Mousetrap cage
The humane mousetrap involves fishing for rodents without causing them harm. Finished structures are available in the form of a cage, house, box. You can build a simple a mousetrap with your own hands.
From plastic bottles
If the question arises how to catch the mouse without killing it, you can use a plastic bottle. Manufacturing options mousetrap set. The simplest of them are:
- In the bottle cut off the neck. Lubricate the walls with vegetable oil. Put a fragrant bait. Turn over the cut part, insert it inside the bottle.It turns out a kind of watering can. Secure with scotch tape. Put the mousetrap on the steps, under the shelf, dig into the ground. The mouse climbs on the smell of bait, falls into a trap.
- Cook a small plate. Make an arc of wire to secure the bottle in the middle. Located in an upright position, the neck is slightly raised. Pre-poured into the bottle of vegetable oil, put the bait. When the mouse enters the mousetrap, sneaks to the bait, the bottle turns over. Rodent can not get out.
- In the bottle cut off the bottom of the neck. Lubricate the cylinder with vegetable oil. Thread the wand, place over the bucket. In the center put the bait. The mouse crawls onto the movable part of the mousetrap, loses its balance, the wand together with the whole structure falls into a bucket.
In a homemade mousetrap very quickly caught house mice. It remains to decide what to do with the captured mouse.
Cage mousetrap
Mousetrap cage is sold in finished form, you can do it yourself.
- A rectangle of small cells is constructed.
- The edges are fixed with wire.
- On the one hand make the door that opens from top to bottom on a spring.
- Thread the thread through the door, along the cage wall along the top.
- On the tip make a hook for bait.
When the mouse tries to remove the bait, the hook breaks off, the door closes. The villain is in a mousetrap.
Mousetrap house
One of the most effective designs that allows you to catch several individuals at once.
- From a tree prepare a box without top.
- On opposite sides of the box, they are fixed with the help of wooden hinges - a bridge. On one side the bridge is fixed, on the other it is free to fit to the other half.
- The roof is prepared like a real house. From above fix a bait, do sideways a window.
The operating principle of traps that do not kill mice is very simple. Rodent crawls through the window, it turns out on the bridge. Approaching the center. Since this is where you can get food. Under the weight of a rodent, the bridge overturns, immediately returns to its original position. The mouse is in the box, but not visible to others. On the bridge passes the next rodent, and behind it another one.
How to deal with a caught rodent
The humane mousetrap is constructed in a few minutes, it effectively catches rodents. It remains an open question what to do with the caught prey.If you destroy the rodents with sticks on the head, bricks, heavy objects, humanity loses its meaning. It is better to use mouse traps that instantly kill, depriving the person of unnecessary problems. It will be more humane to commit murder right away than to catch, then torture.
- You can feed mice to cats. And to issue in portions. Cats willingly eat micewill remain well-fed, satisfied. If there is a pet store near, you can offer them rodents.
- If you want a small mouse to remain alive, unscathed - away from the house in the field, there to release.
- Give caught mice a fast-acting poison. Die immediately, without much suffering.
The fate of the rodent in the hands of man. How to act - to kill or have mercy, the decision is individual. If the trap is constructed humane, then further actions should be as such. If a get rid of mice in the apartment or private house failed, you can apply ultrasonic repeller, grass from mice other folk remedies for rodents.