Ways To Catch Mice

Mice nibble--Your first tip is to bait the trap with tiny pieces of food. A big piece of food lets the mice munch without springing the trap. Since your goal is to catch the mouse rather than feed it, lure it into the trap. As soon as it takes the first bite, the trap will spring. Experts recommend pea-size bait. Mice have a sweet tooth. Sweets that that mice find irresistible include: Gum drops, Marshmallows, Syrup, Caramels. it’s inconvenient to put traps. The sweetness of Tootsie Rolls is very appealing to mice. Like everything else they eat, mice consume Tootsie Rolls in tiny bites. A cold or hard Tootsie Roll is easy for a mouse to nibble without springing the trap. Homeowners who have the most success using a Tootsie Roll for mouse bait slightly chew it first. The rationale is that it becomes sticky and a mouse springs the trap trying to pull it off. Chewed or not, you want to put just a very small amount of the candy in the trap. Press it onto the trap so that the mouse can’t sample it from the side. Mice find food by the way it smells, so bait needs to be either fresh or mixed with something else. Nutella makes anything that it’s spread on appealing to mice. Fruit is a mouse favorite. A bit of banana mashed onto a trap is good mouse bait. Some people have success with the peels from apples or similar fruits. Mice find raisins tasty. You can make bait balls from raisins and oatmeal held together with any nut butter. Kill Them With Food--Other baits contain an ingredient that will kill the mouse after they eat it. One simple bait is to spread dry potato flakes where mice can find them. The mice eat them, then drink water, causing the flakes to swell and kill the mouse.