My mom inadvertantly caught a mouse once with a vase. The vase was very thin at the neck (less than an inch) but wider at the bottom.
I stuffed food down there, but was too lazy to clean it so I hid it under the sink. A couple days later we discovered a dead mouse in there. He couldn't climb back out because the glass was slippery.
Speaking of pest traps, anyone ever have a problem with fruit flies? Little bas**rds. I went camping one time & left food on the table. When I got back, the little pricks had somehow infested my house. No matter how clean I kept the kitchen etc., the things were buzzing around the house like it was a garbage can.
I went online & stumbled across the simpleist, yet so beautifully effective solution.
Take a tall glass (see thru so that you can point and laugh) and spit a bite or two of an apple in the glass. Take a sheet of paper from your printer & make a cone with a very small opening at the bottom (smaller than the top of a tee) but have the top of the cone big enough to rest in the rim of the glass. Use tape to keep the cone intact.
Put the trap on your fridge & mock those fudgers every time you grab a beer. It'll shock you how many there really are even though you only see the odd one buzzing by the pop can you left on the table.
It may take a few days to catch all of them. Change the apple bite once or twice. And for god sakes, don't let them out right by your back door. Walk to the alley before you release them.
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