• Guillotine Mousetrap - Mouse Trap Mondays
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz-ege152Bs This is a preview/info for an app, but I will update on Monday with the video he posts. This guy is always amazing me with the traps he builds. Cannot wait to see this badboy in action.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmmFX5q7kCg [NSFW] Non-censored version of it in action!
Seems like such an unneccessary and slightly sociopathic thing to do against mice/rats.
It's a bit gruesome but its no less effective than a snap trap. The moment the trap drops on them they are dead pretty much instantly.
Just made me think, are classic spring-loaded mousetraps capable of hitting a couple mice in a single go? Because from the 2nd shot (in the nsfw link) it got at least... 3 of them?
Its a rat, where there's one that he kills, there's 10 more being born in the immediate vicinity. The whole reason he started the channel is because his barn was overridden with rats, same with his neighbors. He said he can kill 20+ rats in one night and the next there will be double. Its about as bad as roach extermination with random gadgets.
Seems like a really inefficient and cruel trap. Like how easy would it be for the mouse not to be exactly where it needs to be and end up getting it's tail or ass sliced off.
The more efficent trap is putting out poison traps, having cats, or realistically getting dogs that can pull rats out of their dens and kill them. I will not show the later because it's very uh... gruesome.
it can be hilarious though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAWMb8cNwZE
Do not feel sympathy for rats they are a pest that's a huge pain in the ass to get rid of once you have them.
rats are cute and you'll never convince me otherwise
You know non-pet rats actively are pissing on everything? They do this so they create a pheromone trail for other rats and mice to follow. For example if they're dicking around in your walls, they're pissing and shitting so they tell their friends where it's safe and arm. And where you food is.
Sounds like French culture alright.
yeah but they go 'squeak' and have tiny old man hands. when i pet them sometimes they fall asleep in my hands and start flattening out. cute status: unchanged.
Can you explain to me how it's cruel? It's no different than your standard mouse/rat trap only without cutting.
I don't think its particularly cruel as death seems pretty instant. But physically cutting them in half seems pointlessly gratuitous.
As someone with rats in their backyard, I absolutely refuse to use poison now because of how inhumane it is. We've used poison before and have gotten rats but watching them stumble around and spaz out as they die is extremely hard to watch. I end up having to mercy kill them by putting them in a bucket, mixing baking soda with vinegar in a disposable cup, and sealing it so the rat is knocked out and suffocates, and even then the last few scratches it makes on the sides makes me feel awful. I just stick with snap traps. They're quick, don't put my dogs at risk, and they don't put the rat through unnecessary suffering
why contain it? s'cool
Oh yeah I'm not arguing against the practice and I know he uses old designs and stuff. But who actually thought it would be a good idea to manufacture a rat size guillotine, seems like a lot of work and must have been invented by someone that really hates rats.
My family used to breed rats, both for pets and as feeders for our pet store. They're fun to raise and play with and super easy to take care of, and while they make cute pets, the ones you raise or get at a store are not wild rats. Wild rats are disease ridden and often parasite infested pests, who chew holes in walls and piss and shit everywhere in your house or garage/barn while also eating everything they can find, usually damaging what it's contained in in the process. We never had a rat problem until we got a chicken coop, now they nest in our yard and go after the chicken food at night, if you turn on a flood light you can watch them hanging on the chicken wire, and as fast as we kill them with traps and pellet rifles they never seem to go down in numbers. They make look similar, but they really aren't. Same with mice.
that may be true, but wild rats still have a high cuteness credit score as far as my bank is concerned.
I may have become battle hardened due to all the mice I kill. I do it for a living, along with other pests. Guy's at work were sharing videos like this one and we thought it was awesome. In fact we got some newly designed traps the other day! Stuff like this doesn't phase me much, for obvious reasons.
Normal mouse traps catch the rat/mouse and so they eventually die but with this is seems like it would lead to mice being severely wounded but escaping.
Seems a bit inefficient.
It is, which is why its no longer built today.
I remember setting traps for mice in the pantry with my grampa as a little boy. I was excited to catch some but my feelings changed quickly when I realized that we just killed something that could have easily been a small pet. We buried all the mice we caught with full ceremony, coffins and headstones and all before switching to life traps. Worked just as well.
As someone who owns cats, as fucked up as these traps look at least they are merciful. Watching a frightened baby rat hobble along with most of it's legs broken and the cat taking it's sweet, sweet time is horrible to watch, pest or no pest. The cats sometimes don't eat or even kill them and just leave it in a broken pile to starve to death.
I mean snap traps have the exact same issue so I don't see this as being any worse than them really.
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