Havahart X-Small Animal Trap, 2-Door Humane Trap for Mice, Voles, Shrews

I've used these traps for over 20 years, and if there's any product that rates 5-stars, this one does. It always works, without fail if you know how to use it and where to set it. We live near a huge open field in the Rocky Mountains where thousands of mice spend their summers in relative peace, avoiding hawks and owl hazards as necessary, but when the snows begin to fall they think about coming indoors to keep warm. In their place, you'd do the same. So every winter our family begins the annual mouse hunt, a competition based on visual acuity, mouse recognition, trap placement, and a scoring system which values both total number of mice caught and the speed of each catch. We wager on how many and how fast daddy can bag them. I am the unquestioned mouse master and, although I've contrived live-catch mousetraps of my own, I use Havahart traps exclusively for competition purposes. When the kids were young, they'd yell "Yay Daddy!" every time I'd score a mouse, and we'd parade him in the cage in triumph before bundling up to convey the terrified creature back outside for a live release. We'd have to jot down the time of first sighting of a possible mouse or fresh droppings to avoid quibbles about how long it really took daddy to catch him. On my best day, I positiomed the trap in a likely place, set the catch, and I was walking away when I heard the gates clang shut. I thought I'd just set the catch poorly and returned to re-set it when I could already hear the mouse jumping around inside. Last year a visitor from Europe spotted a mouse and reported it, and I told her no problem, I'd have the mouse in half an hour. She scoffed at the boast, but when I produced the captured mouse in 20 minutes, she thought it was a trick mouse I'd trained to do that to impress visitors. All it takes is confidence in the trap and the skill to know where to position it, and how to bait it. As for "confidence," I learned tonight that Havahart has been making this same design for about 70 years, a testament to a design that can't be further refined. It's made of galvanized sheet metal, not of cheap plastic that an aggressive mouse can chew through. The trap will work like new for decades. The parts don't rust or get brittle with age. There are no springs to lose tension over time. They are easy to set and to handle with a mouse inside, and release of the mouse is easy even in the dark outside. They clean easily after use. If you're not catching the mouse, it's not the fault of the trap. Havahart recommends peanut butter and birdseed for bait, which is unnecessarily messy. We don't keep birdseed around anyway. A 1" square of bread with peanut butter on top will work every time. Put a dab of peanut butter on the bottom of the bread cube to "stick" it to the trigger-paddle so it doesn't fall off. Any peanut butter residue left on the paddle after use can be blasted off with a stream of hot water from the sink. Placement of the trap is key to success. You place it exactly or very near to where you've spotted (or suspect) a mouse, or where you've found fresh droppings. If a mouse came there recently, he's still nearby and coming back to or through the same place once the lights go out. Just set the trap and go watch television or go to bed. When the metal doors slam shut, it produces an identifiable clang you can hear across the house. Just check the trap in the morning. If you don't catch the mouse in 8-10 hours, the trap's in the wrong place. I set two traps to hedge my bets. Mice come into the house where warm air is bleeding outside near the ground. They follow the path of warm air escaping. If you're getting a lot of mice inside, you need to search for ground level air leaks, including clothes dryer vents which (although well above ground) have firewood or something else stacked up beneath the flapper. Outside plants near the vents can be mouse ladders. When it's cold, mice will cuddle-up next to the threshold of an exterior door where warm air is escaping between the threshold and the door bottom. They're just laying against the threshold keeping warm when you suddenly open the door and they get surprised and tumble inside in a panic to escape. If you think your mice are getting in that way, just give the door a gentle kick at the bottom before opening to give them a chance to boogie before the door opens inside. Then adjust the threshold height to eliminate the warm air escape. Doors left open for some purpose are an open invitation to mice. Kids are the most likely cause, but adults leaving the door ajar while shuttling packages or luggage inside from the car is another likely suspect. Whatever the specifics be, the mice are following the path of escaping warm air. I've read several reviews that contain suspicious information where I'd beg to differ. The first is that Havahart traps, now made in China, are flimsy and inferior to the old ones made in the USA. I'd love to have them still manufactured in the USA, however the new trap I received from Amazon today is EXACTLY the same as the ones I bought 20 years ago. I inspected and even weighed them side-by-side. Each weighs 11.20 ounces (319 grams) and the measurements, design and construction is identical. You don't need to wash the trap with bleach afterwards to remove "human odor," unless you're somehow worried about viruses or something. If anything, human smell would be an attractant and the smell of beach residue would drive them away. Just shake out any droppings after use when you release the animal, wash out any peanut butter residue with hot water in the sink and air dry the trap. I agree with the reviewer who thinks "mouse smell" on the trap from prior catches would attract rather than repel other mice. Released mice don't "remember" how they got in and travel back from miles away to find your house. They don't get smarter every time they get caught; that's ludicrous. Go a reasonable distance from the house to release them if you're worried. If there are 10,000 mice in the fields around your house, releasing one back into the wild won't make any difference. IF a mouse does somehow get back in, it's because you haven't found the warm air breach in house security that let him in to begin with, and which will be obvious to all mice in the vicinity. Don't store dogfood, birdseed or people food in the garage, especially in winter, and especially near an exterior door. If you have kids, involve them in the live release process. It's a great opportunity to talk about nature, the sanctity of life (flies and mosquitos excepted), good karma building, and how dead mice with broken necks, or poisoned mice decaying in the cupboards, is a real bad idea. And each time you release one and they yell "Yay Daddy!," take a bow because the kids will be happy and you'll be a hero for awhile.

At last! I have found THE better mousetrap. I have been fighting a losing battle for three months with an infestation of mice which started because my "doggy-door" had lost a magnet, and was loose in the frame. After I repaired it, they continued to multiply...somewhere IN MY HOUSE! And they were so smart! The old traps I had (little gray plastic boxes about 4 inches square would catch them, but then they would eat the bait and get out! And if they didn't know how to work the see-saw door, they would chew their way out, destroying the usefulness of the trap. They chewed thru all three of my old plastic traps in no time. Next I tried the multiple mouse trap, the metal box trap that holds about 10 mice & has a see-thru lid. I caught one, and took him to the dog park. After that, two weeks went by and no others would go into the trap, no matter what bait I used. I tried disguising it and covering it, but to no avail. After that, since I would NEVER be tempted to use "sticky paper" (horribly cruel), or those teeny boxes that quickly suffocate a poor little "Mickey" if you don't take it out immediately, I went back to good old Amazon for a "better mousetrap"...one that would still be humane...and Eureka! THIS IS IT! It's true, the mechanism is delicate, and requires care and patience to set it, but it is a miniature version of those dependable large "critter-traps" in use all over the world for years. I've used them to catch raccoons, possums, and squirrels since forever. But because this one is tiny (about 4x10 inches) it takes a little patience since the fittings are tiny too. But a little extra patience really pays off! I cought my first mouse 10 minutes after I set it out! After resetting, I cought the second one in 25 minutes. Right now, he's in the trap waiting until I finish this review. That's the absolute truth! You can only catch ONE mouse at a time with this trap, but oboy does it ever work! I can carry them out to the dog-park near my house, flip up the door latches, lay the trap upside down, and that mouse is GONE! When you take it out of the box, to insure that all the parts work smoothly, examine it, set it down, and just tinker with it. Familiarize yourself with how it works. DON'T BEND anything unless you're SURE of what you're doing. The hair-trigger mechanism is delicate, but fool-proof in action! Before you put the bait in, set the trap & trip it...do it several times, to make sure both doors drop and lock properly. Then,if everything goes off smoothly, open one door, stick some bait on the tray, reset the trap, and you've got it made. If your bait is dry, I suggest using a bit of gum or other sticky substance. (or even a piece of scotch tape) to hold the bait SECURELY on the bait-tray, otherwise, it will slip off and take more time and effort. Or you can just use a tiny dab of peanut butter directly on the tray. And that's it. Good luck! On second thought, you won't need luck with THIS trap!

It works consistently and is made of metal that cannot be chewed through (important if guests will have to overnight). It can be tricky to set, but then you get the hang of it. It is set by resting three metal wires on each other. This links the bait platform inside to the doors on each end. When the adversary even lightly touches the bait inside the trap (peanut butter is perfect), the platform inside moves and it disturbs the the other two wires balanced on it so the doors drop and locking bars on top fall into place to hold the doors at both ends closed. At some point in the history of the manufacturing of this item, the flat end on one of the bars got turned around and put on the wrong side. So you have to rest three round wires on each other, the flat end the instructions refer to being manufactured on the wrong side and of no help when balancing. As a result, the balancing point is more sensitive than the original inventors planned. Sometimes a strong wind can release the trap. But it mostly works and is attractive to the target. Used to clear outdoor voles (field mice) from a garden, it has caught 18 of 19. Even when the others have seen and communed with friends and family stuck in there, you can set it out an hour later and the next one runs in. So obviously not very traumatic. Many trips to a mountain road turn-out a couple miles away to release. However, the last one, #19, is wiley. With night-vision security cameras, I watched #19 run up to the trap and, without going in, push on the external balancing wires to trigger the trap closed, then run away. I gave it a few days rest to see if he forgot. Next time I put it out, night fell and I watched him go in one side without triggering it, then come out, then go in the other side. Also mysteriously without triggering it. He then came back out and nosed the balancing wires from the outside, deliberately triggering the trap, before running away. When inspected, it turns out he had urinated and defecated in one entrance without touching the peanut butter bait in the center of the tunnel. He then exited and circled around to the other side to do the same thing at the other entrance. He then shut it from the outside by nosing the external balancing wires. Message sent. Message received. Have to admire the adversary's ability to work with what he's got, but looks like things will have to move to the next level. P.S. It turned out there 43 mice before the garden was emptied. I don't know which #19 ultimately was, but at some point a lust for peanut butter apparently overcame the street-smart attitude.

So my beloved cat died 21 months ago; this is the first time we've lived without a cat. And last month mice got in (through the roof). I'm disabled with spinal injury and major long covid issues; my mom and her friend Jimmy are too old to take care of a cat. So Jimmy brought over one of these HAVAHART x small mouse traps, and I told him to PLEASE put the trap in the one place where we found mouse pooh (in the kitchen drawer with the kitchen towels and oven mitts, etc. No food in there. But it's the first drawer right below the part of the roof next to my bed where I heard a something scratching on the OUTSIDE for several days... then the faint scratching was in the walls next to my bed, behind my bed. Didn't sound like many at all, but still 😱😱😱. On the second night when they were inside, SOMETHING was scratching so loudly I discovered from a pest control company that THAT was not a mouse, but most likely a squirrel. ?? I used 2 high frequency Mouse Repellent (through wall) noise videos from YouTube--I recorded music in my home studio for years before spinal injury-- these two videos actually do send out the 20,000hz. Most YouTube videos that claim to send out that frequency don't. So I got myself up and put that frequency right to the walls where I heard them and chased them back down the wall to the kitchen drawer. We caught SIX in a week. That's great news for the validity and usefulness of this product. Jimmy first loaded it with a little peanut butter, and then for the last four almond butter. They love nuts, so it didn't matter; they liked both kinds. Now. Again catching SIX mice with one of these is great news... regarding the product. NOT great news for the house. I was literally killing myself, pushing my physical body WAY beyond its capabilities. And, you know, they say if you catch one mouse, that means you have up to 8-10 mice for every one you catch. That's true! Once they got inside, they obviously multiplied (female mice give birth every five days, up to 12 mice per litter!!). The mice were keeping me up ALL NIGHT - in the walls, in the cubby holes, and the vents. This is a nice home! It was built in the 1940s, so even the smallest little crack (tiny!) and they'll get in. FINALLY I read to turn on the lights in the crawl spaces. As SOON as I did that I HEARD them scurry to the wall they came up and sure enough the next morning Jimmy caught two in that trap in the (now empty except for this trap) kitchen drawer. The heat doesn't work upstairs, so we covered the vents. That and turning on the lights made them run. There's snow outside so I highly doubt they left the house. Calling a pest control to come out (they have to wait until snow melts in order to check the outside of house and roof for major entry points) . It sounded to me like that *squirrel* that was scratching and gnawing SO loudly in the wall in the next room, it wouldn't stop when I tapped the adjacent wall with my cane, nor when I raised my voice. When I SCREAMED "STOP IT!!!!", it quickly scurried up to the ceiling, across the ceiling in my room and sounded like it fell down the wall where the mice came up. Fingers crossed, haven't heard that terrifying scratching again (it was trying to eat and gnaw its way through the wall!). Will have to have pest control look for that squirrel. Maybe it's in the basement. (Undate: pest control said it was most likely a racoon! Something big like that bent the metal grate on top of the chimney: it got in that way. There must have been a loose brick that it clawed its way past and into the wall by the attic crawl space. We had a new grate installed and, fingers crossed, no loud scratching anymore). I have heard from so many people who don't have cats that they have mice in their houses. I lived in Manhattan for 14 years, I had a couple little mice in my last apartment. Unbeknownst to me, my Super used a glue trap behind the refrigerator. I'm not even going to say what I saw after hearing the mouse noise behind the frig. Glue traps are SO inhumane. I understand there are places where the mice need to be killed for several reasons, but if you're in a house in suburbia, please use these humane traps. Jimmy brings them to a local lake and lets them free way behind the lake in the wooded area. No people are around that area and no houses. These traps work. My advice: if you catch more than mouse, immediately call pest control. My mom wouldn't let us. I don't think she understood how upsetting it is to hear them-- even one mouse, scratching at the walls all night, from 6pm until 6am (they're nocturnal). She couldn't hear them and didn't understand that they want to live here: they're very dirty and carry diseases. Call a pest control person fast! Get rid of them professionally. In the mean time I highly suggest using HAVAHART traps. They WORK! Put them where you find Mouse pooh-- they pooh near where they enter the house. They'll run to that place when you scare them into leaving or running away. 10 days with no sleep because of these mice. They do reproduce RAPIDLY. I bought 4 more of these traps. Only caught them in that drawer. That's the only place we saw pooh. Within 2 weeks they were ALL OVER the second floor in the walls and crawl spaces and on the vents. Turn on the cubby hole or attic lights. Use these traps. I so wish I could take care of a cat. Pest control got rid of the mice in two weeks, AND found that an animal had bent the grate on top of the chimney. There are HAVAHART Traps that are now easier to set up: I would buy them. Same type of trap, just a much better design. Good luck!

I was under the impression that Havahart traps set the standard for humane traps, so I thought I'd try one, along with one Smart Mouse Trap - Humane Mousetrap to see which was better. Unfortunately, the Havahart's build quality is horrible. It looks, feels, and functions like a junior high metal shop project. Worse, setting the trap was an exercise that tested my patience every time. Although I was able to catch three mice, I soon got fed up with it and chucked it in the trash. The trap is made of nothing more than crudely formed sheet metal and thin rods (heavy gauge wire, actually). The roof is fastened to the sides with staples. Setting the trap is a delicate balancing act. A bait tray in the middle of the trap pivots on one of the thin rods. The doors also pivot on rods. The three rods are bent in such a way as to meet on the outside of the trap where the bait tray rod projects out from the side. One door rod is supported by the other door rod, which in turn must be delicately rested on the bait tray rod. The latter two rods are slightly (VERY slightly!) flattened so they can balance a little easier than two round rods would, but that's not saying much. Once you get that set, two rods above each door must be set in place to lock the doors after they close so the mouse can't escape. Making the tiniest mistake in this process triggers the trap, catapults the bait out of the tray, and you have to start all over. I never got it right the first time, and often spent 5-10 minutes trying to get it right, and it was not fun. When a mouse was caught, it closed with a loud "CLANK" and the mouse was snug inside waiting to go to a nearby open space. They really are cute little critters, and seem to exhibit a fair amount of intelligence for their tiny size. Its definitely worth saving these guys for a new home rather than killing them! However, my fourth mouse triggered the trap and got away with the bait. I discovered one of the door rods was getting hung up on the edge of the poorly constructed sheet metal roof, preventing one door from closing completely and letting the mouse escape. After a few tests I realized that to prevent this from happening again, I had to set the rods even more gingerly than before, which I was not able to do successfully. After 20 minutes of frustration I gave up and into the trash it went. Maybe I'll just adopt our mice as pets.

I've lived in my house for fourteen years and had many critter issues, including starlings, bats, squirrels, woodchucks... an oppossum in my recycle bin and... mice. Getting rid of each has been a challenge and ranged from quick, easy and inexpensive, to long, difficult and costly. As far as the mice go, I've used glue traps - which are cheap and effective, but if you don't check them frequently they start to stink, and of course you have to dispose of the carcass (I have a fear of dead things). Because of the glue traps pitfalls, I tried the D-Con no touch "spin and catch" traps. Of the four I purchased (two packs of two), the first one caught a mouse on the first night. But the second was defective out of the package. The third caught nothing and then fell apart during the time it sat there. I set the fourth and hoped for the best. My cat (R.I.P.) caught one once and left it for me in the bathroom. I've since tried bait bags (the mice don't go anywhere near them). I've tried the peppermint oil on cotton balls trick - which smells wonderful but the rodent deterrent properties appear to be a myth, as they just go around them. Recently a glue trap under the stove from the first infestation (which was a decade ago) caught one. It got maggots (and made flies which I then I had to deal with) prior to my figuring out what the smell was coming from because I had no recollection that the trap was there! This year's family of rodents have been the worst and stayed the longest. At least once a week I find poo in my kitchen sink. There is nothing there for them to eat and many times nothing to drink, but they seem to like it. Sometimes at night I hear noises and I wonder if it is mice. The morning after one of those nights I found a mouse in the sink. In a split second my mind yelled "dead mouse" and I yelped. It startled, and ran to the other side of the sink. While I've always known it would be possible, it was the first time this has happened. I've read that seeing mice during the day means you have hundreds living in your home. True or false?? I don't know. In this case it seemed that he was simply having trouble getting out of the sink. In fact, as I tried to whack him with a broom (gut reaction), he didn't climb out... that is until I accidentally gave him a lift. He ran behind the toaster and disappeared. I shook the toaster and he didn't budge. I started to wonder if there was a door to Narnia behind it I had not yet discovered. Sense prevailed and I set a trap. Sadly it wasn't a good trap, and he avoided the mop bucket, expertly banked a corner next to the box of trash bags, and scooted under one of the stove burners. Is it an emergency hiding place, his home, or just the foyer door? I don't know that either. What I can confirm is that when scared they squeak and (as mentioned by an earlier reviewer) poop like crazy. The D-Con traps were always on the floor because I've been afraid that having a baited trap on the counter top would encourage more of them to come out. But after my nerves settled, I decided to re-bait and move the last D-Con trap. It fell apart in my hand when I picked it up. So I needed a new trap. I really... truly don't like the thought of dead things, even if I don't have to see/touch them, and realized I could have/should have caught the one in the sink (if I hadn't panicked) and then just dumped it somewhere. That spurred my decision to try a live trap. Havahart has a fantastic reputation, and thanks to my previous critter issues, plus a short stint answering phones for a pest control company, I know they work. You just have to follow the directions and be patient. Still, before buying, I checked out the "how-to" on the Havahart web site. It made no sense. But I found a fantastic video on youtube of "Coren setting a Havahart trap" --- [...] --- and figured that if a six year old could do it, so could I! (The video confirms that the complaints about how sensitive the trap is are 100% true. But I think that is what helps it work. In my case, I knew I'd be able to set the trap right in the spot where it needs to be - on the counter, next to the sink or stove). So I temporarily blocked Mickey's exit point (microwaves work better anyhow) with duct tape, and added a liberal dose of the useless peppermint oil to it for good measure. Yes, I realized the mouse could simply and quickly chew through the tape but then it would end up with face full of the oil. I ordered the Haveahart 1020, and spent the next few days in freak out mode, wondering at all times if I was going to enter my kitchen and interrupt a rodent hootenanny. I did have a lot of trepidation about having to *see* a mouse if I did catch one. Then I reminded myself we owned eight different hamsters when I was a kid, and besides, I'd already encountered a live (and on the loose) one so a captured one would be a piece of cake. "Right. Yeah." said my scared insides as I slowly peered into the sink for the thousandth time. I watched some mouse videos and didn't have a problem. But the ones running loose in my house probably have diseases and parasites. Who wants to deal with that? Not me. *shudder* There were problems with my order, but once Amazon fixed them, they overnighted my items at no cost to me. Thanks Amazon... But next time how about at least sending an email to tell me that's what you're doing... k'? The trap arrived and right out of the box it looked broken. One of the "locks" was too small and kept falling out of the holes on the sides of the trap. I bent it a little and then it stayed put, but does not sit flush when in the "locked" position. As stated in many of the reviews, the instructions are assinine. I've had to guess as to how to set the darn thing, even with the video assistance. Once set, I put it smack dab inbetween the toaster and sink, which is the mouse's standard path. Then it was just a matter of waiting to see if I caught anything. I am still waiting for the next mousey assault. I will update when that happens. Update: (June 17, 2014) After I'd blocked their kitchen doorway the trap sat empty, and I had no more sightings. But a week ago I started hearing noises. Then I forgot to put away a bag of chips... they had a big ole' feast that night! A few evenings later (when it was still light outside) one ran across my keyboard (and back) while I was at the computer. I moved the trap to the cubby where the chip bag had been. It took a few nights of waiting, but it caught a little gray mouse (dead by the time I discovered him). I found the trap hard to get open once it was tripped and then the usual challenge to reset it, but it does work, and the fact that it is hard to open once tripped assured me that anything it catches will stay inside. Hopefully he was a lone mouse and I don't have to worry about the family sending out a search party.

I have bought 3 of these traps, and each of them has caught several mice. I agree with the comments that they are tricky to set up. because the setting mechanism is very sensitive. I have also had problems with the metal locking pieces not falling into place correctly, so I've learned to fix that by lightly bending them until they smoothly slide into place. I also test the trap to make sure its working properly before I first use it. And will test it again after I've caught and released a mouse and washed out the trap. They are fairly easy to clean with a small brush and soapy warm water. Even though they are two door traps, I prefer to keep one of the doors firmly latched and put the treats at that end so that the animal has to walk in all the way to get the food. The open door shuts as soon as the animals steps on the trigger platform which is only halfway in. Even so, the traps have never caught a mouse's tail. The trigger mechanism on the outside does take some practice to set since I've found it to be very sensitive and because we keep them on the floor under the kitchen counters we tend to trigger the trap by nudging it with our feet quite often. However, with the open air sides it's easy to see if we have caught a critter once we pick up the trap to look. So anytime we see both doors closed, we check. And if the door is open we know we don't have one. Once we have caught one, I open the triggered door and slide in a small animal food bowl of water, since I'll keep the animal in the trap until nightfall and I'm sure it's thirsty. At night we take it some distance away and release it during the spring, fall and summer. In the winter I've got a new pet. Unfortunately, I'm not good at sexing mice, so my pet population has grown and it's time for me to take one of the cages and release them into the wild. We've had these durable traps for several years since they are reusable and the perfect size to catch mice. My only complaint is that we can only catch one at a time in the traps and I've been told we have a sizable next behind the refrigerator. So, I'm looking into the bucket flip and slide to see if we can catch more at one time.

Bought this to catch a little mouse that's taken up residence in our garage. Didn't even know he was THERE until I put a plant that needed repotting out in the garage for a day till I could get around to repotting it. The next day, my plant was GONE (eaten) and there was dirt on the floor from the animal's digging. What to do? NO WAY am I going to set a conventional mousetrap and kill a mouse and then empty the trap. Nope. Not happening. I remembered seeing these at Amazon & ordered it. Set the trap the day after I got it & CAUGHT the little guy within about 4 hours of setting it (I checked the trap hourly; used 2 kibbles of dry cat food for bait). He was pretty nervous, so I covered the trap with a paper towel while I carried him out to a hedgerow, where I set him free (instructions said to minimize human contact so as to not stress the animal--I agree). Having read another reviewer's experience of a frightened mouse running up their arm, I planned ahead & put the trap in the hedgerow, on the ground, pointed so that no matter which direction he ran, it wouldn't be toward me. Then I just took off the paper towel & pressed down on the main trigger so both doors opened simultaneously. My little guy cautiously poked his nose out of the trap, took a couple of sniffs of air, & bolted like a shot. Trap quality is excellent and it's very easy to set, once you get the "hang" of it. Just press down on the main trigger arm, make sure your 2 locking arms for the doors are positioned at the tops of the doors, bait the pivoting bait bar inside, then position the "baiting bar" over your "main trigger" bars. Easier than it sounds; you'll get printed instructions & photos in the box. Highly recommended! And it will make you feel good to use a compassionate solution to your mouse problem. Have a question? Leave a comment & I'll be happy to help you if I can. --------------------------- UPDATE 9/22/13 Evening: Uh-oh. On a lark, I re-set the trap this afternoon. Just checked it 10 minutes ago. I caught ANOTHER one (smaller). Let her go & set the trap AGAIN. How many might we have? We'll see... UPDATED UPDATE 9/24/13: OK. I did not know we had mice in the garage. Thanks to this trap, I've caught and released FOUR (Mama, Papa, & 2 cute babies). The trap's been set all day today & no takers, so maybe that was the extent of the family. I've learned one other tip: set the trap during the DAY so you can release during DAYLIGHT. Unless you don't mind setting mice free IN THE DARK. Personally, I can't bear to leave them caged once I've caught them, so I like to release as soon as they're caught. GREAT SYSTEM; most highly recommended for its utility and ease of use! UPDATE #3 10/12/13: GUESS WHAT? Mice can run LOTS faster than humans can walk. I'd re-set the trap yesterday afternoon & didn't catch anything. Till 10:30 at NIGHT. Remember my advice about not setting the trap after dark? I didn't (remember). I should have sprung the trap at dark. But I didn't. So when I did one last check of the trap last night---SURPRISE!---I caught another one! And since it was late and very dark, I decided to just let him go in the front yard. Oops. He ran through the yard, down the driveway, and back into the garage before I could walk even 5 paces. Learn from me : ) DON'T DO THAT. Because, now I have to deal with a EDUCATED MOUSE. One who, having returned to the garage, now realizes the trap is a TRAP. I may have to upgrade my bait; time will tell : ) I still most highly recommend this mouse trap--it works!

I tried many types of traps from the tube one with the food at the end, the metal box with the plastic window on top and snap traps. This has caught the most mice and I don't even use any bait. Likes: - it has caught the most mice compared to other traps - easy to clean - catches mice alive so it's humane - don't need to use bait Cons: -very tricky to setup and can easily be set off while placing. No instructions. It takes some practice but you will figure it out, it's not terribly hard to figure out but it's a hard scratcher at first. - pricy, much more expensive than the other solutions but it works well so you will not feel ripped off after catching many many mice. - only catches one mouse at a time. Problematic for large infestations. - must check at least once a day, not very humane if the mouse dies before you relocate it. You don't want the mice to become afraid of the cage if you have an infestation.

bon petit piège a rats ou souris bonne qualité en galvanisé le top pour une longue vie en extérieur pas de rouille avec un minimum d'entretient c'est bon .... il est très réactif si bien tendu un rat n'y échappera pas ces certain !!! avec ses 2 entrées c'est le top pour utiliser le long des murs excellent piège a condition d'utiliser le bon appât a l'intérieur pour moi une petite tête de poisson fraiche c'est le bon appât ; mais ça dépend des régions les rats on leurs habitudes alimentaires attention on n'attire pas les mouches avec du vinaigre !! piège a recommander très efficace bon produit un peut long a arriver mais c'est bon quand même ...merci le commerçant et l'équipe Amazon maison très sérieuse ...

Meine beiden Katzen schleppen mir immer wieder lebende Mausgeschenke in die Wohnung und die Nerven liegen jedesmal blank, bis wir sie wieder gefangen haben. Eine Maus war einfach nicht zu erwischen und deshalb haben wir uns endlich eine Lebendfalle angeschafft. Unsere Wahl fiel auf diese hier, da sie aus Metall mit großen Lüftungsschlitzen ist. Öfters habe ich über die Plastikfallen gelesen, dass die Mäuse darin ersticken. Als die Falle dann geliefert wurde, machten wir uns ans Aufstellen. Das Befüllen der Falle erfordert anfangs etwas Geduld, da die Falle bei der kleinsten Berührung auslöst. Was gut ist, denn kleine Mäuse haben ja wenig Gewicht. Insgesamt konnte ich nichts Scharfkantiges an der Falle entdecken, so dass hier Verletzungsgefahr ausgeschlossen ist. Die Falle schließt nicht nur bei der kleinsten Berührung, sondern auch sehr schnell. Dabei hat sie jedoch im geschlossenen Zustand etwas Spiel, dass ein eventuell eingeklemmter Mäuseschwanz problemlos ohne Verletzung herausgezogen werden kann. Insgesamt ist sie schön groß, so dass auch große Mäuse gefangen werden können und darin genug Platz haben, bis man sie befreit hat. Wir stellten die Falle also auf und waren gespannt. 2 Tage und Nächte passierte nichts. Egal welche Köder wir reinlegten, ob Kekse, Nüsse, Rosinen, Brot, die Falle blieb leer. Enttäuschung pur. Dann erzählte man mir, dass Mäuse Haferflocken nicht widerstehen können. Ich formte mit etwas Wasser und Haferflocken eine Kugel und legte diese in die Falle und - kein Scherz- nach 20 Minuten saß die Maus in der Falle! Ich kann diese Falle nur uneingeschränkt empfehlen und würde sie jederzeit wieder kaufen.

Montarlo es relativamente facil pero salta a la minima vibracion y por tanto cuando la dejas instalada puedes encuentrarla cerrada sin ratón. Después de 2 años y de probar mas de 10 tipos diferentes de ratoneras sin muerte, puedo calificarla como la trampa mas eficaz para captura de ratones incluso sin cebo solo dejandola en los lugares de paso de los ratones

This is useless. It is so sensitive when setting up but does nothing when the mouse is actually inside. The mouse ran full speed into and out of it and it still didn't trigger and later managed to actually pull the peanut butter bait out of trap. Don't waste your money. At this point all it is doing is feeding the mouse.