Mouse Trap out of 5-Gallon Bucket?

[X]

Anyone done this or something similar? Any success?

http://www.wikihow.com/Build-a-Mouse-Trap

 

[Crystallas]

No, doesn't seem very humane. Quick kill or trap-and-release.

 

[AuCN]

I just built a ramp up a bucket with a small flat section before the ramp attached to the bucket. Then take a paper towel tube and flatten the bottom (so it makes a rounded tunnel type thing. Then put peanut butter on one end. Place the tube half on the flat section of the ramp and half hanging over the bucket. When the mouse goes out to get the peanut butter, the entire tube falls into the bucket. It worked and I caught one but it took up too much space. I caught and released with this method.

I then got a small no-kill trap from Lowes (I think). It was awesome and I caught about 4 more in no time.

Edit: Ahhh...I see a similar thing in the video below the text on that page. Woops.

 

[BaBaBlacksheep]

Whats wrong with this?

 

[Urblock]

Get a cat. Problem over.

 

[FrenchieBully]

Rats and mice are vermin and should not be saved.


I once used an upside down bucket, tilted and held up with a twig, and a string tied to it. Placed bait under it, waited for the mouse to eat it, and trapped it. Simple, but worked. It won't work on rats though. They are too smart for it.

 

[X]

No, doesn't seem very humane. Quick kill or trap-and-release.

don't tell peta...but I poured some lamp oil in the bottom of the bucket. It'll be a quick death. I have no desire to save them.

 

[Crystallas]

don't tell peta...but I poured some lamp oil in the bottom of the bucket. It'll be a quick death. I have no desire to save them.

Yeah, you'd be a dick if you let them suffer, just because you don't like a part of nature. Quick kill of pests is fine in my book.

 

[X]

Yeah, you'd be a dick if you let them suffer, just because you don't like a part of nature. Quick kill of pests is fine in my book.

I'm a fan of extermination of vermin...but not a fan of torture to anything...with a few exceptions that are probably better served in the B&I forum

 

[X]

Woke up this morning - had a floater in the bucket. One night, one down.

For a quick project out of materials most of us have sitting around, this was really easy and effective.

 

[Dogstar]

Whats wrong with this?

In my experience, messy and inhumane.

 

[Urblock]

Try to find the way they get in. Get a cat.

 

[X]

In my experience, messy and inhumane.

also not terribly reliable.

 

[X]

Try to find the way they get in. Get a cat.

We've been in this house almost a year -- and i'm pretty sure the mouse that died is the only one that's been in the house...always in the same area...never seen evidence of others, etc etc. Hoping it was isolated...

And, my two boys, Pax and Kaner, patrol the area well.

 

[Urblock]

I'm an idiot. Carry on.

 

[Dogstar]

also not terribly reliable.

I've had a few bad encounters. One mouse got his back legs caught. After he got done chewing the daylights out of the trap, he dragged himself and the trap under the clothes dryer and died there. I'm guessing it was several hours of suffering. Then there was the decapitation... and the mouse that got his snout caught and was still alive when I checked the trap. That did it for me.

So... I went out and got one of those Victor shock traps. The rodent walks into the enclosure, steps on a contact plate.... and *ZAP*. Works like a charm. I only use it during the winter though. When it's warmer I catch and release with a tip trap or I let the rodent detector (i.e. the cat) handle it.

 

[Happy Human 1001]

If you have cats patrolling, just don't use any traps that might get one of your cats.

 

[Unannounced Fart]

Years ago, I bought one of those glue traps where mice would get their feet stuck in the trap if they stepped on it. I walked in the kitchen one night and saw a mouse stuck in it. As I walked towards it, the mouse started freaking out, and to my shock and horror, it began to CHEW OFF ITS LEGS to try to escape! I couldn't believe it! It was actually trying to amputate itself to get out of the trap. I didn't think mice had that level of intelligence to think of that.

 

[Jester]

I've used a 5 gallon bucket for YEARS and it works great when I go on my canadian fishing trips. Also, you don't have to drown the mice if you don't want to, just relocate them