Me, being the mans nephew have been partly dragged into this passion. Going around markets and fairs it is always a great pleasure encountering new mousetraps, with the ever emerging question: why did I never encounter this one before ? The collection at this moment holds hundreds of different traps.
One wouldn't think it but there are even countries that have their own style of traps. For example in Italy the well known snapper trap (piece of wood with spring and latch attached that hits the mouse or rat in the neck) has been changed in a model under an angle of 90 degrees. Easy to put in a corner and easier to set without getting your fingers under the latch.
In northern countries of Europe the 'block-trap' is well known: a tripping mechanism connected with a heavy block of wood that hits and kills the animal from above.
