Home Depot Deal Alerts & Discussion Thread

It’s not just laying on it, the trap has sprung and is pinching the abdomen. Perhaps this image will help.

It is in the sprung position, even though the trigger bar appears set. You can see the trigger bar on the left side of the image in question, thus the mouse is pinched between the snap bar and base, but it’s upside down so you can’t see it.

KuoH

Haha I never thought the mouse catch would bring so much discussion
Nevermind when I said they work… They actually don’t work very well.

Later the same night the trap caught another mouse… or not… It was gone before I got to the trap.
Instead I found the mouse (i think it was the same one) trying to get an avocado seed through a small gap, repeatedly trying to pull it in, making noise. So I rolled the seed away and put a trap in front of the hole, and a few minutes later the trap snapped… when I came to get it, i found the mouse had escaped into its hole.

So the second time, the mouse escaped twice!
And the first time the mouse did not seem very well held down and I was worried it might escape. The first mouse (in the picture) was held on the center by a corner of the killbar.

These mouse traps are too weak!

Heads up, my local Home Depot has the learherman Wingman on clearance for $22. Not a bad price but I’m sure it’ll drop. I went in looking for some of the skeletools (ok, I’d have killed a small mammal just to find ONE) but this is all I could find that was worth looking at.

We are very committed mousers :stuck_out_tongue:

Building a better mousetrap is not just an expression :smiley:

The metal and wood ones work better. If they tend to escape, take the serrated edge from an empty box of tinfoil and use small brads to attach that to the end of the trap. Not sharp enough to stop the mouse from going in but it helps to hold them from slipping out. Also put the traps where the sides are closed in so the mouse has to center itself in the trap to get to the bait. They make some really big traps for rats which can break a human finger when sprung so upsize if your quarry keeps escaping. Sometimes you have to wire or fasten the trap in place or they will run away with the trap on them. Just make doubly sure your pets can’t possibly get to those big traps :open_mouth:

Phil

Extreme Sports

why not use humane traps, and release the poor mice out in the woods where they can try to live, and get into the food chain ??

A good trap breaks their neck so that helmet should not work

Tried it, complete fail, they would not go in, and once it did and escaped.

excuse is not believable. use humane traps. release out in woods.

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why not use humane traps, and release the poor mice out in the woods where they can try to live, and get into the food chain ??
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excuse is not believable. use humane traps. release out in woods.
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Because its a pest vermin. Thats why. Also because if you RELEASE IT? its just coming back in again and again anyways. Like a freaking merry go round.

Myself? I have a better mousetrap… its commonly referred to as a “C-A-T”, ha ha. have you ever SEEN what a cat DOES when it catches a mousie? Jesus, it plays with it, it tortures it, then it eats it alive. The mouse is better off getting caught in a trap than by a cat, really.

I will terminate, with extreme prejudice? PEST VERMIN that enter my house and will not vacate. I kill mice, rats, raccoons and possums if they enter the house.

i catch and release snakes and bats, i like them, i dont feel they cause any harm inside the house, so, i do not terminate them with extreme prejudice.

Say that after you are the one that has to routinely repair the damage done by the little guys. They are incredibly bad for a house. They chew through wiring, they defecate everywhere you really don’t want them to, ruin insulation, so on and so on.

Unfortunately, they breed like crazy so if you can’t stomach killing them you’re going to be dealing with them forever.

If you choose to deny reality thats your problem, not mine.
I wanted to catch and release but failed, if you can then the next time i have a mouse your welcome to come to my house and remove it.

This isn’t quite a “Home Depot Deal”, but maybe if you used an orange 5 gallon bucket you got on sale….

This allows you to catch many mice, not just one per trap.

Tarver, I would like to introduce you to a few Grizzly bears which that technique was tried on, but after they returned and wreaked havoc again the proper solution was implemented and I don’t know where those carcasses went to >-)

Mice and rats are fast-breeding disease-carrying vermin. They are so prevalent that they will not ever be made extinct through human trapping. They are adapted to urban environments and if you dump them in a forest somewhere the odds are that they will starve to death or quickly become predator food, dying anyway. You don’t solve a problem by moving it around.

Phil

I was just going to suggest taking a look at that one Mr.Scott. I wanted to try it sometime, but for now poison does the trick pretty well.

I think we’ve went off on a bit of a tangent though lol.

I haven’t bothered checking my local store. The employees there seem to be all over the good deals.

Yeah we have some of those rat traps because usually we have rats, not mice.
I was thinking of doing something similar to improve the trap; I had an idea to file the bar into like a blade and maybe serrate it so that the trap will really hurt the mouse so that it won’t go anywhere.
Edit: woah how did a whole bunch of other messages appear between this and the message I was replying too

That reminds me of Matthias Wandel’s mouse trap. This is funny.

Yes you should save the poor little mousies

They don’t deserve to die!

I’ve had to clean up much worse. Lets just say if my local mice had Hanta virus i would be be dead by now.

Not all cats will pwn a mouse… some cats might be scared of mice but I think many or most house cats will just look and sniff it but not care about it. A better option may be a terrier dog.