h a l f b a k e r yIt might be better to just get another gerbil.
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This idea works on the same principle as a home's central
vacuum system, but instead of being a means of removing
dirt, it removes mice.
The main unit is installed in an appropriate utility area.
Traps are installed in various rooms of the house. Tubes
are installed inside of the walls,
and connect the traps to
the main unit.
Each trap has a front door made of wire mesh; when the
trap is triggered, this closes. Each trap has an airtight rear
door; when the trap is triggered, this opens.
Triggering the trap also sends a signal to the central unit,
which sucks the mouse out of the trap, through the tubes,
and into a container in the central unit.
To make this device humane, it is obviously necessary for
the mouse to be dead before it's sucked away. This could
be accomplished mechanically or electrically. I expect that
the electrical solution would be easier to clean, with less
maintenance.
Ideally, the only maintenance needed would be to rebait
the traps when an infestation is suspected, and to empty
the central unit regularly, and occasionally clean the traps.
I expect that an apartment building is the kind of place
which would benefit from this sort of thing the most.
Reference for my anno, for [8th] and anyone else confused
https://www.kicksta...rigger/posts/696036
See the URL for the original name of the project [notexactly, Mar 06 2017]
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//To make this device humane...//
I would have thought the humane way would be to NOT kill the mouse... |
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Mice < rats < kittens < cats < dogs < babies. |
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You will have to size the thing carefully or you may be surprised by what it catches. |
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[+] It could be even more centralized though. Have those tubes lead to some unresistable mouse treat. That way you can get rid of vacuum and have one main trap in the center. Or make the vaccum part of the trapping mechanism. Mouse gets in and the moment it steps in, vacuum is turned on and whoosh... it goes flying into the central trapping chamber. |
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Something tells me that mice are smarter than that. |
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Gonna need bigger pipes … |
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I am totally opposed to all animal killing so it has to be a thumbs down for me. [-] |
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// totally opposed to all animal killing // |
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So, you want every carnivorous species on your planet to starve to death ? |
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No - only the human carnivores. Let them eat each other if they crave meat. |
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What about chimpanzees ? They are, genetically, only 1.2%* different from humans ... |
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* although in the case of some "humans", they might not have the full 1.2% ... you know who we mean. |
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Perhaps a pied Piper's flute could be piped through? |
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neutrino's shadow: No, killing the mice is absolutely
humane, at least when compared with what would
happen to them if this system were to instead vacuum
them up alive, bouncing them through various pipe bends
and finally into a waterless, foodless prison. |
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popbottle, Cats can fit through any opening the size of
their head. A young kitten's head is about 2.5 inches. A
rat can fit through a hole one inch in diameter. To ensure
no kittens are vacuumed away, the tube diameter should
probably be no larger than 1.25 inches. |
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The more important aspect is ensure that no feline paws
can reach into any trap and touch the electrified plates
inside. This can be done simply by having the plates far
enough from the entrance that no cat's leg would be long
enough. |
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ixnaum, Any odor which come out of the tubes would
probably consist of dead mouse smell -- which surely be a
repellant to humans, and probably to mice as well. |
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Thus, each trap needs an odor-containing door to the
tube, which needs to stay shut until that trap is occupied
by a dead mouse. For the same reason, each trap needs
it's own separate bait. |
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The vacuum can't be part of the trapping mechanism,
because that would be horribly cruel. |
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xenzag, What if I'm not a carnivore, but I still want those
mousies dead? Also, how does one distinguish between a
vegan, and someone trolling as one for the sake of
argument? |
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RayfordSteele, If you piped a flute through a pipe, it
would surely get stuck, even if it were the Pied Piper's
Flute. Unless it's a flexible flute? |
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To be more humane the system could release the mouse! Via a
potato cannon strategically positioned to ensure the critter
landed several yards over. |
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// Triggering the trap // |
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Be careful to not also mention the action of a traditional
mousetrap, or the color of the blood it might release, lest
you find yourself being sued. |
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So ambulance-chasing lawyers are taking business from mice now ? Figures ... |
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It'll be leeches next ... probably at a discount, out of professional courtesy. |
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