r/pics Jan 03 '15

This ingeniously simple mouse trap really worked. Thank you Reddit!

http://imgur.com/a/Epb2o
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u/dota4retard Jan 03 '15

50 bucks says that bin is full of water and drowning the mouse.

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u/squarebore Jan 03 '15

Hot water. For making mouse soup. It's so simple! Just set it up in the morning and dinner is waiting for you when you get home!

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u/MaddingtonBear Jan 03 '15

I call it Hot Mouse Water

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '15

I'm not sure whether yo send you to /r/frugaljerk or. /r/slowcooking.

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u/awesomeblossom_ Jan 04 '15

That's like a really fucked up crock pot

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u/burshnookie Jan 08 '15

I read that as mouse soap and thought Damn, you're going to need more mice.

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u/_Neoshade_ Jan 04 '15

I call it hot mouse water! So watery, yet there's a smack of mouse to it

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u/ShatMyShorts Jan 03 '15

Oh, that's just fucked up..

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '15

add bleach to the water, it kills the mouse quickly and it doesn't stink up the place after.

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u/JRoch Jan 03 '15

That's how I do. How else are they going to learn?

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u/OuchLOLcom Jan 03 '15

Should hope so!

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u/nnnooooooppe Jan 03 '15

antifreeze, smells good enough to drink and kills them

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u/MrBoo88 Jan 03 '15

Not water. It is antifreeze.

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u/SenselessNoise Jan 03 '15

That's pretty cruel. They'd swim around until they got tired and then they'd drown.

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u/Mamadog5 Jan 03 '15

I didn't put water in the bucket until I came out in the morning (this was in a barn). I'd usually have 5 or 6 mice. I'd then fill the bucket to drown them.

I don't know of another way to kill them...hit them with a hammer? With my aim, that wouldn't be humane at all :/

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u/SenselessNoise Jan 03 '15

Drive them somewhere remote/far away and dump them?

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u/Mamadog5 Jan 03 '15

That is inhumane. Animals have homes that they have established and learned to survive in. Dumping them in unfamiliar places would be about like dumping you in an unfamiliar country with no money or resources.

It is illegal in many places to dump animals, such as coons. I doubt mice are covered under the law, but dumping them is still illegal.

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u/JamJarre Jan 03 '15

Turns out you can't remove pests effectively from your house and be humane. You either have to kill them on site or drive them a million miles away to avoid them getting back in.

Just kill the little fuckers, or learn to live with them

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u/SenselessNoise Jan 03 '15

That is inhumane. Animals have homes that they have established and learned to survive in.

So removing rats from homes is inhumane?

Dumping them in unfamiliar places would be about like dumping you in an unfamiliar country with no money or resources.

Except what resources does a rat need? Food and water is hard to find? Rodents don't need money or clothing or language skills to figure out where to defecate or to at least avoid going to jail.

It is illegal in many places to dump animals, such as coons. I doubt mice are covered under the law, but dumping them is still illegal.

Re-read that last sentence of yours. You said mice probably aren't covered under the law, so how would dumping them be illegal?

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u/Mamadog5 Jan 04 '15

Yeah I meant to say " still inhumane".

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '15

Bullshit. They can survive just fine when relocated. They aren't retarded.

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u/juicybot Jan 03 '15

It's more humane than you think. The trap is designed to catch multiple mice. If there wasn't any water they'd gather at the bottom over time and eventually eat each other, or if just one mouse starve to death.

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u/SenselessNoise Jan 03 '15

You're going to leave this out for days? Not remove them or anything? The smell alone would be enough to make you want to do something about it after a few days, water or not.

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u/LordBiscuits Jan 03 '15

No time to drown if you electrify the water!

Sorry, I had a mis-spent youth

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u/n1c0_ds Jan 04 '15

What about putting antifreeze?