@@Handle...This. Hello... watch the very ending of this video... there's that hole that the wire was sticking into, that that mouse started immediately biting at... I don't even think it would take an hour for one to get out that way, a few minutes at most, because most mice can get themselves through a hole that is only about 1/2" in diameter, or about the diameter of the end of your pinky finger! (I know because I've seen it quite a few times over the years with my very own eyes, and I grew up living in the country, where mice were everywhere, so I speak from experience with dealing with them.)
The trap retainer should be on the opposite side of the opening. As you can see, the rat was sniffing around it, because it's above the opening. The rat may accidentally set off the retainer while still outside the trap.
If you don't do something right away about it being stuck in there, it will chew a hole and get out easily. Rats can also chew through some metals, brick or uncured concrete, let alone wood. You can find all this info online.
I love how the rat inspects, turns, looks right at the camera and pauses, turns and inspects the trigger mechanism and says, " Yup, ita a trap but I like peanuts." and climbs in. Lol. Amazing. Very clever.
Crazy how I can watch the rat/mouse and not be afraid, but seeing them up close and personal is totally different. I'm scared out of my mind. Great trap.
That's fantastic. The only way that trap could potentially be any better is when you burrow a bottle shaped hole in the ground and place the trap inside, while the entry hole faces upward. In this case the rat will be more eager to crawl inside of it because it is on ground level and it doesn't have to stretch upwards to get to the peanut.
First time I see a mouse trap that captures the rodent keeping it alive. Good for science studies of rat population. Deserves an award. Greetings from Brasil.
You can see the rat already started chewing the thin plastic bottle at 9:17. These rats can chew a PVC pipe and this thin bottle will not keep him for 20 minutes inside.
I got to say I really enjoyed this video. The whole storyline, direction, plots, setting, characters and props. The injection of sound effects and music was nothing less than perfect in timing. Well done. The trap is ok...Just kidding! The trap and baiting was Great. That was some great ingenuity there. Cheers and thanks for an entertaining watch.
YOU SIR DESERVE AN OSCAR >>>>>>best in every category!!!!! the the music ,I swear i thought i was listening to Beverly hills cop soundtrack and EDDY MURPHY was gonna creep around the backside of the bottle.........BRAVO!!!!! and a really cool and useful project
This was so scary, and yet I watched it. Probably shouldn't have before bed. My cat evidently saw this beast as he crept over and is now sitting in front of the tv.
I 100% agree the design is great besides the plastic I have seen them chew through a iron pipe and many things way way heavier than a little plastic bottle!! But But A great design on trap anyways!!!
It only took that rat about 2 seconds to start chewing his way out of that trap. Perhaps some metal washers glued to the inside of the hole would prevent the escape attempt.
Work Better if you put Peanut Butter on the Peanut so the Scent of it Draws them in... And Did Anyone Notice that it Started Chewing It's Way Out??? and would have been Gone By Morning? Metal Cans would have been Way Better so they could Not Chew their way out. Also Regular Snap Traps work better when you Shove a Sunflower Seed into the Trigger so they have to Tug on it to get it out and by Lubing the Latch part with Peanut Butter.
I so enjoyed the music but....really. It took ages to trap our little friend and he can chew his way out of that in minutes. Also, these little things aren't stupid. "Fool me once, shame on you" etc but mice and rats quickly learn the routine...you have to change things up every single day. But that's not the point. It's a good watch!
How long did it take for him to chew his way out? From the video, I see there is a problem with ants. Maybe a smaller version of this trap will work to catch them?
Watched it interestingly! A best trap for those who enjoy the fry of it. But I'm worried about a little rat who fries and eats up my midnight sleep and eatables. Thank you and congrats! 👍🏻
The suspense music was great 👍👍 the idea of course is excellent ..however I feel that a larger food piece, like a piece of sausage, instead of a peanut , would speed up the process
I caught a mouse by placing a plate of food on the edge of the counter with a tall garbage can underneath it (about 35" tall). When the critter steps on the plate close to the edge, the plate and critter fall into the can. The walls of the can are smooth so it cant climb out. I then released it far in the field. I love all animals and could not kill one no matter what...
Mice could eat through plastic so could we use glass bottles cut with a glass cutter, put in a rubber mat on the bottom to cushion the glass when falling? Metal rod could be heated to make the small holes. Might need some other variations too. What do you think?
For all those who are feeling for the rat, let me tell them, rats are a menace they multiply drastically however here he has not asked you to kill the rat, one can always take the bottle miles away and set the rat free.
I like watching other types of mouse traps that are actually successful. On the same time I would not want to deal with a live mouse or rat after catching one. I bought the Victor electric rat trap. They have cheaper ones with only AA batteries which can’t be taken apart to clean up a mess. So I searched RUclips and saw one that took 4”D” batteries, with the option to add another battery pack. The 4 AA battery one will kill 20 rats or 100 mice. I found a nice 4 “C” battery Victor rat trap at Home Depot and I have had great success with it. It sends you a notification to your phone once it has caught a rodent. The roof slides off with easy access to clean their mess. It has a cupboard door that opens up, on the bait trap end, to put peanut butter in it. On my first morning it had 3 dead mice laying on top of each other, over the electric pad. Four hours later I caught another one. This one with the 4 “C” batteries will kill 100 rats or 300 mice before running dead. The 4 “D” battery rat trap, with the extra battery pack, is suppose to last for a year.
I did buy it once.......returned it cuz my rats musta gone to Harvard "rat" college....they simply, KNOW. As i saw in a commercial once "you think im stupid?!??!".........ahh, yeah!
It looks like it works well but you couldn't walk away and check it later. The rat would be gone in a matter of seconds, especially a wild rat. He was already chewing on the hole immediately after he got caught. Redesign it with something he cant chew his way out of and it would be great
First, I need to get me pair of those scissors. Second, put the trigger hole on the opposite side of the entryway so the rodent doesn't accidentally spring the trap while checking the place out.
yes but as you can see, the plastic bottle has a smooth slippery surface in & out so there's no chance for nipping try it, I've tried other designs on RUclips using using plastic bottle it works
Interesting concept. Could use a 2 tin cans instead of plastic. Also a locking mechanism should be added. Easy project most people could do. I would recommend peanut butter the rats can smell that a long way out. As long as you check your traps daily so you can release them in the wild. More the a few days a starved dead rat will stink up the place.
Действительно. Эта ловушка только для мышей и то если не грызючие. А крысы с песчанками в момент сгрызут не только эту дырку, но и ребристые поверхности.
Rats a known to chew almost thru anything even metal and since that hole was big I'm guessing it's a breathing hole and he will let it go in the woods if it hadn't chewed its way out which it's a good possibility. Also you can see how cautious that rat was they are smart so probably wouldn't catch another if that rat put a warning scent in it to faint for us to smell.or see so even if he washed it it's hard to get rid of that smell so probably have to keep making fresh ones, same thing when using this mouse traps that snap their neck and kills them that scent will be all over it and warning the others not to go near it!
I've been trying for hours to break it with the scissors like you do, is there a trick to it? I've hit it with safety scissors from kindergarten, plain metal scissors, ones with a plastic handle and pinking shears but nothing seems to work.
If it takes this long for your pet rat to take the bait I doubt a wild one would ever come near it, and as others said, a wild rat would chew out of it in a few seconds. How do I know it's your pet? You threw it at the trap at one point (comes skidding in from the left), you panned your camera while watching it, and it is daytime.
Ok you got me rewatched several times and never saw the rat skid in so please tag the time. And it most definitely is a pet rats do not hang around a nicely set up spot like that that is without a doubt inside his room, prob has the 'brick' up to hide it being inside and give the rat nowhere to go accept the trap
But how is this supposed to trap the rat long enough for you to get it - wouldn't it just bite its way out of the bottle? If a rat got trapped in the middle of the night while you're asleep, it would surely free itself long before you wake up. If there was a way alert you when the trap activates so you can dispose of the rat before it escapes, then good. Or maybe design a method of killing the rat when the trap shuts, before it has time to escape. What if the trap was somehow on the cusp of a relatively deep vessel of water like a bucket and you designed it to fall into the bucket and sink when it shuts? That way the rat will drown before it has time to escape.
My rat trap's name is Pumpkin because of his orange colored fur. We found him homeless when he was a kitten. His best night was 10 rats and three mice he stacks them up at the barn door. At lest the ones he doesn't eat first. We don't feed him and he keeps getting bigger and fatter. I figure he works for food. He's the best trap ever.
So i had lived in a farmhouse that was literally in a farmers field... and the house had mice in the basement...at first i got the regular traps they worked ,then i saw the no kill little cubical trap were the peanut butter would be at the back of the trap,the mouse would walk in go to the back and the trap would rock forward and voilà the trap would shut. ... they worked great and if i hadn't of been working for a week straight,. away from the farm I'd get back to empty the half rotten soak in their own pee dead mice from the no kill traps...😬 it has been a number of years since then but i remember even when i made it back earlier like in a couple of days ,they'd still be dead. My boss told me about the 5 gallon pail of water with the pop bottle at the top through a wire so it rotates and peanut butter on it...that worked the best.👍👍👍
The concept is good, but there are some problems about how effective it could be. Rats can chew through plastic bottles like nothing, so unless you are really quick it can just break out it. Plus since this is a live catching trap there is a chance that the rat gets hurted like having its tail cutted.
thats real true....I found plastic food jars in my kitchen with 1 in. diameter holes all chewed up.... I used to shoot rats with a pellet gun but the outcome was noisy as they would cry a piercing scream once shot!
That's true. And in summary, it's a rather ineffective trap. If you want to get mouse alive I think its much better to get metallic cage, add door and platform. Door will close when mouse step on platform or something like that. And the environment should be less dangerous through the eyes of a mouse.
The issue is that the trap design gives them a starting point to chew at the hole. If the mouse is in a bottle with no perforations or edges then they can't get a tooth on the smooth plastic. If you stand up a case of empty plastic soda bottles with no caps and out it in your shed or garage, the mice will climb down the throat of the bottle to get the sweet soda droplets left in the bottle bottom (if they are small mice) and get trapped in the bottle. They can't get a purchase on the smooth plastic to climb out, and they can't bite into the smooth plastic.
i've seen many vids on ways to trap these critters. City mice are a cut above, they don't fall for conventional spring loaded traps, sticky pads,etc.I was a tech in NYC and one day, up on the 76th floor in the World Trade Center, i saw glue traps under the raised computer floor. The operator told me they had some of the critters up there and would chew on some wires, a big no no with mainframe connections in the computer room. They sure as hell didn't get on the elevators and press the button, likely just climbed on the miles of cables or were somehow brought up in boxes from the loading dock area. I applaud the different ways people devise to get rid of them, some might work depending on the rodent's IQ, but i still think the best way is to figure out how the hell they got in the house in the first place and take the steps to seal it up.
Nah, we just release down by the river. Its cleaner, easier, and reuse the trap. Plus, we like to respect our neighbors peace and quiet and not annoy them with a loud shotgun blast noise.
People don't realize that rats are expedientially harder to trap than mice. Rats avoid almost everything and have to be baited and tricked most times. They're too smart for their own good (and ours) 😂😂!
I wondered about the size of the hole on top since rats are experts at finding egress and then chewing it wide enough to wriggle out. I wonder if a very limited length slot would be better since the hole would encourage the rat to put its nose through and get to work on its escape. I like the trap tho. I'm wondering if I could rig something similar for rabbits since predators get to them before I visit my traps. (Survival food, not amusements) :)
cool trap and a good idea, but you better check it often! Rat will chew right out of that bottle in no time
Exactly. The rat will be free in an hour or two, maybe less.
No doubt they can chew through the plastic, but how? There's no way to grab onto the bottle as it's a flat surface?
@@Handle...This. Hello... watch the very ending of this video... there's that hole that the wire was sticking into, that that mouse started immediately biting at... I don't even think it would take an hour for one to get out that way, a few minutes at most, because most mice can get themselves through a hole that is only about 1/2" in diameter, or about the diameter of the end of your pinky finger! (I know because I've seen it quite a few times over the years with my very own eyes, and I grew up living in the country, where mice were everywhere, so I speak from experience with dealing with them.)
@@JoeJ-8282 Them city folks think rats are Mickey mouses.
@@Handle...This. can do it safely- overturning the bottle🐭
The trap retainer should be on the opposite side of the opening. As you can see, the rat was sniffing around it, because it's above the opening. The rat may accidentally set off the retainer while still outside the trap.
Good point. Great trap thiugh.
Yeah real smart putting this on RUclips. Now no rat is gonna fall for this trap!
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That's one of the funniest comment I've read in a long while. Well done my friend well.
If you don't do something right away about it being stuck in there, it will chew a hole and get out easily. Rats can also chew through some metals, brick or uncured concrete, let alone wood. You can find all this info online.
I love how the rat inspects, turns, looks right at the camera and pauses, turns and inspects the trigger mechanism and says, " Yup, ita a trap but I like peanuts." and climbs in. Lol. Amazing. Very clever.
Crazy how I can watch the rat/mouse and not be afraid, but seeing them up close and personal is totally different. I'm scared out of my mind.
Great trap.
Brilliant, and cheap. Millions of these are needed. For some, it could be a home industry. Best regards
Not to mention you're not damaging the carcass so you can save them for a fondue later
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That's fantastic. The only way that trap could potentially be any better is when you burrow a bottle shaped hole in the ground and place the trap inside, while the entry hole faces upward. In this case the rat will be more eager to crawl inside of it because it is on ground level and it doesn't have to stretch upwards to get to the peanut.
Or it's bent horizontally
First time I see a mouse trap that captures the rodent keeping it alive. Good for science studies of rat population. Deserves an award.
Greetings from Brasil.
Was afraid the mouse was going to die of old age before he got into the trap.
Additional chopping blades included in guillotine module
@@thelyrebird1310 how could u nigga
Suppose the moral is no matter how clever you are temptation will catch you out.
A gob of smelly peanut butter on the peanut would speed things up
I commented on the same thing
You can see the rat already started chewing the thin plastic bottle at 9:17. These rats can chew a PVC pipe and this thin bottle will not keep him for 20 minutes inside.
I got to say I really enjoyed this video. The whole storyline, direction, plots, setting, characters and props. The injection of sound effects and music was nothing less than perfect in timing. Well done. The trap is ok...Just kidding! The trap and baiting was Great. That was some great ingenuity there. Cheers and thanks for an entertaining watch.
That mouse is a hired actor. He is a stuntmouse.
2 minutes later the rodent is free after chewing a hole through the plastic...
Верно.
I disagree, I have used methods like this and yes they can chew through, but if you check it daily then its unlikely.
I doubt that
They can't chew, because it's slippery but they can chew from outside from the sides as they get grip on the sides of the bottle
He will chew his way out especially through cheap plastic 😆 Great Invention! ❤
Better than 99% of Hollywood thrillers today!
lol
YOU SIR DESERVE AN OSCAR >>>>>>best in every category!!!!! the the music ,I swear i thought i was listening to Beverly hills cop soundtrack and EDDY MURPHY was gonna creep around the backside of the bottle.........BRAVO!!!!! and a really cool and useful project
More interesting & dramatic than anything coming out of Hollywood these days.
And much better actors...
You nearly chopped his legs off but you zoomed in to hide that.
This was so scary, and yet I watched it. Probably shouldn't have before bed. My cat evidently saw this beast as he crept over and is now sitting in front of the tv.
The entrance should be made from the other side so that the rat could not accidentally touch the wire.
Amazing mouse trap full of suspense. Initialy, I thought the mouse was going to disappoint us but am happy it didn't.Great job. Bravooo
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Your major engineering flaw is rodents are chewers and they will chew through plastic in a matter of minutes.
A lot of suspense, nice music, feels like watching Tom and Jerry cartoon.
If the rat is not detected within 2-5 minutes, it will easily chew through the hole and run away.
Can it chew plastic??
@@kotresh yes
I 100% agree the design is great besides the plastic I have seen them chew through a iron pipe and many things way way heavier than a little plastic bottle!!
But
But
A great design on trap anyways!!!
It only took that rat about 2 seconds to start chewing his way out of that trap. Perhaps some metal washers glued to the inside of the hole would prevent the escape attempt.
Rats can chew on that plastic bottle and escape
Now make one bigger to catch politicians.
Use cash as bait
You just need honey and a camera.
Politicians do not fall for such a trap they are too wise... 🐭
@@Initial_Gain try it in the Philippines..
I used a kit kat bar as bait and it took less than 4 hrs to catch the little bastard... THANK YOU!!!
@ Cliff * next time use smelly-stuff ( prawns shell)100% rat enter the trap.
I tried this method on a larger scale using two water butts.Put perspex window in & attached a £5 inside & caught a burglar.😂
The rat immediately started chewing an escape hole.
Nobody is trippin off the way he Miyagi-chopped the bottles in half?
I already set the trap. What's difficult is getting the mouse that's in my yard to watch this video, to learn how to release the trap.
Try dubbing in a sexy lady mouse dancing in the vid. That will probably get his attention.
De seguro tu ratoncito se llama Cerebro.
Work Better if you put Peanut Butter on the Peanut so the Scent of it Draws them in... And Did Anyone Notice that it Started Chewing It's Way Out??? and would have been Gone By Morning? Metal Cans would have been Way Better so they could Not Chew their way out.
Also Regular Snap Traps work better when you Shove a Sunflower Seed into the Trigger so they have to Tug on it to get it out and by Lubing the Latch part with Peanut Butter.
The things we do with our pet rats in lock down! Classic! That rat is a pet 100%.
Not anymore
Lol lol 😂😂😂
And will be food 100%
I so enjoyed the music but....really. It took ages to trap our little friend and he can chew his way out of that in minutes. Also, these little things aren't stupid. "Fool me once, shame on you" etc but mice and rats quickly learn the routine...you have to change things up every single day.
But that's not the point. It's a good watch!
I would be more worried about the fleas coming off that rat. Black Plague
Seems labor intensive. Plus what do you do with the rat? Let it go somewhere? Drown it? Just get a Victor rat trap and be done with it.
you use the live rat to train your dog or dogs to kill rats terrior dogs were bred to kill small mammals
@@misssarahwinterbottom7773 ...but what if you don't have a dog? Now I have to go out and get a dog? Rat traps baby!
The music made the suspense absolutely enjoyable ! Thank you
It clearly will chew its way out of that through the trigger hole....
The key is not to give it enough time to do so
Yep
I like the mouse version of Jaws music for suspense LMAO
That is a cute trap for baby mice. It is a lot of work for those gnarly rats to crew through. They'll gnaw through wood like it's chocolate!
How long did it take for him to chew his way out? From the video, I see there is a problem with ants. Maybe a smaller version of this trap will work to catch them?
I like your cutting skills the best iv seen so far.... But I suspect the rats teeth could cut though the bottle as fast.
Watched it interestingly! A best trap for those who enjoy the fry of it. But I'm worried about a little rat who fries and eats up my midnight sleep and eatables. Thank you and congrats! 👍🏻
The suspense music was great 👍👍 the idea of course is excellent ..however I feel that a larger food piece, like a piece of sausage, instead of a peanut , would speed up the process
Slim jim jerky
I caught a mouse by placing a plate of food on the edge of the counter with a tall garbage can underneath it (about 35" tall). When the critter steps on the plate close to the edge, the plate and critter fall into the can. The walls of the can are smooth so it cant climb out. I then released it far in the field. I love all animals and could not kill one no matter what...
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Mice could eat through plastic so could we use glass bottles cut with a glass cutter, put in a rubber mat on the bottom to cushion the glass when falling? Metal rod could be heated to make the small holes. Might need some other variations too. What do you think?
And how many seconds does it take a rat to chew its way out?
Think ahead they did not
@@o01chris10o Not long, it starts on the hole at the top in the video.
Cool idea but i'll stick with the old fashioned ones that poison them or break their necks.
idk who needs to hear this but rats can chew through plastic REAL quick
great idea but wont the rat be able to eat through? He already started on the pivot hole.
Maybe if you glued a washer there?
Nice design, hats off to you. Unless you remove the varmint ASAP, they will chew a hole in that plastic in no time.
That rat will chew his way out of that bottle in about 20 mins
For all those who are feeling for the rat, let me tell them, rats are a menace they multiply drastically however here he has not asked you to kill the rat, one can always take the bottle miles away and set the rat free.
In your town, do rats and bottles go in the same recycle bin, or separate?
Man! This is both ingenious & funny 🤣😂🤣 I love the moment of realization!
Yes you can catch a pet rat in your trap. A wild rat will chew ypur plastic bottle to pieces in 20 minutes Max.
I agree the rat was a pet.
Very hard to make don't bother guys. Tried making it by doing exactly what he did. Hit the bottle with scissors it didn't break
tried that too.. did not work :(
I like watching other types of mouse traps that are actually successful. On the same time I would not want to deal with a live mouse or rat after catching one. I bought the Victor electric rat trap. They have cheaper ones with only AA batteries which can’t be taken apart to clean up a mess. So I searched RUclips and saw one that took 4”D” batteries, with the option to add another battery pack. The 4 AA battery one will kill 20 rats or 100 mice. I found a nice 4 “C” battery Victor rat trap at Home Depot and I have had great success with it. It sends you a notification to your phone once it has caught a rodent. The roof slides off with easy access to clean their mess. It has a cupboard door that opens up, on the bait trap end, to put peanut butter in it. On my first morning it had 3 dead mice laying on top of each other, over the electric pad. Four hours later I caught another one. This one with the 4 “C” batteries will kill 100 rats or 300 mice before running dead. The 4 “D” battery rat trap, with the extra battery pack, is suppose to last for a year.
I did buy it once.......returned it cuz my rats musta gone to Harvard "rat" college....they simply, KNOW. As i saw in a commercial once "you think im stupid?!??!".........ahh, yeah!
It looks like it works well but you couldn't walk away and check it later. The rat would be gone in a matter of seconds, especially a wild rat. He was already chewing on the hole immediately after he got caught. Redesign it with something he cant chew his way out of and it would be great
Вот такую бы штуку для чиновников, попали бы книгу рекордов Гиннеса.😂😂👍
First, I need to get me pair of those scissors. Second, put the trigger hole on the opposite side of the entryway so the rodent doesn't accidentally spring the trap while checking the place out.
yes! bright thinking!
Spoken like a true psyhchopath.
Ingenious, know the rat will chew out of plastic bottle fairly easily
Warning! Rats can chew right through plastic. They even chewed through our chicken wire! You would have to check this trap very often for it to work.
yes but as you can see, the plastic bottle has a smooth slippery surface in & out so there's no chance for nipping try it, I've tried other designs on RUclips using using plastic bottle it works
Interesting concept. Could use a 2 tin cans instead of plastic. Also a locking mechanism should be added. Easy project most people could do. I would recommend peanut butter the rats can smell that a long way out. As long as you check your traps daily so you can release them in the wild. More the a few days a starved dead rat will stink up the place.
Wow! That’s an insane piece of brilliance...
Хорошая идея, но если вовремя не проверить ловушку, жертва сбежит из неё.
Действительно. Эта ловушка только для мышей и то если не грызючие. А крысы с песчанками в момент сгрызут не только эту дырку, но и ребристые поверхности.
@@НадеждаРыжова-е3о
Откуда вы берётесь, специалисты по грызунам?
Rats thinking “getting paid by the hour here, might as well take my time.”
I think it can chew its way out. Great idea though 👍
Rats a known to chew almost thru anything even metal and since that hole was big I'm guessing it's a breathing hole and he will let it go in the woods if it hadn't chewed its way out which it's a good possibility. Also you can see how cautious that rat was they are smart so probably wouldn't catch another if that rat put a warning scent in it to faint for us to smell.or see so even if he washed it it's hard to get rid of that smell so probably have to keep making fresh ones, same thing when using this mouse traps that snap their neck and kills them that scent will be all over it and warning the others not to go near it!
Wrap it in screen wire
I've been trying for hours to break it with the scissors like you do, is there a trick to it? I've hit it with safety scissors from kindergarten, plain metal scissors, ones with a plastic handle and pinking shears but nothing seems to work.
It's a video trick. Watch the position of the left hand.
@@RedBopete bruh
Hahhahah
There's one tip for catchin' mouse: Keep clean. If the sources of food in your place are too abundant, mouse may not desire to get into the trap.
If it takes this long for your pet rat to take the bait I doubt a wild one would ever come near it, and as others said, a wild rat would chew out of it in a few seconds. How do I know it's your pet? You threw it at the trap at one point (comes skidding in from the left), you panned your camera while watching it, and it is daytime.
Ok you got me rewatched several times and never saw the rat skid in so please tag the time. And it most definitely is a pet rats do not hang around a nicely set up spot like that that is without a doubt inside his room, prob has the 'brick' up to hide it being inside and give the rat nowhere to go accept the trap
Wouldn't take long for a rat to chew its way out of that plastic bottle.
But how is this supposed to trap the rat long enough for you to get it - wouldn't it just bite its way out of the bottle? If a rat got trapped in the middle of the night while you're asleep, it would surely free itself long before you wake up. If there was a way alert you when the trap activates so you can dispose of the rat before it escapes, then good. Or maybe design a method of killing the rat when the trap shuts, before it has time to escape. What if the trap was somehow on the cusp of a relatively deep vessel of water like a bucket and you designed it to fall into the bucket and sink when it shuts? That way the rat will drown before it has time to escape.
Plastic is a rats favorite food. He will chew out of that in 10 minutes.
the music you chose is excellent!
Superb video. Your ingenuity is very well appreciated 👏
very ingenuous . but if you watch right there at the end Mr fat rat was all ready working on a escape plan by gnawing away at the bait hole .
Yes, a rat would probably gnaw it's way out of that thin bottle in 10-15 minutes
Pinky, are you thinking what I'm thinking!?
Ur mom fat
My rat trap's name is Pumpkin because of his orange colored fur. We found him homeless when he was a kitten. His best night was 10 rats and three mice he stacks them up at the barn door. At lest the ones he doesn't eat first. We don't feed him and he keeps getting bigger and fatter. I figure he works for food. He's the best trap ever.
Can I borrow your cat, and will it leave the chickens alone?
Ohh he was sniffing out the entire perimeter & then came back to sniff once more before going in lol. Smart little creatures they are!
Plot twist : the rat at the beginning of the video is his pet
Btw thanks for sharing this
I'm surprised the rat wasn't scared away by the music!
So i had lived in a farmhouse that was literally in a farmers field... and the house had mice in the basement...at first i got the regular traps they worked ,then i saw the no kill little cubical trap were the peanut butter would be at the back of the trap,the mouse would walk in go to the back and the trap would rock forward and voilà the trap would shut. ... they worked great and if i hadn't of been working for a week straight,. away from the farm I'd get back to empty the half rotten soak in their own pee dead mice from the no kill traps...😬 it has been a number of years since then but i remember even when i made it back earlier like in a couple of days ,they'd still be dead. My boss told me about the 5 gallon pail of water with the pop bottle at the top through a wire so it rotates and peanut butter on it...that worked the best.👍👍👍
So how long does it take the rodent to chew its way out ?
Try as I might I can't get the bottle to cut the way you show. I tried tapping it with the same type of tool shown but it just won't work.
The concept is good, but there are some problems about how effective it could be.
Rats can chew through plastic bottles like nothing, so unless you are really quick it can just break out it.
Plus since this is a live catching trap there is a chance that the rat gets hurted like having its tail cutted.
@thelatiosmaster, if the rat is hurted hopping trap cutted off it's head. Then he wont feeler it a lot much.
thats real true....I found plastic food jars in my kitchen with 1 in. diameter holes all chewed up.... I used to shoot rats with a pellet gun but the outcome was noisy as they would cry a piercing scream once shot!
i guess you'd need to check constantly, then have a tub of water to toss the bottle and rat
I’m still working on that bottle cutting technique. You make it look easy. 🤪
And he begins to chew through the bottle immediately and is out in 5 minutes.
That's true. And in summary, it's a rather ineffective trap. If you want to get mouse alive I think its much better to get metallic cage, add door and platform. Door will close when mouse step on platform or something like that.
And the environment should be less dangerous through the eyes of a mouse.
The issue is that the trap design gives them a starting point to chew at the hole. If the mouse is in a bottle with no perforations or edges then they can't get a tooth on the smooth plastic. If you stand up a case of empty plastic soda bottles with no caps and out it in your shed or garage, the mice will climb down the throat of the bottle to get the sweet soda droplets left in the bottle bottom (if they are small mice) and get trapped in the bottle. They can't get a purchase on the smooth plastic to climb out, and they can't bite into the smooth plastic.
8:34 the mouse examining how the trap works 😮
8:48 the mouse contemplating whether the trap would work 🤔
9:07 the mouse decides to give it a try 😆
Could a mouse eat his way out of that container, as he seemed to have started doing when the video ended.
Thanks, that was funny! But rat or mouse can easily eat the plastic 😁
i couldnt wait to see the thing get trapped but then after watching for what felt like an eternity i felt sorry for the little guy and didnt.
I woulda made the hole opposite where the wire is since he almost looked like he was going to trigger it sniffing at it outside the bottle
Be easier just buying a snap trap. Lot of work went into constructing something that rat is simply going to chew it's way out of within a few minutes.
i've seen many vids on ways to trap these critters. City mice are a cut above, they don't fall for conventional spring loaded traps, sticky pads,etc.I was a tech in NYC and one day, up on the 76th floor in the World Trade Center, i saw glue traps under the raised computer floor. The operator told me they had some of the critters up there and would chew on some wires, a big no no with mainframe connections in the computer room. They sure as hell didn't get on the elevators and press the button, likely just climbed on the miles of cables or were somehow brought up in boxes from the loading dock area. I applaud the different ways people devise to get rid of them, some might work depending on the rodent's IQ, but i still think the best way is to figure out how the hell they got in the house in the first place and take the steps to seal it up.
Shotgun blast for the final scene, but then I suppose you would ruin the trap, but well worth it all the same. Brilliant !!
Nah, we just release down by the river. Its cleaner, easier, and reuse the trap. Plus, we like to respect our neighbors peace and quiet and not annoy them with a loud shotgun blast noise.
People don't realize that rats are expedientially harder to trap than mice. Rats avoid almost everything and have to be baited and tricked most times. They're too smart for their own good (and ours) 😂😂!
Just like politicians 😝, very smart rats
Yeah! Ur right! 👏 I bought so many rat traps and then they just jump all of it!! 😖
Set the trigger right on the edge and make sure the cheese is set tight.. My rat traps work fine
I wondered about the size of the hole on top since rats are experts at finding egress and then chewing it wide enough to wriggle out. I wonder if a very limited length slot would be better since the hole would encourage the rat to put its nose through and get to work on its escape.
I like the trap tho. I'm wondering if I could rig something similar for rabbits since predators get to them before I visit my traps. (Survival food, not amusements) :)
Rat will chew his way out of there in 10 minutes.