Mouse Trap-6 Pack

There are so many new types of mouse traps out there! The old standby used to be a spring loaded wire hoop, but those have cheap stamped metal triggers which are difficult to set and I used to use them with a bit of anxiety as I really need my fingers. All of them. You can use sticks or pens to set them, but the best of them are always the most sensitive ones; which means the hardest to set; which means manual dexterity is needed to set them properly; i.e., fingers... so, a difficult choice. So when I browsed Amazon recently and saw so many new types, I was happy to order a couple of each to try them all out. First of all, some of these newer types are vastly superior. I have the 'electric tunnel' one out right now, waiting for a victim... but it seems the ants have found the peanut butter bait first :( And there is the one with a large yellow plastic trigger plate (otherwise same as the old one) but that one, I've had many baits simply stolen; trigger is not sensitive enough. I finally figured out, that with that type you can bend the end of the holding bar that goes into the trigger plate SLIGHTLY downward, this changes the angle that the bar enters the trigger at, and makes it easier to release; a slight bend downward made it vastly more sensitive. (not a recommendation and do this at your OWN RISK) They work good but when you get it sensitive enough, even setting it down the height of one finger's width onto the ground will be enough to trigger it; kinda dicey. There is the type I call the 'chip clip' because it looks like an open jaw, a small black chip clip with a bit of peanut butter inside. Half the time, the mice eat the baits and leave, the trigger is not sensitive enough. The other half of the time the thing closes, but because they are not very powerful, the mice either dodge it or it catches just a small bit of them and they wriggle out. I've had only 1 success with these, of over half a dozen sets, and the animal was still alive and I had to dispatch it. This new type of trap, with 2 bars, has to travel only half the distance to close and has a completely new type of trigger design utilizing several parts arrayed in a cam system. The triggers are fantastically sensitive, yet you never have to touch the bar; and setting it is simple, you can simply put it into place first on the ground, then click the 2nd bar into place, so there is never any danger to your fingers. They appear to be the answer and although I can't use it indoors (pets) it will work fine in the garage. Indoors I use the electronic one. The mass produced triggers, though, seem to have some variance. Although very sensitive, they appear to be a little better in some than others. But these things are so cheap, you can buy a batch and just select the ones with better triggers. Edit/update: OK, I've gone through a couple sets now, and so far they have hit 3 times out of 3! Not a single miss yet. Each one that has been triggered has caught a mouse. No stolen baits yet, at all; pretty impressive! I have several types of traps set out, so after seeing what these can do, I have collected the other traps and dumped them... these Snap-E's will do just fine, thank you.

We had a slew of mice in our attic area. We could hear them scritching up there. These traps are easy to use and reuse. When we catch one, you can release it easily without touching the mouse. We also recently had some mice in the garage getting into our birdseed. Between the two, we've probably caught a total of 8 mice with these. We usually put some peanut butter and birdseed as bait.

Best Mouse Trap On The Market. I have an infestation of mice as I live in an old house in New York City. It got to the point where mice were just walking in the open in broad daylight. I had no choice but to declare war. I bought the sticky traps, which were effective but not reusable. I caught five mice using sticky traps but it was annoying to keep buying them. More to the point, you still have to kill the mice that get stuck on the pads, lest they squeak in pity for days. (Hint: pick up the trap, and slam it really hard into the ground, mouse side down. Kills the mouse right away.) Wood mouse traps were very tricky to set and maneuver and not that effective. The mice were eating the bait without setting off the trap. Enter the Snap-E Mouse Trap. It's plastic, lightweight, and only springs half the distance. How effective can it be if the metal is only traveling half the distance of a wood trap? Well, very effective. First, the trap hits hard enough to kill. I don't know if the mouse is suffocating to death or getting its spine blown up (I hope the latter so the poor guys die quickly) but I got three dead mice the first day. Second, the location of the bait reservoir is genius. The bait is loaded through a hole in the trigger pad onto a reservoir. (I used peanut butter.) The mouse has to stick his mouth through the hole in the trigger pad to eat the bait. The traps that didn't spring still had all the bait; mice were not getting away. Third, clean up is easy. Because of the half-spring design, you don't have to touch the mouse to toss him out; the kill bar is different than the load bar. Fourth, the trap is easy to load and set without fear of accidentally blowing up a finger AS LONG AS YOU HANDLE THE TRAP FROM BEHIND! As long as you keep your fingers on the half of the trap that isn't the trigger pad (i.e., no bait), you will not be in danger. It's actually very hard to set the trap off from the backside. This morning, I put two traps on my stove and turned the lights off. Tonight, I came home to two dead mice. I put three traps on the stove just now. I wonder what'll happen overnight. Months after buying this product, I have been very satisfied. Mice continually get caught by this trap. I hope this doesn't sound like a shill review but these traps have been sturdy, reusable, and horrifically effective. I updated this review because I got another mouse this morning, and a few more in the past week. Definitely cost-effective, humane compared to sticky traps or poison, and easy to clean up. I bought it from Amazon as the seller, so the other sellers may be selling fake stuff that is giving rise to bad reviews.