Homemade plastic bottle mousetraps - two simple but effective models

How to make homemade mousetraps from a plastic bottle? We took a vacation with my wife and went to the country house. Upon arrival, an unpleasant surprise awaited us: during the winter, mice settled in the house. They ruined a fair amount of food supplies, and even some clothes in the closet. We have a small holiday village and only a couple of shops. But they didn’t find anything from rodents, and there’s no way to go to the regional center. But the pantry is full of empty bottles - the wife was going to enclose the flowerbed with them. How to cut them so that the mouse gets caught, but not crawl out?

Homemade mousetraps from a plastic bottle are a real salvation from intrusive rodents. They will help you out at any time, and even help you save money. Of course, you can buy good old little mousetraps at hardware stores. But, alas, now their quality is not what it used to be. Either the spring is weak, or it falls off altogether. In addition, only one individual will catch such a trap. Whereas a bottle can "collect" a whole mouse family of at least ten mice. And, mind you, absolutely without any chemistry and poisons, which is important if there are children or animals in the house.

Homemade mousetraps from a plastic bottle

So, you have already seen the benefits of home traps, which means it's time to get down to business. There are many effective models that are quite simple to implement, for example:

• baits with oil;
• trap-rocking.

Bait bottle

We need a bottle with a minimum capacity of 1.5 liters. Cut off the neck and the upper part, closer to it (about 1/3). Turn the cut top over and insert it into the bottom half of the bottle. We fix it with paper clips on top. We fall asleep inside the bait, for example, seeds. And now the most important thing: so that the mouse cannot get out, grease the neck with oil.

This mousetrap can also be used to catch rats. Only then the bottle will need more. Plus, the part below the cut neck must be cut into wedges so that a large animal can get inside.

Rocking mousetrap

A deadly attraction that ends with the death of mice can be made from a bottle and a bucket of water:

1. We make a through hole in the bottom and cork.
2. We insert a wire into it, the length of which should be greater than the diameter of the container with water. You get a kind of rocking chair.
3. Glue the bait on top of the bottle - cookies, pieces of cheese.
4. We fix both ends of the wire on the bucket by installing a rocking chair.
5. Pour a couple of liters of water into the bucket.
6. Do not forget to take care of how the mice climb onto the bottle. To do this, we attach a couple of bars to the bucket.

The animals will climb the ladder onto the bottle, which will scroll under their weight and fall into the water.

Self-closing mouse trap