Building a Better Mousetrap (Warning! Graphic)

Last spring I helped my friend get his bikes ready for the riding season.  He stores them in his pole barn and mouse damage is always a possibility.  This time they climbed into his airbox and chewed up his filter.  There was mouse poop, corn, hair, and bits of chewed filter and plastic all over and it trickled down into the carb.  Big mess.

I don't have this problem in my much better sealed garage, but my Snowmobile was stored outside this summer and I did get a little mouse family.  They chewed up a lot of my sound insulation but thankfully did not get into my airbox.

During long storage, moth balls don't work well enough, and most traps only catch one mouse at a time.  Then I saw something posted on a sled forum that works really good.



It's so simple and cheap! And it works great.  This is a Yooper bucket trap.  Everyone I spoke to said they see them all the time in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Fill a bucket deep enough to drown a rat. Smear peanut butter on cut bottle or can and hang it on a stick.  Lean a ramp on the side of the bucket.  The mice try to get the PB and fall into the bucket when it spins.  One trap that can kill multiple mice over night.  And unlike poisons it won't harm your pets.  

Bill H.
Temperance, Mi
2000 CR250R
1991 YZ125

m m m, nothing like mouse soup on a cold sisnatchewan night.  
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Oh yeah in cold weather add a little of that environment safe antifreeze too.  Or you might end up with frozen mousecicles. hahaha  

Bill H.
Temperance, Mi
2000 CR250R
1991 YZ125

Bill, i use peanut butter on my mouse traps too. But, sometimes I wonder if the smell of the peanut butter is attracting the mouse from outside??  

That seems to be a really effective idea. I'll be making one.  
Patrick
1989 Cr250r.

Sorry, Goose, but it's time to buzz a tower.

Mount Hope, Kansass

Mice are exploratory by nature.  If they are close enough to smell the PB from outside chances are they were going to be looking for a nice dry, warm safe home in your garage anyway.

And all poisons are smelly too or they would not get the mice to eat them.  Plus any other trap I've seen needs bait as well.

I've used cheese, or cheese spread before, but it goes bad fast and does not seem to attract the mice as well as PB.  

Bill H.
Temperance, Mi
2000 CR250R
1991 YZ125

Bill, Thats just wrong lol!~  As you know ML Iv been hunting these little field varmints for some time, And peanut butter IS the best, But You are right, It Does attract them from out side. Mice follow the sent of each other to help find food.
And in winter The Garage Mahal is like the Ritz          

i wont use poisons. The mice eat the poison and then crawl into the walls and die and then they stink up the place and u can't get at them without tearing down half the building. sometimes u get lucky and they go out of the house to get water, because the poison makes them thirsty, but in my experience  i think they get delirious and head into the walls almost as much as they leave the building.  

I don't like poisons either.  And all of the other traps I've used can only kill one mouse at a time before they need to be reset.  And all of those need bait as well.  

Bill H.
Temperance, Mi
2000 CR250R
1991 YZ125

And with trap it seems disposal would be easy peasy lol. I freaking hate picking up those lil chits!!!!  
Patrick
1989 Cr250r.

Sorry, Goose, but it's time to buzz a tower.

Mount Hope, Kansass

i thought this was going to be graphic i didnt see the chewed up airbox in any of these pics?  
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Yah throw us a bone Bill and show us a torn up filter.  


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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

1994 CR80

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I like the bucket trap idea. I hate to empty standard traps, so I just throw them away and set a new one.  
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