Although I am no longer experiencing mouse-related problems myself (Mr. Crinkles was the apparent one-and-only, and I have since plugged in too many of those "pest repelling sound barrier" thingies for the size of my apt), but I would love to see one of those mouse diving board contraptions in action.

Or....if you wanted to use the regular traps without being "mean" to the little bastards you could modifiy one of the cheap traps without a lot of hassle.

Wrap a piece of foam rubber (or something soft) around the arm of the trap. I havent tried this but I bet it would still trap them and they'd prolly be alive.

Just a thought.

I want the little fuckers DEAD. I just think the diving board method is cool.

Even if I would have to strangle them by hand.

Didja think I went all soft on yah or something?

My better mousetrap
 

In the house I owned in 1998, I had a few mice too. I built a drowning trap similar to the one mentioned above.

I got a bucket and filled it half full of water. I set up a ramp to the edge and placed a rod across the middle from the ramp to the opposite edge and fastened it in place. In the middle of the rod (and thus over the center of the water-filled bucket), I placed a breadcrumb container so that it rotated freely and coated it with a few dabs of peanut butter. This worked well to get rid of the mousie problem within a week.


Brian