Mice appear in living quarters, exploring available territories in search of food and convenient places for arranging a permanent mink. It is not difficult for a nimble rodent to get into an apartment or house. But a mouse will settle in a dwelling for a long time only if it considers it comfortable place a habitat. Such a neighborhood is ruinous and dangerous for a person. After all, mice spoil food and things, and are also carriers of many serious diseases.

To take measures to expel mice from the home is required immediately. If the use of poison or a mousetrap is not possible, home traps are built to “catch” rodents. It is easy to make them with a piece of food bait, as well as jars, bottles, boxes or buckets. An alternative to traps is special devices that repel rodents with an ultrasonic signal and electromagnetic waves.

Reasons for the appearance of rodents in the house

You can find out about the appearance of mice in the house by a number of signs:

• scattered bits of food;
• tossed products, gnawed packages;
• teeth marks on various subjects interior;
• excrement left by rodents (small, black dry "peas");
• gnawed holes in baseboards and wooden partitions;
• rustling, rustling and squeaking coming from the kitchen at night.

Mice enter living quarters in search of food and places where they can equip their permanent "house" and start a family.

In residential apartment buildings they easily get from the basements even to the upper floors through ceilings, ventilation shafts.

Often mice start up in grocery stores located on the ground floors of residential buildings due to non-compliance with sanitation rules. From there, the rodents are already "settled" in nearby apartments.

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Important reasons why mice do not enter the house, but remain in it for a long time:

• Food and water, which are constantly in the public domain. These can include unlidded trash cans, cookies, candy, fruit on tables, pet food and water in bowls. Finding once a large number of easy prey, the mouse will come for it a second time in the same place.
• In the apartment (or nearby) there are "hidden" places that rodents evaluate as safe for arranging nests. These are old cabinets or pantries, holes, convenient recesses or recesses in the dilapidated walls of old houses, from where it is easy to go to the apartment for food. The mouse shelter can hide under the floorboards.
• Poor hygiene of the home, when crumbs, leftovers, pieces of food are scattered around the kitchen and house, puddles of food and water are spilled.

Mice are smart enough and able to estimate how often the owner looks into the "secluded" corner before settling in for a long time.

Harm and danger to humans

Mice in an apartment are not only an unpleasant and repulsive sight. Unwanted "neighbors" inflict real harm the property of the owners of the dwelling, and also pose a danger to their health:

• Mice gnaw everything that comes across to them “on the tooth” (furniture, partitions, baseboards), spoil wallpaper, clothes.
• In search of food, they come not only to the kitchens and places of storage of human food supplies. Mice are permanent inhabitants of dirty basements, dumps, dumps, garbage cans. These animals are carriers of pathogenic bacteria, microbes, distributors of life-threatening viral diseases.

On a note! Like all rodents, mice comfortable conditions multiply very quickly. One healthy female per year produces offspring from 15-20 mice. Already at three months they are full-fledged adults that begin to reproduce on their own. If urgent measures are not taken to exterminate the rodents in the apartment, they will capture it completely in a very short time.

How to catch mice without a mousetrap

If you need to catch or drive away mice without using a mousetrap or poison, you can design traps on your own, once in which, rodents will not be able to get out.

Traps

To make the simplest "mouse" traps, you will need food bait and a container that will serve as a future "prison" for a rodent:

• Bottle. A deep bottle is suitable (preferably with a capacity of 1.5-2 liters). Her upper part from the inside (and how much you can get in depth) are lubricated with vegetable oil. A fragrant bait is laid out at the bottom of the bottle. The trap is placed in such a way that it is convenient for the mouse to climb into it, but it is impossible to get out. To do this, the bottle is placed at a steep slope, and if necessary, a “bridge” is carried out to the neck. Once inside, the animal cannot get out, as it slides along the oily walls.
• Box. The design should work in such a way that the mouse is covered with a box on top. To do this, a thread is glued to the bottom of the inside of the box (in the center), on which a delicacy for a rodent is strung. The sides of the box are mounted on shaky supports that collapse at the slightest shift. Attracted by the bait, the mouse climbs under the box, pulls the thread with food, from this the props collapse, and the trap box covers the rodent.
• Bank on the edge of a coin. This trap is designed on the principle of a box. The coin acts as a shaky support, which falls at the right moment, and the bank covers the rodent. To lure the mouse, a piece of food is glued inside the jar on the wall. Trying to take food, the mouse moves the jar, the coin falls, and the trap slams shut.
• deep capacity. A simple but effective trap is a deep container, such as a 3-4-5 liter jar or bucket. An appetizing bait is placed at the bottom, and access to the "entrance" is facilitated - for example, so that the mouse can jump inside or "climb" to the edge of the container using a specially fitted device. The mouse gets into the bucket, but due to the height of the walls, it cannot get out.

The box and the jar are placed directly on the cardboard (or a piece of plywood), so that it is convenient to turn over, take the trap with the mouse away, using the cardboard as a lid.

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More "severe" options makeshift traps(as a result, the caught animal dies) are constructed with glue and water:

• A board or cardboard is thickly smeared with long-drying viscous glue, a bait is placed in the center of the trap. Attracted by food, the mouse gets bogged down in the glue, then it is thrown away along with the trap.
• A bucket with high walls is filled up to half with water, covered with newspaper or paper with a cross-shaped incision. Food for the rodent is placed in the center of the paper, making it easier for the mouse to approach the food. When the animal enters the paper sheet, it falls into the water and drowns.

Pieces of meat, cheese, cookies, bread, sausages, cereals, seeds are used as bait. Place traps for mice in places of their frequent visits - traditionally, in the kitchen.

Repellers

A modern device for getting rid of mice in an apartment or house is an ultrasonic (US) rodent repeller.

The principle of operation of the ultrasound device:

• emitted ultrasonic waves act on nervous system and the brain of rodents (, rats), causing panic fear in animals;
• as a result, they immediately leave the area affected by the signal;
• the operation of the device is completely safe for people and pets.

More modern models- combined devices that additionally affect mice also with the help of electromagnetic waves. They independently change the frequency of signals, not allowing mice to adapt to the impact. Regular use of a repeller can completely expel mice from an apartment, residential building, suburban area(within 2-3 weeks the rodents leave the area).

Sometimes an ordinary cat, which is traditionally considered a "mouse" becomes an excellent "repeller" of mice. But it is noted that many domestic cats, due to the availability of daily food, “lazy” life, have lost their hunting instincts, and mice have ceased to be afraid of them.

Best preventive measures against the invasion of mice in the home - cleanliness and timely repairs:

• do not leave food in accessible places, store food supplies in tightly closed containers, kitchen cabinets;
• use a trash can with a tight lid, throw out the trash every day without leaving it overnight;
• do not keep available food for cats and dogs on the floor all the time;
• maintain the cleanliness of the kitchen, dining room, storerooms with products;
• carry out preventive inspection and cleaning of cabinets, chests of drawers;
• inspect the integrity of the skirting boards, wooden partitions, walls in the room.

If traces of the invasion of uninvited guests are found, measures should be taken immediately to “catch” them.

Fighting mice in a home is often hard work, as rodents are tenacious and multiply rapidly. Comprehensive measures will be most effective: repair work, isolation of products, maintenance of cleanliness along with the placement of bait traps and the use of deterrent devices.

Mice can start up everywhere: both in the apartment (house mouse) and in the country (vole). Many people do not want to kill even one individual to get rid of them. Therefore, they are looking for an opportunity to resolve this issue without. Their goal is simply to catch the rodent and carry it away from the home, thereby making it impossible to return. In order to catch the mouse, saving her life, there are many traps and devices. These designs can be created with your own hands at home.

There are several ways to catch with a bottle. You need to take a plastic bottle, grease it with vegetable oil from the inside and add bait. Place the bottle at an angle of forty-five degrees from the floor. In order for the mouse to climb into the jar, you need to put a bridge on it - a rail or a ruler. When she climbs into the bottle, she will not have the opportunity to climb back due to the fact that the walls are slippery. However, this method is only suitable for adult mice.

For next way you will need a fishing line, one end of which is tied to the neck of the bottle, the other is fixed on the table. The bottle must be placed on the table so that the bottom remains in the air, before adding bait to it. After the mouse climbs for food, the bottle will hang on a rope under its weight.

To catch a mouse with a plastic bottle, you can use a trap that requires a paper clip, two plastic tubes and two rubber bands. It is done as follows:

1. Cut a small hole in the center of the bottom.
2. The top should be cut so that an improvised lid is obtained.
3. One tube must be passed through the center of the bottle, the second through the center of the “lid”.
4. A paper clip with a bait must be tied to an elastic band and threaded through a hole in the bottom, securing the other end of the elastic band on the outside of the cork.
5. Another elastic band should be fixed on the outside of the bottle on the tubes so that the “lid” is open.

When the mouse starts pulling on the bait, the first rubber band will break, causing the lid to slam shut.

Box

You need to take a box, attach a short rope to its bottom, and attach the bait to the other end of the rope. The box must be turned over and placed with its edges on thin supports, but so that the support is not strong.

The bait on the rope should hang in the air and not touch the floor. When the mouse wants to reach the bait, it will have to stand on its hind legs, grab the bait and pull it down. At this point, the props will fall and the mouse will be covered by the box.

Bucket

You will need a bucket and plastic bottle. The bottle must be pierced with a knitting needle through the lid and bottom so that it can rotate freely around its axis. The ends of the needles must be fixed on the bucket. The bottle should be spinning over the bucket and the bait should be placed on it. The mouse, smelling the smell, will try to get a treat and climb onto the bottle. Since the bottle is spinning, the rodent will not hold on to it and will fall into the bucket.

Another way is to put a newspaper with a cut in the form of a cross on the bucket, bait is placed next to it. In order for the mouse to climb onto the bucket, a plank should be substituted, and when trying to get to the food, the rodent will fail.

Jar and flower pot

For such a capture of a mouse, you need to take a half-liter glass jar. You will also need a coin. A bait is glued to the inner edge of the can with tape. The bank must be placed on the edge of the coin. When the mouse enters under the jar and starts trying to unstick the food from the wall, the coin will fall and the jar will cover the rodent.

Can be used to catch mice flower pot- it is desirable that it be weighty (you can also take plastic, but it will have to be weighted). To catch a rodent, you need a match, a thread and a paper clip. A thread should be tied to the match. At the bottom of any pot there is always a drainage hole through which this thread must be passed. A paper clip with a bait put on it should be tied to its other end. The match should be placed under the edge of the pot (the bait should hang at a height of 5 centimeters). Having found food, the mouse will try to get it and, pulling it, will overturn the pot.

Glue from mice

Such glue is sold in the store - usually these are special adhesive rugs. With their smell, they attract rodents, and when the animal sticks, they hold it tightly.

Glue must be applied to flat surface, which does not give the opportunity to cling to anything. This rug should be kept out of the reach of children and pets.

Where to set the trap and how to choose the bait?

It is advisable to put in secluded and dark corners or where waste products of her life are found. You can set a trap next to food supplies - mice, if any, will definitely come there.

These animals are practically omnivores. Any food can be a bait for them. Therefore, the common belief that mice only love cheese is incorrect.

Lures can be sausages, lard, meat, and even bread and butter. It is better to check which products have suffered the most - this will indicate the individual preferences of the rodent that wound up in the house.

Mice often settle in our homes, annoying the owners of both private houses and comfortable apartments. For nimble rodents, multi-storey buildings are not a hindrance; they easily overcome obstacles thanks to dexterity and their sharp claws. Some of the outraged owners of dwellings disturbed by rodents use traps to catch them, some even resort to radical methods fighting mice using poison. Meanwhile, there are other more humane and very effective ways capture those toothy petty thieves.

Mouse trap jar
In order to easily and quickly catch a gray rodent, you will need:

• glass jar with a capacity of 0.7 l;
  
• a small piece of cheese (about 1.5 cm long and wide);
  
• narrow sticky fabric tape about 15 cm long;
  
• five-ruble coin (can be replaced with an old three- or five-kopeck coin)
  

You can make a trap from this set of items as follows:

1. Wrap a piece of cheese in the middle with tape so that the cheese is securely in place.
   
2. Attach the other end of the tape to the bottom of the jar from the inside so that when the container is placed on the neck, the cheese hangs about 5 cm from the floor.
   
3. Place the jar in the place where the mouse is operating, at an angle. This is done as follows: on the one hand, a coin is placed under the neck rib perpendicular to the glass line. On a slippery surface, it can be quite difficult to place a jar with a neck on a coin, but the result is worth it! In addition, a place to catch a rodent can be equipped on a fleecy rug, which will make the installation of the jar simple and quick.
   
4. Leave the bait jar for a while, leave the house or apartment, providing the mouse with freedom of action. You can test your trap the very next morning, and 99% of 100% of the time you will find a dull gray rodent under the sweaty jar.
   
5. Now put a sheet of cardboard next to the jar and carefully move the "aquarium" onto it. The fate of the mouse is literally in your hands!
   

And everything happened very simply. A nimble mouse, having slipped through the hole near the coin under the jar, tried to climb up to the cheese suspended on scotch tape and thereby dropped the coin-stand, breaking the precarious balance of the jar, which slammed safely over her head.

bottle trap
This method of catching mice is even simpler than the previous one. To catch a rodent, you will need a tall plastic bottle (1.5 or 2 liters), scissors, sunflower oil unrefined (unrefined and non-deodorized) and a handful of seeds.

1. Cut off the top of the plastic bottle in a circle where the narrowing begins to the neck.
   
2. Lubricate the inner walls of the bottle generously with vegetable oil.
   
3. Pour the oil into the bottom of the bottle with a layer of about 3 cm. Pour the seeds into the same place.
   
4. Place the trap at a slight slope, attaching it to a wooden "ladder" so that a sunflower-hungry mouse climbs it into a jar.
   
5. Leave the trap overnight.
   

Arriving in the morning at the "accident scene", you will find in a bottle a rodent rolled in oil, exhausted, but alive and unharmed, which was prevented from getting out by the slippery plant mass.

You see how easy it is to get rid of unwanted neighbors, while showing sincere “mouse-love” and humanity! Good luck to you "hunting" - and indestructible reserves!

Contrary to the generally accepted belief that mice are permanent residents only of cottages and private houses, these rodents are increasingly appearing in ordinary city apartments. Neighborhood with these animals is dangerous not only because of the panic in the female half of the family, but also because of the many diseases that they carry.

Therefore, it is necessary to think about how to catch a mouse in an apartment without a mousetrap immediately after detecting signs of its presence in the room.

It is better to use one of the many ways that describe in detail how to catch a mouse in a house or apartment without a mousetrap.

Plastic bottle trap

How to catch a mouse with a plastic bottle? Easy! For this you need to take a plastic bottle and put a fragrant bait inside, tie a thread to the neck and hang it so that there is access to the neck of the bottle, and the bottom is in a hanging position, the neck can be lubricated with vegetable oil from the inside.

You can lean the neck on the edge of the shelf or substitute a board for the mouse for easier access.

Below we have presented two videos with instructions on how to do it yourself a simple trap for mice from absolutely any bottle, we advise you to look.

The second way to catch a rodent is even faster and easier.

You will need a plastic bottle with a narrow neck.

With a bucket

An empty bucket (or water) can also be used as a trap. It is enough just to put the bait inside and substitute a plank so that the mouse can climb. Or you can cover the bucket with a newspaper with a cross-shaped incision inside, on which the bait is fixed. When trying to eat food, the mouse will fall into the trap.

An example implementation is shown in this animation.

Special glue

The industry produces special glue or sticky mats that attract rodents with their aroma, and then firmly hold the stuck animals.

The glue is applied to a flat surface so that the mouse has nothing to catch on. The main thing is that the mat is out of reach of children and pets..

The jar method

For this purpose, a jar with a capacity of 0.5 liters is suitable. A piece of bait (butter, sausage, bacon) is glued to the bottom near the wall. The jar is turned upside down and one side is placed on the floor and the other on the coin so that the bait is above the coin.

When the mouse tries to get the bait, the bank slides off the coin and the animal is trapped.

Adopt a neighbor's cat

As an option - take a cat or a cat from the neighbors. But here it is worth understanding that apartment cats, as a rule, are not mousers. Based on our experience, out of about four cases, only one mouse was caught. 2 cats did not react in any way to the mouse, even if she ate from their bowl, and the other was afraid of her.

What is dangerous neighborhood with mice

The damage caused by the pest concerns not only spoiled products, gnawed baseboards, wiring, insulation and things. Each female can produce up to 20 mice annually, which already at the age of 3 months begin to breed. Soon the apartment may be induced by rodents. The material damage from their life activity can be huge., but also more dangerous harm which they can cause to health. Mice are carriers of pathogens of a huge number of diseases:

• bubonic plague,
• bacterial infections,
• mouse typhus,
• leptospirosis,
• tularemia,
• sodokoza,
• lymphocytic Venezuelan encephalomyelitis,
• tapeworms.

Therefore, the fight against them is a matter of health and safety of the inhabitants of the apartment.

Each of the described methods is effective and will help to catch a rodent, but a quick result can only be achieved if several methods are used simultaneously.

If you suddenly become an unwitting neighbor of a small gray rodent and this neighborhood categorically does not suit you, then this material will be an excellent help in solving the problem. Among the described methods, you will surely find a suitable one for your case. There are humane ways that keep the pest alive. Some, on the contrary, do not give him a chance to survive. The choice is yours.

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Cat attraction and bait

We will not consider options with poisoning or attracting cats. After all bad smell a dead rodent can spoil your stay indoors for a long time. And the cat itself is capable of bringing so much trouble and material losses that the mice will seem like real angels in comparison with it. Let's forget about buying a ready-made mousetrap in the store. Consider how to catch a mouse in an apartment or house using items used in everyday life.

Bait is one of the most important factors for successful capture of the animal. Contrary to popular belief about the crazy love for cheese, it is worth noting that this product is not at the top of the list of mice's preferences. Much more willingly, they are tempted by smoked sausage, heavily roasted seeds, lard scorched by a match, and only then cheese.

Now directly about fishing. Consider several options for building mousetraps at home.

Home mousetraps

Method number 1

We take a liter or one and a half liter jar, a five-ruble coin, a sheet of thick cardboard. It is best to use sausage or lard as bait. We turn the jar upside down, put a treat under it, put the coin on the edge and place the jar on it with one side of the neck. It is advisable to immediately do all this on a sheet so that you do not have to slip it under the jar when the mouse is caught. A piece of sausage or lard should be larger than a coin. When the mouse starts dragging it into its hiding place, the bait will surely hit the jar and the flimsy design will cover the thief.

You can use a small piece of food. In this case, you need to glue it on inside jars with tape at a height of 5-6 cm from the bottom. When trying to get food, the mouse will rest its front paws on the jar and break the stability of your trap.

You can use a match instead of a coin. In this case, it will be more reliable to tie the bait to the match with a thread. The thread should be drawn from the sausage to the match through the side of the neck that stands on the cardboard, bypassing the top of the jar. The mouse will pull the food by the thread and pull the match out from under the container.

Method number 2

V glass bottle from under normal mineral water pour the roasted seeds and set it at an inclination of 25-30 degrees in the place where the mouse is likely to appear. Books are ideal as a basis - the animal can easily get to the neck through them. Don't let the size of the hole fool you - rodents can easily crawl into it in one direction. They cannot get back out, as they slide on the glass. The method is good because you can catch 2-3 pieces at a time in one container. The neck must be plugged with something before you give the container a vertical position - the mouse jumps high, and if it hits exactly in the hole, it will easily run away.

Instead of a glass container, you can use a 2 liter plastic container. It is desirable that its walls are even without unnecessary bends. The capture recipe is similar to the one described above with a slight addition. Since plastic is not as slippery as glass, you need to pour a few tablespoons of odorous vegetable oil and then put the bait. Oil with its smell additionally attracts rodents and makes the walls of the container very slippery, which will not give them the opportunity to get out.

Method number 3

We take a newspaper, cover it with a bucket and fix it with tape or rope so that it is well stretched. It will look like a drum. In the center of the newspaper, we make a cruciform incision about 10 by 10 cm in size. In the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe cut, we pour some roasted seeds. We put the bucket in the place where the mouse was seen. To make it easy for her to climb onto the bucket, you need to provide something like a ladder. Good for this wooden stick or ruler. The mouse will run to the bait and fall into the slot. If you first pour 12-15 cm of water into the bucket, then the rodent will drown. Several pests can get into such a design at the same time.

Method number 4

Ideal if the mouse is used to running around the table. In this case, we need a cardboard sleeve from paper towels, toilet paper or parchment/baking foil. If the tube is long, then for starters, with the help of any cutting tool you need to shorten it to 10-12 cm. Then you need to put any bait at one end of the tube. Place the tube itself on the edge of the table so that the edge with the treat hangs so much that with a slight increase in weight, the tube falls from the table to the floor. Under the tube you need to place a bucket filled with water up to half. When the mouse climbs into the free end of the tube for bait and runs towards the food, its weight will cause the whole device to fall into the bucket. Attention: if you take pity on the animal and do not pour water, then thanks to its jumping ability, it will 100% get out of the bucket unharmed.

Method number 5

Only Velcro is used to catch flies and bait. Velcro is better to securely attach to a sheet of cardboard - so the rodent will be harder to escape with it. If you have Velcro that hangs from the ceiling and hangs in a spiral, then it needs to be glued to the cardboard in two or three strips. Velcro for flies is sold in flat sheets measuring 20x10 cm. In this case, one such sheet is enough. Cardboard with Velcro and bait in the center should be placed where the mouse was seen. Adhesive layer on such products, a very strong and stuck rodent will not run away.

Method number 6

The method is the most labor intensive. It will appeal to those who like to make something with their own hands. It describes how to make a reusable mousetrap that will last more than one year.

Have to take wooden block and drill one or more holes 1 in it with a diameter of 2.5 cm. The holes must be drilled halfway, and not through. How many holes there are, so many mice can be caught at the same time.

Perpendicular to the holes at a distance of 1 cm from the edge, you need to make a deep cut 2-3 mm wide so that it ends below hole 1. You need to retreat 5 mm from the cut and drill through two thin holes 2 with an interval of 1 cm between them. The elastic wire needs to be bent as shown in the diagrams and attach it with staples to the back of the bar. From a soft thin wire, make a loop with a diameter slightly larger than hole 1 and tie it to a hard wire.

Then a bait is placed in each hole. Using a thin wire, a nylon thread is threaded into holes 2 so that its ends stick out on top of the bar. The loop on the elastic wire is lowered into the cut and tied with threads (side and front view).

When the mouse smells food and climbs into hole 1, the threads will prevent it from getting to the treat. The mouse will gnaw through them, the elastic wire will be released and sharply pull the loop up. Perhaps this is one of the most humane mousetraps, since the rodents in it die immediately and you do not have to figure out what to do with them later.

Good luck and have a happy life.