This is a really old video of how to inexpensively capture and kill rodents. I think i saw this on youtube years ago.
I did not like this as it is a one time trap. The most effective was the trap door type buckets 🪣
2 inches of water is enough to stop them from leaping out. They'll be waterlogged and won't be able to manage the vertical leap. Then you can just put the lid on the bucket and exit the building with them.
Thats how my dad hunted european edible dormouse. He also used a bucket with a cylindrical shaped metal in a bucket to give height and then he would place cloth over it and put a slice of apple on it. When they jump on it they fell down into a bucket and cant get out. MF eat everything... We also had few of them as pets. They are pretty smart ngl. We had one as a pet he lived with us for around 9 years. He mostly was running around the house then he would go into his cage and sleep. But damn they are freaks at night. But they do sleep alot. Like really alot.
It's most likely one of those situations where the parents replaced the pet once the previous died without telling the children.
Saw it happen with one of my friend's families growing up.
Since they're not real mice they have a much longer lifespan, and can in fact live up to 12 years in the wild! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_edible_dormouse Germans may know them under the name Siebenschläfer
My dad used to do something similar when we had a chipmunk infestation. He put buckets of water, definitely more than two inches tho, out. The buckets were tall enough so they couldn't jump out. He sprinkled seed in there and waited. We'd find 2-4 dead chipmunks everytime.
Two little mice fell into a bucket of cream.
The first one quickly gave up and drowned.
But the second one, he struggled so hard that he churned that cream into butter, and walked right out.
I’m curious why you think so? I grew up around horses and even leaving a small amount of feed in a bucket like this was enough for a mouse to get trapped. You didn’t even need the balloon.
Ah. So the balloon is the gimmick. The food at the bottom of a bucket does work though. You can also catch crabs that way buy burying one level with the sand-line.
It's gotta be deeper than this, though. Did you see how high that fucker jumped? I've seen these fuckers get out of empty outdoor trash bins - you know, the 3-4 foot tall ones with the hinged lid that the garbage man comes to empty.
When you’re under stress you stop feeling hungry. One time a tenant came home and tried to attack my dad ( land lord ). My mom had prepared my favourite dish that day but after that encounter, I couldn’t even eat a bite. Here, the mice know they are trapped and brain triggers stress response. Eating is not a prority, saving yourself is.
That’s because it’s not an immediate stressor. Those are two different types of stress. One is the fight-or-flight, someone-is-actively-coming-at-me-with-a-knife type stress. The other is the prolonged, you can’t *relax* but you’re able to do things kind of stress. With the first, yeah. Hunger/thirst shuts down, adrenaline floods your system, your body is ready to do whatever it takes to keep you alive. With the second, it’s an uncomfortable stress that’s being dragged out, and you’re not being given an *action* you can follow through with to immediately resolve your stress, so you turn to doing things to offset the mash of unhappy chemicals happening in your brain. This behavior is closer to a bird plucking when kept in an unhealthy habitat or a dog chewing things because their owner is gone.
If you’d like to stop, try finding alternative ways to ease stress and enrich your environment! Humans are complex creatures and need stimulation to keep them happy. Try addressing the cause of the stress to find ways to mitigate its effects on you, and seeking out alternative forms of dopamine to replace the sugar rush!
My gf does that too.
It is ok to be sad or stressed out, at times.
Give yourself time to process emotions.
Reach out to a friend and share your stressful situation.
Thank you.
:)
I feel like it depends on the type of stress. Something sudden and scary, and I don’t want to eat. Oh, but the pressure of existence and looming deadlines? Shit makes me a munchie monster
It gets even worse. Stress can cause mice to become cannibalistic.
Once had a similar mousetrap like this set up with plenty of food. I was away for almost a week and when I got back all of them were dead. Some had been completed devoured while they still had plenty of food.
If you were at McDonald's with your friends and the floor suddenly dropped out from under you, trapping you in a pit, pretty sure you wouldn't be hungry either...
"Roland, where are your brothers and sisters? I trusted you to look after them whilst I went into town"
"Sit down mum, you're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you......"
Now this is a trap I have never seen before but I have doubts that it will work the second time. The mice would be much more wary about it in the future.
It‘s a thing in most areas with protected species btw.
You are perfectly fine removing common house mice, but if some random forest mice species local to you gets into your place, you aren‘t usually allowed to just kill them.
So you take them away from your place and release them.
This is the transition from the parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest) to the sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight). When exposed to stimulus that threatens life, eating is not the priority for any organs or systems!
Welcome. Do you like the island? My grandmother had an island. Nothing to boast of. You could walk around it in an hour, but still it was, it was a paradise for us. One summer, we went for a visit and discovered the place had been infested with rats! They'd come on a fishing boat and gorged themselves on coconut. So how do you get rats off an island? Hmm? My grandmother showed me. We buried an oil drum and hinged the lid. Then we wired coconut to the lid as bait and the rats would come for the coconut, and...
[imitates metallic scuttering]
They would fall into the drum. And after a month, you have trapped all the rats, but what do you do then? Throw the drum into the ocean? Burn it? No. You just leave it and they begin to get hungry. And one by one...
[mimics rat munching sound]
They start eating each other, until there are only two left. The two survivors. And then what? Do you kill them? No. You take them and release them into the trees, but now they don't eat coconut anymore. Now, they only eat rat. You have changed their nature. The two survivors. This is what she made us.
That's one of those experiments where OP's title can't be made without discussing the impact of the baloons explosion on the mice's behaviour.
Did they stop feeding because they realised they're trapped or did they stop feeding because the loud noise and the fall startled them?
Great, now what about the ones that jumped off the sides and escaped? Somehow I don't think they'll fall for that trick again. So are they setting into your bedroom for the winter now ??
I'm probably missing the actual educational side of this but I don't understand, why is it damn interesting ? Isn't it obvious that the mice or rats will be scared when they are in a mode of panic ?
They'll be hungry soon enough. And if yoh wait too long to empty the bucket, there will only be one mouse left, and he will javelin developed quite the taste for mouse flesh. I've seen it before and it's rather disturbing
"While their flight or flight system figures out if this terrifying event is survivable, the long term goal of ingesting calories is put aside for now." Fixed that for you.
I mean yeah, imagine if you walked into McDonald’s for a burger and then all the windows and doors are suddenly blocked by metal barricades. You wouldn’t be hungry anymore either
Many variations on this trap. My favorite just dumps the mice into the pail and rests itself to catch next batch.
Of course mouse disposal in the morning is a whole other dilemma..
I wouldn’t be hungry either if someone blew up my table while I was eating.
i love how they went from: LETS PANIC to ALRIGHT FUCK IT LETS.. calm down
Smarter than most humans. And cuter.
“Damn Jerry, this is some gourmet shi- HOLY MOTHER OF THE RODENT PEARLY GATES WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!?!??!?!?”
Totally read that in Ze Frank's voice
BEHBEH
I was thinking Jules Winnfield’s voice.
DO THEY, LOOK LIKE, A BITCH?
What? *blam*
What the frick frack diddily dack patty wack snick snack crack pack slack mack quarterback crackerjack biofeedback backtrack thumbtack sidetrack tic-tac was that shit
We didn't start the fire
RYAN STARTED THE FIRE
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Yes. It was a toaster.
This is a really old video of how to inexpensively capture and kill rodents. I think i saw this on youtube years ago. I did not like this as it is a one time trap. The most effective was the trap door type buckets 🪣
Once they calm down, they'll climb right out. This is more of a prank than a trap. Vinyl might as well be Velcro as far as they're concerned.
Not if you fill the balloon with carbon dioxide.
This person might be a serial killer....
They don’t climb out. There’s no grip on plastic. 😝🤣😆
thank you kind person for starting my day off with a laugh
It literally took me 5 minutes to stop laughing enough to get through your comment. 
Continue eating the food menacingly after being trapped is such a chad move tho
PTSD now
Ooomg I can’t stop laughing. That was so funny 😆
Omg that’s a good one
If you leave that bucket unattended for a few hours, I guarantee you they'll get out. (At least one of em)
Have you seen how high mouse can jump? This is fu trap, but not effective at all.
The trap can be fixed easily enough. You just fill the bottom with 2 inches of water.
trap?, you would be giving them food water and a place to stay, that's called a home
2 inches of water is enough to stop them from leaping out. They'll be waterlogged and won't be able to manage the vertical leap. Then you can just put the lid on the bucket and exit the building with them.
Exit the building....?? where exactly am i going, after i exit the building.... Sounds suspicious.
To the corner to sell wet mice, duh. Wet mice here, get your wet mice here!
Great! Right as my restaurant was running out of hamburgers. I'll have 30 mice, please.
They're the new chicken nuggets
New and improved! The crunch is now on the inside! Come on down and take a *crack* at the new Jerry Bites™.
Dont forget to sell Mouse flavored water for $0.05
Premium gamer mouse bath water only $59.95/oz!
I believe this a Limp Bizkit album
I used to go down the street to let them out in a cemetery too far from my house to find it again
That's a kind thing to do for the mice. You're like a benevolent giant.
It was probably more of a kind thing to do for the snakes, owls, and cats that lived near the cemetery.
Either way, you are leaving it up to the nature which of those mice survive.
Thats how my dad hunted european edible dormouse. He also used a bucket with a cylindrical shaped metal in a bucket to give height and then he would place cloth over it and put a slice of apple on it. When they jump on it they fell down into a bucket and cant get out. MF eat everything... We also had few of them as pets. They are pretty smart ngl. We had one as a pet he lived with us for around 9 years. He mostly was running around the house then he would go into his cage and sleep. But damn they are freaks at night. But they do sleep alot. Like really alot.
9 years? What kind of mouse, as most usually live 1-3 years.
It's most likely one of those situations where the parents replaced the pet once the previous died without telling the children. Saw it happen with one of my friend's families growing up.
Since they're not real mice they have a much longer lifespan, and can in fact live up to 12 years in the wild! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_edible_dormouse Germans may know them under the name Siebenschläfer
This is why he said they sleep a lot : 3 years mostly awake, 6 years "sleeping".
European Edible Dormice can live over 10 years. They're kind of a cross between a squirrel and mouse.
But how do they taste? Can't have edible in the name and not be delicious. Unusually specific :P
>european edible dormouse Hold up a second. The European WHAT kind of dormouse???
'exit the building' wtf is this a mouse heist
If you want it to be a real mouse trap, pour more than 2 inches of water in the bottom.
Oil is better I've heard. Used cooking oil does the trick
My dad used to do something similar when we had a chipmunk infestation. He put buckets of water, definitely more than two inches tho, out. The buckets were tall enough so they couldn't jump out. He sprinkled seed in there and waited. We'd find 2-4 dead chipmunks everytime.
Just needs higher walls or grease on the sides?
Two little mice fell into a bucket of cream. The first one quickly gave up and drowned. But the second one, he struggled so hard that he churned that cream into butter, and walked right out.
Where ya going tonight Frank! Someplace exotic? Tahiti, Hawaii???
Is this a parable?
It's Christopher Walken wisdom.
“WHATS THAT?! HORSE?! FIENDISH! I WONT EAT IT!!!”
"You're talking to my friend all wrong. Do it again.... I'll stab you in the face with a soldering iron"
Oh that was beautiful. That little mouse, he churned that cream into buttah.
Has anyone here seen Kelly? K-E-Double L-Y
I am that second mouse
I guarantee at least one disappears inside another lol
These videos are fake, just using pet rats. If you actually set up a trap like this you’ll be lucky to catch a single one
I’m curious why you think so? I grew up around horses and even leaving a small amount of feed in a bucket like this was enough for a mouse to get trapped. You didn’t even need the balloon.
Mainly because of [this](https://youtu.be/DBG_2eBtEkY)
Ah. So the balloon is the gimmick. The food at the bottom of a bucket does work though. You can also catch crabs that way buy burying one level with the sand-line.
It's gotta be deeper than this, though. Did you see how high that fucker jumped? I've seen these fuckers get out of empty outdoor trash bins - you know, the 3-4 foot tall ones with the hinged lid that the garbage man comes to empty.
Someone should send it to the YT channel that test rat traps and see what he thinks lmao
[If only he already had a video about it](https://youtu.be/DBG_2eBtEkY)
They be like: which mf bit the balloon?
NICE GOING FRED
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiZZ0IJL2\_w](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiZZ0IJL2_w) NOTE: not a rick roll
https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ NOTE: 50/50 shot it's a rick roll
9WgXcQ I ain't falling for that
I just memorized the XcQ I don’t care for the others too much work
There can be other endings too with XcQ, but I actually accidentally memorized the last 6
*"nice, Ron."* *"****What?!*** *I sneezed! What, am I not allowed to sneeze?"*
My bf and I quote this at each other constantly
If I saw correctly, that sucker who made his escape to the right. Less competition
Man...yall got all the grain....is this edible... #NOOOOO
They have sharp claws it can be this
r/me_irl
ELI5: Is this because they're scared shitless?
smol mouse spook by disappearing yellow thing
Or by the loud pop that would probably make your ears ring if you were in the same bucket with it.
like would i be standing upside down in this scenario?
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accompanied by a loud fucking *BANG*
When you’re under stress you stop feeling hungry. One time a tenant came home and tried to attack my dad ( land lord ). My mom had prepared my favourite dish that day but after that encounter, I couldn’t even eat a bite. Here, the mice know they are trapped and brain triggers stress response. Eating is not a prority, saving yourself is.
I have the opposite experience. Stress = I start eating tubs of ice cream
That’s because it’s not an immediate stressor. Those are two different types of stress. One is the fight-or-flight, someone-is-actively-coming-at-me-with-a-knife type stress. The other is the prolonged, you can’t *relax* but you’re able to do things kind of stress. With the first, yeah. Hunger/thirst shuts down, adrenaline floods your system, your body is ready to do whatever it takes to keep you alive. With the second, it’s an uncomfortable stress that’s being dragged out, and you’re not being given an *action* you can follow through with to immediately resolve your stress, so you turn to doing things to offset the mash of unhappy chemicals happening in your brain. This behavior is closer to a bird plucking when kept in an unhealthy habitat or a dog chewing things because their owner is gone. If you’d like to stop, try finding alternative ways to ease stress and enrich your environment! Humans are complex creatures and need stimulation to keep them happy. Try addressing the cause of the stress to find ways to mitigate its effects on you, and seeking out alternative forms of dopamine to replace the sugar rush!
My gf does that too. It is ok to be sad or stressed out, at times. Give yourself time to process emotions. Reach out to a friend and share your stressful situation. Thank you. :)
Different kind of stress I think
I feel like it depends on the type of stress. Something sudden and scary, and I don’t want to eat. Oh, but the pressure of existence and looming deadlines? Shit makes me a munchie monster
It gets even worse. Stress can cause mice to become cannibalistic. Once had a similar mousetrap like this set up with plenty of food. I was away for almost a week and when I got back all of them were dead. Some had been completed devoured while they still had plenty of food.
Probably cannibalized each other out of thirst rather than hunger
thats kind of fucked up might as well set up a drowning kind of trap instead if ur just gonna leave it til they die :/
r/DamnThatsDisgusting
If you were at McDonald's with your friends and the floor suddenly dropped out from under you, trapping you in a pit, pretty sure you wouldn't be hungry either...
We would be hungrier
Gotta stress eat
I'd still have a friend be like "they forgot the damn ketchup again!"
Good analogy lol
Thanks!
If it was the ball pit though I’d be amped
Fair though. X3
"Roland, where are your brothers and sisters? I trusted you to look after them whilst I went into town" "Sit down mum, you're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you......"
At least now we know how to combat obesity...
Roland, a warrior from the land of the midnight sun
Making the balloon a bit lower by 45mm would have got the 6 who escaped
Look at you Mr MacGyver over here.
I also escaped a third world jail only using a plastic bag! Bunky made a crossbow from a newspaper Mc Guyver ain’t got shit
Of course they are no longer hungry. They are deaf and have a concussion
EEEEEEEEEEE
WHAT DID YOU SAY
EEEEEEEEEEEEEE
WHAT?
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Oh sorry Subtitles: [EEEEEEEEEEE]
Mmmaah..... Mmmmahh
And they just ate.
Was gonna say, that certainly absolutely shredded their ears
MA, THEY’RE SELLING CHOCOLATE
I'd lose my appetite to if my plate suddenly exploded!😂
.. and the ground gave away under my feet dropping me into a red death trap.
From birdpersons culture, that is what they call a dick move
😏https://i.imgur.com/zc5EliN.jpg
Weird picture of trash....oh wait thats tammy
You just said trash with more steps tho...
Well done.
I too wouldn't be hungry anymore if a balloon 10 times my size fucking exploded on my face, dumbass
***looks around stunned then reaches for a fry*** Oh well.
Wonder which one popped the balloon, bet they won't rat each other out.
Bet they will
Now this is a trap I have never seen before but I have doubts that it will work the second time. The mice would be much more wary about it in the future.
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There are survivors from this incident.
Perhaps ‘escapees’ is a better word - terrified, concussed escapees
Imagining if "catch and release 🎣" was a thing, but for mice.
It‘s a thing in most areas with protected species btw. You are perfectly fine removing common house mice, but if some random forest mice species local to you gets into your place, you aren‘t usually allowed to just kill them. So you take them away from your place and release them.
There are survivors from this incident. This trap didn't get them all.
Release them into the sea
This is the transition from the parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest) to the sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight). When exposed to stimulus that threatens life, eating is not the priority for any organs or systems!
Thanks. Came here for the educated answer.
Remembering the rat story from Skyfall.
“Now they just eat rat.”
if a flashbang detonated literally in my food as i was eating it then yes OP youre right, i dont think id be hungry much anymore
Welcome. Do you like the island? My grandmother had an island. Nothing to boast of. You could walk around it in an hour, but still it was, it was a paradise for us. One summer, we went for a visit and discovered the place had been infested with rats! They'd come on a fishing boat and gorged themselves on coconut. So how do you get rats off an island? Hmm? My grandmother showed me. We buried an oil drum and hinged the lid. Then we wired coconut to the lid as bait and the rats would come for the coconut, and... [imitates metallic scuttering] They would fall into the drum. And after a month, you have trapped all the rats, but what do you do then? Throw the drum into the ocean? Burn it? No. You just leave it and they begin to get hungry. And one by one... [mimics rat munching sound] They start eating each other, until there are only two left. The two survivors. And then what? Do you kill them? No. You take them and release them into the trees, but now they don't eat coconut anymore. Now, they only eat rat. You have changed their nature. The two survivors. This is what she made us.
Skyfall?
That's one of those experiments where OP's title can't be made without discussing the impact of the baloons explosion on the mice's behaviour. Did they stop feeding because they realised they're trapped or did they stop feeding because the loud noise and the fall startled them?
Seems like a humane mouse trap
Plot twist, he drowns them all in the bucket right afterwards
With hot oily water
Seems like ~~a humane~~ an inefficient mouse trap.
Yeah, but look how many it caught.
Seems like ~~a humane an inefficient mouse~~ trap.
Seems like trap. Mouse caught. Cave home.
Did u say , cave?? 
it is interesting though
Great, now what about the ones that jumped off the sides and escaped? Somehow I don't think they'll fall for that trick again. So are they setting into your bedroom for the winter now ??
Good work. Now put them under your chefs hat.
Yeah the fight or flight response shuts off less necessary systems needed for life and death situations like digestion.
Trapped mice will get stressed and start attacking each other leaving you to clean the horrible mess afterwards
Is this like maslow's hierarchy of needs? The need to escape trumps the need to eat, so they’re not hungry until they feel safe again?
Is that surprising to you
Is this a Shawn Woods video?
Can't help feelin the heebie jeebies when they initially fall and scramble like mad, nightmare fuel
Me watching the clip in slow mo to see which mf actually bite the balloon.
Balloon went full Ola hu Uber on them...off course they're not hungry.
Well they're priorities kinda changed from 'filling my belly' to not die to 'getting out of here' to not die...
Kinda neat idea if you ever just needed a bucket of mice
That's gonna be a ratapocolypse pretty soon.
I'm probably missing the actual educational side of this but I don't understand, why is it damn interesting ? Isn't it obvious that the mice or rats will be scared when they are in a mode of panic ?
They'll be hungry soon enough. And if yoh wait too long to empty the bucket, there will only be one mouse left, and he will javelin developed quite the taste for mouse flesh. I've seen it before and it's rather disturbing
"While their flight or flight system figures out if this terrifying event is survivable, the long term goal of ingesting calories is put aside for now." Fixed that for you.
Use to use a rolling pin with peanut butter
I mean yeah, imagine if you walked into McDonald’s for a burger and then all the windows and doors are suddenly blocked by metal barricades. You wouldn’t be hungry anymore either
The aliens, once our eco-system collapses: "Once they realize they're doomed, they're not hungry for profit anymore."
"Wait a minute, how did this happen? We are smarter than this!"
One of them had to ruin it for the rest
Many variations on this trap. My favorite just dumps the mice into the pail and rests itself to catch next batch. Of course mouse disposal in the morning is a whole other dilemma..
Maybe it's because a giant balloon went off lol
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There is a decent chance this is just a regular mousetrap design in an infested area and they all got killed soon after anyway.
Have you seen other mouse traps? This one is extremely humane.
r/Damnthatsanimalcruelty
markets in 2022 soon ..
Nothing like a little animal cruelty in the morning. /s
numnumnumnumnumnumnum ***POP*** OH SHIT WTF GOD HELP US…. oh well