Homemade electric fence for mice

tractorgp · Jan 17, 2015

Just posted this video on Youtube. Tried to make the video light but in reality I tried pretty well every way I could think of to get rid of the mice but nothing worked. Took many hours of video trying to figure it all out. It was a very smart mouse.

mark02tj · Jan 17, 2015

So. . . Did you get him? Kind of hard to tell at the end. It looked like he got a pretty good jolt but was it enough?

oosik · Jan 17, 2015

It was certainly obvious that he could sense the electric field around the aluminum tape. The alternate route was funny.

Lineman North Florida · Jan 17, 2015

Sticky traps IMHO are the best thing they ever come out with to catch mice.

Mace Canute · Jan 17, 2015

Recently I became aware I had a mouse in the house so I set out a trap, the classic spring loaded mouse trap, and was soon rewarded with a dead mouse. Unfortunately another mouse showed up almost immediately so I set the trap again and caught another. I figured if there were two there might be more so I continued with the trap and ended up with a grand total of seven mice! :shocked:

tractorgp · Jan 18, 2015

mark02tj said:
So. . . Did you get him? Kind of hard to tell at the end. It looked like he got a pretty good jolt but was it enough?

Yup got him but not after a lot of trying. Before setting up the electric fence I had the electronic/electric trap set with peanut butter, regular spring loaded traps with cheese and peanut butter, and poison. As you can see in the video I had a bunch of traps setup along with the electric fence. My original thought was to get him with the fence but I soon realized that the fence is better at helping to find out where the entrance to an area is. Oh yeah got him with a standard old trap... one shown at 2:11 on the north side of the kitchen. But all of this was over a week or more.

tractorgp · Jan 18, 2015

oosik said:
It was certainly obvious that he could sense the electric field around the aluminum tape. The alternate route was funny.

No doubt about that. Don't really know what the electronics are in the trap but as you can see from the video there is a very strong field that stays on for a few seconds after the trap is turned on. After that I assume there is a high voltage existing between the two conductors. The device must also be capable of supplying a fairly high current as it is supposed to kill the mouse in under a min. I did get a good jolt from the setup during my testing and believe me it was not a tickle!

tractorgp · Jan 18, 2015

Lineman North Florida said:
Sticky traps IMHO are the best thing they ever come out with to catch mice.

Wife not in favour of them

tractorgp · Jan 18, 2015

Mace Canute said:
Recently I became aware I had a mouse in the house so I set out a trap, the classic spring loaded mouse trap, and was soon rewarded with a dead mouse. Unfortunately another mouse showed up almost immediately so I set the trap again and caught another. I figured if there were two there might be more so I continued with the trap and ended up with a grand total of seven mice! :shocked:

EW and the electric fence helped me identify where they were getting in (hole around the cold water pipe in the kitchen) but my biggest problem is the large attached mouse hole shown here.

Looking4new · Jan 18, 2015

My cats found a mouse in the front closet the day before yesterday. They let it go so that they would have something live to play with. The next morning I found it dead in the kitchen sink. (The sink had no water in it.) As far as I am concerned a good female cat is all you need for mice.