3-pk Humane Mouse Trap - The Only Mousetrap You'll Ever Use

I had 3 of these set up with peanut butter on a couple of Goldfish cheddar crackers, in areas of the kitchen where I have seen a mouse and its poo. I even applied a thin layer of peanut butter on the edge of their door as suggest on the package. Never caught the sneaky bastard! I had them in use for a month. Washed them out and stored them away last week. I don't know if the mouse took off before I bought these or if the mouse is simply too smart to fall for these traps. If I ever see the mouse again or any droppings I'll try the traps once more and give an updated report. UPDATED************************************************************ Ok soooo last weekend (11-05-16) my husband and I started hearing some more mouse activity. My husband actually SAW a mouse AND where its little escape hole is. This was GOLD as now that we know a source where its coming from, best opportunity to try the traps again! I placed it right near the hole, which is in the kitchen, and instead of goldfish crackers I tried a piece of Nature Valley oatmeal bar with peanut butter on top. Let me tell you...not only did I catch one mouse with the trap....but I been catching a mouse every single day!! Its day 4 now. They are all little brown mice. Crazy adorable! But seriously I am wondering how many are actually in my house and when the trap will STOP working lol Its getting a bit annoying and routine finding a mouse in the trap within hours of placing new bait. Washing it isn't fun either. My tips: FIND a hole where the mice are coming to and from and place the trap there. Placing the traps where you seen a mouse or droppings out in the open isn't good enough. At their access point you'll catch them, guaranteed. Also unless you aren't able to check on the trap often, NO need to drill extra holes! In fact PLEASE don't drill holes much bigger than whats already there or they will try to escape/chew through them and get stuck!! This happened to me when first trying to test if bigger holes made a difference for scent and provide them with more air. When I found my first catch, poor thing was halfway out of the trap with its bottom stuck. I couldn't believe it as the holes I made were no bigger than a dime in diameter! I had to carefully break the trap to pry it free (outdoors of course). Anyway after that failed I been using a trap as is ever since, and its been catching mice. Run a thin amount of peanut butter in front of the door as instructed and they will smell it. I find using a tiny bit of soft oatmeal bar with peanut butter gives off a very powerful scent that they can't resist :D

This is the live trap that I've used for many years. The first one that I owned was probably 15 years ago, and I once bought a replacement after years of use. They were pretty durable, but after much use I probably was a little rough on the first one when cleaning. The second one finally failed because at length some rodent was eventually able to scratch and nibble away at the edge of the trap door enough to pull it open and escape, ruining it for future use. I probably caught a dozen in the same trap before this happened. I feel like the doors are the least little bit thinner now than long ago, but even if so they'll do the job. So I consider these pretty reliable, yet not perfect. Considering the price and effectiveness I would give them a 4 1/2 if possible. For me there are two things that make live traps challenging, and it is no fault of the traps themselves. First, you need to be reasonably vigilant, because if you do not notice any sounds are or not present you might overlook a trapped mouse until hours or days later, making a very unpleasant result for you and the rodent. Similarly, the second issue is also that I do not want them to suffer, yet simply escorting them to the edge of the woods or elsewhere nearby does not get rid of them. I actually find myself driving off in the middle of the night delivering a mouse to a remote creek area else they are highly likely to return. For bait I used to use a little peanut butter or bits of cheese, but I've found that just a bit of dry pet kibble is good enough. If you have a rodent on the loose looking for a free meal it doesn't take much.

Just purchased these traps and as soon as they arrived baited them with peanut butter per the instructions and placed around last mouse dropping locations. Within 4 hours (and within 1 hour of leaving that part of the house) I heard a clatter and upon checking found an empty trap upside down. As other reviews have documented it seems I caught a mouse but once it realized it was trapped it either threw itself around in a panic or purposefully (if I have genius mice) rolled the trap to its side twice making the trap door swing wide open as the roof became the floor. So far the mouse has gotten a snack and likely a scare. To try and prevent the same thing happening again if the mouse tries for more peanut butter I've wedged heavy objects against two of the traps so they are pinned against the wall and used double-sided tape on the other. I promise I will update this review if the new setup is more successful, until then the door mechanism and lightweight trap body seem too easily defeated. ********* UPDATE: After losing the first mouse it took a few days but we did soon catch another, this one was either small enough that it couldn't roll the trap or the double-sided tape held the trap down. After catching the smaller mouse I had a few run-ins where I was face to face with the big one in my kitchen, but never found it in the trap. One day I chased it around the pantry and saw it run under a pocket door into the wall, I placed one of these traps so the mouth directly covered this entrance and amazingly 2 hours later the same mouse was in the trap. A few days later my roommate thought he saw another mouse go into the same space under the pocket door and since I'd told him how we caught the big one he put the trap back in the same spot, that night there were two mice in the same trap together. Since then we haven't seen hide nor hair (nor dropping) so I think we removed them all. I increased my rating to 4 stars but that may be a bit generous since we had to be both very patient as well as "hunt" the mice ourselves with the traps. Only 1 of the 4 wandered into the trap in the recommended placement, but in the end we did catch them all and we able to release them far away alive. If you do choose these traps be careful with your placement, use double sided tape on the bottom, or something heavy on top and check frequently - as noted by other reviewers there is little ventilation and one of the mice was soaking wet and nearly dead after being caught overnight.

I used to own domestic mice for several years and they had a habit of finding their way out of pretty much every enclosure I got for them. I'm an animal lover (and these were my pets) so I didn't want to hurt them, especially with glue traps which I consider to be akin to torture. Back then this live trap was one of the only ones I could find but to my surprise it worked amazingly well. I've caught dozens of mice with this product. Just line them up against walls (mice tend to prefer running along the sides of walls rather than in open areas), give it an hour or maybe an evening, check from time to time, and boom, sooner or later I was guaranteed to find my loose mouse inside the cube. We now have the occasional field mouse coming in from outside so I came to Amazon to find the same trusty device I was able to rely on before. I was surprised to see many other, more complicated variations of the same basic concept. I couldn't understand why I had so much trouble finding this specific design when it had worked so well for me in the past. I literally refused to buy any other mouse trap until I was sure that this one was no longer available, and was happy when I finally came across it again. I bought three just to make sure that I'll always have a spare. You can't always be guaranteed that a trap will work, animals will sometimes avoid them for various reasons. But I'm relying on dozens and dozens of instances of success with this one, it worked for me FAR more than it didn't. Just use a little peanut butter, a dab of cheese, a potato chip, or some similar basic snack and put it in the back of the trap. Lay the trap down so that the side is against a wall near where you've seen a mouse, and have the opening face the likely direction that the mouse came from. You might even want to put one or two other little treats along the same wall, towards the opening, as a trail to lure the mouse into coming closer to the trap and checking it out. Just be patient and the odds are high that the trap will work. Then you can simply lift it, turn it and let the mouse get out wherever else you'd like it to go. PS: as an animal lover I want to thank everyone who's using live traps. Good luck!

I strongly advise you not to purchase these. Since I ordered them last year I have captured one mouse. As of my last placement I have had 3 mice get inside the trap, eat the bait, and leave. I placed them securely, so that they could not be flipped around or moved. The mice got in and back out. Initially I used them as they came. Small holes to allow the mice to smell the bait. Small, improperly drilled holes I might add. Mice are near blind and prefer to travel along walls. Smell is their primary sense. For this last placement I altered the traps, by drilling 3 small holes in a line in the place where the original holes were drilled. It worked, the mice found the food, but the trap failed to keep them inside. I advise the manufacturer of these to make the doors heavier, or spring loaded, so they are easy to close and near impossible to open. Additionally the body of the trap needs to be 2-4 inches longer, in case the issue is that the mice have their tails sticking out under the door after entering, and this helps them, in some way, to escape. We have field mice here with really long tails! Finally the holes have to be drilled clear through to allow smell to get out. Best bait was a piece of graham cracker, with a dollop of peanut butter, and a few pieces of dry cat food on top.

Bought a pack of these after they were recommended by YouTubers and form users as one of the more effective and cost efficient humane traps out there. No catches with these after months, trying different locations and baits. Finally tried leaving this in a cage with an already captive house mouse that had been caught with another device. Unlike numerous other traps, she just would not go in -I even turned it upside down so that the door was stuck all the way open with peanut butter at the back, and set a motion camera to watch. 12 hours later, nothing. She could smell the bait, she investigated around the trap, but simply would not go in. Might work for field mice, house mice are too smart or stubborn to go for this trap.

I bought two of these 20+ years ago and caught many, many mice with them. Eventually they wore out and I couldn't find any like them, so I tried a variety of other traps. I couldn't catch a mouse with the others, not one. So I've kept looking for these and finally found them!! I heard a mouse scratching around last night, so I baited a trap with my usual shredded cheese this morning. I always leave a little bit sticking out from under the door to entice them. Within a couple of hours I heard the familiar tinking sound of a mouse trying unsuccessfully to get out the little door. I carted him out of the house, down the road a bit, and let him go on the other side. He tried his best to stay IN the trap! lol But I persevered and now he's living on the outside. These traps have never failed me. They're SO easy to use and because they're clear, you can see what you've caught without having to open it up. Easy to clean, too. If they're stuck in there for several hours, they may try to chew along the edge of the door with those strong little teeth. That happened to me, and once they'd made a tiny bit of headway, every mouse after that went to work on the door until eventually (after about 40 mice) they got the hole big enough to escape through, so I had to patch it the best I could. The patches didn't last, though, so I eventually had to toss them which is why I needed more. I will be vigilant this time around, though, and not give them a chance to try and chew the doors. These really are superb traps, simple, easy, and effective.

The door only swings one way so once the mouse is IN, it lacks the ability to get OUT. I've tried other traps (live catch and- in desperation- kill traps (but never glue)) and had mice take the bait without triggering whatever is supposed to happen. This is the only trap that works every time. I suggest baiting with peanuts, one at the near end to tempt mouse in and a few at the far end. Once the mouse is all the way in, s/he will not get out. The only drawback is that you have to remember to check every day because not much air gets in through the edges of the door and there aren't any air holes. I've had mice die there a couple of times because I forgot to check- once for no reason I could see as it had been in there < 12 hours. Maybe the mouse hyperventilated and used up all the air. Release by holding door back with a stick and slanting the trap- they usually are afraid at that point and will desperately try to stay IN the trap but if you slant the trap steeply enough and/or use your stick to gently pull the mouse, out s/he will come. Several times the mouse was so frightened, s/he ran towards me rather than away but if you're prepared for that (the 1st time I wasn't) you can dodge.

Debería haber diferentes tamaños. Llegaron miniatura y el ratón que tenía entró y salió de reversa sin que se le cerrara la puerta pues era mucho más grande para esas mini cajitas. Venían 4 en lugar de 3