What is the most alluring food that can be use as bait for mice and rats??

Peanut butter works pretty good.What is the most alluring food that can be use as bait for mice and rats??
sticky candies, laffy taffy, starbursts, things that stick to the trap and they have to work at getting itWhat is the most alluring food that can be use as bait for mice and rats??
Peanut Butter (I'm told)
MICE CHEESE AND OR PEANUT BUTTER RATS LIKE GREASE
If using in a trap.....p-nut butter.


It's consistency stays on the bait part of the trap and gets down into the small parts so to speak so that you are less likely to have the 'intended' get the bait without springing the trap.





They will eat anything.. even soap....the trick is to put it in their path. Along where they run, like along walls, counter tops, so on.





(In Cyprus, I even had the rats sneak into the flat after the rat poison in the box! What a shock to find that big thing in there munching away!!)





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if you are putting it in a mousetrap a nice big hunk of chedder cheese is irresistable. Be sure it is a little soft and squish it on the trap. They get so involved eating it they forget to be careful and trigger the trap. I have also tried peanut butter, but that is kind of messy and the cheese works better.
Bread works when it is mushed up into a ball. Mice and rats are used to eating plants and seeds rather then cheese (they do not have cows so...)
bacon and any cakes....
I tried cheese....No go!


Peanut butter works great, but I read somewhere that ';their real passion is for gumdrops.';





I had lots of mice in one home I stayed in. (Ugh!) The peanut butter got them every time.
as with everyone else i will agree, peanut butter works best on mouse traps. if you have one of the cage traps, i suggest using sardines if you can stand the smell. we had a gopher rat under our house, (he was huge, by the way) i tried everything to lure him out but the only thing that worked were the sardines.
Cheese doesn't work like the Tom and Jerry cartoons would have you believe. LOL. I usually use peanut butter, or tootsie rolls. Anything similar should work great.





Problem with peanut butter. Too soft. They could like it off without tripping the trap. Tootsie rolls they have to bite and pull at, so more likely they will set off the trap.