# Contest: Catch an actual live mouse! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 25, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-catch-an-actual-live-mouse/446879 "2008-04-25T18:31:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-catch-an-actual-live-mouse/446879/1 "2008-04-25T18:31:37Z")
Inspired by [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=465233), and because it’s mouse season, here’s your chance to prove to your fellows that yes, _you_ can create a better mousetrap. Whether the world will beat a path to your door, I am unprepared at this point to say, but you will certainly be able to bask in the adulation of your fellow Dopers. Rules are simple: 1. The mouse be trapped alive and unharmed; 2. You have to make your own trap; and 3. No pet mice may be used. The first to post a picture of a live mouse in the trap will be the winner. Ready, set, go! ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-catch-an-actual-live-mouse/446879/2 "2008-04-25T18:36:58Z")
We have too many cats around for me to rescue a mouse by safely trapping it, but here’s some help: [How to trap a mouse](http://books.google.com/books?id=cKvEj1GGIhIC&pg=PA211&lpg=PA211&dq=daniel+carter+beard+trapping+mouse&source=web&ots=oYrjeTvIis&sig=bBusaXN8GICRs4uWeHHyncVpVjA&hl=en), by Daniel Carter Beard, one of the founders of Boy Scouts. ---
**Author:** ![Ludy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Ludy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludy)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-catch-an-actual-live-mouse/446879/3 "2008-04-25T18:52:01Z")
I don’t have mice (knock on wood) but if I did I totally know what trap I would make. I have made it before and it worked like a charm. But, all things considered I am glad I can’t enter this little contest. ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-catch-an-actual-live-mouse/446879/4 "2008-04-25T19:05:50Z")
I’m in. Mwhahahaha. It counts if their head is in a trap, but they are still squirming, right? ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-catch-an-actual-live-mouse/446879/5 "2008-04-25T19:07:57Z")
That might violate the “unharmed” clause, Rule 1, Subsection B. ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-catch-an-actual-live-mouse/446879/6 "2008-04-25T19:41:50Z")
☹ I’ve been trying these [http://www.humanemousetrap.info/](http://www.humanemousetrap.info/) for weeks and gotten nothing. (for reasons explained here: > **[Mice are eating my Couch - HELP!](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=463301)** > > Soon after we moved into our new townhome in October, we started noticing our couch cushions starting to fray. At first we blamed the dog, but my wife saw the first mouse. I caught a glimpse of one soon after, and when we found holes gnawed in the... ) If I get one, I’ll let you know… ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-catch-an-actual-live-mouse/446879/7 "2008-04-25T19:49:15Z")
Would you settle for a baby kangaroo? ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contest-catch-an-actual-live-mouse/446879/8 "2008-04-25T19:51:41Z")
I have a glossy, richly-marbled mouse in my garage eating my bird food. When I catch it (which will be by cornering it myself in a crazy Vietnam veteran-movie kind of way), I will fling it outside to survive off the land. That, or one of the cats will catch it first.