Smart Mouse TrapHumane Mousetrap

Smaller than I though but works well

I really, really wanted to love this product. We have a pretty bad mouse problem - to the point that they are actually getting comfortable with us and will hop up on our couch while we're sitting on it. I drew the line there and when they decided to explore my utensil drawer and leave behind mice poo. My husband went out and purchased the kind of traps that kill the mice. I purchased this one, because despite the irritation I feel towards the little furry creatures - they are kind of cute. We put both traps out right next to each other and used the same bait. Every time - the mouse went for the kill trap. We took the kill traps away for a week and only had this one out and the mice didn't go near it. We added the kill trap and within 2 hours the mouse went for the bait in the kill trap. Thankfully, the traps my husband purchased are high quality and make it instant - from what I witnessed, the little guys don't appear to suffer at all. I will still try this trap over and over again in hopes that I can relocate one lucky little dude to a field (maybe not so lucky because now he will be prey to bigger furry creatures) - but either way - the mice need to go. Especially since I have little kids and mice can carry diseases. Maybe someone else will have better luck with this trap - but doesn't work for our mice.

Bottom line, this trap works. If you have a mouse you want to get rid of and don't want to hurt it, this is a good option.Pros:- Non-lethal- Secure- Easy to release the mouse- ReusableCons:- Way more expensive than the regular snap traps- A little tricky to setupThe Story:We had a small mouse in our garage that I couldn't keep out just by sealing everything. My daughter really didn't want me to kill a mouse that was "just trying to stay warm and dry, like we do," so I went ahead and spent the extra on this. For the first 3-4 days, nothing happened. The 5th day, I found the cracker with peanut butter had been removed from the trap and mostly eaten. (See the first picture) There was some cursing and other mean things said to the trap and mouse, but I tried again that afternoon. The 6th day, Mr. Mouse was caught. (See the second picture) He was surprisingly calm and completely uninjured (other than his pride, I'm sure). We took a walk to the local pond (as far away from homes as one can get in suburbia), I opened the release door and he hopped out and trotted into the brush.

One of the easiest to use most effective products I have ever bought. We have a Chinese Dwarf Hamster named Jinxy who made the great escape when my 9 year-old daughter left her unattended in her "playpen," a.k.a. plastic bin. We looked under all furniture to no avail and knew we needed additional help catching this little sneaky thing. We found evidence the next day of her activity in our pantry: half eaten candy that fell on the floor and a very nibbled-on potato in the sack along with some droppings. Once we got the trap, the directions were very clearly stated and easy to follow. My 11 year-old son set it up with the peanut butter saltine "manual escape hatch" and a couple of pieces of hamster treats to lure her in. One hour after placing the trap at 11pm (they are nocturnal, after all) and we had our girl back, unharmed. I think she was a bit disappointed the party was over but after three days on the lam and eating peanut butter, chocolate and potatoes, she was ready for a big drink of water! (Side note, my husband and I were very relieved to find only Jinxy in this trap and not some other unwanted furry friend) I highly recommend this trap!

I live in the mountains, and when winter hit, so did the small, furry house guests. I love animals, and have pets and a young child, so poisons and cruel traps were absolutely out of the question. But, it was not a good situation for the family or the mouse, so I did some research and got this trap. Also, my folks were coming for the holidays, and I didn't want them to freak out about the mouse, they are city people from a temperate climate, so mouse=horrible, dirty living to them.Well, girlfriend (what I had been calling the mouse, as in "you better find someplace else to be, girlfriend!" or, "you better not let that cat see you, girlfriend!") was not being very cooperative. She had her own ideas about things. I had the trap on order, and thought that I'd be clever and "train" her to take food from a certain place. I'd put a little morsel of something tasty near the place that I had seen her a time or 2, and if I left food there for 2 nights in a row, then baited the trap with the same food in the same place, voila, caught mouse. No. She thought I must be pretty dumb to think she'd be that easy.Short version, it took me 10 days to catch her, and a number of techniques. I tried changing bait, placement, and a number of other variables. Basically, I gave up and was going to try something else for my genius mouse, and wasn't even really checking it diligently anymore, when my sitter and daughter discovered that girlfriend was incarcerated this morning. Good thing, too, because she was VERY pregnant, and I don't want to deal with mouse babies in my walls, making more mouse babies!The thing that finally did it was dog kibble. I tried the peanut butter on a cracker, and after 2 days of fresh ones, and no luck, put one just outside of the trap to see, and she barely licked the good stuff, left the thing untouched for over a day. I had experimented and found that Cheetos and dog food were winners. No matter what I put in the trap, it seemed like she was too wary to venture inside. I even tried it with the trap side sprung up, and took the bait side off completely, so she could freely walk in and out of the trap to get bait, just to get used to the trap and the weird, wobbly floor. It was over 24 hours before she took that bait. She wasn't even wanting the offerings that weren't trap affiliated, she was paranoid. When she finally took the bait from the wide open trap, then I reset it with the same food. It was almost 72 hours later that she ventured into it finally.You may have to be patient and resourceful, depending on how smart/wary/greedy your rodent roomie are, but the trap is hair trigger sensitive and really will work, without hurting the mouse or any other animals. No suffering required, except maybe some bruised human egos!