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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"

@panoken2130

4 ай бұрын

He did mention that towards the end of the video

@TheGammajamma

4 ай бұрын

Also the setup wasn't great for the gap. clearly it could shift

I had mice. I got a cat. The mice went away.

@guatf1

4 ай бұрын

Would it help against rats?

@rdeleeuw4408

4 ай бұрын

Young rats yeah...@@guatf1

@Alavachemusic

4 ай бұрын

Yes ​@@guatf1

@Dwigt_Rortugal

4 ай бұрын

I'm grateful for a neighbor's kitty that stalks outside. It still barely puts a dent in the population, though

@sylentknight

4 ай бұрын

@@guatf1 Feral cats for sure

The mouse uses the trucker's rule, if the cabin passes, the entire truck passes and if the head passes, the mouse passes too.

Why am I watching this? I have cats.

Hi Shawn, I'm so glad you did this test again. It's fantastic and very useful information. Informative, thumbs Up!

lol! Yup! They are amazing; I’ve seem mice flatten themselves too like pieces of paper to gain access.

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.

@jimmysfansandmore29866

Ай бұрын

They're flexible

Nice work! Great quantitative testing.

Very cute little mouse 🐭

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!

@Dwigt_Rortugal

4 ай бұрын

Did it act out rodent soap operas and advertise cat insurance?

@jurjenbos228

4 ай бұрын

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 ! 😅

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.

Excellent experiment! Excellent vid!

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!

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.

I loved watching this, so informative and interesting

Any hole smaller than their head is what i was always told

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.

That mouse is on high alert ⚠️

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.

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 remember when Matthias Wandel did his videos years ago. It's nice to see a new version of it.

@hinasolver685

5 ай бұрын

Same.

@BluBlu777

5 ай бұрын

Yep, had forgotten that until reading your comment 👏👏

@chan2hans

5 ай бұрын

I love the “sound” in that series😂

@FrederickDunn

5 ай бұрын

Great comment, Matthias is who I've quoted for many years, always room for follow-up testing :)

@jack002tuber

5 ай бұрын

To think that Matthias might have made a mistake, I can't imagine. He's so through its mind boggling

This video made me appriciate the Metric system more :P

I’m afraid of spiders, I seal everything including wall outlets 😂

Well done

Theres 4 types of matter... Gas Solids Liquids And mice

@R-oz9mf

Ай бұрын

Plasma

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.

you have to wait several months for the revitalization of one of the following: saladin, william, or some other pairing

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.

Dude gave himself rodents for science! Way to go man. Humanity thanks you!

Imperial measurement for drill bits, metric for gaps....lol looks like imperial is to difficult to measure gaps....

@danielcold9083

4 ай бұрын

Always one of you

@Laura-kl7vi

4 ай бұрын

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.

@strangestecho5088

4 ай бұрын

​@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.

1:17 that's proper science

I've never seen a mouse in my life. But I've always had cats and dogs.

Thay glue is legit lol

"A dime fits trough three quarters." 4:26 10 cents fits through 75 cents.

@Dwigt_Rortugal

4 ай бұрын

I don't need no stinking accountant!

@jurrione

4 ай бұрын

Hehehe @@Dwigt_Rortugal

Interesting Vid

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.

How about the gap under a door?

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...

Baby mouse 'hold my beer'

@zweed69

4 ай бұрын

💯 😂

Now do one for spiders 😂

Sick

Mice are cute but they’re a HUGE nuisance!

@R-oz9mf

Ай бұрын

Roof rats around my place took over competition of mice

They are amazing little bastards.

i had mice, i got blue blocks, no more mice

So a dime is three quarters?

8:02...BITE!

I watched a mouse squeeze through 1/2" hole

All this work when you could literally just get a Rat or Ferret.

@DAMfoxygrampa

4 ай бұрын

What would a rat do?

I’m still smiling at the idea of mice pancakes😝🐁🐁🐁🥞🥞🥞

Dime is reasonable, but 1/4 inch?😮

Great video! Awesome work Very helpful

The one on the left looks too small for a pinky.

👍

Never use poison! It will poison the animal that eats the mouse as well.

They'd have managed the 9/16ths if they hadn't stuffed themselves on the bigger holes..

Better to mix that mesh with silicone I just use disposable glove when mixing

Dis why kitty r güd. 😻

If thier head fits they fit.

...and live

Vermin

How effective would be a cone trap, where mouse would enter through larger hole and couldnt get out through the smaller one

They got fatter before they got inside the smaller ones

Do nyc mice😂

Fun experiment

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.

@Cerus98

4 ай бұрын

False. Their body size is irrelevant. If their head fits, their body will fit. Eating doesn’t make your head get bigger.

My house is from 1865. I don’t think it’s possible to fill all the tiny holes that exist.

Good info. Thanks

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.

@dark14life

5 ай бұрын

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.

@joeyoungs8426

5 ай бұрын

@@dark14lifeNot in 20 years it hasn’t.

@joeyoungs8426

5 ай бұрын

@@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.

@1man1guitarletsgo

5 ай бұрын

No mice in my house either. Two cats, but no mice...

@Eviltower101

5 ай бұрын

Thats really cool

cool !

i appreciate that at the end there you didnt have the bucket filled with water because that is incredibly inhumane. Thank you.

If the mice somehow got trapped, wouldn't they be able to squeeze out of and escape exit holes smaller than the entry hole test results?

Snake food

@user-sw8ov8xn5t

2 ай бұрын

I have a pet snake

All ya need is a pet snake. No more mice

As always Shawn, gloves Shawn, gloves. Protect yourself and your family.

@chubbrock659

5 ай бұрын

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"

@chubbrock659

5 ай бұрын

Reporting for spamming.

If you have gaps or holes that are hard to seal just stuff steel wool in it. They will not chew through it

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?

Brisby: After Martin and Timothy binged watched Secret of NIMH 2, I escaped through the smallest hole I could find.

@kirbyourenthusiasm

4 ай бұрын

The Secret of Nimh was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid.

Excellent test.

Like Bob Barker used to say " _A Diiiiime_ "

That's a clever idea for a video, Shawn. 👍

That is a whole lot of seeds and a whole lot of mouse turds.

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.

@volvo09

5 ай бұрын

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.

@oiu7890

5 ай бұрын

If there is a hole started and the material is chewable they will enlarge it to get in! I have seen this.🧐😡

@Riceball01

5 ай бұрын

@@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.

@recoveringsoul755

5 ай бұрын

I heard it's a quarter for hamsters

@hamsterama

5 ай бұрын

​@@recoveringsoul755 A dwarf hamster could probably fit through a hole the size of a quarter, but not a Syrian.

Super info 👍

great tests

I’m surprised non of them got stuck 😂

Great video, thanks

Kinda seems like the wood is lower on the right because it has no support. Is it still 14mm? Because there seems to be a gap bigger than 6mm at the top right

Well done experiment.

Not scientific because you cant conclude they cant get through the hole, they might not have wanted to after porking their way through so much food.

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.

@EpicPlayer954

5 ай бұрын

What did you do about that? Or did you just let it be

@johnberwyn23

5 ай бұрын

@@EpicPlayer954 I just let it be. They seemed to like their home as they stayed with me for many years. :)

@EpicPlayer954

5 ай бұрын

@@johnberwyn23 that’s super sweet. I’m happy for you and the experience

@Werevampiwolf

4 ай бұрын

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

Loved the gap idea! Not only testing how small a hole a mouse can get in, but adding something else for more data

My cat keeps the mice out... But this is great info!

Science! Thanks mate, those mice must think you’ve gone soft giving them all that free food though, hahaha!

This video is awesome, good stuff!

Rule of thumb: if their head fits, they will go through the hole.