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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.

@cursedcookies

3 жыл бұрын

My guess is the added sugar was what probably attracted them more to it.

@1anonymousgrl162

2 жыл бұрын

Downright culinary rats

@joelstanhope7231

Жыл бұрын

Lol !

@andrewb9708

Жыл бұрын

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.

@openSUSE5

6 жыл бұрын

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.

@johnrubensaragi4125

4 жыл бұрын

@@openSUSE5 LMFAO

@epiphonium

4 жыл бұрын

I wonder about fishing and the catch and release experience for fishies. Do they tell all their friend fishies they were abducted by aliens?

@agfagaevart

4 жыл бұрын

Those mice would've spread their tales of yore! The great kingdom filled with much food. A shangrila. A valley of food gold!

@spaced4448

3 жыл бұрын

Good one 🤣 that’s exactly the type of thing I’d say 😝

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!)

@Elisabeth208

5 жыл бұрын

i will try that thank you

@scott1lori282

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a good plan. I'm trying this. They just clean a trap of peanut butter and almost never set off the trap.

@agfagaevart

4 жыл бұрын

Mother knows best!

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!

@theriddlerUSA

Жыл бұрын

Genius!!! Thanks for the tip!!

This test reminds me of Ratatouille. All the different flavors combined.

@dummyaccount6176

6 жыл бұрын

Guns & Accessories lol

@thepeskyone

6 жыл бұрын

Hahahha

@Tailslol

6 жыл бұрын

want solid peanut butter? dry french bread with peanut butter on it.

@SargeOfTheGuard

6 жыл бұрын

When you overcome the Gag Reflex the possibilities are endless🐀

@braniganirby3786

6 жыл бұрын

🍪🍩🐀🐁

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.

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

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!

Great video. It was especially fun watching the mice grab entire peanut butter cups and take off with them.

@frankfellows9711

2 жыл бұрын

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 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.

@geraldhenley2926

4 жыл бұрын

Sell home.

@MaddMaxx2012

2 жыл бұрын

excellent idea!

@righteousbigot911

2 жыл бұрын

How about hot glue the cap down?

@carpenterfamily6198

2 жыл бұрын

@@righteousbigot911 Yes, that would work too 👍

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.

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@ipm943

Жыл бұрын

@@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

@idiot-983

Жыл бұрын

I trapped a lot back when their was a fur trade and never thought of that. I will use my old trapping gloves again.

@joelstanhope7231

Жыл бұрын

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

@livenfree

8 ай бұрын

​​@@idiot-983rats and mice furs? What would those be used for? Where are you just playing us? 😂

If you put a reese cup on a trap you'll catch me xD

@bryanotero123

6 жыл бұрын

Those are delicious,

@DevD750

6 жыл бұрын

109367 lol lol

@mrwrash1

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@aderiusscott2220

4 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@eamoncrosby2368

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

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 !

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

Hi Shawn! Whenever I have a moment to sip cappuccino and watch a KZread, 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!

@FrederickDunn

6 жыл бұрын

For other baits to try.. what about Qaker Oats? like, make peanut butter balls with the oats? Thanks Shawn...

@DinnerForkTongue

6 жыл бұрын

That sounds delicious.

@heartofjustice6041

6 жыл бұрын

mice will eat anything ive seen them eat expired food and even old carton boxes

@rfoehn5215

5 жыл бұрын

@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.

Tom and Jerry was a lie!? Then my whole childhood was also a lie!?

@38911bytefree

6 жыл бұрын

They keep trolling each other with the cheese thing !!!!

@scottreed991

6 жыл бұрын

Shikay Hawken Swamp gas!!!

@dr666demento

6 жыл бұрын

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.

@scott1lori282

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@joshuamaka876

5 жыл бұрын

@@scott1lori282Maybe you should stop feeding the cats

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!

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!

@staytrue8596

5 жыл бұрын

Muskrat Outdoors /what about rats, they are much smarter

@scott1lori282

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a good plan. I will try this one.

@sfloresfore

4 жыл бұрын

I like this idea, i will try this tonight....thanks

@sfloresfore

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@sfloresfore

4 жыл бұрын

@@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....

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.

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!

@ae3bec

6 жыл бұрын

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.

@FrederickDunn

6 жыл бұрын

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 ==

@andersmoore

6 жыл бұрын

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.

@jasonmeaty8036

6 жыл бұрын

Anders moore i agree keep the bacon for personal consumption an well peanut butter ya there is plenty to spare

@TheOregonOutlaw

6 жыл бұрын

@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!

I will be damned before I use Reese's on a mouse!

@furtim1

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed, such a waste.

@MajorisMons

5 жыл бұрын

I second that motion lol

@meechiepoo6068

5 жыл бұрын

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

@Sequoiapocalypse

4 жыл бұрын

Thats because you have a stomach to feed

@everything2872

4 жыл бұрын

poot111111 lmao

Thanks! I’ve had bad luck with the gel. That’s really interesting about the ‘solid’ attractants like tootsie rolls. I’ll be putting this into effect!

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”.

@richardjones38

Жыл бұрын

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!

Lol, looks like the cartoon rule of mice eating cheese is busted. XD

@ropersonline

5 жыл бұрын

The mice did leave bite marks on the cheddar. The rats totally ignored it though.

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.

Shawn, you are fantastic. Thanks for documenting this. It's very useful information

Peanut butter cups works on me too. I’m stuck in a trap while typing this.

@jazdj04

3 жыл бұрын

Are you an invasive species?

Shawn: I’ve used, and had success with, Rice Krispie treats for rats. They also can be squeezed into different shapes for different triggers.

@totallyfrozen

6 жыл бұрын

demongo2007 ooh! Great idea! Smells sweet, tastes sweet, cereal based, and sticky. I’m going to try that on the roof rats!

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!!

Thanks for this vid dude! Been waiting for something like this since Mouse Trap Monday began!

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.

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.

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.

Thanks for all the hard work ! This was really helpful

Great video! Your tests have a lot of effort put into it and showed up worthwhile results.

🧀🧀🧀🧀 You took the bait *snap*

@thepeskyone

6 жыл бұрын

Logan Blandamer ah

@exwadreamforabetterworld3260

6 жыл бұрын

* takes off fake head* hahaha!

@xPureRage

6 жыл бұрын

*OOF*

@Pikmin012

6 жыл бұрын

NANI?

@stormoninja7869

6 жыл бұрын

Yeeeeeaaawoooo!

Toothpaste works wonders, will never use any other bait again! Keep up the good work Shawn, love the channel.

@larryclemens1850

2 жыл бұрын

Any brand/type?

@loriengram2786

Жыл бұрын

Omg, brilliant idea !

Great video! I love that you used a science method. It would be interesting to know what the mice and rats are use to eating. A side by side with a control be great also.

Great idea! Been waiting to see an experiment like this

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.

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.

Excellent test! Very well organized!

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 👍

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.

@GM_-

6 жыл бұрын

Shawn Ueda now I've heard everything, health conscious mice! Can vegan eating, gluten avoiding mice be far behind?

@bryanotero123

6 жыл бұрын

Hahahah mouse gastronomy xD so funny,

@bryanotero123

6 жыл бұрын

With thos mouse bait ideas ya guys should just open a mouse restaurant

@bowedarmodillo7683

6 жыл бұрын

I've used just plane bacon

@Cellottia

6 жыл бұрын

BowedArmodillo 7 : So you must have caught a flying pig!!

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.

Thank you for your time in preparing this video. Great video.

I love this channel. Mouse trap tests with a crew of mouse actors lol. Never gets old

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

@jusb1066

6 жыл бұрын

i wonder if cotton balls dipped in hot melted jif would do both? they cant lick it off and try to take it all?

@BootyClapn

6 жыл бұрын

TheKajunkat Use glue traps with peanut butter. Roaches won't escape.

@totallyfrozen

6 жыл бұрын

BootyClapn, glue traps are extremely inhumane.

@jeffadams4590

6 жыл бұрын

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

@totallyfrozen

6 жыл бұрын

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.

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

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.

Shawn - Love your videos, I was wondering if you've ever considered doing videos on the anatomy of the mouse/rat. Especially ones you catch in the wild show what they've been eating etc... Thanks again!

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.

@totallyfrozen

6 жыл бұрын

Lincoln Lincoln, makes sense. Strong fragrance, lots of sugar, sticky. Makes me think maybe caramel would work too.

@missinglincoln

6 жыл бұрын

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.

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.

Time for a follow up! There are lots of interesting bait suggestions!

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.

A video from Shaun? What a bday gift!

@Meanoldwoman2013

6 жыл бұрын

Mousetrap Tuesday ! :)

@elaine1440

6 жыл бұрын

Happy Birthday! It is my birthday too! 😁

@calebtaylor3835

6 жыл бұрын

Scamazon Prime its shawn

@scamazonprime

6 жыл бұрын

Happy holidays, Calleb.

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.

@senatorjosephmccarthy2720

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe coyotes. They cause all animals to move closer to man.

Thank you Mr. Woods, for sharing your video with the rest of us a wonderful concept of trying different types of bait food for the mice and rats. I have found that peanut butter seems to work the best until you get a trap wise mouse or rat and then they will leave the peanut butter alone. When that happens, I then switch over and and tie down little bits of dry cinnamon rolls onto the triggers. They then have to work to get it off and then they get nailed. dd

Thank you for your time and video. I loved it. Nice teaching. 👍

I love your video man i really love watching them

@dummyaccount6176

6 жыл бұрын

Daniel Castillo hey my man it's you again!

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

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

Thanks. I love your channel. Just bought the Owltra trio that’s electric.

A good dry bait for electrical⚡ rat traps is Peanut granola bars I use them and it worked

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.

Thanks for this simple video. It was exactly what I was curious about. Any suggestions on traps themself

Great video! I’ve been trying to trap some mice or rats with PB and they hadn’t set traps. Going to try your tootsie roll and pb method. Thanks!!

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 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.

@davidd.wrightsr.9828

4 жыл бұрын

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

Thanks for this video. Great work.

Hi Shawn , i tried using peanut butter as bait for trapping rats and it works. Thanks for your Blog , you help many people . Keep on blogging.

I’d take the Reese’s to eat them haha. Anyways, interesting video Shawn!

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.

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.

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.

How many barns do you have!?

@deadman12078

6 жыл бұрын

Several...

@theplaintruth4794

6 жыл бұрын

He has seven barns and outbuildings with a continuing supply of rodents for videos and testing.

@GRPLiningServices

6 жыл бұрын

How many motion cameras does he have?

@ropersonline

5 жыл бұрын

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.

What brand and model motion cameras do you use?

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 .

Very well thought out and explained

What I'm gonna do after watching this is enbed sunflower seeds in peanut butter.

I was recommended beef sticks. So far, 4 rats caught, old style rat snap trap.

@sfloresfore

4 жыл бұрын

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

Thank you for your awesome video’s they are very helpful to me and others. And knowing what mice like to eat is very helpful. I think as far as cheese it depends what kind of cheese.

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.

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

@hughbrackett343

6 жыл бұрын

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.

@totallyfrozen

6 жыл бұрын

Seems to work for mice and all species of rats.

@paulesterline5714

4 жыл бұрын

@@hughbrackett343 yep I can tell nearly the same story!

Forget all of these, McDonalds fries works the best.

@OfficialMeechMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Fr?

@howiebird9410

2 жыл бұрын

I haven't touched clown food in over 30 years but it figures. They were the grossest from what I remember.

@FLUFFYNINJAOFFICIAL

2 жыл бұрын

Nooo corne is really good working

@agoogleaccount2861

2 жыл бұрын

Also pepperoni and butter popcorn

@guylyfrenchie3307

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂👌🏾

Love your videos. Grew up in a big city and had mice and rat problems. I used the smelliest oily Genoa salami (being Italian) and I cut a small piece and tied it with thread to the trap trigger and it worked well for me. It has to be tied or it will come right off. PS always had salami in fridge.

Loved the vid! Seems like there's good potential for tootsie roll to force mice and rats to trigger a trap. Perhaps if it was somehow mixed with the other more popular baits it could be more efficient? Also saw other commenters mention peanut butter on cotton balls, sounds like ideas for a bait test #2? :D

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

@tesmith47

3 жыл бұрын

Damn, use the water bucket,rolling log trap very cheap and reusable

How about warming Tootsie Rolls and Peanut Butter in a microwave and kneading them into a paste?

@Felisargyle

6 жыл бұрын

Yea that’s a good idea warm it up so it’s easier to knead into putty

@A-G-F-

6 жыл бұрын

that might work

@openSUSE5

6 жыл бұрын

Brought to you by the French culinary experts of Ratatouille.

@grandmatweed

5 жыл бұрын

There's an older candy bar similar to that I suggested!! :-D Abba Zabba peanut butter taffy bar is an amazing rodent bait!

@paultyler7355

4 жыл бұрын

@@grandmatweed makin me hungry

Thanks, very helpful!

Thanks for useful information

This is way too scientific, well executed and well presented for youtube. What are you trying to do, class up the joint?

want solid peanut butter? dry french bread with peanut butter on it.

I LOL'd pretty hard at the mice just _YOINK!_ -ing the peanut butter cups and running off with them~

Shawn I used walnuts but sort of glued em down w peanut butter cheerios works well to glued down a cheerio will fit bait cups too

Choosy Mice and Rats choose Jif apparently...

"I bought jiff because it was the cheapest" Correction, you bought Jiff because if its not Jiff, its not peanut butter

We used to use gum drops. Somewhat chewy, so it might work well for heavy trigger traps. I have also heard that Ju-jubes are great bait as well.