Victor Easy Set Mouse Traps that Work - Pack of 4 - Effective Pest Control Indoors & Outdoors #M032

These traps are easy and quick to set. Be sure to keep your fingers clear of the bait area once set. You can bait them with anything mice like.For bait I use peanut butter and sometimes a small slice of pepperami. Mice love peanut butter and things like pepperami because they're full of fat and protein which mice find hard to resist. If you use pepperami buy the ones that aren't spicy.Place the traps where mice run, so along skirting boards or near areas you think they're coming in. The traps are a little finicky to set and are on a hair trigger so be sure to set them after they've been baited and placed.The picture I've included shows what happens to the little buggers. I don't like killing them but these are better than humane traps as it's a quick death.Humane traps mean that you either catch and release the mouse somewhere far from your home, which will stress the animal and it will likely die quickly to predators, or you need to dispatch them.These kill traps eliminate any needless suffering of the animal as it's nearly instantaneous.

Cons: Easy set these are not! The arm is not very long and so difficult to hook the plate properly resulting in quite a lot of failed attempts and making you jump with the ruthless power of the spring! Yikes! Also be very very gentle putting these down.. and make sure you bait before setting up!Pros: They work! Grim job but mouse finally caught after using a different trap and failing and no end of frustration.. killed quickly and chucked straight into a bag trap Inc (not worth the health risk to reuse) and the outside bin! Yuk!

KISS - Keep it simple stupid! I have tried all sorts of products to ensure that the loft of our thatched cottage stays rodent free. I hate killing the mice, but they have been known to attack our wiring and with the threat of a short circuit and potential for a catastrophic fire, I feel that I have to trap them. If I could prevent them getting ingress I would, but 18th century cottages make for a comfortable home with easy access which is impossible to seal.So what else have I tried?+ Bait - yes we do use bait, but I feel that it kills the mice slowly and I suspect it could be painful+ Electric traps - yes, they do work, but can take up to 5 seconds to kill the rodent, particularly if the batteries are not at full capacity. We have tried one, it works as you can hear it when it traps a mouse. Unfortunately, we would need 4 of these and it would cost at least £200 to protect our loft.So we use this type of trap (we used to use "little nipper"). We bait these traps (fresh bed is great), normally 8 - 12, place them where the mice run and check them every day or so in the autumn and weekly during the rest of the year. I place bait at higher levels for thiose intending to nest in the thatch, but I always feel sad and consider it a last resort.The beauty of these traps are that they usually despatch the rodent quickly, they are cheap and can be disposed of should they break the rodent's skin or the dead rodent be left to decay and finally they work.Tips:Different bait is recommended. I like fresh bread in the autumn as the mice nest then and the mice go mad for it, peanut butter does work and despite some people liking to use chocolate, I have had mixed results.Mice like to run alongside straight surfaces, such as a skirting board; in our case, roof beams - place the trap running in line with the run.Always wear gloves when baiting the traps or removing the dead rodent. The former is because mice, but particularly rats are averse to human scent and latterly for obvious hygiene reasons.Always discard traps if they become stained.If you want a trap which works, is relatively humane (IMO) and is effective in enclosed environments this will work effectively.

I regret that I found the product title to be hugely misleading - they are anything but: Victor Easy Set Mouse Trap.The instructions are, to say the least, just that - in fact if they were any more 'least' they'd be non-existent!My self and two qualified engineers tried to set these after I had obviously failed this simple task and had trapped both thumbs in very painful pre-use setting up. The three of us decided the design is probably about right and undoubtedly they sell lots of them. However, the only way we managed to get the trap to set without premature 'kill bar' release was to alter the 'U' shaped end of the 'arm bar'.The 'arm bar' simply isn't long enough to engage the 'plastic pedal'. The whole thing is just poorly made and appears to lack any form of quality control.Even at this price I expect to be buying an item that does what it claims to do. Unfortunately the Victor Easy Set Mouse Trap is anything but easy to set.As for being 'pre baited' this proved to be another mystery to the three of us.I could have sent these back as an Amazon Prime user but decided the effort was not worth it and decided instead to write this review to help other potential buyers - please think carefully and remember: Caveat Emptor [Latin, Let the buyer beware.] A warning that notifies a buyer that the goods he or she is buying are "as is," or subject to all defects.They are now in the bin where they belong.

We had mice in our conservatory so eventually I tried three kinds of trap, this was the second. I baited it with bird seed. I think This trap killed a mouse as soon as that mouse had exerted sufficient pressure to set it off. Setting the trap was quite easy but I had to be careful putting it down because that movement did trip it on a couple of occasions. But once set and in place the trap sat there OK. My recommendation is lukewarm because on one trap the staple that holds the arm in place in the wooden board gave way so that trap can't be used without repair.