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5 Gal Bucket Mouse/Rat Trap 4-pack $12

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4-pack of five gallon bucket lids to trap Rats & Mice.

(you can also mail in for an additional -$1.32 Menards rebate store credit). Free ship-to-store)

Normally, traps only catch a single rodent, then need to be emptied and reset. If you poison them, they stink until you find where they wedged themselves.

A 5 or 6-gallon bucket can hold dozens of rodents.

It's a humane solution: You can release the rodents miles from your home, put them in a large open cooler at night for the owls, or give them away on Craigslist as pets or lizard food. win/win.

Bring your own bucket.

https://www.menards.com/main/outd...-10120.htm

Also available on Amazon for $28 if you don't have a local Menards:

https://www.amazon.com/Gardenix-D...69-0252635
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4-pack of five gallon bucket lids to trap Rats & Mice.

(you can also mail in for an additional -$1.32 Menards rebate store credit). Free ship-to-store)

Normally, traps only catch a single rodent, then need to be emptied and reset. If you poison them, they stink until you find where they wedged themselves.

A 5 or 6-gallon bucket can hold dozens of rodents.

It's a humane solution: You can release the rodents miles from your home, put them in a large open cooler at night for the owls, or give them away on Craigslist as pets or lizard food. win/win.

Bring your own bucket.

https://www.menards.com/main/outd...-10120.htm

Also available on Amazon for $28 if you don't have a local Menards:

https://www.amazon.com/Gardenix-D...69-0252635

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Posted here in case original post gets edited:

4-pack of five gallon bucket lids to trap Rats & Mice.

(you can also mail in for an additional -$1.32 Menards rebate store credit). Free ship-to-store)

Normally, traps only catch a single rodent, then need to be emptied and reset. If you poison them, they stink until you find where they wedged themselves.

A 5 or 6-gallon bucket can hold dozens of rodents.

It's a humane solution: You can release the rodents miles from your home, put them in a large open cooler at night for the owls, or give them away on Craigslist as pets or lizard food. win/win.

Bring your own bucket.

Also available on Amazon for $28 if you don't have a local Menards:
https://www.amazon.com/Gardenix-D...69-0252635
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scdiamondFeb 18, 2026 2:29 AM
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does this work? i have some mice i need to get rid of, but do not want to kill them all
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Quote from scdiamond View quoted comment :
does this work? i have some mice i need to get rid of, but do not want to kill them all
Lots of night vision videos of them working on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_wQu7EXOPog
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I made a home made version of this seen on you tube, nothing. On you tube it works so well, I think I must have dumb mice.
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Quote from LostWallet View quoted comment :
I made a home made version of this seen on you tube, nothing. On you tube it works so well, I think I must have dumb mice.
mice arent' dumb

i got rid of like 5 and another 10 showed up
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Quote from LostWallet View quoted comment :
I made a home made version of this seen on you tube, nothing. On you tube it works so well, I think I must have dumb mice.
Most videos you see are actually trained (or at least domesticated) mice. They know there is no danger so they willingly pile in knowing they are safe and get a treat. You'll never catch that many in the wild, and if you dont check the trap at least once (if not more) per day, you'll end up with mice eating each other.

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Quote from IndigoWinter2667 View quoted comment :
Most videos you see are actually trained (or at least domesticated) mice. They know there is no danger so they willingly pile in knowing they are safe and get a treat. You'll never catch that many in the wild, and if you dont check the trap at least once (if not more) per day, you'll end up with mice eating each other.
Guess you never heard about putting water in the bucket. SMH
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AreebTanvirFeb 18, 2026 4:23 AM
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This product is useless, or probably the mice in my house are smart. It was waste of money.

I end up getting humane rat traps and added some fries or left over pizza crust. Oh boy, I caught 6 mice in 8 days. Here's the link

https://a.co/d/0jgElyQk
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Rats are much smarter than mice. When they find something new in their environment, it can take them a week or more to lose their fear of it.

We have the paddle wheel buckets at work, and they get a few rats every night (they get fed to a Nile Monitor lizard). We occasionally get small opossums, but they get let go because everybody likes them.
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PassionsFeb 18, 2026 8:23 PM
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Releasing rats/mice miles away isn't as humane as you think. First, it's a jerk move to make them someone else's problem. Second, rats/mice live in familial colonies. Dumping them miles away almost guarantees death as they won't be accepted into other colonies. They'll end up being attacked by other rats, falling prey quickly, or starving to death.
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Quote from Passions View quoted comment :
Releasing rats/mice miles away isn't as humane as you think. First, it's a jerk move to make them someone else's problem. Second, rats/mice live in familial colonies. Dumping them miles away almost guarantees death as they won't be accepted into other colonies. They'll end up being attacked by other rats or starving to death.
Just put them deep in the park, don't let them go in your neighbor's house, lol.

Rats and mice are invasive species to North America, so if other rodents eat them, that's good for the environment.

The county I live in has a 20 cent bounty for each rat you bring them.
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Quote from vid1900 View quoted comment :
Just put them deep in the park, don't let them go in your neighbor's house, lol.

Rats and mice are invasive species to North America, so if other rodents eat them, that's good for the environment.

The county I live in has a 20 cent bounty for each rat you bring them.
Those bounty programs never work because people will start breeding them on purpose to collect. I prefer insta-kill method. More humane than the free willy method.
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Quote from Passions View quoted comment :

Those bounty programs never work because people will start breeding them on purpose to collect.
Who is going to breed rats for a 20 cent bounty???

If you were going through the trouble to raise rats, I'm sure you would choose a breed that sells for $15+ (and that means that the local pet shop is paying $5).

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