A Greener Mouse Trap: Mouse in a Pint

I've had luck catching mice by placing an empty tuna can in a garbage can sans liner under my sink. They climb in and can't get out. This idea smells better.

The idea is simple - an ordinary pint glass is placed upside down with a bread stick and spring propping it up. Once the mouse eats through the stick, the glass comes down and bingo - you've got yourself a mouse!

Simple & humane. But will it work? I'm not sure, but it's a cute idea. I'd test it out but I no longer (knock on wood) have any mice around to test it on.

Build it yourself with these materials:

Pint Glass

Spring

Bread Stick

Or Purchase it here.

Mouse in a Pint at the Thorsten Van Elten shop via Uncrate.com

Comments (2)

Another option (this worked for us last year):

Equipment:
1. Deep bin or trashcan (empty, unlined).
2. Magazine.
3. Two crackers.
4. Peanut butter.
5. Kitchen counter or other elevated location where mouse goes.

Procedure:
1. Spread peanut butter on crackers. Eat one cracker as a snack.
2. Place other cracker on magazine.
3. Balance magazine on edge of kitchen counter, with cracker end cantilevered out over kitchen floor.
4. Place bin underneath cantilevered peanut butter cracker magazine.
5. When mouse walks out over magazine to get delicious peanut butter cracker, magazine will tip and fall into bin, along with peanut butter cracker and mouse.
6. Mouse may eat peanut butter cracker as snack while waiting for you to arrive and remove bin to outside location near home of someone you dislike.