This is a mistake but one that can easily be rectified. Avoid trapping repel rats instead.
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If you smear the peanut butter on with your bare hands the mouse might smell you on the bait and stay away.
Rat trap not going off. Go to walmart in their trap section they have a trap called the micecube it catches them alive. Rat eats peanut butter off of trap and never sets off trap. Or maybe you are simply using a mouse trap that has seen better days.
So you re saying make a tube with cardboard and sort of wrap it around the trigger fill with peanut butter and then whap. To reduce the chances of this happening. If you put a big glob on the mouse can grab some off the top while leaving plenty of weight on the trap to prevent it from springing.
Rat traps are designed for rats and rats are heavier so it won t go off for mice. I put four traps out and got a rat the first night. Well now that the splint is off my finger i m going to try again.
Use a good amount of paste baits such as peanut butter so the rats will spend longer getting it off and be more likely to get trapped. A lot of folks start out baiting their mouse traps with cheese. I heard the traps go off approximately 10 mins apart.
If you are using a mouse trap that is not sensitive enough you are limiting your chances of a successful capture. Try getting a humane mouse trap that way the mice will be less likely to be escape. I can see they re still visiting but some of the traps still aren t tripping.
Mice are tricky i remember i had a mouse problem and they managed to steal the food from the mouse trap without setting it off. Try using peanut butter as a bait. Peanut butter is sticky and has to be consumed on the trap.
Change the bait on your mouse trap. However if they re simply getting the peanut butter without activating the trap there are a couple of solutions. They only cost 1 50 a trap so it s not that bad of deal.
Maybe you have gone for a poorly made trap. Rat eats peanut butter off of trap and never sets off trap. Mouse trap not sensitive enough.
The mice are definitely too light for the trap. My question is since i have not seen the rodents personally only heard them on my ceiling i do not know what the appropriate size trap to use hence i bought medium. Rats can sometimes manage to get bait out without triggering a trap see this video for example.
One is to put less peanut butter on the trap. Buy a couple and put a piece of food towards the back of the traps and then smear a thin layer of peanut butter on the front door to the trap. Allow rats to feed off this safe trap for a day or two.
Next day i baited them again and this time set the trap as well. Once the critters have accepted this object as part of their regular turf bait the trap again but set it up to snap the next rat that crosses its path. The problem with cheese is that it is pretty easy for a mouse to snatch the small piece off of the trap.
When i check about 30 mins later no rodent caught.
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