How Small of Hole Can Mice Fit Through? Proof Mice Can Squeeze in a Hole Smaller Than A Dime.
Mousetrap Monday tests out how small of a hole a mouse can fit through. It is smaller than I thought.
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Those sizes are also for adult mice. Adolescent mice can fit through smaller holes, then grow off of food foraged in the new environment. I seal everything bigger than 1/4"
He did mention that towards the end of the video
Also the setup wasn't great for the gap. clearly it could shift
The mouse uses the trucker's rule, if the cabin passes, the entire truck passes and if the head passes, the mouse passes too.
I had mice. I got a cat. The mice went away.
Would it help against rats?
Young rats yeah...@@guatf1
Yes @@guatf1
I'm grateful for a neighbor's kitty that stalks outside. It still barely puts a dent in the population, though
@@guatf1 Feral cats for sure
Hi Shawn, I'm so glad you did this test again. It's fantastic and very useful information. Informative, thumbs Up!
Seeing mice fit through the flat gaps is the most interesting. It seems like that should be impossible but its not. Their actual skull and such must be super small.
I remember when Matthias Wandel did his videos years ago. It's nice to see a new version of it.
Same.
Yep, had forgotten that until reading your comment 👏👏
I love the “sound” in that series😂
Great comment, Matthias is who I've quoted for many years, always room for follow-up testing :)
To think that Matthias might have made a mistake, I can't imagine. He's so through its mind boggling
I've only ever seen one mouse in my house. It was being thrown around by my cat at the time. They know not to come in any more.
lol! Yup! They are amazing; I’ve seem mice flatten themselves too like pieces of paper to gain access.
Why am I watching this? I have cats.
Very cute little mouse 🐭
Nice work! Great quantitative testing.
i had a very old TV in my closet that my parents didn't know about, my mouse once _climbed in_ somehow! for the life of me i could not figure out where that was even possible!
Did it act out rodent soap operas and advertise cat insurance?
Those TV had high voltage in them. You missed an opportunity to have fun here.
very interesting you have answered all of questions that i have had over the years on how big of a hole a mouse can squeeze through VERY COOL !!
Solid information and cute at the same time, thanks ! 😅
There is an issue with this test which is incentive. A mouse might be able to fit through a smaller hole/gap if it needs to but due to the high availability of food in this test they might not have felt the need to.
Thank you so much for this presentation. I am working on mouse proofing my studio and this really gives a clear idea of what I am dealing with. Hope you are mouse free!
Any hole smaller than their head is what i was always told
Excellent experiment! Excellent vid!
Crazy. I saw a chipmunk get stuck squeezing through the bars of a squirrel trap. I had to lube it with margarine to get it out, I thought I was going to have to cut the trap to free it
I loved watching this, so informative and interesting
Theres 4 types of matter... Gas Solids Liquids And mice
I just fell in love with you, thanks to the gap experiment😂❤ Whole are all closed but I have floor air duct so let’s see.
That mouse is on high alert ⚠️
This video made me appriciate the Metric system more :P
i will also offer get the elaves off your lawn during fall mice will hide under them and use them to get closer to and into your house or garage
Great test.
Yes, they sneak into my house every winter, the cats always make short work of them though. I try to save them (to put them outside) when I hear the commotion, but sometimes I'm not fast enough. Don't want my cats getting a disease from eating one. Barehand catching mice is a challenge, I always felt an accomplishment lol. Surprisingly, they cant bite hard enough to break your skin, at least my skin anyway.
I've never seen a mouse in my life. But I've always had cats and dogs.
"A dime fits trough three quarters." 4:26 10 cents fits through 75 cents.
I don't need no stinking accountant!
Hehehe @@Dwigt_Rortugal
you have to wait several months for the revitalization of one of the following: saladin, william, or some other pairing
Well done
Mice are cute but they’re a HUGE nuisance!
When I built this house 20 years ago I ensured no rodent entry. I encircled the entire house up to its waist with metal lathe regardless of whether it was siding or stone. Every piece of exterior trim fits perfectly, no gaps. Being surrounded by woods and brush no precautions were overlooked. Happy to say not a single mouse has breached our threshold. I do late summer inspections to be sure the house is ready for any invasion both in fall/winter and spring. Additionally, all trim and siding is a Hardie product so no wood rot or holes being created by those nasty little devils. The perimeter is also kept clear of debris and our firewood is a 60’ walk from the house.
And then, one day, you leave the door open just a crack while getting groceries out of the car and ZOOM! You've got a mouse in the house. Happens to all of us.
@@dark14lifeNot in 20 years it hasn’t.
@@US5JHNaeNae I will confess that tree frogs weren’t a thought until we found a few in a bathroom. After some thought it dawned on me it was the bath closest to the vent stack. So the vent stacks now have screen caps on them. Still no mice.
No mice in my house either. Two cats, but no mice...
Thats really cool
Thanks for this Shawn... just as I thought, "What about a flat gap?"... you had us covered. Very thorough and well done!
Micromys minutus , 5-6 cm long body with 5-7 cm tail , (4"-5" over all) and weight 4 - 6 g (0,18 oz) , that mouse gets in from very tiny holes. 6 mm , 1/4" hole and it comes in . Then again it does not live in American continents .
Dude gave himself rodents for science! Way to go man. Humanity thanks you!
Someone told me once to treat any hole larger than a pencil as a possible route for a mouse, and it always boggled my mind! It seems that the pencil example was factoring in some extra cautiousness but smaller than a dime is still incredibly small.
They can't fit through that hole (as the video showed) but they can and will use it as a starting point to chew through if they really want in.
If there is a hole started and the material is chewable they will enlarge it to get in! I have seen this.🧐😡
@@oiu7890 Shawn has videos where mice and rats have chewed their way out of traps made from cheap plastics because the was enough of a gap for them to start chewing.
I heard it's a quarter for hamsters
@@recoveringsoul755 A dwarf hamster could probably fit through a hole the size of a quarter, but not a Syrian.
1:17 that's proper science
Thank God for spray foam the little bastards figured out how to remove the steel wool for me. I'm sure the combination works well but I went heavy on the rodent specific foam a few months ago and they haven't made it through.
Imperial measurement for drill bits, metric for gaps....lol looks like imperial is to difficult to measure gaps....
Always one of you
For him, anyway. Some of us who use imperial measurements for everything would just use a ruler (imperial) for both. That he used both indicates that he's in a country that uses both.
@Laura-kl7vi He's Canadian. We have to use both because of American products that use Imperial. Metric is just a vastly better system for taking measurements.
Same as rats lol I know from having them as pets for years
Thank God I don't live in NY. But this was fascinating.
My mice escaped once after I left the cage door open. I found them hiding under my bed and they ran from me back to their cage, then proceeded to just squeeze through the bars to get back in (avoiding using the open door). This was when I realised they could come and go whenever they pleased.
What did you do about that? Or did you just let it be
@@EpicPlayer954 I just let it be. They seemed to like their home as they stayed with me for many years. :)
@@johnberwyn23 that’s super sweet. I’m happy for you and the experience
When my roommate had rats, they were convinced I would fit through the bars because they'd very carefully bite on to the edge of my fingernails and try to pull my hands into the cage. Also one time one of them escaped and we found out that our kitchen cabinet didn't have trim on the side behind the fridge and he was hiding in there. We got him out though, though I had to move the fridge so we could reach him. There were three of us on a rat rescue mission, and it took a few hours, and I'm pretty sure we all looked insane, trying to outsmart a pocket-puppy and having trouble. But rats are smart
Thay glue is legit lol
I seen a mouse go through a hole like the the 3/8 My pinky finger wouldn't fit in it. My brain to this day is still trying to say it didn't happen...
Interesting Vid
I watched a mouse squeeze through 1/2" hole
Sick
They'd have managed the 9/16ths if they hadn't stuffed themselves on the bigger holes..
Now do one for spiders 😂
Dime is reasonable, but 1/4 inch?😮
i had mice, i got blue blocks, no more mice
All this work when you could literally just get a Rat or Ferret.
What would a rat do?
Baby mouse 'hold my beer'
💯 😂
Great video! Awesome work Very helpful
So a dime is three quarters?
In Denmark/Sweden, we have a rule that states that a gap must be less than 6 mm to be mouse-proof.
Neighbour Norway also
@@tullguttenyeah but norway isn’t real
They are amazing little bastards.
8:02...BITE!
also keep in mind that a fat mouse wont fit in like one that hasn't eaten for a day or more. so go down one size lower then shown just to be sure. not only that but when anything gets hungry they get more willing, just because they didn't enter those smaller openings doesn't mean they can't, they where just unwilling because they just got a feast.
False. Their body size is irrelevant. If their head fits, their body will fit. Eating doesn’t make your head get bigger.
We found a shriveled-up mouse carcass in a wine bottle in the attic. It apparently got drunk and OD'd.
In some ways, mice are more similar to us than different
@@shallowgod5539real, I always steal food from people and leave my diseases behind because i don’t care 🐀
That's a clever idea for a video, Shawn. 👍
Good info. Thanks
I’m still smiling at the idea of mice pancakes😝🐁🐁🐁🥞🥞🥞
Dis why kitty r güd. 😻
I would wonder about motivation as a variable: If the mouse was trapped inside and desperate to get out, would it be more likely to try (and succeed) getting thru the 9/16th hole?
Better to mix that mesh with silicone I just use disposable glove when mixing
My house is from 1865. I don’t think it’s possible to fill all the tiny holes that exist.
I remember back a few years ago my grandma had mice problems. I gound a small crack in the baseboard of the wall between the old part of the house (has a crawl space) and the new part of the house (slab floor) that was as big as a pencil, and i determined thats where they were coming from. As she was disagreeing with me, out pops a furball with two little, beady, black eyes.
I had chipmunks and mice come through a small gap between my refrigerant lines and the wall outside. I was shocked to observe a mouse come through like it’s no big deal
i appreciate that at the end there you didnt have the bucket filled with water because that is incredibly inhumane. Thank you.
Excellent test.
Glad you did both holes and gaps. Great test
The one on the left looks too small for a pinky.
...and live
Loved the gap idea! Not only testing how small a hole a mouse can get in, but adding something else for more data
Never use poison! It will poison the animal that eats the mouse as well.
That is a whole lot of seeds and a whole lot of mouse turds.
As always Shawn, gloves Shawn, gloves. Protect yourself and your family.
this is what people think of your comments, this was a reply to me beating you to it: "Either Shawn doesn’t care/he washes his hands after handing the mice, or even he has been vaccinated against those diseases. Infernally the other commenter is behaving like a troll/bot and has spammed nearly all of Shawn’s videos, 😠 but I assume Shawn ignores him"
Reporting for spamming.
If thier head fits they fit.
Well done experiment.
Awesome video very informative!!! You should do one with different size hardware cloth or mess to see what is needed to keep them out
iirc, Matthias is in Ottawa Canada. those mice are metric.
Fun experiment
Great video covered all the bases 👍
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Wouldn’t have believed it if I didn’t test myself a while back, I got one to fit into a corona beer bottle
Really nice job on the filming of everything, the construction and the mouse activity.
Great video, thanks
In the long run, hole size doesnt matter. A mouse will chew a small hole bigger.
great tests
I’m surprised non of them got stuck 😂
Good work Crawdaddy.
All these mice are thinking is "please keep giving us all this delicious food"
Vermin
Mouse: PARTY TIME BOYS, new experiment! Mouse day after: damn, should've eaten less yesterday... Now I won't fit through these gaps!
Super info 👍
This is super good info. Thanks, Shawn
This video is awesome, good stuff!
good idea !
“Yes, the mouse trap guys still has problems with mice…” That line shouldn’t be so funny too me lol