Testing Out The DIY Plastic Bottle Mousetrap. Don't Believe Everything Online. Mousetrap Monday
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Try cutting off the threaded part and just leave a hole. The mouse could grab the edge of the hole by jumping higher, but try it anyway.
Exactly what I thought.
That's even easier for them to escape
If it was cut right below the threads there would be a small amount of funnel left that is completely smooth so there would be nothing that the mouse could grab
Cut right below the ring, leaves nothing for a mouse to hang on to. Cheers!
Yep
I think taping toothpicks around the rim of the threaded part will help stopping the mice from re-entering, like the spikes in jar traps!
Great video as always, keep it up!
Wow! Incredible skill jumping up to the exit point and lifting yourself out...mouse or not, that is impressive.
Dremel the threads and collar off the bottle neck. Use the body off another bottle to make the trap extra tall. 2" of water in the bottom will also prevent them from jumping successfully.
I think the threads on the bottle top are the deciding factor here. They're like hand holds for a rock climber. If you took that part off and flipped the round top over without it I think it would be more effective. Worse case scenario pour in some oil with the seed and grease up those paws to keep them from using the sides of the bottle.
Just use PAM spray cooking oil on the cut off bottle top, allowing no friction surface, and the Jungle Jimminy mouse can't grab onto the bottle top and exit.
And cut off the threads and security ring for good measure.
Or Just put a bit of oil at the bottom
Add Vaseline to the outer rim of the bottle cap before turning it over and taping it. The mouse will try to grap unto it but will make it's paws slippery (and covered with Vaseline in the process)
Not just the threads, I would also remove that big protruded lip/ring that the cap sits on, or at least oil/grease it. That's what they're using to hang on.
Well now you have a place to set a trap that works that they'll probably think is another feeding station now.
A wise man learns just as much from his losses as he does from his victories! Thanks as usual for the great content Shawn. It is nice to see the good, the bad, and the ugly as it helps us all out.
Shawn highlighted in today's New York Times article concerning rats and rat problems. As a long time subscriber, I was pleased he got the recognition !
If you cut the nozzle off it might work, That threaded nozzle gives them something to grab hold of.
Exactly!
That trap would need refinements to work. 1) Greater height. 2) Peanut oil on any surface that a mouse could conceivably use to aid escaping. 3) Short downward pointing wires formed as a funnel.
Also, we didn't see the pet mice trying it out, but then again, they don't have much motivation to escape.
His pet mice are too fat to squeeze in 🤣🤣👍👍
I'm not sure if it was intentional, but you observed good scientific practice here by asking a good question - width or threads - and only changing one variable at a time to figure it out. Thanks for the good video as always!
just add a trace of oil to the bait and the neck of the bottle - result tired, trapped mice
I've seen this kind of trap used for yellow jackets. Instead of seed at the bottom, put in some sugar water or Mountain Dew (highest sugar content pop currently on the market). A drop of dishwashing liquid on the pop will allow the yellow jackets to sink.
"You are going to need a taller bottle !" And a wider-mouthed bottle for the rats.
Just put the bait (peanut butter) on the side and half fill with water
I'd say don't add tape, just cut it off to remove the large ledge that would be below the bottlecap security ring when it's in place so you just have the funnel and a short neck with absolutely nothing to grab on to.
My thoughts exactly.
Maybe a 3d printed coupler to allow the cut top of one bottle to be put on an intact bottle. Or maybe a 3d printed funnel that just screws onto the top of the bottle.
Maybe catching rats with a dispenser size water jug, I would have just cut off the whole cap section and maybe added just a drop of oil
What I would do is take another 2 L bottle, cut off the top and bottom and extend the length. Cut off the threaded portion as well. It would be too tall for them to escape. Add a base to make it stable.
That and dish soap applied to the exposed part of the top.
you only need to make it a water trap and they can't jump. You could smear peanut butter on the cone.
This could be made as a kill trap with water. Mice can’t jump
When they are swimming.
Could use a bit of oil on the inside. When their little paws get oiled then, they won't be able to grab anything.
I've actually had success doing this, I put water in the bottom and smeared peanut butter on the inside to lure them in.
Yes it works as kill trap...
Add a couple inches of water and float the bait on top of the water.
Obviously those mice are supermice with the power to dematerialize! Good luck finding a trap that will hold them.
They've developed transporters! And I thought Rats were the smartest rodents!
Add some sharp spikes pointing down on the threads and it will work
vegetable oil around the bottle neck or glue paperclips/wire etc around it. or cut the bottle neck into spikes, you'll need to gather it in a bit then bulk it out somehow to fit.
I would cut the whole threaded part off,leaving less for them to cling to.
They're not necessarily grabbing the threads, they're grabbing the ring at the base of the threads that the tamper ring on the lid catches on. Try cutting the top off right below the ring, then there won't BE anything TO grab.
Totally agree.
Exactamundo!
You have some great ideas on here Shawn for trapping mice. In reading the comments, one commented about cutting the threads off and another one said to cut the threads off and smear it with some kind of oil to make it slippery. I think that, cutting the threads and putting oil on it would be a FANTASTIC idea, you outta try that in a new video and see if that works.
Keep the great ideas coming, great channel btw.
It does kind of work, but you need to add steel spikes to keep them in.
You did what I would have suggested. You tried and the trap just isn't very trappy, they're great feeding stations though.
You could put them in that way to give them a sense of security for a week or so then fill them with water and cut of the top threaded part so they have nothing to hold onto to get back out.
SPIKES!!! You know what I mean, as you already have that kind of thing in you're collection.
Yeah, you need to Cut Off all the Ridges, then add a little lube, but good idea though.
what helps the mice is the big wide lip after the theads a nice gip to hold on if flat around the edges make hard and if make slippy on inside would no grip.
Try smearing oil in and outside of the funnel.
Very cool seeing how the ones I caught got away 😂. I immediately regretted not dispatching them when I saw that I'd caught them. Came back a bit later and they were gone. I was imagining some teamwork acrobatics, but this makes way more sense.
The addition of paper clip barbs with the tape would have done it and possibly instead of the tape sand the cap threads off until it's smooth
Thank you kind Sir, for running a Food bank this episode.
I wonder if the funnel part of the trap was greased if it would prevent the mice from escaping.
Cool video, Shawn! 👍🏻
Put a spring loaded trapdoor that returns to position after the mouse goes in . Maybe join two bottles together long ways .
I am about to go out and make one .
maybe cut the top closer to the top and actually cut the tip part with the threads off too so there isn't a horizontal cylinder for them to grab.
Sean, you are the best!
This would be an easy trap to make a kill trap by filling with water, and smearing peanut butter on the sides to lure them in.
For a live catch trap try joining 2 bottles together so that the mouse can’t jump high enough to reach the funnel.
A few centimetres of water in the bottom would stop them jumping back up with the current design.
Oil the walls and the part of the lid that goes inside the bottle...
This would work if you would make spikes on the bottle neck.
I'm thinking the threads and the big ridge should be ground off smooth. It may work then, but no telling.
Maybe just fill with some water to prevent them from jumping out?
Water probably won't attract them though.
@@OlivierCaron a thin layer of seeds floating on the water to bait them in
sand the threads off with 220g and hit it with a torch to make it slick again
Maybe it needs water in it instead or vegetable oil
After seeing what mice did to escape the bottle trap, I would cut off the bottle necks so they can't grab anything inside.
Putting a little Vaseline on the neck will prevent the mouse from coming up
mettre un peu de vaseline sur le goulot empêchera la souris de remonter
I would add a few drops of peanut oil to the funnel then they should get oil on their feet and be unable to climb out.
Straighten out a few paper clips and tape them to the threads, make a funnel style trap out of it.
I'd cut off the threaded part and maybe apply a little oil to the funnel.
If it were a successful trap as far as climbing out, I bet they could just chew out the side in like 15 min
I wonder if you cut the neck off the bottles so there is nothing below the cone bit of the funnel if it would work better.
I have used that design to catch flies. It almost looks like it could work for mice if you just left the bottles unmodified.
That's what I was going to suggest also.
Or even just cut off the threads at the base of the tamper ring, so there's nothing TO grab.
Ideal to catch yellowjackets at the end of Summer!
Interesting idea on paper but once you try it out...
Next step, even larger 3 Liter soda bottle. After that fill the bottom with water and drown 'em.
I really thought this was going to work.
It did catch them, though, so would have to make it a kill trap, so they could not escape.
Try just the bottle without cutting off the top I used catch them in old beer bottles and pop bottles
Yeah, they can't chew out of a GLASS bottle.
If you put a bit of oil in theinside around it might be slippery
They're probably grabbing that top lip, above the threads. I would have taped that up too.
Caught two mice with a DIY bottle trap, but not that way. Attach a string to the top of the bottle. Put some bait in the bottle. Place it somewhere horizontally so that when the mouse goes inside the bottle it fall from at least the hight of the bottle. Tie the other end of the string somewhere so that when it falls the bottle stay up (even stays in the air). Voilà
"all you have to do is use a knife, be careful, don't cut yourself." Proceeds to throw knife with open blade to the said. That's, like, the opposite of being careful.
Put a little oil on the inside of the bottle in addition to taping the threads. I think that combination might work.
What if you rubbed oil around the top area?
Cut off the tops of two and fasten them neck-to-neck so that there are no threads and there's no way to get to the threads. All the mouse will be able to do is slide off of the inside of the neck of the downward-facing bottle.
Yeah, that works as a fish trap but, obviously not a mouse trap
I discovered something but it is also expensive. My mom left her virgin coconut oil bottle open and the following day I saw 3 dead mice on top of one another. I think the bottom mouse drowned in oil since there was around 1/3 oil left but I don't know how the other two died. Because the oil held the bottle upright, the bottle was not toppled by the 3 mice. They died piled on top of one another. Weird.
They couldn't climb out because they were oily, interesting trap hehe
I’ve had this happen also, seems mice can’t resist any cooking oil, but it was quite the surprise when I found the oil. But it made great stir fry!!😊
Just a little bait. Pours in half a cup of seeds to keep the mouse well fed!
Dremel off the threads and then wipe on vegi oil around the cone and inside the bottle sides.
How about adding a little bit of peanut oil in there. The bowl full of oiled up mice is a classic.
4 staples to hold them together. Cut the threaded part off.
Maybe smear some grease on the inside to make it slippery?
Good to know. Thank you for sharing
You should've lubed the top part with Vaseline so the mice would have nothing to grip onto to escape. Including the cap part.
What would happen if you cut the threaded part right off?
Yup!
You might also make it two bottles high..They might not be able to jump that high
you need a longer bottle, that all
They make decent minnow traps though if laid on it's side.
Why not cut the threaded part off?
By adding a little oil to the food their feet would not be able to grip when trying to escape.
well, I mean, after you cover the inside with a tape, maybe some grease on top or some other slippery solution (that doesn't drip down) could increase the odds?
I think you're on to something with the grease idea. In addition, though, I'd add the notion of keeping the cap, but with a hole drilled in it.
In other words, drill a hole in the cap the same diameter as the inside diameter of the neck (don't leave a ledge to grab onto ). Then use it to shield the threads by threading the now center-less cap back on. Grease the outside of the remaining portion of the cap, for good measure.
Fill it with peanut oil instead of seeds.
So you need a really tall bottle
I don't think it was the cap thread they hung onto, it was that thicker ridge just below the thread.
Make it so there's nothing to grab onto? Wouldn't that work?
Or maybe make it taller, too tall for them to jump that high?
Don't cut it off, just fill it and forget it Ron says, then they won't be able to grab onto anything at all.
Cut the neck of the bottle where the security ridge is just below the cap. That way there is nothing for the mice to grab. Be aware though that mice like eating plastic, and if they can’t climb out, they will chew their way out in a few minutes.
I think the idea is a good one only it needs some modification
What if we add oil in the bottle? to make it slippery!
You should add some needles/spikes/whatever so the mice risk getting poked if they try going up.
Double stack the bottles to make it a lot higher.