I haven't eaten properly in ages i would keep food in containers if i could afford them
Damn, use the water bucket,rolling log trap very cheap and reusable
Snickers! Cut a 3/8" corner shaped slice. The nougat sticks really well to the bait holder and mice love it.
What brand and model motion cameras do you use?
I have a fool proof bait chunky pb pushed into a rat or mouse trap from the bottom of the trigger. The peanut chunk's lodge in the trigger and they have to chew to get them out works about 95% of the time. Besides I like chunky!
i heard anti-freeze is good for bait for killing mice because it smells sweet.
I use caps from soda,beer pour anti freeze in a different place a around it takes years to evaporate and the bastards like it
I have found that peanut butter works the best for me however the small mice are often able to lick it off without setting the trap. But I now tie a small piece of thread around the trigger and mush the peanut butter with it and now I get them almost every time when they inevitably pull on the thread. FYI, Dog food has vitamin K in it and is apparently an antidote for mouse poison. I'm not sure about cat food. Just something I heard. Love the videos.
coming from a licensed pct, if the rodent is in your house, give them what they've gotten into, they will go to what they're used too. peanut butter is go to though. pre-baiting is what shawn does when he puts traps out without setting them, then putting the trap out and setting it with the same bait. rats are more skittish and more careful then mice, mice are way more curious of traps and food.
Suggestion..... use sunflower seeds glued with a glue gun. Some lose on top but some glug in too, a little of bit of glue doesn't worry them.
I’d take the Reese’s to eat them haha. Anyways, interesting video Shawn!
Thanks
Am I the only person that gets goosebumps while watching this?
*Imagine having a Channel with a million+ Subs that is dedicated to trapping and killing mice.*
Thank you for the info!
I hope you get plenty of views and TH-cam pays you handsomely.
I'm here because I bought the attractant gel and I was wondering what other people thought about it.
It does appear that the attractant gel works really great to pull them in but as soon as the mouse or rat gets close to the gel they see the other food and go for that.
It would be a little bit more work but what I think would be a really cool video is to place multiple cameras in an area and separate the types of bait to see which one they go toward.
Hi Shawn, you should do a test to see what type of peanut butter mice prefer: smooth or crunchy!
I find they prefer natural peanut butter rather than junk peanut butter loaded with additives and preservatives. They're smart!
Great review....try searching for the baking soda & rat or plaster of pairs, people add all dry ingredients to control rats.. mix these ingredients with your baits....curious on the results
want solid peanut butter? dry french bread with peanut butter on it.
For trigger/killing traps, go for tootsie roll for the sole reason you explained very well: The mice have to bite and pull rather than lick. Put some chocolate or peanut butter at the back of the pin for smell. For live catch/non lethal traps you only need smell. The Tomcat attractant gel is great and long lasting. I didnt expect it to be good. The only traps I will use now are non lethal traps (much more efficient in every aspects because you catch multiple mice / no reset).
Choosy Mice and Rats choose Jif apparently...
I have used Bacon my whole life on Rats and Mice and it works 100% of the time. I cook the bacon till its floppy, not crispy. Then wrap the bacon around the trigger. Then wrap a wire around the bacon so that it can not be taken off so easily. Then drip some of the grease on the wood trap to help attract the rats or mice. My Grandma taught me this method and I have been using it to this very day. You do have to put the traps where cats and dogs will got them though.
Try putting peanut butter in a piece of cheese cloth. They try to get thru the cloth and set off the trap.
that's a good one!!