Smart for Mice who Don't Want to be Trapped
587351
I have two mice in my home.  When getting the Smart Mouse Trap, I had high hopes.  However, Mouse#1 ate the peanut butter off the cracker and went off to enjoy life, and Mouse#2 ran right inside and ran out again.  The Smart Mouse trap is an attractive piece of plastic, but worthless as a mouse catcher, at least for mice as small as my invaders.
3277611
These do a great job. I like to put just a little peanut butter on the inside of the trap over the holes near the cracker. The mice seem very relaxed when I find them, and have usually eaten the peanut butter despite being trapped. I really like these traps a lot. I've removed about 15 mice over the last 5 months or so, and no sign of wear on the latches.
4958112
I bought this over conventional mouse traps because I had mice in my cabinets and drawers and did not want to splatter mouse-bits everywhere. I also aim to kill as humane as I can...I like to think the initial shock just puts the mouse unconscious. Other reviewers mentioned mice just getting the tips of their noses caught and taking forever to die pushed me away from conventional traps.

Upon receiving the trap, this thing is MUCH smaller than I expected. It will only work for field mice, do not expect rats or huge mice to get trapped in this! Fortunately, this allowed me to put it in drawers and other small spaces.
It did not include the 4 AA batteries needed - but this is noted on the product page so I cannot gripe.

I put the batteries in, put a tiny (M&M sized) granola chunk in the box, turned the switch on, and closed the door. The green light stayed on for 6ish seconds, then it buzzed lightly for another couple seconds. Easy, right? Put it in a cabinet, went to bed, woke up the next morning and the light was flashing. I will admit, the flashing light is on a very long delay, so at first I thought I hadn't caught anything, this was my only annoyance, but I assume it is to save battery life. Maybe making a little flag go up when a mouse is caught would be more useful for immediate recognition of a kill?

Either way, one mouse is dead the first night in use, and that was the point of buying this. Cleanup was easy, open door, dump mouse, clean up a tiny drop of urine with a qtip, close door and set trap back to catch the relatives.
2222681
PROS:
Can catch multiple mice.  It seems large enough to hold 4-6 mice, but they have to come in separately, though there are two entrances.  I only caught one mouse, as I have been working on driving away the mice by having zero food available for them at all times and blocking entrances, so I am down to the few that did not leave before the holes were blocked.

Well-constructed, and works to catch mice without letting them escape again.
Easy to clean.  Tight fitting lid.  Seems indestructable.
Would be ideal for catching many mice at one time.  If you are very mice ridden then this may be your trap. It also would be good for clumsy people who drop things a lot, because you won't wreck this one.

CONS:
My mouse hid under the in-ramp while I was driving him to the wild area for release. I had made it comfortable in there for him with a jar-lid of water and several kinds of food.  When I opened the trap  lid for release I thought he had escaped in my car because I did not see him, but eventually I saw the tip of the tail sticking out from under the ramp.  It was hard getting him out, and waiting for him to leave did no good. He stayed in it. I had to dump it upside down and knock it to get him out.  I could easily have missed him even being in there and left him for days if he were hiding under the ramp at the time I checked the trap.
It is scary to open lid with mice inside except they are more afraid than I am.  It is hard to open lid when wearing leather gardening gloves.  Lid hinges along the long side, and it opens cigar box style so you take the top top up and completely expose the interior.  I would really hate doing that with four or five mice in there, but I had one single mouse hiding under the ramp.

I bought this trap and also the small green house-shaped trap, and the little house was much, much easier.  I had a hard time rating this.  It is appropriate and five stars for some people as described above, but probably is one star for the average home owner with a couple of mice in the kitchen.  Buy yourself one or more of the green house ones and do not buy this one.

 I released my mice in a city-owned natural hiking area about three miles from my house. Along with catching mice, scrub your cupboards, leaving 99% bacteria-killing solution on for ten minutes.  Stuff all holes with steel wool. Search for hidden holes inside cupboards. Keep things like cereal and chips in the oven or refrigerator. Clean toaster crumb tray after each use. No dirty plates or pans and all counters spotless.  Food in jars in mouse-proofed cupboards.  I had a space over my heating vent that had to have a piece of wood nailed over to prevent mouse entry.  I added strips of wood on the floor inside the furnace closet and hot water heater closet because mice were coming from the crawl space around the bottom of the heaters. The strip is right next to the door when the door is shut, on the inside, so mice can't come underneath the door jamb. Also make sure that a spark arrester is secure on top of your fireplace chimney or mice can come in that way. Good luck! It is hard having a zero food, zero crumbs kitchen.
4537076
It has worked great to keep a couple of mice restricted to one room, while I continue to try different traps.  I have got some Genius mice.
3163943
I find the snap is too weak to keep a mouse in place - if not, it then seems smarter mice avoid going into a jaw, alligator looking trap (the space/distance between the upper jaw or mouth of the trap is a hint to a mouse just don't go/stick your head into another animal's teethed/jagged/razor-looking mouth)
1424031
Could be how we are deploying the traps. However we did not catch a single mouse with these traps. And there was even evidence of mice being able to walk into and leave the trap with ease when we found mouse feces inside the trap, but no mouse was stuck.
4900690
There are small mice in my apartment (I live in a city) and they are able to eat the peanut butter out of this trap without it snapping closed.
863472
Live near hills, so mice venture in occasionally. I can leave this set up and it will blink for a day when it catches something. I don't like killing mice, but at least I know this is quick.
3870985
I bought this because I really wanted a catch and release mouse trap. We had two mice in our house for a few weeks, and they just didn't go for it. We ended up setting out the snappy kind that kill the mice, and caught both of them in a matter of hours. We used peanut butter in both traps, so it wasn't an issue with the bait.

However, I am glad I tried this one. I really didn't want to kill the mice, so I would recommend trying this trap or something similar first. I suspect the mice in my house knew better than to go inside, and were too smart for their own good!
1314550
THESE TRAPS DO WORK,and work great! And you don't need to clean them out after a mouse poops in them,just keep putting fresh bait(a dab of peanut butter)in the trap after every catch. And what's this about "hard to set"? All you do is open the door and bait it and set it down on a FLAT surface. And to test whether it has a mouse caught inside,just pick it up and while holding the door closed and shake it a little,and believe me,YOU CAN TELL if you have a mouse inside. And if the yellow plastic lock doesn't keep the door closed,just GENTLY bend it a little and it will work fine. THESE traps are great and THEY DO WORK.Have caught 8 in just a week,a pregnant mama mouse,two grownups,and 5 babies. And these are new new traps. But a frew years back,i had bought 4 of these same traps,and they worked great then too.
2652231
I have used this style for years and they keep all our farm buildings free of mice. They are easy to set and don't spring on you like the wooden style. You don't have to touch the parts that touch the mouse when you are resetting it.
398719
I would recommend this product to those who are squimish about killing mice.  This is more humane than regular traps.
4401826
This is a great trap to catch mice. We had over 20 of them in the garage and every morning this trap had 3 plus in it. I put a small cracker with peanut butter in it. It worked like a charm. It's also easy to open when it's time to release them.
3901096
I set the trap at night and came down in the morning to find the mouse had come, eaten and left!
On examination, I decided our mice were too lightweight to spring the trap, so I taped a penny to the bottom of the floor on the side where you set the bait.
Also, I didn't want the mice to be in the trap so long that they would be pooping it up so I baited it differently.
I put a pea sized glob of peanut butter on the inside of the roof on the bait side of the trap (mice LOVE peanut butter!), and a raisin, soaked in water till plump, on the floor under the peanut butter (mice dehydrate easily) and keep the bait end completely closed. With it set and baited this way, I caught 1 mouse within 10 min. Let him go and set the trap again and caught the second within 10 min.
Been over a week and we are still mouse free!
I love my humane mouse trap!
1596900
Caught a mouse in my cupboard within the first few days. I placed it on the walking path of the mouse and I did not have to bait it.
4751844
This thing works like a charm, just make sure that you put it in line where the mice are running otherwise they won't go hunting for it and the bait they will find what they are used to getting into IE your food or other stuff like wires insulation.