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> Indeed, humane methods of rodent control are readily available. Retailers included in the activists' lawsuit, including Walmart and Canadian Tire, sell humane

> Indeed, humane methods of rodent control are readily available. Retailers included in the activists' lawsuit, including Walmart and Canadian Tire, sell humane live traps (for as low as $19.99 on Walmart.ca at time of writing). Many pest control companies also offer humane solutions. I have had mice get in my house a few times. I hate glue traps. I had seen them used at a restaurant I used to work at, and it is pretty awful. They get stuck and panic and nearly (sometimes actually) rip themselves apart trying to escape. But they're the only things I've seen that work. Because of what I saw with glue traps, I tried all sorts of "instant kill" traps. Some of them worked at first, but the mice quickly learned how to get the bait without setting off the trap, or they learned to set off the trap without getting caught. (No idea how - in some of these I'd have thought it'd be impossible.) So I got some glue traps. They worked and they worked fast, and they got them all, both times this happened. You usually hear when they get caught, so I would get the trap, drown them, and dispose of it. It's pretty awful, but I'm sorry, I can't live with mice in my house. My only real alternative is to get a cat, and trust me, having grown up with cats that ate mice and birds, they're not much more merciful. > Winnipeg veterinarian Dr. Jonas Watson agrees with the group's position, pointing out that glue traps are also entirely indiscriminate, often trapping other animals as well. This is a feature, not a bug. These traps are almost always placed inside, and whatever else is getting trapped is also a pest.

butteroverflow 7y ago
>I tried all sorts of "instant kill" traps I have relatives living in the country. They get a lot of mice and went through a lot of these factory produced traps; nothing worked. Then they bought a couple of pretty simple traps made by local school kids in shop class. I believe the head count of each trap is now in the hundreds. It's a pretty simple contraption: a wood brick with a burrow in it. You put a piece of food in the end of the hole, then tighten a steel spring and tie it down with a piece of thread, which goes through the trap and covers the hole, so that a rodent has to chew through the thread to get to that food. The spring pulls on a copper wire noose; you know the rest. Maybe you could find (or make) something like that?
- cmrdporcupine 7y ago
  Grew up in the country (and live there now) and my dad used to do this in the garage, which isn't humane at all, but very effective: Take a 2 litre pop bottle, remove the cap, put some food with a little poison inside. Make a little ramp for the mouse to get in. The mouse can go in, but it's too slippery for them to get out, they can't get traction on the plastic. They die inside the bottle, but can't spread the poison around to cats or other predators that might eat them.
- shlant 7y ago
  > "It's a pretty simple contraption: a wood brick with a burrow in it. You put a piece of food in the end of the hole, then tighten a steel spring and tie it down with a piece of thread, which goes through the trap and covers the hole, so that a rodent has to chew through the thread to get to that food. The spring pulls on a copper wire noose; you know the rest." That sounds... overly complicated, and could only catch one per setting. Have they tried a glass bowl will oil? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxxFNkNf6q8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxxFNkNf6q8
- slig 7y ago
  There's a YouTube channel that features old and new mousetraps. Some of them are 3D printed and work just like the one you mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQv9MGcwQg4uVfQl2ZvPu6AcPi_cN1oDt https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQv9MGcwQg4uVfQl2ZvPu...

butteroverflow 7y ago

>I tried all sorts of "instant kill" traps I have relatives living in the country. They get a lot of mice and went through a lot of these factory produced traps; nothing worked. Then they bought a couple of pretty simple traps made by local school kids in shop class. I believe the head count of each trap is now in the hundreds. It's a pretty simple contraption: a wood brick with a burrow in it. You put a piece of food in the end of the hole, then tighten a steel spring and tie it down with a piece of thread, which goes through the trap and covers the hole, so that a rodent has to chew through the thread to get to that food. The spring pulls on a copper wire noose; you know the rest. Maybe you could find (or make) something like that?

cmrdporcupine 7y ago
Grew up in the country (and live there now) and my dad used to do this in the garage, which isn't humane at all, but very effective: Take a 2 litre pop bottle, remove the cap, put some food with a little poison inside. Make a little ramp for the mouse to get in. The mouse can go in, but it's too slippery for them to get out, they can't get traction on the plastic. They die inside the bottle, but can't spread the poison around to cats or other predators that might eat them.
shlant 7y ago
> "It's a pretty simple contraption: a wood brick with a burrow in it. You put a piece of food in the end of the hole, then tighten a steel spring and tie it down with a piece of thread, which goes through the trap and covers the hole, so that a rodent has to chew through the thread to get to that food. The spring pulls on a copper wire noose; you know the rest." That sounds... overly complicated, and could only catch one per setting. Have they tried a glass bowl will oil? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxxFNkNf6q8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxxFNkNf6q8
slig 7y ago
There's a YouTube channel that features old and new mousetraps. Some of them are 3D printed and work just like the one you mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQv9MGcwQg4uVfQl2ZvPu6AcPi_cN1oDt https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQv9MGcwQg4uVfQl2ZvPu...