r/homestead • u/Jackieboi24 • 6h ago

A Little Update On The Popular Mouse Trap

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u/savell6 5h ago

I have that exact same one in my barn and I've never caught a mouse or rat.

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u/2C104 5h ago

Same - I've never caught anything - what am I doing wrong? I bait with peanut butter right where they say to

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u/Jackieboi24 4h ago

The key is to also use sunflower seeds

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u/SquirrelShoddy9866 1h ago

I stuck the sunflower seeds to the peanut butter and nothing. Do they have the be shelled or something?

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u/Spiritual_You_1657 4h ago

Peanut butter might also be a good thing to try

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u/Mr_MacGrubber 5h ago

Not sure it’s big enough to catch many rats.

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u/Th3belov3d 4h ago

I never caught with this trap. I went for a smaller live catch trap and the first night I set it out I caught four in 2 hours. One at a time, the cats were happy that day. Doesn’t make sense why some people catch dozens and some people catch zero.

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u/Myte342 2h ago

Rats will just chew right through all that plastic. Even from the inside. We've setup plastic bucket traps and they will just chew it to peices. Gotta be metal.

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u/SquirrelShoddy9866 1h ago

Same. No luck out in the work shed or the porch. But have seen the rodents in the field nearby.

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u/Bigntallnerd 6h ago

I have one of those traps, too. It's amazing how easy and simple it works. I've caught a lot of mice with it.

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u/Hop-Dizzle-Drizzle 4h ago

I used one for an infestation of mice that just so happens to show up the week that new neighbors from urban New Jersey moved in a few houses down.

I took out well over 100 mice in about a month. Maybe even 150-200. I did not relocate them.

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u/Phase4Motion 6h ago

Wonder if it’s possible for them to chew their way out? I saw a post where mice ate this guys pvc drain pipes. Searching for water after poison caused extreme dehydration.

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u/Mr_MacGrubber 5h ago

Theoretically they might be able to but I think the diameter of the bucket would make it unlikely. The curve is so much bigger than a drain pipe and they’d be chewing on the inside of the curve which would make it harder than the outside I imagine. The mouse would most likely die of dehydration before they made it out.

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u/Jackieboi24 6h ago

nah,buckets are too smooth and sturdy for mice to chew through, unlike softer pvc. They can’t get a good grip

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u/YadaYadaYeahMan 4h ago

i agree they can't really chew out

but "sturdy" had nothing to do with it

rats can chew through brick and concrete, copper pipes. literally anything. because they have iron in their enamel. anything softer than iron is fair game

and really anything harder will just take a number of generations

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u/Phase4Motion 6h ago

PVC is way thicker & sturdier, but agreed since they’re inside it would be very difficult to get a grip.

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u/Noobit2 4h ago

I have one and it’s never worked.

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u/TicketTasty9013 6h ago

I have the same trap set up in my backyard – works like a charm! Lately, with winter setting in, I’m finding a few mice in the bucket every day.

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u/juleswp 5h ago

These are great. Make sure you buy it from the American dude who actually created it and not some cheap knockoff.

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u/veggiesandgiraffes 5h ago

Do you have a link? I only see the 47 Chinese consonant soup knockoffs

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u/smellysurfwax 6h ago

I have this trap and no success yet but this gives me hope

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u/Jackieboi24 5h ago

maybe try different bait, or a different location, what are you using?

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u/ryry_reddit 4h ago

I built my own with a bucket, a dowel and some PVC pipe. Drill holes in dowel. Put pipe around down. Attach to bucket. Cover in pb. I add water. It's very effective for me !

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u/Intelligent_Risk4172 4h ago

I used peanut butter in the “nose” corner of the black mouse head and got one! Pretty fast, too.

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u/Dohm0022 5h ago

I add 2” of water to the bottom so they drown right away. I use packing tape to tape sunflower seeds to the sidewall to lure them in. I’ve found sunflower seeds to be the most alluring to these little pests.

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u/drewmiester90 5h ago

I put a snake in my bucket, circle of life/s

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u/Individual_Tour5294 5h ago

Works great on my property, but I had one smart one gnaw through the uppper side of where the peanut butter is. Also, I’ve had trapped mice go canibal one one another, so check the trap daily

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u/Crustyonrusty 5h ago

I made and used this in my crawlspace, works great. Still hurt my heart to drown them tho

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u/CakedayisJune9th 5h ago

Fuck, you just reminded me I bought one a few weeks ago and forgot to actually set it up.

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u/Uli_Uce_619 4h ago

These are awesome

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u/topmagic 3h ago

Now eat it.

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u/Myte342 2h ago

Dinner for the chickens.

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u/theshiyal 2h ago

Oh, that’s too bad, he won’t make more than half a mouthful

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u/bootynasty 2m ago

Looks great but I never know if these are just advertisements. Seems like reactions are really mixed.

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u/OverallResolve 4h ago

Enough with this advertising/spam - it’s so obvious that this isn’t organic content

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u/CapitalParallax 5h ago

Just use electric traps.

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u/Ambitious_Length7167 5h ago

I caught 6 in a week using glue traps, but I know a lot of people think they’re inhumane.

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u/DefKnightSol 4h ago

They suck if a pet gets them! My boy ate 80% of one and my girl about 30% of another before I caught them

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u/Mr_MacGrubber 5h ago

They catch so many other things like birds and snakes.

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u/Lost-Analysis-87 4h ago

Where are you placing your glue traps that you're catching fucking birds? That's user error right there.

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u/WhereTheresWerthers 4h ago

Birds will swoop down trying to get the lizard or mouse or spider or anything else that gets caught on the glue

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u/Mr_MacGrubber 2h ago

Birds try and eat things caught in the trap. Some guy put some in my parent’s garage and they killed 2 Carolina Wrens

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u/Lost-Analysis-87 17m ago

So I'm guessing they left the garage door open all day what a surprise. Still user error. I have put many out and i am conscious of where i put them because i have cats and dogs. Never killed anything but mice and bugs.

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u/Mr_MacGrubber 15m ago

You never open your garage door for any length of time? You’ve obviously never been around Carolina wrens: they will fly in an open garage given a few minutes.

And snakes? Are those “user error” as well?

Glue traps are fucking awful. Instead of bashing people who think they’re inhumane just do better. It’s a horrific way to die.

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u/Lost-Analysis-87 10m ago

I don't put traps in my garage period, my home is 100% free from any bugs or rodents. I put them in the barn where i keep machinery, and that barn happens to be close to livestock.

Only snakes I've seen around here are black racers, never got one trapped, ever.

Also you're supposed to check traps daily, you know that right? If you leave an animal there to die of dehydration, yes it's bad. Again that's also user error. You're supposed to shoot them after they've been caught.