Ugh, Caught a Mouse

[Kreon]

My Dad has one of the most simple but barbaric trapping methods I know. He basically takes a 5 gallon bucket, fills it up with water, takes a piece of gutter and runs it up the side and then a stick across the top.

Like this:
http://www.woodtoyfun.com/zzzmousetrap.html

He will find 5 of them dead and floating in there at a time some days. Wonder how long they paddled away before they finally gave up and swam with the fishes. Maybe a sudden death by crushing mouse trap bar isn't so bad.

Replace water with anti-freeze, and you have a method that kills them faster and won't freeze in the winter. In the way I set it up, I use a string with a straw threaded on it instead of a dowel.

Best trap I've ever used. You can also configure it to be a live trap (no water in the bottom, grease the sides or use a metal can). You could also put snap traps if you want it to be really quick.

I have 2 snap traps always set in my apartment. We've had issues in the past, so I always leave them out just in case. Behind the stove and in the back of the pantry.

We also caught two in an electrical outlet that didn't have a cover. We think they got themselves stuck rather than cooking though (thankfully).

Another good trap (if they're climbing on your counters) is to take a metal can (like a coffee can), tape a string to the open top. Put bait in the back of the can. Tape the other end of the string/rope to you counter. Balance the can on the edge of the counter so that when the mouse runs in to get the bait, it weights the can so it falls off the counter. Make sure your string/tape is strong enough to take the jerk. EDIT: If you don't want it to be a live catch: Punch small nails through the bottom of the can (so when it goes over, the mouse gets impaled). Rather brutal and can leave them suffering for a while though.

 

[Texashiker]

It strikes me as being very dishonest. Tempt them with tasty Nutella, and break their little necks.

Isn't that what companies do to workers?

Tempt you with money, then break you.

 

[lxskllr]

was thinking of gettin bait station service any thoughts on that?

That's poison? I can't recommend them. I'm sure the rodent feels pretty terrible during an extended death, and they can go behind walls and die, leaving you with a stink only time will take care of. It's hard to beat the old wire and wood snap traps. They're cheap, effective, and usually provide a quick death.

 

[Kreon]

That's poison? I can't recommend them. I'm sure the rodent feels pretty terrible during an extended death, and they can go behind walls and die, leaving you with a stink only time will take care of. It's hard to beat the old wire and wood snap traps. They're cheap, effective, and usually provide a quick death.

I can attest to the poison stench. That's how my landlord prefers to take care of them. I have a drop ceiling, so the buggers would crawl back to their nests up there to die. As they die, they go looking for water, so I'd often find a dead one in my bathtub (lovely...). I eventually got to the point where I put a little water dish up there (with a large board under it, since most died near the water, then I'd just toss the whole board into the dumpster). You could also hear them crying as they died. Pretty nasty way to go.

 

[pauldun170]

Real men eat what they kill..

 

[7window]

glue is the best and throw in the trash.

 

[BurnItDwn]

My cat either deters them, or mice have no interest in my house. Now, ants and spiders on the other hand, and box elder bugs, those fvckers never give up.

 

[waggy]

My cat either deters them, or mice have no interest in my house. Now, ants and spiders on the other hand, and box elder bugs, those fvckers never give up.

when i was on my farm we had anywhere between 5-12 farm cats (they wonder from farm to farm. some would be mine some would be..err no idea). we rarely had mice/rats whatever. we wouldn't feed them in the summer at all and all looked healthy.

 

[Broheim]

One of the ways I know we have mice is our cairn terrier sits looking into the kitchen for hours. Wood floors though and by the time he gets traction the mouse is long gone.

yeah wood floors and dogs don't mix too well, my old shepherd would always oversteer and knock shit over, he once took out all the glasses and plates in a small cupboard (luckily the cupboard was fine, old family heirloom made by my great great great grandfarther), he wasn't the most gracious of dogs on slippery surfaces.

we never get mice inside the house, like 99% of danish houses it's brick on a concrete slap, leaving no entry points. we get plenty of spiders though, but the schnauzers suck at killing them as they just get caught in their beards making the dogs spend several minutes ploving across the carpets with their faces trying to get the damn thing out again.

 

[darkxshade]

If they were cool about it, I'd take them in for the winter, feed them, and let them go at spring time.

I'm no rat but could you take me in and feed me through the winter? I'll go at spring.

 

[lxskllr]

I'm no rat but could you take me in and feed me through the winter? I'll go at spring.

Pics? :^D

 

[thestrangebrew1]

Pics? :^D

lol

I like the bucket idea. Tempted to make one of these tonight. Our subdivision tract is very small and entirely surrounded by fields. Last year I must've caught 20 mice in my garage throughout the year and I used all sorts of methods. Basic traps, glue pads, live traps. Thankfully none in my house yet. But the bucket looks awesome. I'm so sick of how much mice poop I've found in the garage last year, and keep finding as I go through stuff. I haven't seen any lately, but I know those fuckers are in there.

 

[Leymenaide]

I woke one up in the old gass stuck to my lawnmower deck today. I picked it up and took it out to the woods and let it go.

 

[Aikouka]

I had two field mice in my apartment at one point, and at first, I tried those poison maze-like traps, but I don't think they worked well. It might have got one of the mice as he was pretty loopy; he was literally running around in circles and I caught him in a Glad container. He ended up dying less than a day later. Those traps never caught his brother though, and I would always see him running around. So, I put down a few glue traps and easily caught the bastard. Glue traps work rather well when you put them at the end of a bookshelf or something that leaves a narrow space between itself and the wall. The traps also catch wolf spiders!

 

[Red Squirrel]

I had two field mice in my apartment at one point, and at first, I tried those poison maze-like traps, but I don't think they worked well. It might have got one of the mice as he was pretty loopy; he was literally running around in circles and I caught him in a Glad container. He ended up dying less than a day later. Those traps never caught his brother though, and I would always see him running around. So, I put down a few glue traps and easily caught the bastard. Glue traps work rather well when you put them at the end of a bookshelf or something that leaves a narrow space between itself and the wall. The traps also catch wolf spiders!

Glue traps are too cruel but I will admit I have used upside down duct tape to catch wolf spiders and other bugs. Works pretty well.



I still can't get over the eyes on that thing. It's so cool, but yet, also creepy. :awe: It's like if when God was making these thought to himself. "Hmm one flaw here, the way I made these they can't turn the head so they can't quickly see behind them. OH I KNOW, I'll add more eyes! This is so going to freak people out!"

 

[Ns1]

bucket + dowel

I learned something today.

 

[HenryC]

This is the kind of thing I want to do to people who use glue traps.

Seriously, glue traps are fucked up and only sadistic people use them. Man the fuck up, and use a snap trap. Or is killing something with a bit of decency too hard these days? Snap trap works just as well as a glue trap, without all that additional torture.

 

[Texashiker]

One of my snapper traps just went off, and I heard the last death twitches of the mouse. I really hate trapping the things. It strikes me as being very dishonest. Tempt them with tasty Nutella, and break their little necks. I wish they weren't such fuckers, and chewing everything up. If they were cool about it, I'd take them in for the winter, feed them, and let them go at spring time. We'd all be happy then. Oh well. You gotta do what you gotta do :^/

If you had some chickens, catch the mouse in a live trap, throw the mouse to the chickens, then watch nature take its course.

 

[Sluggo]

I could never catch any with the bucket trap, I guess I wasn't setting it up properly.

Just used the regular snap traps, then eventually just got a cat. Cat works the best, of course in general the cat is as irritating as the mice, just not as destructive.

 

[Number1]

Yep, the snap-e traps are awesome. Got 6 of them spread out around the garage. I have no mercy when it comes to mice. Destructive fuckers ate through the trim in my garage door. Shit inside of my cordless tool charger. Ate through the bottom of the drywall in my garage and tore insullation all over the place. Shit in my kid's bike helmets. Chewed through all of my grass seed bags. Chewed up my work gloves.

Death to all of them.

My Dad has one of the most simple but barbaric trapping methods I know. He basically takes a 5 gallon bucket, fills it up with water, takes a piece of gutter and runs it up the side and then a stick across the top.

Like this:
http://www.woodtoyfun.com/zzzmousetrap.html

He will find 5 of them dead and floating in there at a time some days. Wonder how long they paddled away before they finally gave up and swam with the fishes. Maybe a sudden death by crushing mouse trap bar isn't so bad.

:thumbsup:
We use to have mice in the house. We renovated the house, resided and plugged all the holes, spread several mouse traps around the house, used rat poison and got 3 cats. This was 3 years ago and there has not been one mouse in the house since.
The only draw back is that the cat also get the birds and the squirrels in the yard. A small price to pay.

 

[sourceninja]

I have multiple cats, NOTHING can survive in my house. Mice, bugs, humans who don't bring offerings....NOTHING.

 

[mvbighead]

the Snap-traps work? i was always bothered to spend that much on a trap. but if they work better then the wood ones great. Sometimes you have to throw them away. so they can be a waste fo money




yeah when they take down the corn fields we get a invasion. Every year before they do that i walk around and look for wholes and fill them with a wire mesh and try to fill them.

we get 4-5 a year. so we go through a bunch of wood things.

Yep, IMO, they're the best snap trap. I had bought several kinds of wooden traps, but getting them set to the right sensitivity was just too much work, and I'd more often find them bare than find a mouse in there. The Snap-E trap (http://www.amazon.com/Snap-E-Mouse-T...eywords=snap-e) you fill the little hole with the bait, and you pull the one bar back. The yellow bar is the "kill" bar and the uncovered bar is the one you pry it open with. You never touch anything that the mouse is killed by. And the composite yellow material shouldn't rot, and it keeps the dead mouse carcass from wrapping around the simple wire (if the trap goes unnoticed a while on regular traps, you may have to scrape the mouse off).

The Snap-E you literally take out of the box, fill the bait, and put in a trafficked area. One morning I was tying my shoes to go to work, and a little sucker came popping up through the corner between the wall and the floor. I saw him, and he went back and hid. I grabbed a trap and put it over there. 5 minutes later... "SNAP" And there he was.

glue is the best and throw in the trash.

Glue traps are cruel, the mouse fights and fights and fights until it dies. Not to mention, you get to buy a new one or pick a dead mouse out of it. I have 5 Snap-E traps, and I doubt I'll buy another one. And, if something sticks to it, I just shake it over the trash, and then hold it over the sink and rinse it with water, and then it's ready for another round.

 

[HenryC]

glue is the best and throw in the trash.

Fuck you.

Someone should throw you in the trash, as you're obviously a rubbish person.

 

[HydroSqueegee]

my house butts up to a large wooded field. I have mice problems like you wouldnt believe.
When we moved in, we gut the basement. It was liveable at one point down there and had ceiling tiles. We ripped them down and durring the entire process it was a constant shower of mouse poop. we found 7 mummyfied mouse corpses and 24 nests.

Then we redid the counters in the kitchen. One of the corners of the room is an empty void under the counters. huge pile of dog food and mouse poop in there. They are comming in somewhere along that wall of the house. under the sink started to get mouse poop. filled the gaps with steel wool, havent had a problem under there again yet.

The saga is still ongoing, had 2 just a couple weeks ago. Its bad enough a snake even found its way into our basement. I have no idea where it came in, and if i could find out, its probably the same place the mice are comming in.

The garage has them something fierce. Ripped out an old workbench that ran the length of the garage and it was nothing but poop and blow in insulation nesting. Already found one dead one when fall started this year. Need to put traps out there.

My old house was almost as bad. had a couple get in the house and were dispatched by the cats. The garage was detached and really bad. House was built in 1949, so it had plenty of gaps fo the little guys to get in. Even had a couple Black Birds get into the basement. Those were good times.

 

[evident]

I have multiple cats, NOTHING can survive in my house. Mice, bugs, humans who don't bring offerings....NOTHING.

my cats are so useless. in fact, i only started getting mice in my house after we got our cats. they are attracted to the smell of our cat food. found out that there's this huge gap in our drywall behind the oven that they are coming in and out from. also there was one kitchen drawer where i found mouse poop that they are climbing into from the drywall area behind the oven. gross.