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How to Easily Make Your Own Mouse Trap

For some people, living with mice inside their house is just something that they have grown accustomed to.  For others, it is an unpleasant surprise and they want to quickly evict these pesky little critters before they bite holes in everything and eat their way through your kitchen cupboards.  Either way, you really want to get the mice out of your house, since they belong outside in nature.

One problematic situation that many people find themselves in is that when they figure out they have a mouse problem, they think the only solution is to get those snap traps or glue traps.  After all, if you go looking in any supermarket or department store, chances are these are going to be the only ones you find.  The best place to buy humane traps is on the internet, since you have the most choice and the best prices.  The only problem is that many people don’t want to wait for a few days until their mouse traps arrive – they want to start catching them right away.

Here is a simple way that you can make a humane mouse trap to catch some of the little fellas while you wait for your real traps to arrive.  Note that this is a different version of the one that I wrote about on the other post, how to make a humane trap, but it is quite similar.

Materials Needed To Make Trap

  • 5 Gallon Bucket
  • An empty soda or beer can
  • A piece of wood about 2 feet long
  • A thin wooden dowel or rigid metal rod (piece of clothes hanger will work)

Ok, now that you have the material, here is what you need to do in order to set this thing up:

  1. First, punch a hole in the bottom of the can, big enough to stick your wooden dowel or rod through it.  Cut the wood so that it is slightly longer than the diameter of the 5 gallon bucket, and each end sticks out a few inches.
  2. Next, put the dowel through the can, and make sure it spins around freely. Lay the spinning can and dowel on the top of the bucket, and position the can close to one of the sides of the bucket.
  3. Now you need to make your ramp, so the mouse can climb up and get caught.  Get a wooden or plastic stick to use as a ramp.  It is better if it is flat, otherwise it will roll around.  A wooden paint stirrer works pretty well, and a yardstick is even better.  Position your stick so that one end is on the top of the bucket, right up against the can.  You can tape the other end to the floor so it is more sturdy.
  4. All you need to do now is bait the trap.  Do this by spreading a little peanut butter on the top of the can.  Make sure it is in the middle so the mouse has to actually climb onto the can in order to get at it.
  5. Wait for your mice to come and get caught.

This method will work in a pinch, but you are still much better off just getting some humane mouse traps that are already made. The reason is because nobody wants to have these ugly looking contraptions set up in their kitchen every night!  Humane traps that you can buy are so small that you don’t even notice them tucked into the corners, and at a couple of bucks each, they are well worth it.

You Can See A Full Selection of Humane Mouse Traps Here.

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