Pest-Stop Trip Trap

After spotting something quickly darting across the kitchen floor a week ago, I was hoping my eyes were deceiving me but after leaving a spot of cheese on the floor, it had later gone! Seeing as we don't own pets, I thought I'd better start looking for a humane mouse trap to capture and release our new house mates. I ordered the product on 11 Oct. and took the free delivery option which meant waiting for 4 days to arrive. I'd advise anyone with a mouse problem, to pay extra for next day delivery!! In the mean time, I went to the local DIY shop for some cheap humane traps to try whilst I waited for this product. I ended up with some traps called Big Cheese (STV Pest Patrol) and they were poor quality, with the door mechanism not really working and it certainly caught zero mice with the bait either gone or the trap door closed before the mouse entered!! I was pleased the day the postman turned up with the Pest-Stop!! I followed the instructions and baited my trap with a chunk of cheese and left it out before going to bed, by morning I had my first mouse. As advised on the box, I released the mouse a quarter of a mile away from my house at the local golf course. The trap then needed cleaning before leaving out once more which can be done with relative ease, as the trap is assembled in 3 sections that can be removed. Unfortunately for me, whilst re-assembling the trap flap to the main trap, I dropped it and the fall caused the trap flap (door) hinge to break off meaning the trap would no longer work but after contacting the customer services department to see if I could purchase a new trap flap to fit back in my trap, I was offered a full replacement free of charge, so 10 out of 10 to the manufacturer for customer service!! I've since left a few potatoes out to see if more mice are around as I've not seen any, but sure enough, bits of potato have been bitten into, so I've now ordered another 2 of these traps to leave out around the kitchen/lower cupboards to try and capture and release as many mice as I can in the shortest possible time. If you think you have a mouse problem and don't want to call in the experts, I can highly recommend this product as an easy to use and successful mouse trap! I wish I had bought a couple of these traps to start with, but you live and learn!!

Up until we had two cats, mice were never a problem. Unfortunately our two cats used to love catching them in the garden and then bringing them home, alive, to show us how clever they were. That was fine up to the point where they used to let them go, inside the house!Having spent many happy hours emptying a room or two of every stick of furniture in order to catch the pesky mice (whilst two cats would watch proceedings with interest but take no active part) we decided to buy some mouse traps - of the humane variety.So...we bought two called "The Big Cheese" these traps were as useful as a chocolate fishing rod cathing absolutely nothing. In practice the mice used to think of them as their own personal food-banks. So we spent many a weekend, clearing rooms and catching mice using a variety of "make it up as you go along techniques".Old age eventually overcame our two lovely cats and they went to the Mouse garden in the sky. Funnily enough our mouse problem also stopped at about the same time....Wind forward a few years to present day.A mouse appeared in the kitchen one day, my wife noticed it first. It was looking into the pantry and then back at her as if to say "is that all you've got then". Now I am a live and let live sort of fellow, but I had a sneaking suspicion that no only was this mouse rooting through our meagre store of consumables but had also been reading my morning paper before I had..you know the sort of thing...pages in slight disarray and not quite as neat a a new unread paper should be... Well that crossed the boundary of common decency as far as I was concerned. Something had to be done.Researching on Amazon, I came across these mouse traps and bought two. At the time of writing, the score stands at Traps 3 Mice 0 which is pretty good as we have only had the traps for 3 days. These traps do exactly what they say on the tin. Are very simple to use and clean and seem to be 100% effective in catching the little critters. No more completely rearranging the furniture or emptying the contents of the house on to the patio... and my morning paper is now in pristine "unread" condition each day.The only issue now is what to do with the mice we have collected. They are currently in their temporary home of our green garden bin in which they seem happy enough with lots of bedding and stuff to eat although I think they might be missing their morning paper!

Good traps but i think pest stop snap traps are the most humane. Mice are killed quickly. Rather than being displaced and succumbing to nature

Very effective, great piece of kit and easy to use

This is a fairly simple device, but can work quite well if you position it correctly. I bought 2 of these to try and remove the mice from our loft humanely.At first, I placed then in our loft with some peanut bars in and caught 2 mice. I tried it again a 2nd night, however it seems the mice have figured out how to outsmart the designers of this trap. If the mice can turn the device upside down whilst inside the trap, they're able to take the food and push the gate to walk out!Make sure you place the trap up against some solid items in a corner, otherwise the mice will just walk out!Update: My success rate is plummeting. I am completely confused how the mice are escaping. I've now found that the mice have taken the food and have obviously left the trap. The confusing thing is that the hatch is shut, so somehow they're simply walking out..

As an animal lover I wanted to go down the humane root for dealing with my mice problem, however unfortunately this product didn't achieve what I was looking for. I placed some peanut butter inside, the mice outsmarted it , manged to get the peanut butter and still broke out. Complete waste of money!

I set the trap at 10pm. Caught a mouse at 11pm! Used chocolate as bait. But what should I do with the mouse? I could have set it free in the woods, a mile away but it would probably have frozen to death or made its way to the nearby farm. So I used carbon dioxide from a soda siphon to kill it within seconds! If I had set it free in the garden it would almost certainly have returned and could have put my life at risk by chewing through electric cables under the floor or in the loft. There was no way I could be sure that the mouse would not find its way into my loft or under my floor, so I really had no alternative - I had to kill it!Regarding the trap itself, it worked fine the first time but subsequently it needed a dab of blue tac on the trap door to balance it. On a second trap, the balance weight was loose and had to be glued in place, but this was easily done. The trap is quite small, so the air inside will soon run out and the mouse is likely to die from lack of oxygen!Cleaning the trap was a pain. The mouse had only been in it for an hour or so but the trap was filled with droppings that were stuck to the surface by strong smelling urine, so I had to run water through the trap, after first removing the trip-bar by gently squeezing it. Don't use the kitchen sink for this!To summarize: the trap works but you may need to balance the the trap-door with blue tac or a bit of sticky tape. And cleaning is messy. A mouse is likely to die from lack of oxygen if it is left for several hours.UPDATE: Caught another mouse in the bathroom - there was a hole in the floor, round the pipes at the back of the bidet. Noticed some small ventilation slots and holes in the trap, but doubt that these are big enough to prevent the air running out after several hours. I have found droppings under the floor, in the loft and in the garage, so I am wondering just how many mice we have on the premises!

Great product! Took a couple days for the mouse to go in, but once he did he was safe and secure in there. Easy to set up the trap, and easy to release once the mouse was caught.

Di materiale plastico rigido costruita bene non ci sono parti in metallo che arruginiscono e quindi comprometterne il funzionamento è molto funzionale il topolino appena entra è obbligato a salire su una piccola leva per raggiungere l'esca e fa' chiudere a caduta senza molla il piccolo portello, trappola non nociva per l'animale difatti chi vuole liberarlo in un'altro luogo senza sopprimerlo si smonta la parte opposta a quella dell'entrata.Da usare esclusivamente per topi piccoli.Si puo' riutilizzare per molte volte consiglio.

Da wir ziemlich ländlich wohnen huschen ab und an Mäuse über die Terrasse zu uns ins Haus. Da ich die Mäuse nicht töten möchte,da sie mir ja nichts tun, wollte ich eine Lebend-falle um die Nager in die Natur zurück bringen zu können.Aufgebaut ist die Falle kinderleicht, wenn sie zuklappt, wird das Tier nicht verletzt. Nach dem benutzen problemlos hygienisch zu säubern.Kann ich allen empfehlen, die eine Lebend-falle suchen.

Caught a shrew who identified as a mouse. Unless there's also a mouse in the house. Anyway he's gone to the wild. Safe n sound. Great product.

On dit souvent que si tu vois une souris c'est qu'il y en a 10 , si tu en vois deux ou trois c'est qu'il y en a 20...etc ... et c'est vrai !Nous sommes à la campagne, et nous sommes entourés de souris ! Au début on pensait avoir deux trois souris, elles nous narguaient dans le placard à provision (on les entendait grignoter sans savoir d'ou elles arrivaient) On a acheté ce piège car chez nous on ne met pas de poison (trop dangereux pour les chats et chiens) Au matin on avait deux souris dedans ! Je ne pensais pas avoir une si belle prise du premier coup (elles ont du rentré ensemble) L'appat était du chocolat et des pates crues (mon mari était pessimiste pour le chocolat mais elles adorent ça ! )Le côté négatif est que le piège est en plastique donc si la souris reste trop longtemps enfermée elle a le temps de grignoter les éléments. C'est notre cas première prise et le plastique est déjà grignoté donc piège à renouveler régulièrement (toutes les dix souris peut-être ? A voir à l'usage)Je recommande tout de même ce système beaucoup moins gore que la tapette et tout aussi efficace. Un conseil portez des gants lors de la manipulation du piège, les souris ne sont pas bêtes !

5☆aveva topolino in giro,che mi tormentato per temo,la trappola e arrivata a pomeriggio, la stessa sera topolino gia nella trappola, ho liberato topolino, e spero che non torna,quindi non potevo a far meno che scrivere recensione e dare 5☆. Lo lascio in giro trappola per ospitiindesiderati.