What bait to use for a mouse trap.

Our amah came running into the sitting room one day shouting, missie, missie there’s a mouse on the kitchen as big as a cat.
‘Nonsense’ said mum and went to look. They both came out of the kitchen and securely closed the door. We then sat in a row watching the kitchen door nervously till dad arrived to deal with it.
I am afraid to say that I don’t think he behaved as well as Notagranny! I don’t think he used peanut butter either.

I once placed traps, a couple with cheese and a couple with mars bar.
The mars bar disappeared but the cheese stayed.
No mice got caught in the traps, however.

sued yes my blues(jake and elwood) were sooo cuddly.the maine coon was a hunter to the core.he rid the yard of 2 poisonious snakes and the ndn had wood rats in his garden shed(they ate the wiring and other parts of his ford truck engine)told him to leave the shed door open.tut-the unkommon left 7 bodies in the road over the next 5 days.found him chasing off a raccoon one night.and he
would not let me outside after dark with out escorting me.i miss him.
have his grandson now with a bit of manx mixed in.this boy and his tiny calico sister and staffie sister hunt, but no follow thru.they all just sit next to the frog,toad,lizard,spider til i scoop them up and out the door.
shysal i love him. i hear "stray cat strut" in my head

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If our chalet is not rented out to anglers we live at our lake. There is a cat flap for our Burmese, Rocky. He often brings in his little 'friends' to play with. Some he puts down and then watches them run for cover but some he eats. If we can, we corner the live ones and release back outside. They can be mice, rats or voles. We came home from shopping one day to hear a piping noise and there was a baby coot lying on the floor. Must have been dragged in through the cat flap and then abandoned. Enormous feet on it. My DH put it back in the lake where it joined it's siblings.

We always used to stick a Rolo on the spike in the trap. Always worked and very convenient and unmessy.

When I had cats, I had to be careful where I put my feet when I came down in the morning, having once trodden on a disembowelled shrew. A mole was there one morning, completely unmarked - I thought it had died of fright!

I would shut the cat into the kitchen and let it get on with it.

I've just removed a dead blackbird from the front lawn, having realised when Storm came in up to the ears in blood that he had caught something, as he was obviously unhurt.

Here the mice are all too fly to go into a trap!

Many years ago when I'd moved into a new 1st floor flat on my own, I saw a mouse in the kitchen. I couldn't stand the thought of it going off and dying somewhere in the flat so wasn't keen on poison and didn't want to find it in a trap, dead. I found a product called Scram which you put out and they hate the smell. I emptied all cupboards and drawers and left little foil dishes around. Never saw a mouse again. Now though when we had a mouse in the garage we used a sonic plug,-in. No more mice.