i've been seeing mice in the garage and inside the house recently and i would like to build a trap that will catch them without killing them

does anyone know of plans or examples of a trap i could build?

I recommend the local Fighters Guild.

Poison.

Kill them, kill them all...


Oh god so much win.

Why can't you just go to Home Depot and buy some traps like the rest of us?

I guess you can try a box propped up with a stick, and then when the mouse makes the stick fall over, the box falls on it and traps it.

Why would you spare the little disease fluffballs?

You've already lost your port station to the invaders. If you do not strike soon they will be at the heart of your fortress, at which point the only solution is fire.

Never really understood the purpose of the humanitarian traps. You can't really release them in the wild in any realistic sense: don't release them far away enough from any place and they'll just infest someone else's property (how nice of you), and if by some off chance you do release them in the real wild, these mice don't have the know-how anymore to survive without the protection and substance provided by humans. They will either slowly starve to death or be eaten by wild animals.

Haha this.

Seriously though if you absolutely don't want to kill them you can try sticky traps but they aren't that effective although it did catch the one that was in my house a year or two ago. Otherwise I recommend your standard mouse trap or poison. Preferably the standard trap though because with poison they'll probably die somewhere in the house without you knowing and start to stink, even worse if they can somehow get into your walls and die :yuck:

I think you misunderstood his point. He wants to trap them alive so he can EAT THEEEEM :chaos:

i've always used peanut butter and poison traps or sticky traps, i'm not for sure what you would need to do to catch them without killing them, but whatever you do i would do it quick

The sticky traps are anything but humane. Have you seen the poor things struggling in them? :cryvaultboy:

HomeDepo sells these mice replant wall socket plugins, they work by emitting high-pitched sounds or something. They've worked for us, and theres no need to kill anything.

you want to keep the [censored]s alive? if you use a sticky trap, good luck getting them off. or you can do what my grandma does and feed them to some cats when they are stuck on the trap.

Indeed, horrid things sticky traps are. That said, they are undeniably highly effective (but I'll never use them... death by dehydration/exhaustion is something I wish on nothing)


Curious which house on your street they moved in to

I found those glue traps work exceedingly well, but you have to know where the little buggers are congregating. After you figure that out just get a glue trap and put some raisins or peanuts on it. Using those Glue Traps i've caught tons of the little buggers. Sadly there's a canol behind my house and every time they dredge the infernal thing the rodents look for a new place to hide.

Just make sure you remember where you put the things and be prepared to hunt them down. Had a few cases where the mice died on me and started stinking up the place.

A mouse is a creature adapted specifically to evade predators like you, and killing them is really the only way to get rid of them.

Find the routes the use to travel around behind things, lay down some traps, and be done with it.

Cartoons affected you much? Lol

As for non-lethal forms. Sticky paper

Best just get some normal traps and be done with it. Don't want to go insane and start babbling about the ratsmice in the walls.

Take a large glass, place a piece of yummy in it (cheese, apple, what ever..) and something the mouse can climb up the side with, like a stick taped to the side of the glass.

Place in the open.

Mouse comes to take a look, sees the goodies, smells the goodies, climbs the twig and tumbles into the large glass, that is too smooth to climb out of.

The mouse, then looks rather silly as it wonders how to get out of this one, while eating said goodie -after all, you just put the poor creature in this predicament, the least you can do is let it have the yummy treat. Right?

And here's a picture, in case you thought this was my idea.

http://www.boingboing.net/200710231937.jpg

I won't tell you how we do things in Amsterdam against mouse infestations..., it would get me banned

I'm on one knee right now, bowing to your excellency.

Obvious joke, I merely got here first

It was still unexpected for me this morning.

I would use a bucket of quite large size, mice can definitely jump out of a glass that small.

Anyway, just kill the little [censored]ers. It's not like they're a threatened species or something.

Open your mouth against the hole in the wall. Put a piece of cheese on your tongue. As the mouse approaches, swallow it whole.

That is most definitely too small. Mice can jump about as high in relation as rats, and our biggest rat cage is two metres high and they still jump close to three quarters its height. For mice, that's still about 50cm of potential jump height.

If not to taste, smear some mustard into the opening. The mouse will walk over it and grant a much more savoury meal.

Neighbours had to stop using those when we moved into the last apartment we had. There were no vermin around at all (there had been one rat sighting some five years ago) but that old couple kept thinking they would need to keep them at bay. The problem was, me and me love could hear that sound, and honestly, I know why rats and mice leave.
Good thing a family with kids who could also hear it moved in at about the same time, or nobody might have believed us.