Building a better mouse trap.

[kickbacked]

I left a bucket full of old oil in my garage last year because i never got around to taking it in to autozone. I got quite the surprise when i went to take it in this spring and by chance shifted the oil around and found five fat, dead mice.

 

[flightsimmer]

Ha! number 17.

 

[Kernal1984]

13, 14, 15 good grief, I had no idea there were that many.

I know their not the same ones...............................cause I paint their tails LOL.

Haha!! My dad has a possum/coon/skunk problem and isn't somewhere he can permanantly dispatch them so he spray paints them orange to see if it's the same ones coming back.

 

[flightsimmer]

Number 18.

 

[hoosierdoc]

At what point is the crazy cat woman disgusted by the crazy mouse man?

 

[flightsimmer]

At what point is the crazy cat woman disgusted by the crazy mouse man?

What?

Number 19 and there are more.

 

[CathyInBlue]

You gonna open up a pet store or a Chinese restaurant with all those mice?

 

[flightsimmer]

You gonna open up a pet store or a Chinese restaurant with all those mice?

LOL ha,ha,ha. I guess I ought to.

 

[flightsimmer]

Number 20

 

[xcalibur]

Behold the bucket mouse trap . . . in ACTION. Warning, not for the squeamish.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jezQKOl5q-w

To improve the effectiveness (and reduce the amount of peanut butter used), just spread a band around the middle of the can.

Mouses is soooo dumb

 

[flightsimmer]

Number 21

 

[kjf40]

You know ya could take them to your local pet store, the ones that sell snakes anyway.

That way you won't have to see them .....disposed of.

Just a thought.

 

[hoosierdoc]

I'm not sure pet stores would accept mice that could have weird diseases though. Not sure. Aren't those for snakes bred purposely?

 

[kjf40]

I'm not sure pet stores would accept mice that could have weird diseases though. Not sure. Aren't those for snakes bred purposely?

They may not anymore.....but they used to pay people to go collect mice and bring them in.

Call first to make sure i suppose.....good question hoosierdoc.

 

[hoosierdoc]

They may not anymore.....but they used to pay people to go collect mice and bring them in.

Call first to make sure i suppose.....good question hoosierdoc.

Oddly enough I had a dream last night that I had several exotic fish in our fishtank, then two weird looking ones in our bathtub and another fishtank in our closet. A guest offered to buy them and we let her take them. I'm sure it had nothing to do with my 2yo emptying the fish food container into the tank yesterday...

 

[stephen87]

Number 16 this afternoon.

It's slacking off so I think I've about got most of them but my wife saw another one this evening run across the garage floor.

I plugged up some utility holes into the crawl space with that expanding foam and that might help some, I don't know if they will chew through that stuff or not, I may have to use concrete.

A mouse WILL chew through the expanding foam, not sure about the concrete. You could put some steel wool in the center of the expanding foam and they won't be able to get through.

Oh yeah, mice are also like ants. If you've seen one, you have 100. Good luck.

 

[Caleb]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV9woxUshuA

I saw this type on a show about the mouse problem in Australia.... Works even better with a piece of plastic.... The show I saw it on years ago had the mice lining up on the bridge to get their chance to fall after the PB...

Literally dozens and dozens... one after another...

Nifty trick...I will advise that you use a metal bucket just to make sure the pest don't chew through your plastic bucket

 

[Caleb]

Also, if you use metal bucket and left the trap for a few days, the male mice will kill each other off

 

[flightsimmer]

Number 22

 

[flightsimmer]

OK, finally. It's been three days now and I haven't seen or caught any more mice. I even re-baited the trap so I hope their all gone for now.