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Wikipedia has two sorts of meecetrap :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mousetrap
The cage looks good.........you could collect them all up and take them
round to the MiL's :~))

We've got one of them (the second picture down). They are excellent. We
caught about twenty of them that way a couple of years ago and released
them into our barn where they kept the sheep warm.

Thank you. Looks like a hunt in the attic or toolshed is in order for a
suitable mouse holder. There's got to be something amongst all the mess
here that'll come in useful for once.
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