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!
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.
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.
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.
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!!
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. 🤣
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.
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
Well, guess I'm going to get some tootsie rolls. I didn't know about putting pb on the bottom side so last night...yup, fed the mouse and it's till in the house. Tonight is mine!!!!
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!!!!!
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!
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'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!!!
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
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
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.
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!
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.
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
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
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
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!
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!
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
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.
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.
@@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
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
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
I love to use the peanut butter. But I have a small mod. I break about 1/2 off of a tooth pick. I crimp it into the metal tongue. Then I cover the tooth pick with a dab of peanut butter. The peanut oils soak into the tooth pick. When the little guy bites onto the tooth pick it snaps. I have never found a set trap without the peanut butter (meaning licked clean). I have found hundreds of traps with dead mice.
I set a victor trap last night and use werthers soft caramel candy but just put it on the top will try the bottom - they licked it off, the trap went off, shoe box toppled over from above so I know there was a fight, but it escaped - in the closet is mice droppings and green poison blocks being consumed. Best defense is to seal up cracks holes around the exterior - inspection thorough and also purchase some steel wool abrasive flexible
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.
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 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. :)
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 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
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 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
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!
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.
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 👍
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).
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.
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).
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!!
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...!
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! 🐁
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I guy with a bunch of RUclips 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.
After several failures using peanut butter I found you on RUclips. I hot glued a potato chip to to the trap. In less than 3 hours we had our mouse. Thanks for sharing your expertise.
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.
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
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!!
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.
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!!!
"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 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.
Omg thank you. I hate when people say you can't touch your traps. It will scare the mice away lol. I'm like if that was the case they wouldn't be in your house
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.
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 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
This guy right here is amazing, using the Tootsie roll as bait on the traps I was able to catch two mice before I went to bed. He's right about the peanut butter, on 8 traps they all ate well each one of them were completely clean, LOL. I went to Dollar tree and bought a pack of Tootsie rolls cut them in half open them up put them in the middle of the rapper and put them in the microwave for about 10 seconds what I did was 5 seconds then I touched them then 5 seconds again. Then I took them and did just like the video showed. I'll be right back I just heard a mousetrap pop again, okay I'm back, number 3, lol I'm about to go to sleep for real. Thank you God for this man who really help.
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.
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.
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 :)
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.
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
PB on the bottom didn't work for me however Tootsie rolls are amazing. Prior to this I've caught maybe 3 in the last month or so with PB. Enter the Tootsie roll, 6 in 2 days! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
I recently cleaned out my storage room and found that they were going for lentils so I started using lentils for bate as well and 2 more in 2 days. Now in 10 days I'm up to 15! 🎉
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.
That coffee cup you have, I have the same and I live across the pond in UK, I have used a bit of bread with strawberry jam which usually gets the mice but set the spring very sensative so if a feather will drop on it, bang its cought the critter. I use thin rubber gloves as well to set up the traps as human smell from the fingers puts them off. If you re use the trap I scrub them with antibacterial spray and cloth as a dead mice cought before puts the next one off going on the trap. Hope this info helps. Be safe, regards Paul
There is no need to wear rubber gloves mice and rats are not deterred by your smell you also do not need to clean the traps after you've gotten the mouse. Mice and rats will eat other dead mice and rats, if you die in your house mice and rats will eat on you until you are found. if they were deterred by your scent they wouldn't be in your house at all
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.
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. 😉
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.
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
I caught 2 mics within 3 days. I set up 2 traps one with grains in it and another with candy in it. The 1 mouse fell for the grains 😂😂the other one fell for the candy😂😂. Thank you your video was very helpful.
One method that works very well (for me) is to bait the bottom of the trigger (with peanut butter) and put some frayed cotton from a q-tip or cotton ball on the top and bottom of the trigger. If they don't set it off by licking it, there's a good chance the cotton will snag in their teeth or fur or whiskers and set it off. Securing the trap a few inches up on a wall works well too. They don't have that spring like reflex to dodge the trap when they are up on their hind legs reaching for the bait on the trap.
COSMIC BROWNIE!!! I watched this video. I did the peanut butter on the bottom trick on trap #1. Then I used a Little Debbie Cosmic Brownie on the second trap. I nipped a small amount off the main brownie and formed it around the bait pedal, like this Gent did with the tootsie roll candy. The brownie was gooey and pliable. Both traps got a mouse. The brownie worked the best.
Peanut butter has always worked for me, until this go around. I've got some Jedi zen rat right now that's able to lick the peanut butter off, under, in between etc., A well as solid peanut butter cups. Guess I'll try the super glue thing next. Perhaps with some sunflower seeds. Apparently that's their second favorite thing after peanut butter. Wish me luck
Your video was very informative...Thanks I would like to add my 2 cents worth...I do my trapping in my trucks and found sometimes the trap disappears and I need to go looking for it,so there not in a vital spot in the engine compartment. I drill a hole in the trap add about 12 in. of string and a close pin on the other end so all i need to do is follow the string to trap and critter.
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.
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 !
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!
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.
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.
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.
those fucking mouse running in my leavving room and shitting in my kitchen stove my asss they gon be afraid of my sent right
@@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!!
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. 🤣
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.
That mouse probably grew into a rat with all that peanut butter lol
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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
Literally just put two traps down with the tootsie roll went to the bathroom heard it pop lol finally
OMG! 27 mice!!!!
27 wtf
27? If you add few more then you could become the 2nd “Pied Piper of Hamelin”
Well, guess I'm going to get some tootsie rolls. I didn't know about putting pb on the bottom side so last night...yup, fed the mouse and it's till in the house. Tonight is mine!!!!
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!!!!!
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!
GOOD SHOT! DEAD EYE
Sounds like you have a defective trap.
@@alan30189 No, it took me about 10 tries to set it and place it on the floor WITHOUT going off!
That’s so awesome
hahahahahahahaha
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'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!!!
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
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
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.
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!
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.
great idea!
this sounds really really good. will try
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
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
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
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!
Hopefully healthy organic peanut butter is being used.lol. 🐀
@@mairwaugus5203 , that's f-ing great! I wouldn't want to bait them with anything unhealthy!
@@averageordinaryguy312 sry it was just too e-z 😄
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!
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.
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
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.
Omg yes! Just discovered they like tootise rolls. Ate through a whole bag that I had
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.
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.
I used bread ties to secure the pretzel.
I use gloves cause of the type of mice I have (deer mice I don't want hantavirus)
@@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
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
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!
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.
🐭 I use claymore mines for my rodent problem. For some reason all my neighbors that used to say hi and wave to me disappeared. 🤷♂️
I like your style, it sounds better than my sawn off shotgun, which is hard on the skirting boards.....
Lol 😂
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.
What us a ball bearing mouse trap?
@@Joani161 A Tom Cat
I'm afraid that the ants would go crazy here. I've seen them cover the entire mouse if it wasn't killed on the trap. Our ants love meat.
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!
How do people only ever have one mouse? So jealous
Thank you for confirming the pretzels. Definitely will be trying.👍🏾
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.
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.
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
I love to use the peanut butter. But I have a small mod. I break about 1/2 off of a tooth pick. I crimp it into the metal tongue. Then I cover the tooth pick with a dab of peanut butter. The peanut oils soak into the tooth pick. When the little guy bites onto the tooth pick it snaps. I have never found a set trap without the peanut butter (meaning licked clean). I have found hundreds of traps with dead mice.
I set a victor trap last night and use werthers soft caramel candy but just put it on the top will try the bottom - they licked it off, the trap went off, shoe box toppled over from above so I know there was a fight, but it escaped - in the closet is mice droppings and green poison blocks being consumed. Best defense is to seal up cracks holes around the exterior - inspection thorough and also purchase some steel wool abrasive flexible
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.
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 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. :)
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 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
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
What kind of glue u get
I never even heard of wearing gloves for setting mouse traps, and they have always worked!
Stuck a good dog biscuit on with hot glue and caught 6 mice in one day using same dog biscuit. 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
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!
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.
We"ve attached a piece of chain.
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.
@@rosieone5670 🤣🤣🤣
Hot glued snacks worked like a charm! Within 10min I heard the snap. Thank you thank you
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 👍
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).
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.
One thing in particular that's good about the pretzel ... the Salt! They like salty snacks as well as we do.
look on the label ... peanut butter has salt
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).
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!!
Caramel works too?? Thanks!
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...!
@@CasuallyObservant holllllly moly 21 !!
@@CasuallyObservant it’s never just 1
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! 🐁
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.
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.
Can you use super glue instead?
was finding traps licked clean of peanut butter, adjusted one trap to have a hair trigger and got the little s.o.b.
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.
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.
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.
brilliant!!
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.
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.
I guy with a bunch of RUclips 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.
Rat has intelligence... using tools.
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.
After several failures using peanut butter I found you on RUclips. I hot glued a potato chip to to the trap. In less than 3 hours we had our mouse. Thanks for sharing your expertise.
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.
How sad I those glue traps are despicable. THe suffering they cause. Do unto others. the Golden rule.
DAMN MICE! and their big cousins. ROOF RATS!!
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
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!!
I laughed when you were talking about the Bitter Honey candy because I love those.😅
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.
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!!!
"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 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.
Frank Mamimchuk,
You are Not hallucinating ...
Omg thank you. I hate when people say you can't touch your traps. It will scare the mice away lol. I'm like if that was the case they wouldn't be in your house
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.
Placement is important but if you have common sense it’s also the easiest part of it
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 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
More detail? Pics?
Make a video
This guy right here is amazing, using the Tootsie roll as bait on the traps I was able to catch two mice before I went to bed. He's right about the peanut butter, on 8 traps they all ate well each one of them were completely clean, LOL. I went to Dollar tree and bought a pack of Tootsie rolls cut them in half open them up put them in the middle of the rapper and put them in the microwave for about 10 seconds what I did was 5 seconds then I touched them then 5 seconds again. Then I took them and did just like the video showed. I'll be right back I just heard a mousetrap pop again, okay I'm back, number 3, lol I'm about to go to sleep for real. Thank you God for this man who really help.
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.
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.
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 :)
I like the tootsie roll trick but I am going too try all three thank's great video
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.
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
They say the guy in the video is the Guru of Rodent KilliN.from what I've heard,it's gotta work.
PB on the bottom didn't work for me however Tootsie rolls are amazing. Prior to this I've caught maybe 3 in the last month or so with PB. Enter the Tootsie roll, 6 in 2 days! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
I recently cleaned out my storage room and found that they were going for lentils so I started using lentils for bate as well and 2 more in 2 days. Now in 10 days I'm up to 15! 🎉
First night trying a tootsie roll I got the mouse! Thanks a lot!
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’m about to use the pretzel method. The 9mm didn’t work.
Good video 👌🏻
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That coffee cup you have, I have the same and I live across the pond in UK,
I have used a bit of bread with strawberry jam which usually gets the mice but set the spring very sensative so if a feather will drop on it, bang its cought the critter. I use thin rubber gloves as well to set up the traps as human smell from the fingers puts them off. If you re use the trap I scrub them with antibacterial spray and cloth as a dead mice cought before puts the next one off going on the trap.
Hope this info helps.
Be safe, regards Paul
There is no need to wear rubber gloves mice and rats are not deterred by your smell you also do not need to clean the traps after you've gotten the mouse. Mice and rats will eat other dead mice and rats, if you die in your house mice and rats will eat on you until you are found. if they were deterred by your scent they wouldn't be in your house at all
I've caught dozens of mice with the same traps, they don't care
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.
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.
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I tried the "humane" traps, and they're anything but humane. Snap traps are still the best IMO.
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.
You bait them then set them. There’s no way the trap can go off while baiting it.
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
I'm back to let y'all know, that I used super glue for cereal & dog food.. got em🙌
I caught 2 mics within 3 days. I set up 2 traps one with grains in it and another with candy in it. The 1 mouse fell for the grains 😂😂the other one fell for the candy😂😂. Thank you your video was very helpful.
One method that works very well (for me) is to bait the bottom of the trigger (with peanut butter) and put some frayed cotton from a q-tip or cotton ball on the top and bottom of the trigger. If they don't set it off by licking it, there's a good chance the cotton will snag in their teeth or fur or whiskers and set it off. Securing the trap a few inches up on a wall works well too. They don't have that spring like reflex to dodge the trap when they are up on their hind legs reaching for the bait on the trap.
COSMIC BROWNIE!!! I watched this video. I did the peanut butter on the bottom trick on trap #1. Then I used a Little Debbie Cosmic Brownie on the second trap. I nipped a small amount off the main brownie and formed it around the bait pedal, like this Gent did with the tootsie roll candy. The brownie was gooey and pliable. Both traps got a mouse. The brownie worked the best.
I use a little peanut butter and a half walnut tied on with thread. Got two last night.
Peanut butter has always worked for me, until this go around. I've got some Jedi zen rat right now that's able to lick the peanut butter off, under, in between etc., A well as solid peanut butter cups. Guess I'll try the super glue thing next. Perhaps with some sunflower seeds. Apparently that's their second favorite thing after peanut butter. Wish me luck
hot glue is the key. I got one before the video was over. dog food. thanks man
Your video was very informative...Thanks I would like to add my 2 cents worth...I do my trapping in my trucks and found sometimes the trap disappears and I need to go looking for it,so there not in a vital spot in the engine compartment. I drill a hole in the trap add about 12 in. of string and a close pin on the other end so all i need to do is follow the string to trap and critter.
I did the hot glue gun and dog food! I worked perfectly. Less than an hour later all four of my traps caught mice.
I did hot glue and a cheerio, but it ate the cheerio and left the glue. Wth!
That tootsie roll idea is GENIUS. Trying it out now; I'm coming for you, mice!
I just jam a squash or pumpkin seed underneath the bait tang . Works great.
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.
Yo for real!! This sucks. Your video took so long that im going to make my own so others dont have to suffer!!!
Omg I agree with you 100%. Plus his smacking of his lips when he talks drives me insane. I'd rather deal with the mice instead of him.
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 !