The mice I have are too smart for these futuristic traps
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The mice I have are too smart for these futuristic traps! I caught more mice with the cheap $1 wooden old spring traps!
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i still am having a problem with mice and ants...
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These stink.  I'm dealing with a mouse who is a sneaky pest.  He's able to avoid getting stuck on glue traps, even when I put about fifteen glue traps right against each other.  He actually MOVES the glue traps to get to the one that has bait he craves.  So I got these Victor mouse traps.  I set four traps (two in one location, two in another location) on the kitchen counter where I'd seen a mouse scurrying around along the wall.  I put peanut butter on one and I wedged a sunflower seed in the hole on the other three, thinking he would have to work at it a little to get the seeds out.  After about nine hours, all four traps had been completely cleaned of bait, but there was no mouse caught.  This is really irritating.  The traps DO trigger if I jab at them with a screwdriver, but either the mouse is extra sneaky, or he's too light to trigger the mechanism.  It's not even a baby mouse.  It looks like a full-grown mouse, and he's pretty big, too, though he's not a rat! :(
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I have the peanut butter scented version of these traps. The one single time I was able to catch a mouse with these traps, he pulled his tail and one leg off while trying to get free. It was a mess of blood and fur on the kitchen floor. I'm sure he would have escaped if I hadn't heard him dragging the glue board across the floor. I have found these traps with fur stuck on them, even some that the mice have eaten the corners! I have used them flat and folded, baited and empty. They just don't work for me except for the occasional insect that gets stuck. The mice seem to figure out what they are and learn to avoid them. I set up a spring trap in the same spot where I had a glue board for two weeks and I had a dead mouse in two hours.
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I must have especially smart mice because the little s***s are eating the bait and leaving the trap unsprung. The first couple of times I set the trap I baited it with a bit of peanut butter on a small piece of cracker. The mouse entered, left a few little "calling cards," and left, taking the bait with it. So I tried smearing the peanut butter directly on the floor of the trap, at the very back, so the mouse couldn't remove it. I caught three mice within 24 hours using this method. But I just checked the trap and the peanut butter had all been licked off, but no mouse.

I have ordered a Havahart small rodent trap - hope that will work better. I have a larger Havahart trap that I use to trap stray cats and take
them to a spay/neuter clinic. (This is supposed to be trap-neuter-release but I have acquired four permanent cats this way - but that's another
story.) I have had pretty good luck with the larger Havahart trap so I'm hoping for good luck with the small rodent trap.

BTW, has anyone had any luck with mouse repellent? They are coming in somewhere at the back of the house and getting into the storage drawer of my range; it would be a lot easier to keep them out in the first place than to keep trapping them. I've look for holes to plug up; couldn't find any, but I know mice can go through unbelievably tiny openings.
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Although this is a great idea and fun looking trap, twice the mouse has taken the bait without the door shutting it in. Please note, we may just be dealing with an exceptionally intelligent animal. I think I saw it reading a book last week.
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There is something in my basement that is smart enough to not go in this (I think it is a squirrel), but I did catch two mice so far.
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I purchased these traps last year and was really happy with them.  We had been trying for weeks to trap this rather bold mouse.  We caught a mouse within hours of putting out these traps...and then caught another hours later.  Having only the 2 traps and  unsure how many mice we had, we emptied the traps of the dead mice and reset the traps, even though they are disposable. Needless to say, we caught 4 more mice that way.

I just bought these again this year to deal with a new generation of mice, and have extremely disappointed.  We caught one mouse the next day with one trap but were unable to reset it to use it again.  That would have been okay since they are meant to be disposable.  However, when I continued to see mice and the other trap hasn't caught any yet, I checked it and discovered the mechanism to be faulty.  The trap wouldn't trip - it was faulty.  I feel like the snap mechanism was stronger and better the first time I purchased these.
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I wish I didn't have expertise here, but I do. The house we've lived in for nearly 30 years had D-con in the attic when we bought it. Should have been a clue. We catch over a dozen a year despite contractors sealing up apparent cracks and crevices.

Let's start with the basic throw away wood thingies. First, despite the fact that they'll break your finger with the slightest misstep, a clever and lightweight mousie can easily clean off one of these and move on unscathed to more foraging. Probably because we secure them so they won't accidentally break our fingers. When they do work, there's often a bloody corpus left. Or it catches them but doesn't kill them right away, and you hear the flopping and rattling before the end finally comes. I hate them!

An exterminator advised me that D-con is bad because when the mouse ingests the stuff, while most think they head outside to die, they actually are heading home for their final moments. The exterminator said that if it's a second or third generation mouse, your house is his house and he'll die in your walls or other crannies. Not a pleasant olfactory occurrence. We experienced this right after we moved in and D-con was still in the attic.  A little critter apparently passed away in our bathroom exhaust vent while exiting to SOME place of comfort. It took days of scrubbing the bathroom in vain to realize that when the exhaust fan was running we didn't smell anything. Uggh. It was 28 years ago and I can still remember it.

Next are the sticky traps. While these are effective at nabbing mice, they don't KILL them. The thought of them living for days until trash collection, plotting their escape or gnawing at the trap to escape was unacceptable. My exterminator adviser said, "Why, you just bop em on the head!" We chose instead drowning them in a giant plastic container that we filled for such occasions, That worked until one time when the mouse still had one foot off the trap. The trap landed in the water right side up and the  mousie gracefully paddled his way around the container in circles. Sort of like Venice.

Then I discovered The Better Mouse Trap by Intruder. The name pulled me in. In dozens and dozens of entrapments, I've NEVER had the bait cleaned off with the mouse escaping. Only once did the trap even move from its location by the mouse's final thrashings. Setting the trap is simple as pie--just push the rear tab down--and I don't fear broken fingers. Apparently the trap smothers the mouse instead of breaking its neck or back, so no bloody body. They are easy to rinse off and use again (apparently mice can smell their deceased colleagues on the trap). Both the plastic and stainless steel spring are very sturdy so they last for years.

I've shared these with friends and family and everyone has been as happy as we've been. This brand is hard to find in the stores so Amazon's the way to go. I once settled for a knockoff from Walmart, and the half-trapped critter pulled the trap off the counter onto the floor and would NOT die. I got up from my deep sleep and threw bowl over the little fellow figuring he'd be gone by the morning. Apparently they don't need much oxygen, because he was still alive when I woke up. ONLY USE THE AUTHENTIC BETTER MOUSE TRAP!

 Also--all this fuss about cheese vs. peanut butter as bait. Another tip from the exterminator: mice love candy and sweets! So I mix Nutella or chocolate sauce with the peanut butter. Seems to do the trick.
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You're buying this trap because you don't want to actually kill the mice, right?  You're planning on relocating them, right?  How long do you think a mouse suffers if it's killed by a traditional trap?  There are exceptions, but I figure it's generally a pretty fast end.

So, let's talk about this humane trap.  You bait it with peanut butter or whatever and the first day it's empty.  You check it the next day, it's still empty.  You get busy and forget the third and fourth days.  Meanwhile, 2, 3...18 mice have crammed their way into the trap.  They have consumed all the peanut butter.  They are dehydrating and starving to death.  They are thinking the tail of the mouse next to them is starting to look pretty good.  You get the idea...it is a hideous thing to find by Day 6.

Don't Forget. To Check. Daily....

It is very effective and it is humane, BUT You MUST check it daily or you are truly a horrible human being...that's what I told myself anyway...
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I wanted to like these, and, they are very cleverly designed. Easy to set, and easy to release the mouse (if you're lucky enough to catch one). There are two major issues:
1. The kill bar is way too close to the trigger mechanism. See the attached photo of a small mouse that I caught, noting that the bar hit it squarely in the head. All of my 7 kills were like this, and all were small mice. There is no way the kill bar hits anywhere near the neck, or spine, which is required for a quick, humane kill. I had 7 kills, and 8 empty, tripped traps. Several had blood on them, I presume, from snapping on a larger mouse's nose. I don't like the idea of mice crawling off to suffer, let alone dying in my attic somewhere I can't retrieve them. Not good.
2. Issue 2 is that the bar springs from a 90 degree angle, rather than a full 180 degrees (as an old-school wooden trap does). This trap provides a very, very weak snap to the kill bar. Note the attached pic showing that a standard, wooden trap snapped a pencil cleanly in half (first try), while the (so called) quick kill trap barely dented the wood. It might even be hard to see the dent in that pencil about 1/2" from the tip.
It's a shame because the bait tray is clever in that the mouse has to enter from the front to get the bait and they are easy to set. If they changed this to a full 180 degree snap, and moved the bait tray back about 1/2", I think this would be a winner.
As it is, I wasted $40 on these and am now trying my luck with a bunch of cheap victor wood traps. I literally threw 2 dozen of these quick kill traps in the trash, since a less than 50% kill rate is just poor design.
I see that there are a bunch of 4 and 5 star reviews of these, but my photos don't lie. Your call.
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The biggest problem with this trap is that mice either escape it or they move it around. Twice I've put these traps on the bricks surrounding the fireplace and twice I've found them upside down on the carpeting, both times when my dog was kenneled for the night. In one of the two cases, my carpet was loaded with sticky glue. Guess I'll have to oil my carpet to remove the glue and then use dish wash detergent to remove the oil. Once one stuck to my dog's paw and yes oil will remove the trap, but it's a pain.

If you are going to buy glue traps, I'd suggest the white ones, simply because I've never found them upside down stuck to my carpet. The white ones fold into a little house and so if you choose to fold them, they can't stick to your carpet. Glue traps are the meanest way to catch mice, but they work, especially if you put food in the middle of the trap. You might want to set them out at night when you are awake and kill the mouse when it sticks so it can avoid pain and suffering.

The snap traps are more humane, but be careful because some of them easily snap shut on your hands, some go off when no mouse is near them and sometimes the mice can remove the food without the traps snapping shut. I've had traps that took many tries to set and then when I got them set, the mouse was able to remove the food without getting caught and then I had to start all over again. Sometimes it's hard to set these traps in position because they go off when set down on the floor.

Some of the humane traps work well and some don't catch a thing. If the trap is plastic, beware, because mice can chew through plastic fairly quickly and then you have a ruined trap and a mouse that knows better than to enter that kind of trap. There are mice that tend to avoid certain kinds of traps (I know this is true, but I don't know why it is true), so when you hear a mouse in your house, the best possible solution is to set out three different kinds of traps and let the mouse choose how to get trapped. Keep the remaining traps out because as everyone knows where there's one mouse, there can be twenty. The faster you catch the mice, the less likely it is that they will reproduce. Often enough, it seems that the mice most likely to enter a home are pregnant mice. If you are cheap (I learned this firsthand), you may end up buying more traps than you would otherwise. Once a mouse has babies, you end up having to trap eight mice. When I saw my nice neighbor catching mice in a snap trap, I thought less of him. I tried the humane traps, but the ones I used didn't catch all of the mice and I ended up using both snap and glue traps to finish off the job. The moral of the story is that the faster you do away with your mice problem, the fewer mice you will have to kill.
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I bought these had them out for almost a month and they didn't work. I went old school and got the traps that smashes them. I caught the mouse in one night with the cheap $2 trap from homedepo. Don't waste ur money on these
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After using this type of trap I decided that they were not a humane way to eliminate pests, that was the only reason I gave this product 3 stars. They are, however, very effective at trapping mice and BUGS! I added a little extra enticement in the way of peanut butter. Warning, you do not want to get the glue in these traps on you. It is a bear to get off.
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Caught two mice, and then the rest of the mice were apparently smart enough to not go in there. This trap works for the stupid ones, and then the smarter ones procreate, thus creating a whole family of mice that are way too smart to go near this thing.
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I have a mouse in my kitchen. I was really hoping the traps would work. I set peanut butter in one trap and cheese in the other and I put the traps in two different areas I know the mouse travels. It's been two weeks and the mouse is still in our house but not falling for the traps.
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These are poorly designed. The yellow trigger area is so large that a mouse can bump the outside edge with it's nose and trigger the trap. Instead of snapping on the mouse's head, the trap just grazes it's nose. Found 4 or 5 traps triggered with no mouse but all of the bait gone.

The original design of these style traps with the very small metal trigger area never fail. Have sent 8 mice into the beyond with those style traps.