Mice Live Trap

[Welsh_red 4,645]

I need to get a live trap for mice. I've read some plastic ones are susceptible to being chewed on

 

Any tips on what to avoid and what to buy

[Gravy 18]

I have caught a mouse once using a live trap - the simple tilt trap where the weight of mouse entering closes the door.

It was not down too long so can not comment on being chewed.

 

Why do you need to catch alive?

[Welsh_red 4,645]

I have caught a mouse once using a live trap - the simple tilt trap where the weight of mouse entering closes the door.

It was not down too long so can not comment on being chewed.

 

Why do you need to catch alive?

I wanted to catch them live so the kids could see them . I'd release them a distance away then

[Tiercel 6,986]

 

I have caught a mouse once using a live trap - the simple tilt trap where the weight of mouse entering closes the door.

It was not down too long so can not comment on being chewed.

 

Why do you need to catch alive?

I wanted to catch them live so the kids could see them . I'd release them a distance away then

 

Have a look at some of these, quite easy to make so you could get the kids involved with making them.

 

https://www.google.co.uk/search?site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=634&q=live+catch+mouse+trap&oq=live+catch+mouse+trap&gs_l=img.1.0.0j0i5i30k1j0i24k1l3.2008.8834.0.11300.22.22.0.0.0.0.247.2586.1j19j1.21.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..1.21.2576.0..0i8i30k1.jNB9qllf_bk#tbm=isch&q=live+catch+bottle+mouse+trap

 

TC

[The one 8,479]

Go onto you tube and it shows you how to make your own more fun for the kids

[Gravy 18]

Here is an easy one to try

 

Get a heavy pyrex glass bowl, turn upside down on the floor, prop it up using a small piece of biscuit, a few crumbs within.

 

With some luck the mouse will go in and eat the crumbs and eat the biscuit and (here is the luck bit) the bowl falls and traps the mouse

[talpa 55]

We used to catch them in milk bottles as kids, peanuts in the bottom and wedge the neck up a bit so the bottle wall is at least 30degrees. They can enter but cant get back out as they cannot get grip on glass.

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

mice die very quickly in live traps from experience .

[techworm 22]

these work well https://www.amazon.co.uk/Victor-Humane-Mouse-Trap-Catch-and-Release/dp/B00004RAMU