

When we had mice I didn’t want to have the hassle of poisoning, or the stench of rotting carcass.
So I built a DIY bucket trap, I got the basics from a yt channel. It’s pretty easy, it’s basically just a tunnel with some peanut butter at the end of it to entice them, and it’s got a long’ish trap door that’s activated by the weight of the mouse, and it’s got a tall’ish bucket underneath it.
The bucket is tall to stop the mice from jumping back out of it.
Once we caught the mice we would drive a few miles away and let them go. They can find their way back if you release them too close.
After our third mice invasion I bought a cheap solar powered security camera that activates with motion. I put the camera on the ground where I thought the mice were travelling and getting in… and waited.
Then moved it periodically to find their trails and fine tuned it to find exactly where they were getting in.
Which was through an old outbuilding, then up a timber frame and through a hole in the soffit and fascia.
I sealed up that hole inside and out and never had an issue since.
If you just kill the mice (and it is mice, not mouse. There’s pretty much always more than one) then the next lot will just kept on coming in. It’ll just be mouse carcass on mouse carcass up there.
Blocking their way in is much better than killing them once they are in.






That’s basically what I made, but it had a tunnel over it to stop the mice from jumping sideways when the trap activated.
And I put a few bolts on the back of the tipper part so it wouldn’t trip too early, and the weight of the bolts also helped it reset itself once the mice had fallen. Simple, and effective.