Set With One Touch

Why do the destructive little buggers have to be so stinking adorable??? Even dead as a door nail, as a horrifying amount of mice now are after only 36 hours of use of these traps in my garage. What do I love? Most importantly, their effectiveness. We had a dead mouse in 30 minutes after setting these up! The timeliness might be because of the attractant gel, but WHATEVER! The trap immediately did its job. Oh, and on the subject of effectiveness, the design is really great for actually quickly KILLING the rodents which is far more humane in my opinion. The bait and pressure pad are deep enough into the trap that it’s not going to accidentally just get an arm or a leg caught, leaving them in agony and you with the quandary of what to do with an injured, live mouse. They’re also rather substantial, so bigger rodents probably couldn’t carry it off if it was just stuck on their tail or limb. (Yes, it happens with traditional traps!) I’m also totally impressed with the ease of use. These are literally a snap to set up, just fill the bait area (we use the Tomcat Attractant Gel which is EPIC at attracting mice), push down the lever on the opposite side from the jaws part and it clicks into place, open and set to spring. Aside from how effective and easy these traps seem to be when paired with the attractant gel, the best part of this product for me is no SNAP anxiety! The pressure pad is clearly very responsive but it’s set back a bit in the device so placing the trap after setting isn’t traumatizing like it is with the old wooden and metal snap traps. I have been making my husband set and place our traps until now because the probability of the old traps triggering while setting up or placing them scared the heck out of me. These are easy as pie to release as well. Just push the little trigger thing on the back again and the dead pest is released so you can dispose, replenish the bait and reset without having to touch anything gross. I actually did it myself this evening without incident. Granted, I picked the full trap up with tongs, ran like a lunatic to the garbage, attempted to release the mouse with said tongs, failed, then reluctantly used my hands to click and release the mouse into the trash. Easy peasy, no yucky touchy! I then clicked it back to ready again, used my tongs to pick up and carry it since it was “locked and loaded” and I’m a big chicken, and I walked it back to the spot it had been before. I’m sure I looked like a wacko, but I’m telling you, for me to touch the trap AT ALL is a huge thing. I felt confident that I could trust these not to accidentally snap and harm (or scare) me after seeing my husband do it a few times without incident. (On that subject, I read several reviews saying they got limited use from the traps... we are a day and a half in and they have each probably gone off and been reset 3-5 times and they’re still going strong. At this price point, I was good with knowing they might only work a few times but have been pleasantly pleased to find that ours are operational again and again.) I’m feeling a mild twinge of remorse, as their cute little faces are all clearly quite surprised by the fatal SNAP and I know they’re just trying to eat and stay warm... but the amount of time it’s taking to clean up the mess they made out of my pantry and equipment storage shelves (they shredded a styrofoam block into a billion little pieces which got EVERYWHERE, not to mention chewing through packaging, eating and scattering my dry goods all over the shelves) makes me morbidly check the traps embarrassingly often hoping to see that another intruder is toast. Synopsis: These traps are completely awesome, buy without hesitation! I’m so glad we did. Oh, lastly, I couldn’t find the Tomcat Attractant Gel here on Amazon so we had to go get it at the local hardware store. Far better than peanut butter, cheese, etc. It’s well worth the time it takes to track that stuff down. It’s magic!!!!

Terribly efficacious. As per its instructions dabbed a little peanut butter and literally overnight it was sprung with a dead mouse inside. Reset the trap, put in the same place and a few days later I was treated to the echoing gasp of a mouse literally breathing its last. Unlike glue traps, it's pretty clear that the mouse dies within a minimal amount of time. You're not going to find a sticky pad with a mouse struggling with it. You will find, if you put it in a good location, a mouse corpse. (Be glad I didn't upload any pictures.) If this bothers you, then this is not the product for you, for it has no qualms about what it does. I find disposing of a mouse corpse a once or twice much more palatable than picking up mouse droppings all the time, and you can't begrudge its price. A few things though: it's a snap trap so curious fingers or paws will cause accidents. This tends to limit where you can place it if you have pets or children. I had adopted a pair of kittens who are too small to be mousing (or else I wouldn't be here!) but definitely the right size to have a very nasty incident once they poked their noses or paws into it so it restricted placement a great deal. The latch is very sensitive (a good thing overall), so keep your hands clear of the jaws while setting it and it's hard to smear peanut butter since it has to be in its sprung state or else the act of dabbing it with the bait trips it. I have questions about its durability but when the jar of peanut butter nearly cost as much as the traps themselves it's hard to care all that much. Bottom line: it kills mice. Might not be the safest object in your home while it's active, but it's a no-compromise solution for a pest problem. Now, what to do with a nearly full jar of peanut butter...

Sorry, this is a book 🥴 Open, Bait(PB, quite a bit). Make sure the Black pressure plate is up. Snap. Place. Wait. What could be more simple? I have 8 set. I re-bait(PB) every 10/14 days. Just a bit of fresh on top. I checked mine 3 days ago. Reset ✓ Place. Wait..... Mine are viewable. Tic Tok Tic Tock Tic Tock BOOM🤯 🐭🐭🐭🐭🐭🐭🐭 7, gone in no way painful. That's 17 since the weather changed. Wash in soapy water. Refill with PB. Reset. Replace. Part of life. They carry disease, mites, fleas, etc. I've used these since they 1st showed on Amazon. I wouldn't use any other brand. They've never failed. I bought mine in 2013. I'm buying 8 more for $18+. Not sure how one reviewer said, "2, one and done". "Too expensive"? Be gentle with the trap pressure plate and catch. You must wash theses ocassionally, to keep the grime out and the trigger working. Especially with PB. I use a q-tip to place the PB in the well, but also put a good amount above. Not enough to weigh down the pressure plate though. I personally don't use the "Glue traps", due to their cruelty factor. I am a, Sr ER Vet Tech(24 yrs), and avoiding suffering is part of my job/soul. I don't like having to end the life of a mouse, but when you're in the middle of 280+ acres, surrounded by State Forest, well.... It's truly a no brianer. Plus, I'm feeding my local raptors. Every so often we see a Bob Cat too. This product is stellar, and I don't use that word lighty. Here, it's deserved! I toss the remnants in the same spot, as we have some Red Tail Hawks, and Owls. Both speicies has learned the routine. Especially the 2 Hawks. They sit on the telephone pole, and eat their pseudo catch/kill. I have some great photos. I caught one sitting on my front deck/porch railing once. Abosolutely a breath taking Red Hawk. We just looked at each other. I was definately blessed by Mother Nature that day. Not a week later, a Great Horned Owl landed on the line to sit at my barn. We have binocculars at every door and the barn. My barn cat drops them in a pile, so they go to the deceased mouse pile as well. I guess he thinks they're presents for me lol. I praise him at the pile. He's a great cat and never leaves the barn. That's his domain, and he's got it covered....along with the horses, whom he loves.😽♥️🐎 The Raptors and Owls have stayed wild, and I was told to give a couple weeks between replacing with more. They need to stay wild, which I knew. *It's a great way to feed, but FAR AWAY FOM YOUR HOUSE"! We have a trail camera set for the nocturnal creatures. I highlhy recommed these traps. I shared the above, to give some great ideas for use of deceaced mouse remnants. "Want Not. Waste Not". Every creature needs to eat. My Grand mother used to say that oftern. I've found listening to her is wise 🥰 A plethera of usefull knowledge. "Happy Thanksgiving" to all 🦃 I'm truly gratful for so many things!

These things are great, and especially when you can get them for under $2 apiece. Last winter six of these traps caught and killed 36 mice in my shop/office. That's an average of six kills per trap, or at less than $2 apiece <33 cents per kill ... And I still have four of the original six to deploy this year. Very economical way to get rid of vermin without having them stinking up the place after eating poison and dying somewhere in the walls or under an immovable object. They do break sometimes but I don't think it's a matter of hinge lubrication or anything like that as stated in another review. At least one of these four traps I have left from last year killed ten mice or more. I think it's just because they're made from cheap plastic to keep the cost down and that's fine with me. Less cost is a good thing and if one breaks, oh well. The only ones I'm sure about how they broke are ones I stepped on ... They're good for many, many kills if you don't do something like that. I just ordered 8 two-packs (total of 16) to get ready for this winter. I gave half of them to my sister. My brother-in-law used this kind of trap last winter and was very happy with them and they're cheaper (by a little bit) if you buy more than a certain quantity. USE THE GEL BAIT from Tom Cat in these traps. It doesn't come apart and fly all over the place when the trap releases and catches a critter. It's made so that it basically glues itself into the bait holder on these traps so the mice really, really need to get in there and work at it to get anything and of course the more they do that the more likely they are to trip the trap and punch their one-way ticket to mousy heaven. The gel bait is way more attractive to a mouse than peanut butter or cheese. Mice are herbivorous rodents, btw, cheese is not a good bait for them. That's a cartoon thing, not a mouse catchy thing. Using the gel bait the mice go straight to the trap FIRST, before they've had a snack on whatever else is laying around. Place multiple traps in high mouse traffic areas and you'll get them before they get into your pantry or leave little presents that look like sesame seeds but are not for you on your counters and in your cupboards. These traps kill instantly or very nearly instantly. (WARNING! I'm about to tell you why that is so. If you're squeamish skip the next two paragraphs.) This trap causes massive blunt force trauma to both hemispheres of the mouses body. This means that when they release and snap on a mouse they send both a hydro-static and electrical shock wave through the entire body and the brain shuts down from that shock wave almost instantly. The internal trauma is massive and instantly lethal because in addition to that shock wave there is massive internal bleeding so blood pressure to the brain goes to zero in an instant. This is the equivalent to a mouse that it would be to you if you were standing against a cement wall and a truck hit you square-on at about 40 MPH. That's the reason for the "teeth" on the trap, it's not to hold the mouse because the mouse is dead, it's to concentrate force on points instead of allowing it to spread out. If a mouse wiggles a little after being caught that's just residual nerve synapses firing as they lose oxygen and die. If one of these things clamps shut on a mouse it's dead. Despite the fact you might see some wriggling, twitching or kicking it's not experiencing anything at all, it's already gone. The death process for any living animal rarely involves an instant off like a light switch. These traps kill quickly and humanely with a minimum of suffering inflicted on the animal. Don't use this for vermin bigger than mice. I saw in some of the review videos where there were rats and even an opossum messing around with these traps ... The trap is not big enough or powerful enough to use on vermin that large. These traps do a great job on tiny, fragile mouse bodies but are not suited nor humane for anything larger. Use some good sense, if you have a rat problem you need rat traps not mouse traps. If you have a problem with 'possums or raccoons, you need to use a different approach for that kind of animal.

I had a suspicion that a mouse took housing under my shed this Winter. Now that Spring has arrived, I purchased another brand "easy load" mouse traps. Similar to the old wood ones but has bait cup and spring loaded trip plate. Caught 2 mice first day. Reloaded and it took 3 days to catch another mouse, kept cleaning the bait and not tripping plate. Finally got that mouse. For the next 3 days, the mouse would cleanup most of the bait without tripping the trap. 2 traps side by side, with small box over the top. Only access to bait was thru small hole cut in front of upside down box. This went on for days, bait gone, teeth marks on trip plate, no mouse. Decided to try these Tomcat traps. Much easier to set. Placed small amount of peanut butter in bait cup, set trap, box on top, went to bed. Next morning, box was upside down and there was Mr Mouse no more! I noticed that the mouse was sideways in the jaws of this trap. So this smaller mouse finally met his doom when he tried sneaking around the jaws of death for another free meal. Very simple to set, gently press rear part down to set the humongous jaws. The trip plate is extremely sensitive which is excellent. In fact, I decided to load a little more peanut butter after setting the trap. Barely bumped the trip plate and WHAM, the trap caught its first finger! Ouch....They are made of all plastic, so go slow and easy when setting the trap. The other brand did catch 2 mice at first. One day I got down to ground level to peek at the traps inside the box and a mouse ran out of the box, almost hit me in the forehead, then sharp right turn under my shed. When this sneaky mouse got it last night, the snap crackle pop of the trap going off, not only ridded me of the rodent, but had enough punch to throw the upside box off the trap and to the right. This mouse's luck ran out when it challenged TomCat Mouse Trap. UPDATE: Caught another mouse today. Very small mouse tripped the plate! This mouse thought it was smart and squeezed between box inside wall and trap. I had 2 traps side by side, with bait facing front. This little mouse tried to approach from the side across both traps! Trap #1 snapped on this critters neck, Trap #2 on the body. The old saying "more than 1 way to outsmart a mouse" is true if using 2 of these traps side by side with the rear of trap blocked. Took photos but forgot to attach them.

GIDDY UP! This trap is the real deal. Let me give you a little background first. So I live sandwiched between a cemetery and a park with a creek so mice are a constant. Like CONSTANT. My German Shepherd has become afraid of them, it’s such an issue. Don’t get me wrong, we’re not overrun, but there seems to always be a mouse I need to deal with. Wait, is that overrun? Ugh, I don’t even know anymore. I’m losing my mind here. SOMEHOW, they’re getting around the glue traps (which I’m not a huge fan of, because they’re not humane but I’m desperate here, folks) which I largely use flat, under the front of the stove...like seriously, underneath the entire front of the stove is papered with flat glue traps. And they’re getting past them! How? (We see them, they come and go from under the stove and somehow MISS the glue traps?!?) You may be wondering, WTH, why do mice like this house, has she thought to *deter* the mice? I have indeed. My dog food is in a plastic bin so they’re no longer coming for that. I don’t leave dog food in her bowl, I only put food in her bowl when she flips it over (lol, this is how we communicate lol), there is zero food on the floor - ZERO. Not even a crumb. And I keep open food (like cookies, snacks, etc) in Lock & Lock containers, so they’re not coming for that. Bread is also in a Lock & Lock. I don’t know why this is happening. But I don’t know much of anything anymore. These mice are making me crazy. So, you get my frustration. I ordered these bad boys, because I hate wooden mouse traps and I’m wary of gimmicky traps. This thing looks like it could cut the mouse in half. VENGEANCE IS MINE, YOU FILTHY BEASTS! So, I put peanut butter on my finger tip (I have small fingers, so that helps) and rubbed it deep down in that bait trap well, down to the bottom and around the edges so a mouse would really have to make an effort to get to it, not just hover over the trap like they’re suspended from wires in Mission Impossible or something to get a taste. Now, time to set. I don’t advise setting the trap til you’re close to the place you want to put it because this baby has a hair trigger, and you’re gonna have to carefully hold it open as you get it to where you’re going (at least I did, because I was scared to death of this thing going off in my hand). You can really feel the strength of the trap as you press back on the lever, because the spring is so tight, and you can definitely imagine that any mouse who gets in the way of the jaws of this thing won’t have a chance. So I put this trap right up against the baseboard under the cabinet, next to the stove, assuming that a sneaky mouse could be using that route to get in and out of the kitchen. Of course, this is just the theory of a lowly old college-educated person who’s trying to out-think a rodent with a brain the size of a pea, at best. I don’t know if I’m winning this war, folks, because it sure doesn’t feel like it. It feels like no matter how many mice I kill, there is always another one to take their place. I mean, I kill one or two a week, I guess? That seems like a lot. I don’t know, maybe it’s not, given where I live, given the weather, I don’t know, I just don’t know anything anymore. I’m definitely battle-tested. But I’m weary. I feel like I’m losing the will to fight these filthy bastards. Anywho, less than 24 hours later, VICTORY! I was alerted to this when my dog, a 78-pound German Shepherd, headed toward the kitchen for a drink and then stopped dead in her tracks, and immediately spun around and quickly went in the other direction and upstairs to hide from whatever she had seen. I loathe to say “run” because she’s my beloved pet and I don’t want to embarrass her on a public forum but it wasn’t her finest moment, let’s leave it at that. I knew what she must have seen. ONE OF THEM. But so soon?!? I had set that trap less than 24 hours ago. No way. Yes way! And as I had predicted, that trap’s spring mechanism was so strong that the intensity of the trap snapping on the mouse had flipped the trap onto its side and moved it a few inches over. Huzzah! I am disposing of the whole *thing* however, although I guess one could release the mouse from the trap (gag) and then clean the trap (yikes). That’s not my cup of tea, though. I’m weary, folks. Don’t make me start CLEANING mousetraps on top of everything else. Just don’t. Please. I will definitely be getting more. (I have to, I throw them away when it catches a mouse, so in my case, it’s a good business model for them.)

Amended 3 mos. later. Don't buy these. They break after a couple months. Most of them are broken. Original post: I've ordered 18 of these in the last 3 months and have the following opinion: What I like about the new plastic design is they are killing machines! We have large voles and meadow mice in our vegetable garden and this trap works great to reduce their numbers. They are relatively easy to set but the hole for the bait requires a little dexterity. No big deal. What I don't like is the catch that is used to set the trap is a small piece of plastic and it breaks off after awhile. I've had two go so far without a great deal of use. The broken ones are in the photo and have a missing cross piece that is part of the catch mechanism. I hate throwing away more plastic and hoped these would last longer than they probably will. I've also found sometimes the paddle trigger doesn't always spring the trap shut. So, I've been applying a tiny amount of vegetable oil to the plastic catch that is missing in the photo. This may also help prevent the catch from breaking. Would I order them again? Yes, because they are more effective than the wooden type, easier to set and our garden is important to us. Postscript: single use traps and in the garbage.

I have tried just about every mouse trap available. The humane traps never worked and the mice were able to chew their way out. The typical snap traps are frightening to set up because I am afraid they will snap my fingers, which are arthritic, and the glue traps, which worked at first but are so cruel, no longer work. Mice are smart. I've tried every suggestion offered to me. I have 5 cats and even they fail to get the mice. A friend sent me a link to these traps so I tried them. Lo and behold they were easy to set up and worked right away! I ordered a two pack and had to reorder quickly because I don't have the stomach to try to get the dead mouse out of the trap to re-use it. They are cheap enough so I bought more. Only once did I have difficulty setting the trap; it wouldn't catch easily to set up and when I checked it it was in two pieces. So a mouse evidently tried to eat the bait but the trap was defective and failed to catch the mouse. I have caught many mice with these traps and I recommend them highly. I guess a better mouse trap was possible to build!

2 pièges à souris, dont 1 défectueux.

It done the job.

The very first night i set these traps, i caught a mouse. I used snickers as bait and it worked very well. previously have set up more standard traps at a friend’s house and these ones were much easier to use- you can lower the plate slightly using a pencil once the bait is in so it’s more sensitive. the kill is very clean and fast, the large back end makes it easy to pick up and dispose of without it being at all squeamish. I have only seen one mouse so far so i’m hoping it’s one and done!

They worked but we had two mice and after catching the first, the second seemed to catch on and avoid the traps.

Sorry, Jerry