4 Best Foods to Use as Bait in Rat Traps and Glue Boards
Looking for the best rat trap bait? Raw fish, cheese, chocolate and honey all attract rats to a glue trap. See why each one works and how to set it.
A rat running around your house is annoying. These pests are also known to be smart and very hard to control or catch. So you need a reliable way to catch them. One option is a trap fitted with Cap Gajah (Elephant Brand) rat glue. To lure the rodent into the trap, you need food as bait. So which foods work well as bait? Let's find out.
4 Foods That Work Well as Rat Trap Bait
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Raw Fish
Rats are known to like foods with a fairly strong smell, and raw fish has a pungent, fishy odor. If you have raw fish at home, you can use it as bait to invite these gnawing pests into the trap. The fish most often used as bait is salted fish. But it does not have to be fish: raw meat can be used as bait too.
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Cheese
In movies and cartoons, cheese is always the rat's favorite food, and in real life that is true: these rodents love cheese. Cheese has a strong smell, and they enjoy the taste, too. If you want to set a Cap Gajah rat glue trap at home, you can use cheese as bait. Just place the cheese in the middle of a board that has been coated with glue, and wait until the rat is trapped.
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Chocolate
Not many people know it, but these rodents love chocolate. It is a sweet food, and they like sweet foods that are high in protein. So when you set a trap, you can use chocolate as bait. It will not take long for the rodent to come to the chocolate on the glue trap. If you do not have a chocolate bar, you can use chocolate sprinkles or chocolate spread.
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Honey
Besides liking sweet flavors, rats also like sticky foods, and honey is a sweet food with a sticky texture. Its sweet aroma can also draw the animals close. So you can put a spoonful of honey on a Cap Gajah rat glue trap. It will not take long before the pest comes near. With the strong glue on the trap, it will have a hard time getting away.
Those are some of the foods you can use as bait on a rat trap. Place the food on a board that has first been coated with trap glue. One of the strongest trap glues is the Cap Gajah brand, known for being extremely sticky, so a rat will not escape easily once it is caught.
