Please listen to this man. He knows 100% of what he speaks. He is a Jedi of rat catchers! I set two cheapo traps, one with an Almond impaled on, the other with some glued on cereal, and tied up with string. I dabbed some peanut butter on both, and left a few dabs leading up to them to give mousy a false sense of security. Went to check them out this a.m. and saw the first Almond trap licked clean. "Ugh!" I thought. But when I saw the second trap with mickey attached legs in the air, oh boy! No blood visible and BTW I touched the killer trap with my bare hands before setting it. The other one I used gloves, so...it makes absolutely no difference, as mousy obviously still pulled and tugged at it. This is more humane than using poison or glue traps. I have seen mice suffering alive on those things - Its not nice for mice! Old fashioned traps ensure a quick clean kill. Now for the other sucker that's loose indoors. Happy hunting folks!

@Garycarlyle

4 жыл бұрын

Ive noticed it depends on how hungry they are. When they attacked my cereal once they never touched the traps but now ive moved that so they cant get other food they are desperate to get whats on the trap and are far less cautious.

@johnjohnson6207

3 жыл бұрын

My folks used to use the poison in hopes they'd bring it to their nest, and kill them all at once. Very seldom was this the case. We would usually have to look around for a dead mouse after we started to smell carrion. We would be lucky if it was somewhere we could reach.

@patraic5241

3 жыл бұрын

The only thing that I use a glue trap for is if there are very small mice. These are sometimes to small to trigger this type of trap. But. I monitor the glue traps constantly. When a small mouse is caught I'm quick to dispatch it. I never want any animal even a mouse to suffer needlessly.

@stevegot710

3 жыл бұрын

those fucking mouse running in my leavving room and shitting in my kitchen stove my asss they gon be afraid of my sent right

@larrybutts1329

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnjohnson6207 heavy memorabilia

THANK YOU! I never knew about putting PB on the bottom. I've just been feeding this mouse PB for so long!! I was about to give up and just claim him as a dependent on my taxes!!

@DLJohnsonHonourofKings

3 жыл бұрын

I had a non paying resident that walked away with a glue trap. (I have no idea where it is.) I used peanut butter and I guess he figured since I was finally trying to kill him (it was sensitive enough that it snapped but missed) he moved out. 🤣

@alanmcentee3035

3 жыл бұрын

A suggestion is not to use the creamy PB. Use the thickest you can find and put that on the bottom of the trigger. I actually keep an old empty jar of chunky style PB in a drawer with the lid off along with my extra traps and a plastic knife. That allows it to dry out a little more. Being thicker makes the mice attack it more aggressively. I rarely get a cleaned trap.

@dan79transam65

2 жыл бұрын

That mouse probably grew into a rat with all that peanut butter lol

@yoursurgerysister

2 жыл бұрын

😂

@Mindurz

2 жыл бұрын

🤣 🤣

Thank you from the bottom of my soul, the tootsie roll method worked better than anything I've ever tried, caught 27 of those home terrorizers and only 2 times did I find the trap without a mouse in it. you saved my sanity and my home

@rosmith3126

Жыл бұрын

Literally just put two traps down with the tootsie roll went to the bathroom heard it pop lol finally

@thepragmatist

8 ай бұрын

OMG! 27 mice!!!!

I learned the trick of using tootsie rolls years ago. Until then, I had tried everything I could think of to trap the mice. I live in the mountains where the field mice come in every fall and can be a big problem. Since using tootsie rolls, my house has remained pretty free of mice, although I do see one or two occasionally. When I do, I set out several traps where I saw them and within no time they are DEAD IN THE TRAP. The thing I like about tootsie rolls (besides the fact that they work better than any bait I have ever tried) is that I don't need to rebait the trap. I have found that the mice still go for the tootsie roll even after a mouse has been caught in that trap and the tootsie roll is hard. I don't bother wrapping it around. It's not necessary. Kudos to you for sharing this best-ever tip I have used now for years. IT WORKS!!!!!

After using peanut butter in my traps and failing miserably I tried the "glue the pretzel to the trap" method. After setting four traps we snared 3 mice out of the four traps overnight. Make no mistake this guy knows what he's talking about.

I remember having some mice in my house and setting some traps, the ones where you set them and theyre so sensitive that you have a 50/50 chance of setting off just by setting on the floor! Well, to make a long story even longer, I finally got this one trap set and before I even left the room I saw a mouse so I stood completely still since the tiniest movement will scare mice away! The mouse came to the trap and jumped right on it, walking all over the loaded mechanism eating the butter, all of it, every last drop, then he jumped off and scurried away! I reached down and picked up the trap and WHAM, the trap went off! I know mice are lightweight but DAYUMMMMMMM!! I replaced the butter on the trap, and after several attempts I successfully got it on the floor without going off, FINALLY! This time I got my EXTREMELY powerful pump BB pistol that almost sounds like a 22 when I shoot it and is very powerful! I stood close to the trap with BB gun ready to fire, finger on trigger, gun pointed at the trap with my eyes on the sights! I patiently waited, but not too long, for the mouse to return, and there he was, jumping and bouncing around the trap all over the loaded mechanism cleaning every drop of butter, and it is at that point I decided to just shoot the trap since the trap was stationary vs the mouse which was mobile. WHAM! I triggered the trap with my BB, and successfully terminated this mouse! Sorry, NOT SORRY!

@foreverknight1109

Жыл бұрын

GOOD SHOT! DEAD EYE

@alan30189

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like you have a defective trap.

@chhansen9813

Жыл бұрын

@@alan30189 No, it took me about 10 tries to set it and place it on the floor WITHOUT going off!

@jvjdrn

8 ай бұрын

That’s so awesome

@allentarver6286

2 ай бұрын

hahahahahahahaha

I've been setting mouse traps every night for a couple weeks with no luck, because the mouse just eats the bait without setting off the trap! I came across your video today and decided to give your ideas a try. I baited 2 traps with peanut butter under the bait plate and I hot glued a piece of dog food to 2 traps. It's night time now and I heard a trap go off, yay!! The dog food hot glued to the bait plate worked! Thank You!!

Thank you so much for this video. I've been trying to catch this mouse for a month. I've tried glue pads, and the folding glue boxes but nothing. I brought the Victor mouse traps and put the Tootsie roll on it, and overnight I caught a mouse!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

@salemwolf4506

Жыл бұрын

The victor old fashioned traps are amazing, hence why they’ve stood the test of time. I do not like glue traps, as they cause unnecessary pain and leave you with a live animal to deal with a lot of the time instead of dispatching it instantly. Sometimes the old school solutions truly are the best as you and I have both found

@salemwolf4506

Жыл бұрын

The victor old fashioned traps are amazing, hence why they’ve stood the test of time. I do not like glue traps, as they cause unnecessary pain and leave you with a live animal to deal with a lot of the time instead of dispatching it instantly. Sometimes the old school solutions truly are the best as you and I have both found

Just dealt with a mouse in my basement, and this was incredibly useful. I had what I now know to be an expected lack of results with just peanut butter (two attempts, licked clean and never triggered), but the idea of attaching something to the trap that the mouse has to yank on did the trick. No hot glue on hand, but I was able to use some tiny thread to tie a Cheerio to the Victor traps' bait pan, then press a pea sized blob of peanut butter into the Cheerio hole. By the end of the day he fell for it, and the first trap he went for got him. I probably would have had the tunnel vision to never think of mechanical attachment without this video. Can't thank you enough!

This is super helpful....I would get anxiety setting traps. Hearing myths about human scent on traps, and reusing traps. Now I have reused traps and they do keep coming back. Thanks so much

My best results were by not baiting the bait bar. I drill a few holes in the wood under the bait bar and fill the holes with peanut butter. To clean the holes, they need to move the bait bar with normal trap operation. Putting the bait on the bottom of the bait bar and the base under the bait bar are the best without drilling holes.

@godchangedmylife-tedbetz19

Жыл бұрын

great idea!

@jonnies

8 ай бұрын

this sounds really really good. will try

It worked! I had been trying other methods but today I had had enough I even went out and bought 2 new Victor traps and 2 Wilson traps. I could not find nougat candy at the Dollar Store so bought Caramels. I cut a caravel in half in the wrapper, 1/2 cup water heated in microwave for 1 min, cut a carame (still in wrapper) in half, dropped it into the hot water, it was instantly soft enough to wrap around the tripper and then I waited (impatiently). I didn't have to wait long...caught the little bugger within a few hours. Thank you for the great trap tips...this will be my way from now on.

I've been struggling this week to catch a mouse and of course using my "go-to" method of peanut butter and it has been a failure every day. I hot glued a pretzel on the trap and caught that sucker the same night!!! Thank you for putting your mousy knowledge out there!! CR-Indiana

Using pretzels worked great! I had been trying to catch this solo mouse for over a month. Tried peanut butter, beef jerky, dog food, cat food... nothing. Then I hot glued pretzels to the trap and bam! It's amazing how mice love pretzels. I verified he was a solo mouse by setting up motion cameras. I'm pretty sure one of my cats brought him inside the house and he couldn't figure out how to get out or didn't want to. He ate dog food and cat food (I found his food stashes). After I locked up the pet food, he started eating my wife's house plants. He ruined about a $100 worth of plants and was crapping & pissing everywhere. Royally ticked me off! Tried to catch him with a couple different humane capture & release traps, but he wouldn't fall for it. Tried the home made bucket trap with the narrow spinning cylinder and nope - he went to the edge and shook his head - I ain't fallin' for that! This was a full size adult mouse. He was actually too big for victor mouse traps - he tripped two and both missed him. Then he tripped a rat trap and that got him. Thanks so much for the advice. Pretzels = best mouse bait. Bought a $2 bag at Walmart and had plenty left over to celebrate by making some chocolate covered pretzels. Yum yum!

@DKNguyen3.1415

2 ай бұрын

How do people only ever have one mouse? So jealous

@constantelevation5702

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for confirming the pretzels. Definitely will be trying.👍🏾

Good ideas! I usually take moist bread and squeeze it over the bait pan THEN put peanut butter on the bread and it worked 70% of the time. I like your ideas better because they make the mouse work harder to set off the trap. Thanks!

Literally finally!!!! I had one that’s been hiding in my kitchen for like a whole week and eating peanut for FREE. Finally used a chewed tootsie roll and got it at night in 36 minutes.

@amandam7072

2 жыл бұрын

Omg yes! Just discovered they like tootise rolls. Ate through a whole bag that I had

Your tips on baiting mouse traps worked the best of all the videos for me. I used the Victor trap with dog food and peanut butter placed under the plate. I returned to the hardware store with one of the packages since I opened one where the wire to hold the kill bar was too short. I checked out the next set at the store to make sure the wire was long enough and they worked great. Thanks

Dear Sir, thank you for making & posting this video. I purchased the metal trigger traps (Victor, @ HomeDepot, Walmart) & Tootsie Rolls. Got two mice overnight. I'll set a few more baited traps out again, to make sure I get any other mice. Thank you. Worked amazingly well. (I also set out the plastic pedal traps (Victor), with a very small piece of (all that could fit) of Tootsie Roll in the small cup. They were left untouched. (Previous night, had mozzarella cheese in said plastic pedal traps: left untouched). The large Tootsie Roll glob on the metal trigger style worked best. Thank you very much.

Just started laying down traps in my house. I’m currently 6 for 6 using peanut butter with Victor traps. But I’ll definitely keep these tips in mind.

WOW is all I can say...everything you said about catching mice with pretzels on a snap trap is working. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. The sticky pads work but they are not as good. We have mice in our brand new motorhome. Of course we're in Grand Canyon AZ but would would of thought they would find there way into such a well built Newmar. We caught 1 on a sticky pad and 3 with snap with pretzels. They made there way into our ceiling and ate the electric and cable wires. We had to get an electrician to fix our problem. Pretzels it is. #1

You are the man sir the pretzel worked like a champ literally caught a mouse within 30 minutes. It was at night when I set it I knew it was a good spot but dang I’m impressed

I’ve been using crunchy peanut butter and so far it’s been successful. I would imagine that the peanut chunks makes the mouse want to bite and increases the chance of the trap to snap.

The modern Victor mouse traps have a curled-over tip on the bait-pedal which securely encloses the peanut butter inside the curl; I find that the trap usually gets them okay; only about a quarter of the time do the traps get licked clean.

I was playing chess with a mouse for a week with the peanut butter on the top. The very first night with the peanut butter was the best luck I have had until I watched this video. They got licked clean every time. I tried the tootsie roll method, and got the mouse with in a few hours of setting mousetrap. I appreciate the video and will be passing the good ideas along. Liked and subscribed

🐭 I use claymore mines for my rodent problem. For some reason all my neighbors that used to say hi and wave to me disappeared. 🤷‍♂️

@fivedotsdave9723

3 жыл бұрын

I like your style, it sounds better than my sawn off shotgun, which is hard on the skirting boards.....

@Gkruze

2 жыл бұрын

Lol 😂

You can also use the thin sliced meat lunch meat you cut it into thin strips about an eighth of an inch wide and then tear off about an inch or just enough to wrap around the trigger plate when the lunch meat dries it shrinks wraps itself around the trigger plate making it difficult for the mouse to just pull it off

A good tip for using those cheap dollar store traps if to put double side of the tape on the bottom of them so the rats don't just push them around.

I watched several videos on how to bait traps as I was baiting my traps with a combo of peanut butter and beef jerky and the mouse was licking it clean. This video really worked for me. I don't have a hot glue gun but I used Elmers glue to adhere dry cat food to snap traps and it worked! I found a dead mouse in one of the traps today! The mouse did actually manage to get the cat food off several of the traps even with the Elmer's glue so I would recommend the hot glue gun in the video or perhaps some super glue. The cat food was what attracted the mouse in the first place so that's what I used. This was one of the most helpful videos that I watched. Thank you!

@T-Mo_

5 ай бұрын

No need for hot glue gun. I bought a pack of hot glue sticks at dollar tree for $1.25. A lighter or match works.

Hi I have taken a 2' long piece of 4" pvc from local water company (waste to them) put cap on one end throw food in lean against a corner where it won't fall mice rats all fine it go and can't get out. Pet friendly. Keeps working easy storage

Hot glued snacks worked like a charm! Within 10min I heard the snap. Thank you thank you

Regarding 'keeping the trap free of human scent' ...if mice were so skittish about being near human scent, they wouldn't be coming into our houses, let alone chewing into other food packages that we have handled. There's a reason the spring-and-killbar mousetrap has been the standard for so long-- IT WORKS.

On and off over the years (when needed) I used peanut butter. Smooth worked 20-25% of the time. Switch to Crunchy, packed it hard on top and underneath the trigger and my catch ratio jump to 50%. Recently started super gluing a kernel of hard corn to the pan and I'm at a 100%. If it's glued right, it can't miss!

@mairwaugus5203

2 жыл бұрын

Hopefully healthy organic peanut butter is being used.lol. 🐀

@averageordinaryguy312

2 жыл бұрын

@@mairwaugus5203 , that's f-ing great! I wouldn't want to bait them with anything unhealthy!

@mairwaugus5203

2 жыл бұрын

@@averageordinaryguy312 sry it was just too e-z 😄

Lots of good ideas! I use a rat trap with whatever bait is handy and tie it to the bait pedal with a wire tie from the grocery store veggie dept, after purchasing it with my veggies, then leave a couple small scraps around the trap area to wet their appetite. The 1st one is free. After tasting the free bait, they almost always have to go for the trap bait. Thanks

I needed this one month ago, I struggled through the 50% snap rate on peanut butter until I figured out putting it under the flap too. Definitely going to remember this if I ever get mice again (fingers crossed that's never though).

Thank you! I learned so much. Going to watch the myths video now👍🏼

Smearing on the underside is only 1/2 the trick. The other trick is to smear the wood under the trigger back near the pivot. To get to the little bit back underneath results in a trip everytime. I don't bait out on the edge of the trigger bar, but down underneath near the pivot to increase the need to move it.

@stevewilliams8590

2 жыл бұрын

I wish I could upvote this more then once so more people see the tip. I had no luck then I tried some bait near the pivot and I got him within 20 minutes. Thanks!

I tried the peanut butter on the trap and it got licked off twice. Tried the peanut butter on fabric and it also got licked off. Tonight I hot glued a piece of dog food on the trap and it worked!!! Thanks

The night before I watched this video I set 3 traps with peanut butter, and they were all licked clean. I watched your video and decided to go with the second idea and used caramel. I set the trap, went to bed, and hadn't fallen asleep before I heard the trap spring. Got him!! Thanks!!

@Ms.Bytchy

3 жыл бұрын

Caramel works too?? Thanks!

@CasuallyObservant

3 жыл бұрын

Many years ago we bought a brand new house that backed to undeveloped land. After a few months, we saw men on backhoes grading the dirt behind our house to prepare for new development. Some neighbors worried that field mice from the area behind might come into our development seeking safe haven. We never saw any mice and kept an immaculate house and weren't worried. One particular week we left for a 3-day weekend and locked our house up nice and tight. When we returned home, to our horror we found tiny mouse turds on the clean stove, in the bottom of the dishwasher full of clean dishes and even up on the shelves in our recently vacuumed bedroom closets! In just 3 days a mouse had found a way in and went everywhere. We were disgusted. We had to get that creature out and bought a 4-pack of traps and set them out right before bed. Within about a half hour, we got lucky and caught a tiny one. We re-set that one. The next morning all traps had caught one! 4? We thought there was only one! So, we kept re-baiting and after a week we had caught 21 tiny mice, which was the end of them. Who knew? The lesson? Don't assume there's only one...!

@michi8386

2 жыл бұрын

@@CasuallyObservant holllllly moly 21 !!

@OlderG0ds

2 жыл бұрын

@@CasuallyObservant it’s never just 1

One thing in particular that's good about the pretzel ... the Salt! They like salty snacks as well as we do.

@epiphonium

2 жыл бұрын

look on the label ... peanut butter has salt

After several failures using peanut butter I found you on KZread. I hot glued a potato chip to to the trap. In less than 3 hours we had our mouse. Thanks for sharing your expertise.

Another thumbs up for this video. After 3 nights of the mouse licking the peanut butter off the trap, i fixed some chocolate toffee to the trap via glue method and caught it first night. Thanks 👍

Close to seventy years ago, my Dad taught me a method of baiting a mouse trap that has proved to serve me quite well. I take a piece of bacon and lay it on the trigger. Then I wrap the trigger and bacon with several wraps of string and tie it. This method, along with our ball bearing mouse trap, goes a long way in keeping the mouse and rat population around our farm in check.

@Joani161

Ай бұрын

What us a ball bearing mouse trap?

@Willy12927

Ай бұрын

@@Joani161 A Tom Cat

I never even heard of wearing gloves for setting mouse traps, and they have always worked!

Another tip:. Take a pair of pliers and nearly flatten out the piece of metal that the bar catches on. Doing that will ensure that the trigger will be a lot more sensitive.

I bought this type of mouse trap and had a hard time figuring how it works till I saw your video. Now I am going to use all of your ideas. Thanks. You explained how it works the best. I found a mouse in my Garage and bought the glue traps first and the mouse got in it and left its poop behind. So the mouse is still there. THANKS AGAIN.

@smofc2010

4 жыл бұрын

How sad I those glue traps are despicable. THe suffering they cause. Do unto others. the Golden rule.

@boomer1954ful

3 жыл бұрын

DAMN MICE! and their big cousins. ROOF RATS!!

The glued on pretzel works awesome! I use a very small piece so as to not waste and make an excessive mess. And have caught two within a 24 hour period with the same trap. I uses the black plastic traps and I just put a little crazy glue right on the piece of pretzel and lay it right on the same spot. Unless its glued on they just eat it clean. As soon as they try to pull on the pretzel it's game over. I've caught 5 mice with the same trap and don't use gloves and have never cleaned the trap and they keep coming back.

@randyfarr139

Жыл бұрын

I used bread ties to secure the pretzel.

@ruthgosselin8788

Жыл бұрын

I use gloves cause of the type of mice I have (deer mice I don't want hantavirus)

@russellstewart5414

2 ай бұрын

@@ruthgosselin8788if you got mice in the house you already got the potential for hantavirus to be all over your house, wherever a mouse goes it spreads it’s waste and just touching it doesn’t matter because you’re walking around in it all day

We used the peanut baiting technique described here. We also used a placement strategy placing the trap against a wall or surface (loaded bar away from the wall). We went from finding one successful trap and six clean traps to seven successful traps and two clean traps. We also learned that mice do not like summer sausage. Thanks for the information. It was useful to us.

was finding traps licked clean of peanut butter, adjusted one trap to have a hair trigger and got the little s.o.b.

We had been trying to trap a mouse for over a month. The first time around, we tried the humane mouse trap. The mouse never went inside. So we got the victor traps and used peanut butter. Each time, the mouse would lick the trap clean. Tried your technique of putting the peanut butter underneath the catch last night and this morning...well... RIP Mickey.

When using a spring trap you have to adjust the locking mechanism when using softer foods a pair of pliers. It makes the trap trigger easily.

Had to return to give a like and comment. Used the glue method with a little pb underneath. Walked in on the tiny mouse just licking the pb off and ignoring the glued food. I became pretty discouraged that it didn't trigger the trap. Well hours later while working I heard the trap. Boom. Thank you for this tip. The glue trick helped with the smaller/baby mice who aren't heavy enough to trigger it. Thanks

100% solid advice. Thank you! I used starburst and worked like a charm. Brilliant.

This week I caught 4 mice in the same trap. I didn't wear gloves at any time. My bait was the same small piece of dried frankfurter clamped into the end of a Victor trap bait holder. Some of the bait is still in the trap for the next mouse who wants a bite. I did wash my hands each time "after" emptying a mouse out of the trap, but otherwise I took no precautions to prevent my "odor" from getting on the trap. Oh - one especially smart mouse tripped the trap twice without getting caught. Then, after I turned the trap 180 degrees - "snap" I got him.

@CasuallyObservant

3 жыл бұрын

I guy with a bunch of KZread videos about rat traps has cameras set up to film the traps and see which works. In one video a large rat carries a small stick over to the trap and sets it off, and then eats the bait. The guy said the rat did that over and over several nights in a row. I couldn't believe it, but it was true. Crazy.

@dougl6304

2 жыл бұрын

Rat has intelligence... using tools.

Smear a small piece of scrap leather with peanut butter, then wire that to the trap's trigger. You can use small copper wire from an old appliance wire or small stainless steel wire. The rats/mice WILL trigger the trap by trying to pull the leather off.

When I bait with peanut butter, I put it on the top and bottom of the tab. Then I also smear some on the wood underneath the tab, all the way to the spring. To reach all of it the mouse must get his whole head under the tab, and it rarely fails to go off.

The old style traditional wooden mouse traps here in the UK are a bit different in design and have a single pin or nail into a wooden trigger "plate". The very best bait I have found are M&M, which are disc shaped hard candy type sweet. You melt a hole through the sweet with a hot needle and then super glue it over the pin on the trap...If things seem a little slow a smear of peanut butter or bacon fat is enough to convince the mice to feed. I love this style of trap even in the larger size for rats although rat traps need to be tethered..with rat traps set outside, I like to knock up a simple tunnel to cover them and set two back to back in the centre...the tunnel is more to keep other animals or pets from tripping the traps ..

Trap placement is far more important than what you bait it with or how. I learned from my dad, over 60 years ago that bait is not necessary. Knowing a little about how mice move around and placing your trap where mice are moving by it will catch mice without bait. I've caught untold number of mice over the years by placing the un-baited traps against the wall next to a piece of furniture. Mice will go behind the furniture and then dart out toward the next place of concealment, running across the trap and set it off.

@fivewolf3641

10 ай бұрын

Placement is important but if you have common sense it’s also the easiest part of it

I used the hot glue method with 2 cheerios. It missed the first time the second time I got him. Fyi don't set the trap parallel to the wall its easier for the mouse to get to the food from the side and not get caught. Set it vertical to the wall so they have to place their head in harms way. Thanks man for your advise never would have got him without your advise.

I wrap the bait plate with a strip of cling gauze and tie it tight and cut off the ends. I put peanut butter and press it into the gauze. The mouse will get their teeth caught in the gauze and when they tug. Bam! Works really well! P.S. They like crunchy peanut butter.

very good advice. I fell for buying a lot of different traps that didn't work. The traditional wood snap trap is best in my opinion. Also the trap in the video looks like steel metal, I bought the victor traps that has copper (and to be honest they seem too sensitive, going off just when baiting them, including the heavy larger Rat Traps). I might want to look into getting this brand trap instead. I also had a few traps missing when I wake up, so I am now duct taping them to the floor to secure them better (or double sided adhesive mounting tape), i tried putting in a carboard box instead with a large hole but the mouse (or rat) didn't go for it, no matter what food bait I used. Also some have suggested putting the trap against the wall, with the food tray pointing inward, so when mice crawl all the baseboard area they set it off.

@ericaosborne537

Жыл бұрын

You bait them then set them. There’s no way the trap can go off while baiting it.

@ruthgosselin8788

Жыл бұрын

This is interesting I too have discovered glue board and glue traps and regular traps missing thinking that the rooming house household must be throwing them away but maybe I'm mistaken

Get a Victor trap. The one with the metal pan, not plastic. Most farm stores carry them. Then get a few kernels of dried corn. Wedge the corn kernel into the pan, under the little pointed barb. You may have to use pliers. Make sure it's held tight. The mouse will lick it a few times, then try to take it home. They will actually jerk it, to get the corn! SNAP! I've caught as many as 17 mice with one baiting.

@rosedevereux2391

2 жыл бұрын

brilliant!!

Another thing I do is take the trigger "Notch" and flatten it much more with some pliers. It increase the sensitivity a lot more than what the factory stamps them out at (at least by 50% more sensitive).

If you use a wire tie and tie the bait to the trap it works the vast majority of the time and increases the sensitivity of setting the trap off once you get the knack of it

I use thread. Wrap it around the bait end and securely tieing or glue it on. I take peanut butter and rub it into the threads and set the trap. they can't lick it off, and tend to pull on it, or put some weight on it to get the peanut butter out of the threads. Never had one come up clean and never had one come up with out a mouse in it. :)

I just jam a squash or pumpkin seed underneath the bait tang . Works great.

If you have mice / rats in your basement or crawlspace, it's best to secure the traps to the wall studs with a screw. I had a bunch of rats in my crawlspace a few weeks ago, I bought a 4 pack of the name brand traps and set all of them against the walls and baited them with dog food and peanut butter. The next day I checked the traps, 1 of them was missing, 2 of them went off without catching anything, and the last trap had the remains of what i think was a small rat. Most of it was eaten. I saw on you tube a more effective way of using the spring traps is to mount them against a wall, about 6-8 inches above the floor. The mouse/rat will have to stand on it's hind legs to reach the trap, ensuring the trap being set off only from the end of the trap and therefore snapping it on it's head.. Rats like to approach the traps from the sides sometimes setting off the traps maybe catching them by the tail, and your traps will disappear. I put a sticky trap in my attic once, and the next day it was moving around the celing of my garage. Secure your traps people, Misfires will happen!

@ronskancke1489

Жыл бұрын

I drill a small hole in the back end of the trap and tie a string to it. A corn cob or almost anything tied to the string keeps it from going far.

@helma-rs4kr

2 ай бұрын

We"ve attached a piece of chain.

Thank you. We have been fighting these mice with little success but started gluing dog food to the trigger right after watching your video and i have had 12 in an hour running back and forth reseting traps . You are a life saver. Make that 13 as i write this. Gotta go get this mouse thanks again.

This is honestly some very good information i never knew worked i always assumed the peanut butter trick was useful but now i cant really remember how effective they were but more often than not they were ignored, the mouse problem in my old home was way out of control i couldn't get rid of em for a while but thankfully i had a method of catching killing em with my bare hands lol

The real trick to using peanut butter is to use it with a penny. You can even put it on the top of the pad, but use it as a paste to hold a penny down. No more than a dab of peanut butter and pressing the penny down flatly on the trigger before setting the trap. And leave it smushed out on the edges. Mouse will go for the peanut butter as usual, and after cleaning the edges off they'll get greedy. So it ends up pulling or working at the penny since it can't chew through it to get at the rest of the sticky peanut butter. Thus SNAP! The little booger is done for. Odds of success go way up, and it's easier done than other tricks mentioned here.

@rosedevereux2391

2 жыл бұрын

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I like the tootsie roll trick but I am going too try all three thank's great video

I like your ideas, thank you, here are mine, using this EXACT method and formula. IT. WORKS. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. They can't resist. 1. Skippy natural "no stir" peanut butter, must be the one with palm oil, don't use anything else. 2. Toasted sesame oil. 3. Chicken scratch/grain (get a pound of chicken feed cheap at a feed store) 4. One or more Victor Rat/mouse traps Mix the peanut butter and sesame oil until you get a slurry. Stir in some chicken scratch. Bait your trap, snap, and done. Sometimes the little bastards learn to snatch the bait without triggering the trap, so wrap some black tape or aluminum foil around the trigger pad and stuff the bait inside it. They will snap it EVERY time then. My friend had rats bad in his motorhome, we caught 11 rats in two hours resetting 3 traps. We eventually got over 20 in 2 days. This bait combination is devastating, they just love it, it never fails, they will follow the smell and come to it, just put it in an accessible cubby or near the firewall. 😉

I've used a small piece of plastic straw about 1" long. The Victor bait trays have a round clip you can slide the straw into and pinch in place with needle nose pliers. Then pack peanut butter into the ends of the straw. The mouse will bite the straw to run with it and BAM! 🐁

does this work as well with rats as mice as ive seen they have different tastes sometimes

I would wear rubber gloves just for hygiene for my own protection :-) I built a small wooden cap over the trigger, made from paint stirrer then bait with peanut butter. They have to stick their head in, pushing down the lever

@gatherings9687

4 жыл бұрын

More detail? Pics?

@dougl6304

2 жыл бұрын

Make a video

Great info. Thanks. I like the bit of honey tip. Have you ever had mice enter your house through the side wall furnace exhaust vent?

Tootsie roll has been the best for me so far, and you never have to bait the trap again. I haven't had a issue with scents stopping them from coming back. I will try the glue gun technique with some bait too, great video !

First night trying a tootsie roll I got the mouse! Thanks a lot!

I use a tie wrap from my supermarket veggie section and stack a few cheerios on it and hard wire it to the trap trigger, then add a light smear of peanut butter for good luck. Seems to work ok but no idea about percentages. I'm probably average. Works with tootsie rolls by using a nail to put a hole in it then wire it the same way.

@cassjones871

3 жыл бұрын

You are my new favourite person. I have been battling with a little turd of a mouse for weeks.... I used your trick and had him within 2 hours! Thank you!!!

I learned about using baked goods (pretzels, garlic flavored pita chips, Melba toast that has ever so thinly smeared with peanut butter or Nutella, etc) however instead of hot glue I was taught to use the smallest pieces of foam double stick tape to hold the bait. The double stick foam tape has the advantage of being able to bait the traps in area that a hot glue gun is not practical because of access to an outlet to plug the thing into but I guess since they now make battery powered aka cordless ones that reason is as valid as it used to be however the fact that you can easily peel the double stick tape between baiting with out any tools is. However my new favorite bait can be attached by either hot glue or by prepping baits before hand using a very thin piece of cooper wire and then drilling a very thin hole through a nut such as a shelled piece of a Brazil nut, almond, walnut or pecan. However the shelled half of a pecan or walnut requires no holes just a gentle touch with the very thin piece of wire (I cut stranded lamp cord or speaker wire in 1 long strips, skin the insulation off and unwind a strand of the cooper wire and tie my baits securely to the bait bar. The advantage of the nuts especially pecans and walnuts is all you need to bait the trap is pair of needle nose pliers and a small pair of scissors or wire cutters. One last thing I have learned is check how easy or hard it is to trip your traps and don’t be afraid of adjusting them so they have an easy smooth release. One other thing I do is whenever possible use small pieces of double sided tape and stick the trap to the wherever you have it set. However because when doing so because the tape can damage the surface that you are sticking it to.

Thank you so very much for these great tips. I used the hot glue dipped in oatmeal and managed to catch my elusive freeloader, who previously enjoyed a daily feast of peanut butter. Hot glue is the way to go.

@duckula316

2 жыл бұрын

Can you use super glue instead?

That makes a whole lot of sense never thought of puting Tootsie rolls or peanut butter on the bottom good idea never thought about that before I wonder if it really works

@markpolo7374

3 жыл бұрын

They say the guy in the video is the Guru of Rodent KilliN.from what I've heard,it's gotta work.

Great video, thank you. I've been hot gluing a small pretzel underneath (where you put the food) and then I smear a bit of peanut butter on the pretzel (underneath) and the mice and dam rats keep coming back. I am keeping these critters at bay, which is all we can hope for, but I'm now dreaming of Willard or was it Ben. Gads. So many kills with pretzel and peanut butter. All sizes I might add. Thanks for your video.

Mice kept licking clean the traps containing peanut butter. Then I watched this video! I am now two for two, with one mouse going for the tootsie roll and the other going for the pretzel. Thanks so much :)

Thank you!! Been trying to catch my unwanted visitor but it kept licking the peanut butter off without setting off the trap. Used your hot glue and a piece of cereal and within 5 minutes BOOM! Got him!!

The Tootsie Roll bait is a really good idea. I never ever thought about using them. Great idea!

@oliviasheley7597

3 жыл бұрын

I tried it. Still hasn’t worked at all. Not a single mouse 🤯😡

@kevinpatana8962

3 жыл бұрын

Didn’t work for me either. They had a great snack lastnight

Love your video thanks for the info I apparently have a smart mouse he is able to get the food out the trap without setting it off I hope this works 🙏🙏🙏thanks again

"This" works every time! Empty' a regular peanut, carefully from both ends(hollow peanut shell) stuff it with peanut butter, 'wire' it to the mousetrap with the very thin' wire in a twister tie, scratch all the paper' off of it. -- you can restuff' the peanut shell several times, and after several' mice have sacrificed themselves trying to get the peanut butter out of it ! Works amazingly !!!

I've had great success with zip tying a cashew to the trip plate. They have to chew at it to get any. It doesn't dry out over time, and you get multiple uses from just one nut. Cheap, easy, effective.

Thank you! Had a mouse in the house. I set down sticky pads, poison, and two different kinds of safe-catch trap. Messed around for days, no traps worked. Got dollar store traps (same shown in the video) and Bit-o-Honeys, all less than $5. I set out candy-blob traps and caught the mouse in a couple hours.

They are attracted to just about anything with salt ON it. I used pretzels for years. Never had a glue gun..I used to use super glue. It worked ok..tieing them on always worked best for me though.. especially with the little stick ones. Great video!!

Had a Great Experience with half a slice of Pepperoni in rat trap, It's easy to roll and hook on the barb! Thanks for all the pointers!

You could also also use sewing tread to tie the bait on the trap as the mouse tries to eat the tied down bait it tugs on the bait and releases the trap.

I have a rat in the garden that is a hell of lot smarter then me. He might even be a zombie. I put out a tray of rat stuff that make them not drink water and he ate the whole tray. He now looks healthier then he did before. I tried rat poison blocks. He chewed one and he's still running round the garden. I might be hallucinating, but I swear he gave me the finger.

@fjb4932

3 жыл бұрын

Frank Mamimchuk, You are Not hallucinating ...

I use a little peanut butter and a half walnut tied on with thread. Got two last night.

Thank you! I'm excited to try your methods!

Anchovies work great. Strong smell lures them in. Salty and fatty oil. I take a Q-tip and put a drop on the board just before the bait. Just a small amount of anchovy hooked into the metal. Sometimes it helps to tape the trap to the floor with painter's tape -- I've had them walk off with the trap. They LOVE anchovies -- found out by accident when I had an anchovy pizza in my house. Didn't even know I had mice -- he couldn't resist the smell and came out while I was eating a slice.

I tried the "humane" traps, and they're anything but humane. Snap traps are still the best IMO.

Im here because all the peanut butter was swiped from my traps.

@rabalm4185

4 жыл бұрын

Same

@unclefreddieDied

4 жыл бұрын

LoL swiped

@REALcatmom

4 жыл бұрын

Kyle Nash yep, they’ve stolen our PB too.

@danp6125

4 жыл бұрын

Kyle Nash / 6 traps set with peanut butter all wiped clean. And that's why im here.

@unclefreddieDied

4 жыл бұрын

@@danp6125 I have the answer! Pic mouse trap

Thank you so much for this video. It's extremely helpful!

That tootsie roll idea is GENIUS. Trying it out now; I'm coming for you, mice!