Electronic Mouse Killer

We are converting an old rural building, still have slate slab floors and walls with holes... Mice are an issue.Was using spring traps, the Big Chease ones, which work well untill the mice are breading at which point the smaller mice simply walk over the trap and nick the penut butter. Overall catch rate drops off to nothing and bait is still disapeering so we know there are still mice to catch.I spent ages looking at electric traps of all sorts and reading reviews.Bought the Big Chease unit, despite a couple of lackluster reviews, as it semed no worse than any other and was a good price from a well known brand.Well I am amazed...I dont think it kills everything that walks in but dosnt hang arround however I suspet this is by design.I think there is a delay to fool the mice into a false sense of security and let them chow down for a few seconds before despatching them. I saw review saying the mice know when electric traps are on, and they very well might, but the delay seems to teach them all is well... Untill it isnt, at which point it is too late.Spring traps were continually tripping and not catching anything, once that had benn down for 24 Hrs, clever mice!, this so far has fooled them entirly...The trap has been down since monday, mid morning... Took it out of th box, added penut butter and batteries and switched it on. Its now Tuesday early afternoon just about to go and take out mouse No 8, No7 was removed less than 15 mins ago... Way more nice than I thought we had having only seen/heard one very occasionally.Had I been in all day yesterday I suspect we would be well into double figures by now... A bit horrifying to be honestTrap No 2 just ordered just now, cant recomend this unit highly enough.I only review very good and very bad things... This is definatly the former...Al

I feel I have to write this review as I feel consumers need to be aware that the traps cease to work after a period of little usage. Last year I purchased one of the traps and was astounded at how well it worked. I used to use humane traps but live in the countryside and found myself tripping out 1/2 mile from my house each day to let the little critters go. I cant put down poison as there is a resident owl and I wanted something which would kill the mouse without prolonging a death or maiming the animal. The trap worked a treat, catching at least 6 mice within a couple of days. I decided to purchase another two traps and placed them in prominent areas. Again they worked like a charm. The Spring came along and our lovely Summer and the traps were left down as a precaution. initially, then I removed the batteries and stored carefully until this Winter. I have now baited the traps for 6 weeks, changed the batteries several times and the mice are eating the bait and not one single trap has managed to kill a mouse in that time. I have now come to the conclusion that the traps cease to work after a short period of time.If the company Big Cheese see this review, they may have some advice for me, however I am now on the hunt for another type of trap as this has proved to be an expensive short term fix. If anyone can suggest a good trap please let me know. Thank You

Best one yet. It gets them every time.

Why did you choose this product over others?:Good reviews

Fairly simple and certainly most humane way to dispose of problematic mice.Moving into a Farmhouse we had ALOT of little critters making unwanted appearances. We didn’t actually realise how many until we started using various forms of pest control.After catching many through traditional mouse traps, they started to stop falling for it, and despite having the ‘quick-kill’ mousetraps which were certainly humane in their speed, they weren’t so pleasant to dispose of.Enter the electric mouse killer.This was brilliant in many ways, but I found after a while it did have a few flaws.Firstly, I noticed the entry hole seemed very small. Don’t worry about that, they cheeky little critters will certainly fit.Setting it up with either cheese, peanut butter or Nutella, the first couple of nights we had zero luck, whilst the other traps in the vicinity caught a few. Maybe they just got there first.Soon though, we were catching mice each night. What was best was it was so easy to dispose of. No nasty ‘kill bar’ to have to release and the mice just look like they were asleep instead of any unpleasant mess to clean.After a while though, it stopped working. The green light showed it was powered on, but the mice were happily entering the device, eating their full and getting away.I found that cleaning the electric plates with some wet paper towels (MAKE SURE TO TURN OFF AND REMOVE BATTERIES) did the trick, the next day it was back catching.But now it seems I have to clean the device this way each time for it to work.For this reason I gave it 4 star instead of a full 5 star.With this in mind, is it worth the money compared to a normal ‘quick kill’ mouse trap?Well, if you live in a Farmhouse/Countryside and inundated with ‘visitors’, then perhaps not, as multiple traps would cost a lot.However, if you have just one-or-two little critters you’d like to rid yourself of, then this would be good.The main difference - no nasty kill mess to deal with compared to cheaper mousetraps, so if you’re a little squeamish, or don’t want to be upset by any mess, then this is definitely for you.