Trapping Clever Mice

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XB70

2,482 posts

195 months

Tuesday 9th October 2012
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bacchus180 said:
is that rusty because you throw them in a bucket of water to kill them afterwards?


Nice trap by the way.. I want one of those.. perfect!.
I was wondering about that rust too....

JudgeMental

7,251 posts

232 months

Tuesday 9th October 2012
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XB70 said:
Got to admire his/her guts!

Stood over it with the size 13 ready to dispatch it to the afterlife when it raised itself up (presumably to try and bite me). I paused. There was absolutely no way he was going to come out of this but still, despite the massive size difference, he was going to go out fighting.

So I went and got a plastic container, very very carefully put him in and walked down the road to some bushland and let him go.
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SMGB

790 posts

138 months

Tuesday 9th October 2012
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We use a humane trap, I will find a link and post it not all of them work. with a suspended floor house a couple of parrots as pets and fronting onto an ancient common wood we live in sea of incentivised wood mice. Over the years its been a to and fro war where they find a new way in and I track it down and block it off. If you leave a hole that you can poke a pencil through a mouse sees it as a flashing neon sign with the legend, "Restuarant this way".
Usually its tradesmens efforts to knock off early. big crude holes for drainage, central heating , rising mains and most recently a gas feed where a blanking plate was left hanging off.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/PROCTER-HUMANE-TRIP-TRAP-M...
I chuck them back in the woods, at least 1/4 mile away or they beat you home. They are very cute and as entitled to be on the planet as I am, and when they pay the Council tax that will extend to the lounge.

The Beaver King

6,095 posts

194 months

Tuesday 9th October 2012
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XB70 said:
There was absolutely no way he was going to come out of this but still, despite the massive size difference, he was going to go out fighting.

So I went and got a plastic container, very very carefully put him in and walked down the road to some bushland and let him go.
Exactly.

If an animal/insect is willing to stare defiantly into the jaws of certain death then it probably deserves to live.

Vieste

10,532 posts

159 months

Tuesday 9th October 2012
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Trap it and keep as a pet?

philthy

4,689 posts

239 months

Tuesday 9th October 2012
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XB70 said:
bacchus180 said:
is that rusty because you throw them in a bucket of water to kill them afterwards?


Nice trap by the way.. I want one of those.. perfect!.
I was wondering about that rust too....
That's not my picture, just googled images till I found the same type of trap, but yes, I drowned them. It's surprisingly quick!

philthy

4,689 posts

239 months

Tuesday 9th October 2012
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I would have thought this would be as successful as the one I used?

http://www.molevalleyfarmers.com/mvf/store/product...

Podie

46,630 posts

274 months

Tuesday 9th October 2012
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Rice crispies stuck on with peanut butter.

Carthage

4,261 posts

143 months

Tuesday 9th October 2012
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My ex killed a mouse with a sword. Messy.

drivin_me_nuts

17,949 posts

210 months

Tuesday 9th October 2012
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Superglue the chocolate to the trap as did the rat catcher chap in one of those nasty and grubby TV shows.

MX7

7,902 posts

173 months

Tuesday 9th October 2012
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSk79YcuIRQ

Some fill the bucket with water. frown

Hugo a Gogo

23,378 posts

232 months

Tuesday 9th October 2012
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SMGB said:
I chuck them back in the woods, at least 1/4 mile away or they beat you home.
a good catapult would maybe get them that far?

thetapeworm

11,189 posts

238 months

Tuesday 9th October 2012
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Have you considered dropping a heavy ball through a hole in the bottom of an elevated bath to hit a see-saw and launch a diver into a large tub which in turn triggers a net-like cage to drop on the mouse from above?

I've had excellent results with this in the past.

PiloteHuitNeuf

139 posts

227 months

Tuesday 9th October 2012
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It's funny I've just seen this thread, I found a few brown tic tacs under the kitchen sink last night. I've got the hard decision of either a humane trap or a bloody neck snapping 'saw' like device. Not sure If I want to kill it/them or release - however beheading the culprit might be a warning to the mouse community. May put it on the washing line for them all to see, it worked for bane... Will keep you updated.

Podie

46,630 posts

274 months

Tuesday 9th October 2012
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PiloteHuitNeuf said:
...however beheading the culprit might be a warning to the mouse community....
They'll just continue to breed...

Ranger 6

7,040 posts

248 months

Tuesday 9th October 2012
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Bill said:
...You could try smearing nutella on the platform. Then setting the trap.
This works - we smear the tube with the stuff, all sticky and our record was 7 in one evening.....

4key

10,752 posts

147 months

Tuesday 9th October 2012
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Video is definately a good idea smile

Its difficult to judge scale on a trap in a box that close up but I would suggest that it is too meaty for a little field mouse to set off, how big was it?

pikeyboy

2,349 posts

213 months

Tuesday 9th October 2012
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hbzboy said:
Have found peanut butter very successful in the past.

HTH
Me too, its a killer bait....

JudgeMental

7,251 posts

232 months

Tuesday 9th October 2012
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Ranger 6 said:
Bill said:
...You could try smearing nutella on the platform. Then setting the trap.
This works - we smear the tube with the stuff, all sticky and our record was 7 in one evening.....
You live in a research lab?

Ranger 6

7,040 posts

248 months

Tuesday 9th October 2012
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LOL, no - they were after the rabbit's food.