Don’t use peanut butter on your glue mouse trap warning?

[GON]

Having used rat sized glue traps baited with chunky peanut butter with great success for many years, I was surprised to see the warning on these glue traps purchased earlier today.

“ if you choose to add bait, do not use oil-based foods such as peanut butter, as this will degrade the adhesive and allow rodents to escape”.

Not sure if the warning is to this brand only, but never had a mouse escape a glue rate trap baited with chunky peanut butter. This is the first time using Catchmaster brand.

We will see what happens over the next 24 hours.

 

[Rand]

yeah if they get it all over where they are stuck it can help them get away.. never had it happen either.
btw notice that snake on the label...

 

[dishdude]

Aren't those glue traps kind of cruel? Why not use the old school mousetraps or the modern easy to set ones?

 

[dubber09]

Well, one can put a small dish in the center of the tray where the bait can go to minimize bait transfer onto sticky layer.

 

[joekingcorvette]

Looking forward to the 24 hour update.

 

[jhellwig]

Aren't those glue traps kind of cruel? Why not use the old school mousetraps or the modern easy to set ones?

Nah, Cruel is putting the glue trap outside for the little rodent to freeze like I did this morning. It chewed a network cable in half and pooped on my desk so it deserved it.


I have only ever caught tiny mice on glue traps. The big fat ones leave their hide to get off there.

 

[Wylie6G72]

It's a little scary how smart the rats are getting. They run along the fence rail and look down at the glue traps, knowing full well what they are and avoiding them. The only ones that are proving useful are the ones I stick inside my generator and the ones we put under lawn furniture and other dark crevices where they can't see where they're going when they run underneath. Same goes for the regular rat traps. Mild curiosity, and they walk away. The one thing they haven't caught on to yet is the enclosed bait traps. I've got four of them in my back yard and all of them have signs of long-term munching this past weekend. Eat up my friends.

 

[Pablo]

I just found rats gone crazy in my truck AF box. NASTY.

Before that I saw one in the breezeway.

HOLY HELL> Invasion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have a mess of old school traps out now.

 

[y_p_w]

Nah, Cruel is putting the glue trap outside for the little rodent to freeze like I did this morning. It chewed a network cable in half and pooped on my desk so it deserved it.


I have only ever caught tiny mice on glue traps. The big fat ones leave their hide to get off there.

Oh, I’ve seen rats caught in glue traps. My parents asked me to set them up after they bought them. I’m also the one who has to come over when they’re caught. Doesn’t feel good finding a live rodent stuck to a trap. But strangely enough, the one thing that worked was anchovies as bait. I do remember when the glue traps would come with sunflower seeds as bait.

Granted I’ve given up on snap traps and just left them, only to check them later to find they caught something. Probably weeks ago. If I was lucky it wasn’t a lot to clean up.

 

[4wd]

12 ga 00 buck - and be somebody

 

[Pablo]

12 ga 00 buck - and be somebody

Glock.45!

 

[GON]

I just found rats gone crazy in my truck AF box. NASTY.

Before that I saw one in the breezeway.

HOLY HELL> Invasion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have a mess of old school traps out now.

I found to pay the piper and buy a mess of small bait stations on Amazon. Then do an array of bait stations in numerous circles away from the rodents' target. Solved the issue. Where I live now, seems to be just one rodent, I can't do an array, and the bait station didn't take him out, so the old standby of rat sized glue trap with chunky peanut butter escalation.

 

[CleanSump]

I thought this would be some California warning that mice might suffer from peanut allergy.

 

[Lubener]

JIF is ok.

 

[Mr_Joe]

I have an ongoing trapping program in my shed, 4 traps. I just caught a mouse yesterday, after a month+ hiatus. I ramped it up a year ago when I started seeing them while getting stuff out.

 

[97prizm]

Having used rat sized glue traps baited with chunky peanut butter with great success for many years, I was surprised to see the warning on these glue traps purchased earlier today.

“ if you choose to add bait, do not use oil-based foods such as peanut butter, as this will degrade the adhesive and allow rodents to escape”.

Not sure if the warning is to this brand only, but never had a mouse escape a glue rate trap baited with chunky peanut butter. This is the first time using Catchmaster brand.

We will see what happens over the next 24 hours.

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I use rodent attractant. It's in a small bottle and looks like blue goo.

 

[Danno]

Get a pet coyote.
And mouse bait stations work as a control, Tomcat brand seems to work well.

 

[GON]

I use rodent attractant. It's in a small bottle and looks like blue goo.

Haven't seen that product, thanks for the recommendation.

 

[Panda87]

Get a pet coyote.
And mouse bait stations work as a control, Tomcat brand seems to work well.
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Tomcat bait stations have worked well in my garage. That coyote looks a lot healthier than the scrawny, aggressive ones we have around here!

 

[Arc]

12 ga 00 buck - and be somebody

I live next to the Ohio river and you have to be armed or those big river rats will drag you off.