Thread: Bird Predator Control

Originally Posted by takeuchi

just bought 5 of those snap-e rat traps to use around our house. caught three on the first night. Baited with peanut butter. Interested what people recommend for bait, cant keep raiding the peanut butter. caught one mouse but a couple traps are getting cleaned out without going off. mice i assume on a trap thats not hairy enough? also one or two traps triggered with no catch, seems like a critter could approach the trap from the safe end and trip the plate and not get caught, could be the mice again too? there are a lot of mice around here at the moment nailed about 15 so far trying to move into our house!! Using the grey "better mouse trap" from the supermarket work really well on the mice.

The "Better" mousetrap is excellent for mice compared to the spring-wire-n-wood traditional type which classically gets picked clean. Sorry, peanut butter IS still best. Use the non-crunchy variety and push it well into the pressure plate nobbles.

Of course you don't want to feed mice and it could be playing on your mind that the little critters are picking your traps clean. If that is so, don't react by being stingy with bait! Rather, place as much as possible of your chosen bait on the pressure plate, stopping just short of triggering the trap: you have now set a hair trigger.

That being said, some "Better Mousetraps" could be better off the shelf than other "Betters" - try numbering them and see if it is always the same ones that get picked.