why are mouse fond of cheese?

India
July 14, 2008 5:52am CST
i have seen in cartoons that mouse eat cheese, ios it true, if so what is special about cheeese that the mice like so much, is it the smell or is it the taste of cheese
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7 responses
@enzabird (130)
• United States
21 Jul 08
Truthfully, mice pretty much like any food. they are scavengers. A food that works better than cheese is peanut butter. They go crazy for some PB.
30 Jul 08
They eat anything but there not to fond of cheese, try rabbit food, they love rabbit food.
@academic2 (7000)
• Uganda
3 Aug 08
I think there is some aroma in cheese which works so well with the rat kingdom generally-once we had so many rats in our house, and we didnt have any cats, so we would by traps and use chees as baits, we almost finished the rats overnight!
@youless (112497)
• Guangzhou, China
17 Jul 08
I think mouse is interested in eating quite many things, not only cheese. But in cartoons it always shows that mouse likes eating cheese. In fact they probably likes peanuts much more. I love China
@hellcowboy (7374)
• United States
14 Jul 08
Yeah I know it is kind of funny that in all the old cartoons mice are always drawn to cheese,and though some mice in real life do go for cheese,I think it was just a ploy by the animators to help with the humor of the cartoon,especially in cartoons like the classic Tom and Jerry,and whenever we have a mouse,we always set some traps with cheese,and some with peanut butter,and it seems like they usually go for the traps with peanut butter in them,and usually the mice are pretty smart,so it makes it harder to catch them.
@valeria1 (2721)
• United States
14 Jul 08
Great question this one? I will investigate. But I think rats like everything don't they?
@MizukiZHR (611)
• China
14 Jul 08
Cheese is very decilious and has a strong smell.Mice like sweet and their noses are very good.
@lilaclady (28207)
• Australia
14 Jul 08
Mouse - I can smell it mouse, gif
Recently I had a mouse in my house and someone told me these days mice bypass cheese and the best thing to put on the traps is peanut butter so maybe the mouse has changed their menus...