The wretched mouse in my kitchen doesn't seem to like chocolate, what else can I put in the trap?

[bran]

Either that or he's very, very clever. Mind you if he was that clever he would never have let me see him in the first place. He's been there a week now and the traps remain empty (although one of them nearly got my finger yesterday).

peanut butter

mine liked shreddies. aren't you using humane traps? you can then have a look at them and let them go

garibaldi biscuits or mars bar pieces, they work a treat (guilt factor - I see you're not using humane traps)

anything sticky - they will have to pull at the trap to get it. And place the traps perpendicular to the wall, so they run over it.

oh my godness you are braver then me i would have moved out by now

New one for MN - 'my mouse is such a fussy eater - what can I give him to eat?'

I got mine with chocolate brownie, chocolate raisin and turkish delight, though from the evidence in the kitchen, they seemed to like raw potatoes best...

Second peanut butter (recommended to us by a nice Rentokil man )

raisins

One of mine (I've caught 4 so far, 2 large, 2 small)got out of the humane trap twice - third time was not so lucky.

sausage

I have one humane trap and one old-fashioned neck-breaking type. I'm hoping that he gets his neck broken as I have no idea what to do with him if he's still alive.

I was thinking about peanut butter, but I hate the smell of it. Do you think Nutella might do the trick instead? Do you think a Mars bar would work if chocolate didn't?

ROFFLE at "my mouse is a fussy eater".

I put mine (trap & all) in a biscuit tin, in case they escaped from the trap in the car & took them for a ride...
One I let out in the park opposite DD's old school - I thought it'd get a lot of dropped food there, and two in a wood a couple of miles away.
The last one I had to get rid of on the way to work, so I went down a little unmade road off the main road. It wasn't until I'd dumped him & was turning the car that I noticed the cctv & the 'no fly-tipping' sign... Does mouse-tipping count?

They always use cheese in Tom and Jerry. HTH

Banana has never failed us here!!

Why were you using chocolate anyway? Seems an odd choice to me. We've always done either cheese or bacon rind, but the mice did once eat the (plastic) lid of the peanut butter jar to get inside it, so maybe the Rentokill man is right!

When i lived in NY we always used peanut butter worked a treat

The blurb on the trap packaging recommended chocolate or peanut butter, and the smell of peanut butter makes me feel a bit queasy. It might be worth putting up with the smell to get rid of the mouse though.

Yep - drive him at least a mile away if you catch him. Then release him and he won't come back.

Peanuts def. work.

My neighbour had a mouse which she couldn't trap. I gave her some peanuts (the ones that go in the bird feeder) and she caught it that night.

I used a Jordans crunchy bar.
Please bin the neck breaking trap though, the humane ones are much nicer and mine worked a treat.
Am a bit of a budhist hippy about these things and don't like killing small creatures, esp not when you can use a perfectly good humane alternative....

I did try a bit of brazil nut along with the chocolate, but it made no difference.

I'm not terribly sentimental about vermin Pannacotta, but as lots of people feel strongly about it on here if he goes for the humane trap I will try to release him (although tbh it's very uban around here so he'll probably just go straight into someone else's house).

maybe he hasn't got a sweet tooth and you just need to ditch the chocolate and stick with the nut

Caught mine with a blob of nutella in a humane trap. Worked a treat