Originally Posted by
sailsablazin
My DH traps mice in the garage... He sets up a bucket of water. Takes a metal rod and puts a empty soup can coated with PB on the rod. Places the rod on the top of the bucket. He builds a little ramp for the dear critters to walk up. The idea is for the mice to crawl up the ramp drawn by the smell of the PB. Then they go out on the rod and try to get some PB off the can and KERPLUNK! Sorry, but I do not like mice!!!
I am breaking out the Peppermint oil as we speak...
I paid money for a contraption like this. I couldn't make it work so I sent it back.
My best mouse catcher was a 5-gallon pail almost full of food waste from a community pancake breakfast. I left it sit in the garage for a day or two until I would have time to spread it out on the field. I think there were 5 to 6 dead mice in there the next morning. They fell in and drowned.