How Do You Make Traps For Animals?
Store-bought animal traps can be expensive. Save money by making your own simple yet effective traps. You can make traps to catch animals of varying sizes and types. Best of all, these traps are humane. Use them to catch an animal that has gotten into your home, or one that is causing trouble around the yard, and then take the animal to a wildlife shelter. Manually Operated Animal Trap Step 1 Set this trap if you can wait long enough for an animal to come and examine the trap. Put a notch in one end of a thick dowel rod. Set the other end lightly in the ground and place a box upside down with one edge resting in the notch of the dowel rod. Step 2 Tie string around the dowel rod and place food under the box. Make sure that the box is angled high enough to allow the animal to get inside, and that the food is a strong-smelling kind that the animal is known to eat. Step 3 Run the string along the ground to a hiding place. Sit somewhere out of sight and wait for the animal to go after the b
