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Mousetrap​

Remember setting a mousetrap in your home? When you heard that heart-stopping snap, whether it got your fingers or the mouse, you know it was time for the messy cleanup afterwards. These icons were handmade by Arnold Standfield in WWII using scrap metal. You can still spot one at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum. Got any stories using this? We’d love to know here!

Credit: Australia Remember When / Facebook

 

[Mikev]

Yes, I remember my dad using some of these to catch mice in our kitchen when I was a kid.
I still have some of these wooden ones in my garage!

 

[Oaklegs]

We knew we had a rat in the loft as we could hear it scratching so I set one of those traps and blocked the ingress hole and when I checked we had got him trapped by its tail but still very much alive. Being a wimp I can't kill anything and I even take Redback spiders over to the bush over the road, so I took the trap plus rat over the road and undid the spring. It immediately ran back across the road into my neighbours garden.

 

[blueevie]

In the 80s, in Gunnedah, we had a mouse plague. As soon as we set traps in the garage, they would go off -bang bang bang!

 

[Ricci]

Many years ago we lived in Perth with two cats. One was a home body and rarely ventured far, the other was the scourge of the neighbourhood, often bringing home her prize catches to lay at the feet of her home buddy. One day he had obviously had enough of this and we saw him disappear over the back fence. He was gone for hours and when he eventually came home we could see he had something in his mouth. Sure enough he had brought us a mouse but his hunting prowess was severely dented by the fact that the little wooden mousetrap was still attached!! We never did find out which neighbour owned the trap.

 

[Sue Munday]

Living in PNG in 1967, we caught a rat in a trap and not wanting to touch it. We gave it to the New Guineans who were waiting to go to Church near our house. They were going to eat it.