so hello and welcome it's Monday morning and it's November the 20th give me 6 minutes of
your time I'm going to show you how to customize in a fun way and I'm using a food grade bucket
here that's 19 in deep that's right you can get these deep buckets on Amazon now there's a trap
that I used last year that's a lot of fun made by renie brothers and the company is renie traps
they collaborated with somebody we all know mous trap Mondays Shawn Woods he created The Dizzy
dunker and that's what I'm going to test today so I have mice in my basement put this thing together
I bought the two pack paid full price Amazon I'll put the link down in the video description if you
want to visit that this is what it looks like Al together has a cool shroud a spinning wheel
which looks like uh the wheel on the back of a river boat back in the day mice go in through
either side step on any paddle and it rotates and drops them down in the bucket unharmed I'm going
to show you my best bait I'm also going to to show you how to lubricate the wheel a little bit
the paddles so they turn nice and easy I don't know that it wouldn't work if you didn't do it
everything here is made in the United States as I mentioned renie brothers are a couple of guys
that started inventing mouse traps and working these up in their garage I like Innovation it's
a lot of fun I have a lot of ways to catch mice and uh this time of year when they move inside
you got to get them they're in my basement so these are all the parts if you want to see how
to put it together that's already been done the instructions are simple I like to take black oil
sunflower seeds and cover the bottom make it about a/ an inch deep for a lot of reasons one
when they drop through the Trap and land on it softens their blow I don't know if that's that
that big of a deal but they also don't jump very well and they can't get out black oil sunflower
seeds I'm also going to use creamy peanut butter on each paddle now I just put it on one side of
each paddle and then I stuck the black oil sunflower seeds onto the peanut butter so
those are two things that should attra track the mice once they're inside your building no matter
where that is these clip on 5 Gall buckets and the diameter of the 5 gallon buckets the same
as the 7 gallon bucket so it works really well here's what I'm going to lubricate with olive
oil extra virgin olive oil if you really want to know I just repurposed a bottle here and filled
it with olive oil because I also use this on my mouse trap triggers to make them more sensitive
sometimes mice come up and like to lick that that's fine too and it would enti some through
the opening just to show you I did both sides here next thing we're going to do is put this down in
the basement right along my concrete wall cinder blocks whatever you want to call them and here it
is in the dark in a closet in the basement and my first visitor shows up here these are motion
activated cameras that only show light that we can see so as far as this mouse knows and it's
a deer mouse it's in total darkness sometimes the cameras do make a little clicking sound which can
alert the mice and I have two because two is one and one is none so we'll see a couple of different
angles here and I did have to elevate the bucket to put it within a few inches of the top of that
concrete block so I didn't need to use the ramp if you notice the mouse just went right off the
sidewall right down onto the top of the bucket trap so they're walking around here I like to
see what they do how they approach it this one slips a little bit scared itself and of course
goes back to the wall back to safety but you know what they smell the sunflower seeds they smell the
peanut butter and they want to get closer kind of creepy deer mice can go straight down the
front of those concrete blocks now probably if I painted them it would smooth it out and they
wouldn't be able to get that footing but I want to make sure not to have rodents in my basement who
wants those what you don't see is that before the cameras came on another mouse already came through
and went into the Trap so there're also sounds coming from inside the bucket so I just wanted
to see how they walk around check the entrances see if there's anything I need to improve I'm
also thinking about this I could put clamps on those floor joists which are up above and I could
strap the bucket to those to keep them up at the sidewall height now you want to see a mouse going
in right well that's what this one's going to do so he's down on the edge now this occurred about
5:45 in the morning so they've been scampering through here all night long and he walks into one
of the openings there on the back side and then he goes that was pretty well lubricated it spun
several times so it's reset nothing for you to reset and I know you want to see it again in slow
motion and he landed at the bottom of the Trap of of course on the shells
of the black o sunflower seeds and then listen to this little
noise that is the other Mouse jumping because it got surprised so here we are
back on the kitchen table the following morning that's today November the 20th
Morning Sun coming through it and Victory Is Ours both mice that were
showing up on the night cameras are now in the bucket so let's uncp it and take a look
didn't even get a chance to eat the bait because as soon as it went onto the paddles down it went
and there they are two deer mice notice the differences in color this one's Brown and the
other one is a little on the gray side so this tells me they actually might be related The Gray
colored ones are juveniles and look they cozy right up to each other they might be family so
when we look really close too there's something going on with the right eye of this deer mouse
so I highly recommend by the way you not handle rodents they might look cute and fuzzy and they
might even warm up to you and they cozy up to one another please don't touch them now
if you want to get rid of them one of the things that you can do of course is give them away to a
wildlife Recovery Center they always need mice the other thing is if you're going to keep them
for any period of time make sure they have water too that's it thanks for watching trap those mice