MATATALive Animal Humane Trap 2-Door Mouse Trap Cage for Chipmunk, Rats, Squirrels, Voles, Rodent and Small Size Pests

28 House Mice Caught, Released in the woods, and counting with the 2-Door MATATA Trap ! (My mother is a very bad clutterer)Bird Seed is an excellent bait with no mess to clean up !Pro's - No bloody mess left and no ants attracted to a dead mouse. - Painted, and small so I can set it up where I need, in a dark corner.Con's - A tiny mouse may not trip the trap. I've caught 2 tiny mice at one time, and as many as 3 tiny mice at one time. - First few times setting the trap is easy, but after you catch a few mice and the trip wire wears the paint off, the trap becomes more delicate to trip, Sometimes it will go off if you bump it while placing it in the location you've chosen.Overall I'm very satisfied with the two traps I purchased. The 'SLAP' of the closing doors is noticeable if you're in the same room or a hallway connecting to that room. I normally take the trap out and release the mice in the woods right after I hear it trip.

Even though this trap mentions "mouse" in the description, it does not catch mice. It will only work for bigger animals - a mouse is not heavy enough to trigger it.When it arrived, it was very hard to set and very hard to trigger. The triggering mechanism is a horizontal rod on the top that goes under a hook attached to the bait pan, so when the hook moves to the side a spring closes the doors. The horizontal rod was a little too long and had some burs on it, so it caught on the hook and made the trap difficult to set or trigger. That seemed like an obvious manufacturing defect, so I decided to fix it rather than send it back. After filing a little length and some burs off the end of the rod, it could be set easily without catching, but still seemed a little hard to trigger. I even tried putting some teflon plumbing tape around the end to make it slide more easily, but the best I could do was make it so a half ounce of pressure on the bait tray would trigger it about half the time. (I used half an ounce of #12 wire partially coiled, so the wire could go through the top and sit on the edge of the bait tray, supporting the weight of the coil).I didn't think that was sensitive enough, but tried setting it anyway. The bait was gone in the morning, trap still open. I saw what did it, because my other trap got it. It was an ordinary size mouse, bigger than some of the ones I've caught before, but still too light for this trap. It looks like a sturdy trap, but the distance from the tray to the doors is short enough that the tail of a rat or a squirrel could still be sticking out the door when it closes. Those doors slam pretty hard, so I'm not sure it's suitable for trapping anything. I don't need to trap anything bigger than a mouse though, so it's going back.

The trap appears to be engineered well and should work well if we can bait it with the right attraction.

I’ve caught 4 squirrels and they all were able to escape within 5 minutes.

I live in the country, and rats making their nests in our cars, lawnmower, under porches, etc is a huge problem. We currently have a quite heavy duty Havahart brand 2-door trap that is awesome, got this one because it was less expensive, and I won't buy another one. It's awkward to set, and when it's tripped the doors that snap shut can flip the securing mechanism back inside the trap, which just allows the rat to push right out. We have caught ONE with it, and 7 in the Havahart. I don't know if it's the entry size that is making that difference or if the rats are just leary of the "new" thing. But those narrow entry points make it pretty tough to clean by hand, so I have to high power water spray it down, the Havahart I can just turn upside down and reach into it. This is ok, not worth returning, but I'm not over the moon with it either.