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Watch How This Clever Design for a DIY Humane Mousetrap Works

Glue traps are the most inhumane way to catch rodents, as they’ve been known to chew their own limbs off in order to escape. It’s a reprehensible solution. So if you live in an area where setting captured, unharmed mice free in the wild is an option, you may want to consider this humane design, dreamt up by Canadian tinkerer Chris Notap.

In addition to not harming the critter, an excellent thing about the design is that it shouldn’t cost you anything. Everything Notap uses in his contraption is liable to already be lying around your house somewhere. And yes, he provides a demonstration of the trap in action:

I suppose you’ll have to select a bottle with a mouth large enough for your intruder. With any luck you won’t have to go up to the Gatorade bottle size, but if you do, perhaps you ought be patching up your house first.