Mouse bait

[tonycollinet]

I haz a cat.

He haz brought us a mouse. However, useless bloody lump that he is, he brought it in alive, then dropped it and let it run away.

Now it is somewhere in our dining room, mooching about between under the dresser, under the piano, and in the junk filled corner.

I haz invested in a humane mousetrap. It has been baited for the last two days with peanut butter (as recommend by the trap instructions). So far mouse has turned his little twitchy nose up at the bait. Perhaps he doesn't like 9 year old peanut butter although I thought it was a fine vintage. PERHAPS he would like us to send the cats in again. 

Before we allow the cats to get medieval on his little furry ass, can anyone recommend a sure fire bait for our trap.

Thanks ever so...

[PaulF]

Chocolate digestive worked for me last time I had little visitors.

[border-rider]

Yep, choccy bics.  Or chocolate, or failing that -  A Nut.

[kyuss]

Nutella chocolate spread. They go mental for it.

[tonycollinet]

Oooh

I LIKE that Idea.

Then I can eat the rest of the jar.

[Wendy]

Or biltong.  That's what I used to trap the field mouse that tried to make a home in our house a few months ago.

[TimO]

Fruit cake worked a few years back when I was in rented accommodation with non rent paying rodents.

[hulver]

The ones we've caught have loved choccy biscuits.

[Butterfly]

We found that the mouse we had at the last place would eat pretty much anything that wasn't in the trap...

[julk]

I have found the local mice very fond of glace cherries, at least while they were alive!

[rae]

Little Nipper, baited with chocolate or cheese.

[Sergeant Pluck]

A well chosen chunk of Fruit and Nut, making use of the adhesive properties of the raisins therein.

[TimO]

Little Nipper, baited with chocolate or cheese.

According to an article I read some years back in New Scientist, mice don't actually much like cheese, and will only eat it if desperate.  The same article reckoned that if a mouse did eat cheese, it would probably die of the intestinal complications that this caused.

Now admittedly, this would succeed in solving the problem, but I suspect that fruit and nuts etc are probably more likely to work, since they are closer to what the mouse is likely to find in it's natural environment.

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

They love Bonne Maman strawberry jam, the spoilt feckers.

[Zoidburg]

Mars bar.

Unwrapped of course

[Jaded]

They usually eat something other than what you put down. Soap, for example.