Best food for a mouse ?

Downside with that is it'll be away from all its friends, family (mice are very social creatures) and potentially straight into the mouth of a predator. Can understand why some say releasing is not actually that much more humane than snap trapping.Will give it a fighting chance but at the very least a very stressful situation for the rodent.

For squirrels and I think rats too, it's actually illegal to release them back into the wild if live caught
 
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Huh.. good point Darren. Perhaps snaptrap is the best, humane option.

Update :

I’ve put some leftover popcorn chicken out. If this does not temp it.. then I don’t know what will.
 
Have you considered contacting The Rat Buster off of Youtube? I'm sure him camping your kitchen at 2 in the morning would make a nice change from the pig and cow sheds he usually frequents. :)
 
Okay yep. The half eaten popcorn chicken got swiped. It was gone this morning. The p.butter trap totally ignored. Will rebait with chicken.
 
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Not really. :p got some new traps with official mouse bait. It reminds me of the chocolate sauce you put on your softy
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Spent weeks with traps and they kept going off by themselves most of the time just lobbing seeds everywhere so I couldn't even tell if we were rid of them yet and other times the seeds would go but traps never went off, after few weeks of frustration (I also did manage to get a few but as I said traps seemed to keep going off by themselves) I was forced to pick up some glue traps before I got drove completely round the bend.

One just got his tail caught in it so took it outside with some olive oil and let him run off, those not that fortunate were dispatched with an air rifle, granted not the ideal solution and the traps were picked up overnight so if any did get caught they didn't suffer and I checked them 2-3 times an hour throughout the day, the bait traps didn't always kill them instantly and didn't want them running off and dying somewhere under floorboards so had to dispatch them before opening trap.

First time using them got 2 on one pad same day, total ive caught 4 this way and 1 was released, I did try live catch traps but they were bloody useless and the electric traps do not have good reviews.

One frustrating thing with the bait traps is when they go off they can become misaligned and they are a pain in the backside to get back to right alignment.

I had been contemplating peanut oil in a glass bowl thing but thats a bigger setup and containment from cats.

The last one that was caught and only got his tail stuck that I let go in the street after loosening with the olive oil I didn't even hear him leading up to that incident, usually I can hear them before I see them but this one was a quiet one.

I don't think we have a lot of them as its usually weeks before we see any and when we do its extremely small but no idea where they are actually coming from, we have 3 cats and they are all bloody useless.

Peanut butter seems to work pretty well as well as sunflower seeds I believe my mum picked up a while back.
 
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I found a few mouse traces soon after I moved into my new house.
Placed down 2 humane traps, baited with peanut butter, and had 2 caught within the first night, but I've not seen anything of them or caught anything since.

(One of them was caught within 40 minutes of the trap going down).
 
Deathjester said:
I found a few mouse traces soon after I moved into my new house.
Placed down 2 humane traps, baited with peanut butter, and had 2 caught within the first night, but I've not seen anything of them or caught anything since.

(One of them was caught within 40 minutes of the trap going down).
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Nice, once you see them always assume you ain't seen the last of them lol. We went a month or two with radio silence then one smaller than my thumb showed up, all our stupid cats do is play with them, we did have a cat that killed them but it had been unwell and we was going to take it to the vets (this was over christmas/new year time) after holidays but we woke up to find it dead on the floor :( It had started getting thin despite eating and pooing everywhere and we thought it was worms at first so bought some worming stuff and waited a couple of weeks but no signs of change and before we could get it to vet it passed, the night before it couldn't walk without losing balance.
 
Sadly we don't have a feline solution to the mouse issues; I did block up the holes I thought they were using to get into the house from the walls with fairly thick cement.
So I hope that any that are left have limited food options, and leave the premises before becoming a further issue.
 
Any update. I'm invested now, horrible when this happens though and you can't catch them.

I do have a mental image of you cooking chicken for them every night. While questioning out loudly what type do they want.
 
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