Nice catch.Top one looks like it is swimming.

Bacon , raw bacon

The Victor trap Co says mice like chocolate! Melt chocolate chips in the microwave and coat the trigger. Once cold, they get caught every time. A tootsie roll works too. Chew up a piece and mold onto the trigger and you’re in business! I want to try a metal cat with a small snickers bar for bait. Should smell great.

I sprinkle the pan with a little bit flour .

I've known this to work every time, but I cook it first. Never had time to do it yet but I might have too.

I believe I could live with a mouse before I’d sacrifice bacon.

I use peanut butter or candy for mice, bacon grease for screws. Never had a vole problem yet. That might be an idea Cougarw, try a meat bait to see if it's a shrew

V600 3/4 head catch! LOL

Law Dog said. Catch them all.


And don't forget the put up. Handy finger warmer or a cover for the older turn signal handles.

Cougarw what if you don't have a mouse but maybe a shrew?? They are more meat eaters than grain/seed eaters like mice. I could never catch shrews with peanut butter. Their droppings look very similar. Same with bats.

I had good luck on mice and screws with bacon.

Just a thought.

Jim

Definitely!

There is one other possibility that I know. Some spiders such as Orbs leave droppings that are similar to mice droppings. This had me pondering for a while until I figured it out. They appear a bit smaller and I attributed it to drying out shrinkage. Found spider, killed spider, no more droppings. :-)

That is pure abuse of chocolate that could be in cookies

Try painting the mouse trap blue.

Jim, I tried hamburger for a week, it just dried out.

Still nothing.for the weekend we will have coconut shavings in the live trap, peanut butter on regular traps and sticky traps on floor. I think I’ll have her put the game cam on the floor this time.

Peanut butter traps placed on edges and corners. Works for me. Same old thing-location.

Course of you do use bait...you gotta go big.

Sometimes you get a nimble one that can rob cheese or pb off a trigger. I've busted a kernel of corn and press it into the metal trigger, then coat with pb. Lick off the pb, then they'll gnaw and tug on the corn. Set it off every time.

Don't over think it , Figure 4 deadfall, just cleaning out my shed with some old school trappin. Bob