Mouse Traps
Set up a half to three-quarters full five gallon bucket (or something) with water, near where your mice or chipmunks are. Mice or chipmunks can be near your garage, your woodpile, your garden or around your house. With chipmunks you often see their burrows. Mice are mostly night time animals, chipmunks are daytime animals, so their paths don’t normally cross. Make sure the amount of water will not be deeper than your pet dog or cat cannot stand in or get out of.
Place a ramp up to the top of the bucket and sprinkle birdseed or sunflower seeds up the ramp and into the bucket so they float on top of the water. They jump right in! This method has been used for many years, it works pretty well.
Make sure you float enough seeds so that they disguise the reflectivity of the water. You can also float a bunch of corks on top of the water, it masks the water and won’t support them when they fall in. (The corks are an old exterminator’s trick, we always have corks on our trucks, they’re used for other things.)
To hasten the process of drowning, squirt some dishwashing soap in the water. Also put just a few of those seeds leading up your ramp. You want him curious, not satisfied.
Fish out the expired animals at least once per day and change the water every two or three days. You can bag the animals and place them in your trash. And, no, this trick will not work on adult rats, they are generally too smart to fall for this. A young and inexperienced rat might, however.
Second method:
Utilize this method if you want to trap a mouse and set it free. Find a cardboard, wood or plastic shaped tube. The tube should be big enough for a mouse to crawl through. Toilet paper tubes work very well for this step! Take the tube and fold one side so it lays flat. The shape should be like a tunnel you would drive through on a road or train track.
Use a small table, a chair or a stool for this step. Move whatever you are using to the area where you plan to catch the mouse. Place the tunnel you have made on the end of the table so that 1/4 of the tube is on the table and 3/4 of the tube hangs off the end.
Stick a tall, heavyweight bucket or can directly underneath the area where you placed the tunnel on the table. The 3/4 end of the tunnel that is hanging off the end of the table should be right above the bucket.
Supply the end of your tunnel with some food. Seeds, cracker crumbs or peanut butter are all good options. Place this snack inside the tunnel, on the end that is hanging off the table.
Stay away from the mouse trap. A mouse will never fall for your tricks if you stand there waiting. Ever hear the saying, “A watched pot never boils?” Exactly. Leaving the trap overnight is a good idea. If your trap is successful, the mouse will run across the table, notice the food and head through the tunnel to retrieve it. Unfortunately for the mouse, the tunnel you set up is hanging off the end and the mouse will be top heavy. As he retrieves the food, he will tumble into the bucket. You can then dispose of the mouse humanely in an area far, far away from your home.
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