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- Trapping mice without a mousetrap
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- Bucket Mouse Trap
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- Complicated Mousetraps
With the onset of cold weather in houses, apartments appear small, gray house micethat you want to get rid of in any way. Old proven means - traps, mouse trap come first. You can buy a ready-made device, or make it yourself. How to catch a mouse in an apartment, you can puzzle for days. Or just take advantage of the experience of other "victims".
Catching pests with improvised means
When you see a mouse, you should not immediately headlong to rush to the store for a trap, first you need to look around. See what you can use as homemade mouse traps. There are several ways to catch a mouse in a house without a mousetrap.
Bank
You will need a bank with a capacity of 1-1.5 liters., A coin in denomination of 5 cents, a small cardboard, bait. The easiest option is a mousetrap. Place the bait on the cardboard. From above put the jar upside down. On the one hand, place a coin with an edge, set the edge of the can on it.
The bait should be slightly larger than a coin. Catching a mouse in a jar is very simple. At the sight of food, the rodent will rush to get behind it - there will be no obstacles in this. But when the mouse starts dragging food with it, it touches a coin, the bank drops, the mouse will be trapped.
The only option, when the mousetrap can not work, if the animal decides to eat everything at once, it will crawl out itself. To avoid such an event, the trap should be improved a bit.
The bait is glued with adhesive tape at a height of 3 cm from the neck. The edge of the can is placed side with the bait on the coin. The mouse climbs inside, rises, leaning on a jar to get to the food. The coin falls, the mouse is trapped.
On a note!
You can catch a mouse in the house in this way with the help of a flower pot, a deep bowl, any suitable container. As a bait, it is better to use smoked sausage, fried lard, chips.
Plastic bottle
You can catch a mouse in the apartment with a bottle of mineral water, any drink. A few tablespoons of vegetable oil are poured into the bottom, distributed on the sides. Spread the bait in the form of fried seeds. The smell in the bottle will last long, spread throughout the room. Catching mice in a bottle is very convenient, since several can catch.
The bottle is placed at an angle. Books are a good base. You can put 3 books in steps, fix the edge of the bottle with tape. In case the trap did not tip over ahead of time, the mouse did not escape.
On the stairs the mouse crawls into the bottle to smell the fragrant bait. It gets inside, eats eagerly, and prevents slippery vegetable oil from escaping. Another poor fellow joins her. If you are lucky, you will be caught immediately 3. You can catch everyone in turn.
On a note!
The trap is placed near the shelves, on the steps. In this place, mice are caught very quickly. The narrow neck of the bottle is not an obstacle for them.
For the same purpose, use a glass beer bottle. The aroma of brewer's yeast attracts mice very much.By placing the trap under a slight slope, you can easily catch a mouse without a mousetrap, without killing, without using additional bait.
Bucket
Catching mice at home with a bucket is the most exciting experience. There are several options for successful traps.
- Cover the bucket with newspaper, fasten the edges with tape. A cruciform incision is made in the center. Sprinkle the bait. In this case, grain, cereal, flour, seeds are well suited. A wand, a plaque, a ruler are substituted for the bucket, they will serve as a ladder. The mouse easily climbs the ladder, trying to get to the bait, the newspaper breaks, the mouse crashes. If you pour water in a bucket, the animal will drown, you won’t have to rack your brains on what to do with the caught mouse.
- The bucket is filled with water, not reaching 3 cm to the edge. Add a few tablespoons of vegetable oil. Sprinkle husk, straw, dry leaves on top so that no water can be seen. Sprinkle grain, seeds, cereals. You can lure fragrant bait. They put a ladder. The trap operates similarly. But the advantages are that you can catch several pests at once. One victim drowns, the top layer of the trap quickly recovers, followed by another rodent. So, until morning comes, the activity of rodents will decrease.
- The bottom is cut out of a plastic bottle, the neck is lubricated with vegetable oil. Adhesive tape in the center. Thread a stick, set on the edges of a bucket of water. The animal creeps into the bottle, tries to get to the bait, the bottle spins, falls with a stick into a bucket.
Another option for a bucket trap is if the mouse likes to crawl around tables. Lay the ruler on the edge of the table so that most of it hangs. A bucket is placed under it. Put on the edge of the line mouse bait. The rodent runs to food about nothing, unaware, falls into a bucket. You can kill the mouse yourself or leave it to the cat. Many cats eat mice or just catch them.
Sophisticated Designs
You can catch the mouse yourself using a special trap, the invention of which will have to work a little.
- A house for catching mice is constructed from a net. Make an oblong box. The sides are fixed using wire. One side will be the door. It should open from top to bottom. Fastens with a spring. A hook with a bait is placed on the opposite side, it is held on a strong thread, which holds the door at the other end. Smoked sausage, lard, chocolate, meat are used as bait. The mouse crawls, tries to pull off the bait, the thread breaks, the door closes.
- From wooden planks make a box without a top. They have a bridge of small slats. In the center they touch each other, from the other edge are fixed with hinges. Separately make a roof, which is freely placed on top. Windows are made on both sides so that when they make their way into the hole, the mouse enters the bridge. On the roof in the center hang the bait. To get to it, the animal must go along the bridge to the edge. Under the weight of the animal, he capsizes, quickly returns to its original position. Manages to catch all the pests in turn. A living person can be pulled out of a box, fed to a cat.
A house for mice is made from a variety of materials. One has only to fantasize a little, to show the skills of a joiner - and the trap is ready.
Mousetrap skill
If the location of the pests is known, you can lure the mouse with a strong-smelling bait. Contrary to popular belief, cheese for rodents is not in the first place. Pests sharply react to smoked meats, nuts, heavily toasted seeds, crackers with seasoning, chips, bacon, burnt match. You can lure from a place of shelter with such ingredients.
You can find a mouse in complete silence, twilight. The animals are afraid of loud noises, do not tolerate bright light. People get used to the smell of a person in a house, so they are not particularly afraid of it.
To catch a mouse, you should arm yourself with a medium-sized towel.Lurking in a corner, quietly waiting for a pest to appear from under the cabinet. Quickly throw a towel, squeeze.
This option of catching rodents is suitable if it is interesting to be smart, to check the reaction rate, or the pest is not caught in another way.
To catch rodents, it is enough to show a little skill, resort to imagination, figure out where they like to hunt rodents.
Caught a beer bottle. Rather, she caught herself. The bottles remained in different positions after the feast. In the morning I found a mouse in one of them. Satisfied, drunk, but caught.
We in the hostel deliberately fished like that and didn’t drop the beer on purpose. The mice are still those alcoholics. They run better than fat with sausage.
I had to build a trap from a bucket of newspaper. I caught one, I changed the top. Honestly, it’s not very effective, since the first mouse breaks through the newspaper, the bait pours into a bucket with it, the other does not crawl after it.
So I thought about that and immediately began to make from a bucket with husks on the surface. I caught three during the night. Much more efficient.
I caught plastic bottles. Climb up there as cute. She threw meat, lard, crackers, salad with mayonnaise, chips as bait. Sometimes, even specially for them, I bought treats.
In general, after the mice were caught in different ways, you need to worry that they are not there. Otherwise, one’s whole life will have to be creative.
Once, a mouse slipped into our dorm room from under the door. Walked along the corridor, crawled towards us. They threw slippers at her, killed him. Here is the reaction test.
I would never catch a towel. And then what to do in her hands? Yes, and how much you need to sit without movement in order to wait for its appearance.
Well, yes, in our office mice crawled out from under the table, a brazen crawled right on the foot. I was waiting with a scoop. One slammed. No longer showing up. Maybe one of us lived.
Caught a jar of coins. Once the mouse ate everything and washed off, another time the bank overturned in the wrong direction. The third time I fixed the errors, I managed to catch it. I fed the lazy cat to the cat. He himself does not want to hunt for them.