With winter comes a deluge of critters trying to find a nice place to spend the night. This winter, our garage proved to be irresistible to a small mouse (in part due to my clutter) - and here is the instructable on how to catch a mouse.
This is a very, very, very simple instructable. And was discovered by accident.
This is a very, very, very simple instructable. And was discovered by accident.
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Signing UpStep 1: Buy bucket and put seed in the bottom.
Take a high walled bucket (tall enough so your unwelcome guest can't jump out once caught), put seed in the bottom and place it near stuff that is high off of the floor.
What happens is the hungry, little mouse (not to be pitied because his kin helped propogate the black plague) smells the vittles in the bucket. Then it climbs up something (in my case, Christmas boxes) and leaps into the bucket (similar to the way a corpulent person flings themselves into the buffet at Ryans Steakhouse). Once the mouse lands at the bottom of the bucket, it realizes it can't get out - you will be allerted to your prey by the fact that it will jump repeatedly trying to get out.
What happens is the hungry, little mouse (not to be pitied because his kin helped propogate the black plague) smells the vittles in the bucket. Then it climbs up something (in my case, Christmas boxes) and leaps into the bucket (similar to the way a corpulent person flings themselves into the buffet at Ryans Steakhouse). Once the mouse lands at the bottom of the bucket, it realizes it can't get out - you will be allerted to your prey by the fact that it will jump repeatedly trying to get out.
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The kids were all excited about getting to see him leave the trap and scurry off into the woods.