Today for mousetrap Monday, I have something really unusual to show you. Now, I've already featured all these traps
these are snap traps, and they all have a cat face on them.
You can see the eyes the nose and the big teeth for grabbing the rodent.
They recently updated this trap changed the face. It looks more like a cat now with whiskers and ears.
Here's an older vintage trap called the kitty gotcha it has a whole cat head on top.
And it's a snap trap for getting rodents as well.
Now people do this because they want to stand out the mousetrap market is so competitive
there's so many different designs.
And they want to create something that people will connect with and they found that putting a cat face on the trap helped sell it.
Well
I'm going to show you the weirdest mousetrap that I've ever seen I recently found this and they take this concept to an extreme.
So get ready to see the weirdest mousetrap of all time.
Well here it is one of the strangest ideas for a mousetrap. This is a life sized plastic cat.
It's hollow inside, and it has a huge opening for the mouth.
They also included a red scarf that way the mice can climb up they want to get the bait inside they drop down.
Now the instructions say you're supposed to fill this plastic cat with vegetable oil, peanut oil some kind of oil that
way the mice will drown, the oil will help preserve them for several weeks, and then you can change it out,
or you can put just a little bit of oil in there, turn it into a live catch trap, and in the morning you can take
your cat, make it throw up the mice, and they're covered with oil, but they're still alive. They'll run away.
Now the instructions are pretty hilarious. This says it's a new design,
it's a mouse catcher, an excellent resume job price.
And it gives some suggestions on how to use the oil for a kill and live catch option now.
We're going to test this out with our pet mice. See if they'll go in there.
We won't put any oil.
Then we'll go set it up in the barn with motion cameras and try to get the wild mice with the strangest mouse trap of
all time.
For this test we're going to use three of our female pet mice Snow White's the mom.
She had a batch of babies and these are two of her daughters all grown up a brown one and a tan one they don't
have names yet, so leave a comment down below, and we can name these brown and tan female mice.
Well at least one of my pet mice climbed up the scarf and dropped into the mouth of the cat shaped mousetrap.
Let's go set this up in the barn with motion cameras and see if we can get wild mice to do the same thing.
Now before we set up this trap,
i'm going to talk about the oil we're going to use the instruction says to use peanut oil or something that's going to draw them
in with the smell and the oil will also help them to get caught in the trap.
It says for a live animal trap, you just put a little bit.
I'm not going to do that because it's winter right now and when mice drop down there,
the oil is going to coat their fur they're gonna freeze to death and I don't have a huge amount of oil.
But that's okay because what I'm gonna do is i'm going to fill this partly with water and then put the oil on top we
all know that oil is less dense than water, it will float that will make it hard for the mice to swim.
And that way we'll provide enough liquid for the mouse to drown. So first thing we're going to do is put in the water
and on top of that the oil.
And you'll notice that it will separate right away and form a layer on top.
That's what the mouse is going to be in it's going to be sticky and more difficult to swim.
Let's go test this out in the barn. We'll see if the mice drop into the liquid go in the cat mouth. I'm skeptical
we'll see if it works
* Splash *
The weirdest mousetrap of all time actually catches mice. I looked in there and there are three dead mice.
I reviewed the motion camera footage and those mice aren't in there because they dropped in they were pushed in by their friends.
They're playing king of the mountain in the mouth and that oil worked really well, so let's get these out.
There they are.
You might be wondering. Why anyone would buy this trap? For me
it only worked when mice were pushed into the bottom.
But keep this in mind weird mouse traps gained value in the 1960s this trap sold for a few dollars.
And now you pick these up for around $200 so it might be a unique investment.
I'll put a link in the description below where you can buy this on Amazon.
But it's definitely a unique mousetrap and a good conversation piece.