On 2015-01-08, Dave Smith > wrote:
> On 2015-01-08 08:29, Gary wrote:

>> Cheese works but raw bacon works better. Bread and even cookies work.
>> If a mouse is hungry, it will eat anything. I found a bag of dry
>> barley once that had been opened and invaded by a mouse.

> I like to offer them choices. I use some cheddar, some Swiss cheese,
> peanut butter, dried fruit and keilbosa.

Peanut butter is numero uno.

We had a drought and resulting mouse plague, back in the 80s. This at
a govt weapons lab. So, a contest was held for all the depts, to see
which index heads could come up with the most deadly of all mouse
traps. The winner was a teeter-totter kinda rig, that lured mice onto
a stick which had PB smeared on it at one end and was balanced in the
middle to dump the unsuspecting mice off the PB smeared stick and into
a tub of water, below. This trap caught 98 mice in one 24 hr period.
All the traps in the top 5 used PB. If for no other reason, than,
hard to get PB off anything. I've had mice steal cheese from a trap.
Not gonna happen with PB.

nb