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okie this is quite subtle brilliance.wonderful stuff.i seriously need to experiment and see if it works out,i’ve got one too many mice at my studio,chewing away my designs/wires/food/and so on.lol anyways love the concept

Beautiful work! I mean… this is amazing stuff!

Also kudos for the mouse for such nice modeling skills!

it’s fun

It looks very efficient and elegant, but can it work in the real life?

smart design

adorable! - almost a reason to get mice at home on purpose - and how sweet to even think of a little exercise for them ..

It’s a gerbil……

I like it! Too bad i don’t have a mouse problem…..

You obviously don’t realize how high mice can jump. The lightbulb and planter traps will not work in real life. The pint glass looks workable. The soy bottle might, if the spring is very solidly fixed in place.

Nice stuff but most of them won´t work…we had a mouse in our house few years ago, and we wanted to catch her without killing her too…so we set up a 5l glass (maybe 20cm high, the opening at the top was maybe 5cm wide) in one room, and built smth like a wooden bridge so the mouse can get inside….in the morning the cheese was always eaten but no mouse inside the glass…so i guess the mouse always jumped out…so at least the trap with the bulb and the one with the planting pot would never work…but nice work anyway:)

Cute, but for sure not all of these will work. Mice can jump really high for their size - I’ve seen them fall into 50-gallon garbage cans and after a few attempts leap one meter out to freedom. And imagine if the mouse gets these round glass vessels rolling - don’t want to imagine them crashing down stairs…

no dice, sucka. at least, not if you actually hope to catch anything. mice are very skilled in evasion, and without some sort of snapping hatch or door-like construct, you’ll never keep them in a glass jar.

Regardless of their efficiency, they’re totally cool. Maybe some people have a gerbil problem.

Thats no Gerbil - check out the tail… But I am going to try the lightbulb one - I have many mice….

Hey Roger!

I gotta say this work is superb!! You did it again! Previously with the fishbowls project I was completely amazed but now this! Very well done. Keep it up! Please keep amazing us! I hope I will see you soon. Roman

Cute Gerbil~ What can I do if i catch them? put them into neighbor’s house?

@red
It IS a gerbil. (Meriones unguiculatus)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriones_unguiculatus

Perhaps you are thinking of a hamster, or a different subspecies of the Gerbillinae familia?

These are some lovely photographs. A funnel action type construction will probably work best.

roman you are one blinded follower of roger arent you? *wink*

What do yo do with them once you catch them? Rehabilitate? Take them to the countryside and release?

after the fish bowl, and the gorgeous mouse , one thing is clear :
Dezeen readers love animals ….

We have cats…..

Another type can be made with a toilet paper role. Put a little peanut butter inside the roll near one end, balance that end out over the edge of a table, put a garbage can beneath the baited end of the toilet paper roll. The idea being that the mouse goes in the roll to get the bait the roll tips and they all tumble into the garbage can.

I have to agree. The rodent is darn cute and I like the idea in theory but any mouse worth his grain can jump right out of that ‘planting’ pot. And if the mouse in the lighbulb tried to crawl up and out, won’t the bulb tip over so the mouse can scamper away giggling and pointing?

What’s great about these thing is the mouse can then be put fresh into the blender and chopped up with garlic and a little salt and put on crackers to serve one’s guests.

Your beer glass trap could suffocate the mouse. The little dears respirate quite rapidly.

I believe the weight in the light bulb needs to be glued to the bottom. Otherwise, the mouse’s skittering inside the light bulb is likely to pitch the bulb horizontal, and the weight will slide to keep the bulb in that position.

As an engineer, my non-lethal design for a mouse trap would involve a lid operated by electric-eye. I suppose cost is why the world isn’t beating a path to my door.

Hey Jess! No, I am not. But you can’t deny the fishbowl project and this imply a use of intelligence and creativity which is admirable. I don’t know you, but I really like it. Regards and Best whishes. Roman

The light bulb and the planter, no way. The mouse easily jumps out. The glass maybe.
I built a trap like the the jar. I used a wide mouth gallon jar and made a cone out of a wire screen which is inserted into the jar. The mouse enters by the wide end, but cannot exit by the narrow end. The inner end must be very narrow and the screen needs to be securely attached. It didn’t look as cute as these but I caught 2 mice.
Of course 2 mice means that the next day out came the youngins. I caught them, as well. But that’s another story.

catch ‘em. kill ‘em. I like the kind with the glue. To save money, snip mouse off at legs entrapped in glue and use over and over.

My boyfriend and I had mice in a previous apartment & I eventually convinced him we should buy humane traps. For a while, all was working fine. We’d hear it click shut when a mouse got stuck, & there she’d be inside her clear plastic ‘house’. Then we’d go release her somewhere or other. Until one day we returned home to find that one poor little lady had been trapped and - well - tried to fight her way out. End result = dead mouse and a lot of blood.. altogether a pretty horrific scene. What had been a humane trap had turned into the worse torture chamber imaginable. If I had mice again, I’m afriad it would be back to old-school traps for me.

Your mouse is a star! The only trap I would have problems with is the pint, simply how do you get him/her out without scurrying off? Otherwise, these are wonderful!

These mousetraps are very elegant with the mice visible in the trap, and are better attuned to contemporary minimalist taste than those ugly, old-fashioned, functionalist mousetraps.

Now that we have arrived at a final solution for these pests, we are wondering what is the tasteful, elegant way to dispose of roaches?

very nice

I like the fact they are so simple. Shame in this case the simple solution isn’t the one that is going to work. Still, very attractive for a mouse trap but with this function is key.

I’ve tried many versions of homemade traps over the years. Mostly using your lightbulb technique but not nearly so elegantly (mouse goes in, gravity turns device upward, mouse can’t get out). The big problem: mice don’t go near these things. They seem to have a robust understanding of basic physics and can tell when they’re not going to be able to get back out.

In the end, nothing beats a cat.

The end of the wire inside the bottle will poke the poor mouse’s eye right out! (or hurt its mouth/nose/paws.)

After sucessfully catching the mouse you can pour oil inside the container and light a match and voila!

Southern Fried Mice!

Mice bleed just like we do - they feel pain and are frightened just as we would be if someone were trying to harm us just because we are trying to live. Most local hardware stores or Agways sell Hav a heart traps that will not harm a mouse. Peanut butter or cheese work quite well. After capturing the tiny fello check the trap soon afterward - next morning if you’ve set it in the evening and take Mr. or Ms. Mouse for a ride in the trap and release him or her in a secure wooded area - somewhere where they can find shelter and hide - under a rock or crevice. Open the trap and in a flash the mouse will be gone and most grateful to you for its life.
Life is precious to all on this earth.

well ,nice pictures anyway…
here we go with …with a french touch..the way…I catch mice:
Attach a piece of cheese with adhesif in the bottom of a glass ,
Put it up side down and lift it with the help of any coin (1 euro,or a penny) on his edge.Be patient to get the glass balance..
D’ont forget to put the all staff on a piece of wood ,or anything you want in order to be abble to reverse the glass with the mouse inside. Personaly I use an old plastic cover CD! dont forget to wash it ,if to be re-used..I am sure they leave traces of their trap,as info for next mouse…not to be trapped their turn.
Waiting for yr comments and other suggestions.Thanks from a Froggy..eater !!

Great thinking going on here! Kudos to all the kind and good thoughts on how to make a ‘better mousetrap’ and to keep the mouse safe. Having caught many mice myself and setting them ‘free’ in an natural area, I am for this thought process.
But they do jump, very high, and they are very smart. These may work for the younger ones.
Keep thinking!!

Alfred , Don ‘ t you dare !!!!!!

Brigitte Bardot .

Funny ! but clever

None of theese will work……

eso es un raton domestico (herbo) muy sociable y tranquilo habria, que ver una rata o raton de verdad, a ver si habria huevos de que se quedara dentro del tarro tranquilito.

just for lil mice. wonder with a big scary rat…

en la ultima trampa esta claro que el raton seguro que se puede escapar.

¿Y por que no íbamos a querer matar al ratón?

perfect !!!

hohoho

very nice besos amigos

ratón = plaga
plaga = enfermedades
enfermedades deben ser eliminadas!
Que hago con el raton vivo! ? Lo enfiesto con el hamster!!?? Se lo tiro al patio del vecino?

El que invento esto, ademas de estar al pedo rascándose el higo todo día es un boludo todo el cuerpo.-

Can we use this for political reasons. I have no more ideas and votations are getting closer every day…so I would like to offer one of this things to everybodys who votes for me! Excellent, no?

I disagree with the first trap (mouse in a pint) because when the glass comes down it becomes selled, andthe mouse can consume all the oxygen inside, probably killing him.

The second i disagree is the “mouse in a bottle”, because the agressive of the design of the system, the mouse can enter, but in then inside there is a dangerous and cutting spring apoointing directly to him, notify what looks like the face of the mouse, inside the trap… looking with rage the defiant tool… it could make a psycological trauma on the mouse, because of this, i consider this method not appropiate.

For me the bests designs are mouse on a light bulb and mouse on a planting pot which surprised me for the good quality of the designs and the photos… i’m thinking to bild one… ok, greeteings to the author.

Bien , parece ser que el pobre raton queda encerrado dentro de una jaula cristalina , que horrible debe sentirse el animalito , aunque por otra parte , por que cojones se mete dentro?

nice work!!! ;)))
itellegence and work…
peace

si alguien sabe de planos o argo pa hacerse caja de skinner o argo asín pa maltrato…. q avise >_<

JAJJA TEN BUENAS ESAS IDEAS YO TENGO OTRA DENLE UN ZAPATAZO AL CONDENADO RATON JAJAJA

Great work!!!!!!!

Once it’s on the glass I can test my .44 magnum on the stupid mouse and see all it’s guts splatter all over the room!!!!!!!!

THANKS FOR THE GRRRRRREAT IDEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

k falso jeje k es boma muy xulo
dew poner mas

Puede que en alguna de las trampas muera el ratón sin necesidad de que hagamos nada, o por lo menos que con la del ratón de la botella quede tuerto, que bien!!!

Hijos de Puta! porqe le hacen eso a los ratones?
Yo adoro a esos peqeños roedores
…jooo..

arrest this animal!!! this is what it get= mess but its funny work..

PAYASOS

About the mouse in the pint, has no one noticed that when the pint comes down, it is resting on the wire of the spring, keeping it from forming a seal? The mouse is in no danger of suffocation. As for the mouse jumping out of flower pot and lightbulb, yes, that could be a problem.

wats with the mouses
???????????????????

hey wats with all the mouse traps

whatever happened to just putting cheese in a very tall plastic pail and a wooden ramp leading up to it?

great art of mousetraps

Hi,
Great art, but not very practical.
I use a large milk bottle with a wooden
ramp. Brown bread as bait.
Works reasonably.

I could not bring myself to use a real lethal mouse trap and these are perfect

I don’t think any of these are very well thought out. I am interested in no-kill traps, but every design I see anywhere assumes mice can’t jump. Has anyone designing this stuff ever actually seen a mouse that wasn’t domesticated? These are very artsy, but guaranteed not to work.

I love these but, there is one problem with the last one
MICE CAN JUMP!!!! (at least field mice can)

great idea but i dont know to many people who have problems with gerbils. mice yes, gerbils no

i love it

hi great ideaz man cant wait to get rid of the mice problem!!!!

ho!! man its very invetion but you are a estupid man because you are e loser !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brilliant and elegant!

Also, the mouse you’ve used is so cute and CLEAN!!! I think I’m falling in love with mice now! LOL

Three good ways to deal with caught meeses:

Drop on an anvil and smash with three pund hammer

Put in a bag and drop into rain barrell

Drop them one at a time in front of a hungry cato