New and improved mouse trap.

Geo-TH,In

Well-known Member
A guy went to Canada on a hunting trip. He came back and described this mouse trap. I made one using a 5 gallon bucket, a small metal rod, peanut butter, two pop cans, scrap wood for a walk board and a gallon of used antifreeze. I put peanut butter on the walk board and pop cans.


Before anyone gets upset, its locked up in a building where kids, dogs and cats can't get to.

I think in Canada they may have used beer cans and a coat hanger.

Check my trap and found 8 mice sleeping in the antifreeze.
George
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The Canadian version uses beer cans as we pour beer in the pail instead of antifreeze. Rather have the little b&ggers die happy.
 

A 5 gallon bucket half full of water and a ramp will do the same thing. Float some dog food on the water. Rats and mice will smell the dog food, climb up the ramp to get to it, jump into the water, and because they cannot climb back up, they just go for a permanent swim.
 
You'd have to use something a bit stronger than beer in the winter unless you just want to have a skating party ready for the little critters. Vodka? Canadian Club? (;>))
 
(quoted from post at 21:56:57 11/27/12) You'd have to use something a bit stronger than beer in the winter unless you just want to have a skating party ready for the little critters. Vodka? Canadian Club? (;>))

A Seal walks into a bar and the bartender says 'What'll you have?

Seal says, 'Anything but a Canadian Club'!!
 
(quoted from post at 14:17:59 11/27/12) Does it work for rats too?

I think I may have to give it a try.

YES! It works for rats, but check it at least once per day, 'cause the rats sink, and you might think it isn't working until you dump it out 4 days later, and then you'll know it is working.
 
Perhaps you could deep fry them and feed your cat fried mice.

My neighbor says his chickens like mice. Wouldn't think chickens are meat eaters.
 
when i was running the bait shop,my chickens stayed rolling fat on dead minnows. i think they will eat anything.
 
Chickens love mice and will play "keepaway" with them for hours! Wish my brother was easily amused like that. Then my parents would"nt have wanted me to be more like him.
 
My Dad used traps like that useing 55gal. drums when he trapped muskrats, those old drums were dug in the river bank 20 years after he died.
 
I've used plaster lathe for ramps, coated the top of the water with sunflower seeds, to get the chipmunks mostly, works well but the water level has to be 1/2, tad under 2/3 or so. Seeds sink though, but mice go for it too, what you have there is even better.

These darned whitefooted mice got in my house again, I had an annoying one in my bedroom. He'd come out about 1am on the dot, so I put a live victor trap out, that s.o.b. got in the trap took the bait and would chow on it nearby, flash the lights on, he scatters, I look the trap over, just not possible, or so it seems, I've had other ones work just fine. Tick me off, I go downstairs and pull a pair of snap traps off the shelf, put those out, after he's woke me up, well now he's well fed, next night, I'm not home early, dark for a long while, figured I'd get him, being
silent and dark, nope he waits til 1:00 am ! I had nothing good for bait, but used a crouton from turkey stuffing, moist, worked just fine. I don't know whats up with the live trap, reason I thought they were good was multiple catches, I did see a small mole go in one, and come out, thought they eat earthworms, seems those victor live traps from tsc are not so good, still cannot believe that one in my room, I've caught too many in this house with the same traps, how in heck this guy could get in and get out is hard to figure, there is not enough space to get his head in, darned things are relentless around here too, time for a couple of those buckets outside and downstairs to see what those other traps are missing !
 
On a serious note, that does look pretty potent. I may not credit you with it, but I may use it.

On a laughing note. I do repairs at power plants plenty, and generally they are along rivers and such. One of the tool crib guys found a battery operated rubber rat caught in a rat trap. The battery was to power a motor in it that made it look like it was still breething although it was snapped on. So, as guys would go into the crib to sign out tools, he would say "Its back there around the corner" right where he had that thing setup. Guys would go back and round the corner, and I did it too because he was quite the prankster, and "AHHHHHHH!!!!", scream and jump like little girls at the huge rat still breething, snapped on in the big ol' rat trap. A few got mad. But most laughed after we put our hearts back into our chests.
Rat In Trap Prank
 
We use a similar idea for possums in the orchard. 55 gal. drum half full of water. Stack blocks like steps and toss a few rotten fruit in the drum. Possums jump in for the fruit, eventually can"t tread water anymore and that"s that. Use a manure fork to pick them out in the AM, add more fruit in the evening and your back in business.
Mice and rats are not a problem here, these twins keep things neat and tidy!
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I'm voting for the Canadian Club. Do we hit them with the empty bottles or throw the empties at them? I guess,"it depends". (;>))
 
Saw a TV program on Border Security.. checking persons luggage, found a number of dried rats, food for eating.Confiscated and destroyed, they had small insects in some.

What you having for dinner.?
 
Hi
You must be an oil patch worker In Canada if you can afford to pour beer in a mouse trap L.O.L.
I fix equipment and can't afford to do it.
I'm so tight I make the flies spit out what they swallow if they fall in my beer :)
Regards Robert
 

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