A Bowl Of Peanut Oil Catches 7 Mice In 1 Night - Motion Camera Footage

today for mousetrap Monday we're going to test out a really simple idea for catching mice over 50 YouTube viewers sent me a link to a video that was posted seven years ago and has over two million views titled homemade mousetrap bull avoid people want to know if this works in the video description they tell a story where they had some extra cooking oil they left it in a bowl on the counter overnight and when they came back in the morning there was three mice trapped in it the walls were too slippery and they couldn't jump out now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna set up a bowl here I have some peanut oil we're gonna pour just enough in there that they'll be slippery but they can't get out then we'll set up the motion cameras and see what happens now I'm assuming the mice will come be curious jump down in the little bowl be caught in the oil they'll get all slippery they'll try to get out try to jump they can't then in the morning we can see what we have so let's go test this out I have a barn with a lot of mice let's see if they like peanut oil when I first saw the video for the bowl of oil mousetrap I thought it might be a hoax it didn't seem like it worked that well but after testing it out this thing is the real deal it's so simple all you need is a shallow bowl a little bit of cooking oil and then one night I was able to get seven mice that's incredible usually my videos I'm catching wild deer mice but the barn has recently been infested with house mice these are a non-native species but because this is a live animal trap I'm not gonna let him go I'm gonna clean them up and keep them as pets and use them for future mousetrap Monday videos where we test out live animal traps so let's go clean these guys up and put them in their new home we're now ready to clean up our mice that are covered in oil I have a shallow tote here with a little bit of water in there into the water I'm going to add a little dish soap that should wash off the oil this brand even says it helps save wildlife so I'll give it a squirt mix that up a little bit and then add our mice it's shallow enough they don't have to swim and as they move around that soap should wash off the oil these mice are really exhausted from being in the oil all night I built them a little nest so they can rest recover and dry out I'll give them some food and water and you'll see them in future videos helping us test out live catch mouse traps for mousetrap Monday I never thought a bowl with a little bit of cooking oil in it would work so well for a mousetrap but it does I'm posting between four and five videos a week testing out rodent traps so if you want to see how to catch mice rats squirrels chipmunks moles voles and Gophers stay tuned you

Channel: Shawn Woods

Views: 10,894,042

Rating: 4.7641716 out of 5

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Id: BxxFNkNf6q8

Length: 3min 45sec (225 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 20 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/jacobbarber]

imagine you and six other people, all naked in a 30 foot high glass bowl knee deep in oil

[u/nickedemous77]

I will be trying this out tonight. I live in the country and these little bastards have found every, single, way, to get into the house. Even through the receiver slot on the door jam.

[u/reddit111987]

It's a good thing he demonstrated how the trap worked with the toy mouse -- I would have been so lost.

[u/KelcyHammer]

Such a good idea, put it out at night and in the morning you have already oiled up mice right in the pan, breakfast.

[u/minin71]

The mice literally see mice getting trapped and continue to go for the peanut oil. What a bunch of dopes.

[u/[deleted]]

If you swallowed one of those mice it'd pop out your ass in less than a second

[u/cosmoinstant]

I like how he uses a toy mouse in the beginning. Just in case we don't have a concept of an oiled up mouse in a bowl.

[u/az_adventurer]

My grandmother had an island. Nothing to boast of. You could walk around it in an hour, but still it was, it was a paradise for us. One summer, we went for a visit and discovered the place had been infested with rats. They'd come on a fishing boat and gorged themselves on coconut. So how do you get rats off an island? Hmm? My grandmother showed me.

We buried an oil drum and hinged the lid. Then we wired coconut to the lid as bait and the rats would come for the coconut and... they would fall into the drum. And after a month, you have trapped all the rats, but what do you do then? Throw the drum into the ocean? Burn it? No. You just leave it and they begin to get hungry. And one by one...they start eating each other until there are only two left. The two survivors.

And then what? Do you kill them? No. You take them and release them into the trees, but now they don't eat coconut anymore. Now, they only eat rat. You have changed their nature. The two survivors. This is what she made us.

[u/smoked_once_still_hi]

That could have ended one of two ways. But I never expected him to keep them alive.