So I'm afraid my main reaction to this epic tale is awwwwwwwwwcute!
It was very cute! It's just much cuter when it's not in our kitchen!
Good trap, though. I'm trying to figure out the mechanics of it, mentally.
The pear cake (or whatever sort of bait) is attached to the inside of the mixing bowl on just enough string (or decorative green ribbon) that the mouse has to reach up and pull a little to nibble on it, and the bowl has been propped up on its rim with about the two-inch stub of a pencil, balanced point-down, so that it's very precarious. The idea is that the tug of getting at the bait should be enough to unbalance the bowl so that the pencil stub falls away and the bowl clonks down around the mouse. Which can then eat all the pear cake it wants—and not go anywhere.
That may have been the worst explanation of mechanics ever. I should have taken photographs of the set trap. I just didn't expect it would honestly contain a mouse the next day.
(Do I get points for not calling it an epic tail?)
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It was very cute! It's just much cuter when it's not in our kitchen!
Good trap, though. I'm trying to figure out the mechanics of it, mentally.
The pear cake (or whatever sort of bait) is attached to the inside of the mixing bowl on just enough string (or decorative green ribbon) that the mouse has to reach up and pull a little to nibble on it, and the bowl has been propped up on its rim with about the two-inch stub of a pencil, balanced point-down, so that it's very precarious. The idea is that the tug of getting at the bait should be enough to unbalance the bowl so that the pencil stub falls away and the bowl clonks down around the mouse. Which can then eat all the pear cake it wants—and not go anywhere.
That may have been the worst explanation of mechanics ever. I should have taken photographs of the set trap. I just didn't expect it would honestly contain a mouse the next day.
(Do I get points for not calling it an epic tail?)
. . . Yes.