Do Rats Love Peanut Butter?
On my research here on the internet about the “best bait to use for rat traps”, majority of individuals do recommend “peanut butter”.
“Do rats really like peanut butter that they cannot resists its temptation?”
Let’s find out.
There is actually an insufficient information that can support the claim and explain why rats love peanut butter. But speaking out from my own personal experience, they are “interestingly attracted” to peanut butter the main reason why I already captured a lot of them inside my trap with good success rate.
Perhaps it is the peanut butter’s “strong and sweet smell” that attracts the rats. Another reason is that, rats are “vegetarians” which means that they love to eat “plant type of foods” where peanut belong.
There are actually two common species of rats that invades houses. They can be classified in terms of their colors which is “black and brown”. According to experts, black rats are completely vegetarian.
As for those with brown colors, they are both carnivore and vegetarian. This makes them much harder to deal with when compared to the black rats because of their wider range of food choices that they can eat.
Going back to the peanut butter, there are many different available products on the market shelves that you can choose from. Some got added mixtures of other sweeteners such as honey, chocolates, milk, and etc…
Some individuals claims that peanut butter with “added mixture of sweeteners” are more effective for baiting the rats. Although, I have not thoroughly tested it yet because I mostly used purely made peanut butter where I got good success using it.
However, I have this one experience where there was this one rat that got caught in my trap using peanut butter as a bait. Unfortunately, it was able to escape out from the trap due to improper setup. The next time around, this rat became clever enough to avoid my trap where I failed to catch it for several days on different attempts.
I then came to realize that the rat recognized the peanut butter I use as a bait. This explains why it was able to avoid my trap.
Realizing my mistake, I decided to add honey on the peanut butter. Somehow, this had altered the scent of my bait where the rat finally got attracted and caught.
The lesson learned here is that, rats are actually clever type of animals which are good learners. So in most cases, “what works for the first time may not work for the second time”.
Aside from the scent and being a plant type of food, peanut butter is a much effective type of bait among others because of its sticky characteristic. This should allow you to easily apply it as a bait into almost any kind of rat traps.
I use the cage type of trap where you have to place the bait at its near end corner. If the rat grabbed or pulled it, this will trigger the spring that will push the lock sealing the entrance in just a matter of second.
What I observed why using peanut butter as a bait for rat traps is that when the pest grabbed it on their hand, they will be surprised that they cannot grab the whole thing. As a result, the creature may either lick its hands before attempting to grab the bait again until the trap will be set off.
If you have already made several attempts using peanut butter as a bait but it does not work, there could only be two possible reasons. One, you are not setting up your trap properly. And second, the rats became so familiar with your trap.
When it comes to rat traps, there are so many ingenious designs that you can choose from the market. Or, you can build it yourself provided that you have the necessary skill. In my own personal opinion, they all work where the trick comes from setting it up correctly.
If you are new at setting up your rat trap, I would highly suggest that you spend some time learning how to set it up properly. This includes actual testing to ensure that your trap can really catch the pest. Just make sure that you will not accidentally hurt your fingers or hands.
Despite setting your trap correctly, the rats seems to know how to avoid it. If this is the case, it means that the rats have grown clever enough where they “knew the scent” that they need to avoid at all possible cost.
I already shared one of my experience above where rats can learn from their previous mistakes. So if this is the case, you may also want to add some other ingredients to your peanut butter bait. Or, simply use other type of baits.
If they are still able to evade your trap then your skin must have a natural strong scent that is being left when you handle your trap. In order to avoid this, you have to use gloves in both handling your bait and trap.
Sometimes, patience is also another important factor especially when you are just catching one or just a few numbers of rats. You should give it at least a day or even much better, a few days.
Conclusion
Peanut butter when used as a bait to attract rats into your trap is quite very effective. The only part that I do not like is that, ants also love it. So coming back to check my trap, I often encounter a lot of ants swarming all over the bait.
Moreover, if it happens that you did tried everything trying to catch the rats around your house and you failed, there is one good solution that I can recommend. Hiring a pest control service does work but only if you can afford the cost. But, a better solution is “to own a cat”.
You don’t have to spend your time setting up traps because your cat will do the job of chasing the pest away. And best of all, your pet’s services is free.
“Do rats really like peanut butter that they cannot resists its temptation?”
Let’s find out.
There is actually an insufficient information that can support the claim and explain why rats love peanut butter. But speaking out from my own personal experience, they are “interestingly attracted” to peanut butter the main reason why I already captured a lot of them inside my trap with good success rate.
Perhaps it is the peanut butter’s “strong and sweet smell” that attracts the rats. Another reason is that, rats are “vegetarians” which means that they love to eat “plant type of foods” where peanut belong.
There are actually two common species of rats that invades houses. They can be classified in terms of their colors which is “black and brown”. According to experts, black rats are completely vegetarian.
As for those with brown colors, they are both carnivore and vegetarian. This makes them much harder to deal with when compared to the black rats because of their wider range of food choices that they can eat.
Going back to the peanut butter, there are many different available products on the market shelves that you can choose from. Some got added mixtures of other sweeteners such as honey, chocolates, milk, and etc…
Some individuals claims that peanut butter with “added mixture of sweeteners” are more effective for baiting the rats. Although, I have not thoroughly tested it yet because I mostly used purely made peanut butter where I got good success using it.
However, I have this one experience where there was this one rat that got caught in my trap using peanut butter as a bait. Unfortunately, it was able to escape out from the trap due to improper setup. The next time around, this rat became clever enough to avoid my trap where I failed to catch it for several days on different attempts.
I then came to realize that the rat recognized the peanut butter I use as a bait. This explains why it was able to avoid my trap.
Realizing my mistake, I decided to add honey on the peanut butter. Somehow, this had altered the scent of my bait where the rat finally got attracted and caught.
The lesson learned here is that, rats are actually clever type of animals which are good learners. So in most cases, “what works for the first time may not work for the second time”.
Why Peanut Butter is an Effective type of Bait?
Aside from the scent and being a plant type of food, peanut butter is a much effective type of bait among others because of its sticky characteristic. This should allow you to easily apply it as a bait into almost any kind of rat traps.
I use the cage type of trap where you have to place the bait at its near end corner. If the rat grabbed or pulled it, this will trigger the spring that will push the lock sealing the entrance in just a matter of second.
What I observed why using peanut butter as a bait for rat traps is that when the pest grabbed it on their hand, they will be surprised that they cannot grab the whole thing. As a result, the creature may either lick its hands before attempting to grab the bait again until the trap will be set off.
What if Peanut Butter does not Work?
If you have already made several attempts using peanut butter as a bait but it does not work, there could only be two possible reasons. One, you are not setting up your trap properly. And second, the rats became so familiar with your trap.
When it comes to rat traps, there are so many ingenious designs that you can choose from the market. Or, you can build it yourself provided that you have the necessary skill. In my own personal opinion, they all work where the trick comes from setting it up correctly.
If you are new at setting up your rat trap, I would highly suggest that you spend some time learning how to set it up properly. This includes actual testing to ensure that your trap can really catch the pest. Just make sure that you will not accidentally hurt your fingers or hands.
Despite setting your trap correctly, the rats seems to know how to avoid it. If this is the case, it means that the rats have grown clever enough where they “knew the scent” that they need to avoid at all possible cost.
I already shared one of my experience above where rats can learn from their previous mistakes. So if this is the case, you may also want to add some other ingredients to your peanut butter bait. Or, simply use other type of baits.
If they are still able to evade your trap then your skin must have a natural strong scent that is being left when you handle your trap. In order to avoid this, you have to use gloves in both handling your bait and trap.
Sometimes, patience is also another important factor especially when you are just catching one or just a few numbers of rats. You should give it at least a day or even much better, a few days.
Conclusion
Peanut butter when used as a bait to attract rats into your trap is quite very effective. The only part that I do not like is that, ants also love it. So coming back to check my trap, I often encounter a lot of ants swarming all over the bait.
Moreover, if it happens that you did tried everything trying to catch the rats around your house and you failed, there is one good solution that I can recommend. Hiring a pest control service does work but only if you can afford the cost. But, a better solution is “to own a cat”.
You don’t have to spend your time setting up traps because your cat will do the job of chasing the pest away. And best of all, your pet’s services is free.
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