The Best Ways to Trap Mice

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Catching mice is about more than just setting traps. You need to be strategic about how many traps to set out, where to put them, and what to bait them with. Find out what common household product makes the best bait for catching mice (and why!). Hint: It’s not cheese.

Set traps and place them in problem areas where mice enter and exit the home and where they most frequently look for food. Under kitchen cabinets, near your pet’s food dishes, and gaps in the walls and flooring are all great places to start. And when you’re done, read up on how to keep mice and other rodents from getting inside in the first place.

Save yourself time and energy by following these proven mouse-trapping strategies that work to successfully eliminate mice and other rodents from your home. Don’t agree with mouse traps? Be sure to read the mouse-trapping philosophy at the end, too! Read more:

The Best Ways to Trap Mice

Bonus: How to Make Pemmican, the Original Survival Food

Invented by the natives of North America pemmican was used by Indian scouts as well as early western explorers.

Native Americans spent a great deal of time on the go and depended on having portable, high-energy, highly nutritious, and filling foods that would last for long periods of time without refrigeration.

Pemmican is a portable, long-lasting, high-energy food. It's made of lean, dried meat that's crushed into powder and mixed with hot, rendered fat. This makes it one of the ultimate foods to have stockpiled for when SHTF or disaster strikes.