If you like not being woken up by shuffling in the ceiling, or not finding chew marks on stuff, now's a good time to save on these.
This pic shows how the trap works.
No need to kill, see, or directly handle the mouse.
Probably only in colour white.
Tip: Peanut butter seems like a good bait, according to YouTube.
Make money by selling your catch to reptiles owners ;-)
For some reason, the movie Road trip came into my head the other night.
Kept thinking how Tom Green gets annoyed at the snake.
You've made my unusual thought gain some merit.
Thank you kind sir!
The furnace.
burning mouse! might stink a bit
Look out Rex Hunt 😘 🐁
To your neighbours?
The mouse will have no trouble finding its way back to your place.
These were great for training cats, outside.
This one time I caught a mouse in a catch and release trap.
So I went to the park and released it.
About two seconds later a magpie ripped it in half.
There is a market in China..
Capture and release - fairdinkum, stone the crows.
Feed and release.
Wait is it capture and release humanely or catch and starve to death slowly?
I have these and they don't work. Instead of getting rid of mouses. It gathered cockroaches instead and the cockroaches are too light to activate the trap.
You have some serious problems at your house.
Sounds like you have two problems.
Try the NOOSKI from Bunnings for catch and 🗑
Unfortunately the only thing that has worked for me for rats is the ratsak bait bags.
Just leave them in places they go to and wait.
Some will die in your walls and ceilings though but at least none are scurrying around anymore.
And they will STINK in your ceiling for about a week. Then will come the blow flies.
Or at least that's what a 'friend' tells me.
meh, in my ceiling there are about 5 of them and I cannot for the life of me remember any smell that occurred. Flies? unheard of
Thankfully same here.. they only smell in the room they are in and maybe a little bit into surrounding rooms so if I went into the roof space which honestly f that it would probably stink like a fresh corpse graveyard.
@AlienC: I must have had a big fat dead rat in my roof. Stank for days, and a few months later found a dead rat in the garden that smelled EXACTLY the same.
Consider yourself lucky! :)
My issue with ratsak etc is that the rodent eats it then goes off somewhere and gets eaten by something else. That something else is now poisoned. Native predator or neighbour's pet, either way it is a horrible way to die.
Can agree it works, caught a mouse and then released it and then a bird ate it. Rip mouse .
Circle of Life!
These work pretty well. I've caught plenty of mice in them. If you are going to release them then do so a long way from your house (3km or so). Of course, you're then making them somebody else's problem because if they survive that and don't get eaten then they'll make their way straight into somebody else's house.
I've used them in preference to traditional traps as they're less likely to be forgotten about and rot, stinking the place out.
I still kill them, either by dropping them into soapy water (trap included) or a quick shake to stun them followed by a quick despatch by boot.
Put them back in the foods chain and make money at the same time. Advertise on gumtree, reptiles owners might be interested.
They'd not be interested in the low numbers I catch whenever we have a problem.
Freeze them till you have enough to sell ;-) And it’s a more humane way to euthanise, I reckon. E.g. https://www.petwave.com.au/frozen-extra-large-mice.
@Buy2Much: I've come close to both drowning and hypothermia (whitewater kayaking in glacial melt water). Drowning - very unpleasant but quick. Freezing - unpleasant but very slow. If I was forced to choose - definitely drowning.
stomp or kick?
Less of a stomp, more of a step. A mouse skull is not tough. It's very quick.
So you use a 'humane' trap, then slowly drown them?! WTF
There's nothing humane about these traps. Don't delude yourself that killing animals is ever a nice experience for either party.
i clicked on this cause i read human mouse trap
it was a TRAP
Surprised this didn't get any upvotes so there you go.
Took me a long time to sort out my mouse problem - I'm actually pretty good with the cheapest basic traps. What I do now, is I blu-tak a soft drink lid to the trigger on the trap, and put the peanut butter on the inside of that. Forces the mice to get in there, and thus always triggers. I now have an OzBargain IP camera which I don't need to monitor kids sleeping that is on the traps, so I know when they have been triggered. Living in 3020.
Take a photo of that setup please!
I've got some captured at the moment, will grab a shot when I'm up there - the remote camera doesn't take great snapshots because it's on night vision.
Hey mate, photos as requested - plus a video of a mouse ignoring it haha
Not graphic!
created a nice bowl for it to eat from. :)
If you don't want to release the mouse, a non-messy way is to drown it in a bucket.
a few parliamentarians need that treatment
My comment will be down voted for sure
bit rough drowning it
just put it in the bucket with a lid on, it will drown but you won't be the one drowning it.
Eh? It's still drowning as a direct result of your actions. If you're going to kill vermin then have the courage to face the reality of what you're doing and do it properly and as quickly as possible. If you can't do that, get a professional in.
Tried letting a mouse drown in a bucket once. The bugger swam and squeaked for about 45 minutes before I had to grab it and hold it under for my own sanity.
Soap helps speed the process as it helps get the water into the lungs. Also dropping the whole trap in so that it sinks and holds the mouse underwater.
Excellent article. Essentially, these "humane" traps aren't.
I loved this game when I was a kid!
Any specials on the good ol’ glue ones?
Will the trap fit into a large slingshot if it has a mouse in it? Asking for a friend.
can you electrify a mouse?
Catch and release? Can't wait to see the comments on this one. That said, I am curious - if you don't kill them, where do you drop the mice off to prevent them coming back? The vet? A local owl aviary? Your ex's house?