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I live in a house surrounded by forest. A couple of weeks ago I mowed grass and brush surrounding the house (to reduce fire danger) - I must have seen 50 big fat mice scatter from the area I mowed (the mower weighs 500# and it cannot easily be maneuvered to get the mice). I have a real mouse problem in my house - over the years I have trapped dozens of mice.I have used the glue traps and the wooden spring traps and poison - they all work to one degree or another. The glue traps catch one or two mice in a night - but the mice often learn to avoid them so you need to move them around, and eventually what is left is mice that are too experienced to be caught. The wooden spring traps are hard/finicky to set, messy, get blood stained and rusty - although cheap, you generally find yourself buying more. The poison seems to work (the mice chew on it and it often disappears or is found somewhere else, the mice thinking it is food having moved it to stash it) but isn't particularly eco-friendly as whatever eats the mice will ingest the poison too (there are owls nearby, coyotes, raccoons, weasels and other predators that hunt mice).I got these new plastic traps delivered last night, set them out with peanut butter (much easier to bait and set IMO) and within half an hour caught a mouse. By morning I had caught 4 more - 2 of them in the same trap that caught the first one.They snap shut and you can hear them, but they are not as loud as the wooden ones. They are much easier to release the mouse than the wooden traps although the mouse is often not quite dead unless you wait for a bit (maybe 15 minutes) if you are squeamish about terminating them yourself - they are certainly mortally wounded (neck or back broken and probably unable to breathe) and will die. There is no blood (so far) so not messy and much easier to rebait and reset. I imagine that if they do get messy they will be much easier to clean.Glue traps do work (when they work) but they also catch a lot of bugs, are messy when a mouse is caught - you have to terminate the mouse yourself as the mice will often not die for a day or two and often make a mess (defecating). Once used they can't be reused, often get stuck to other things (I stepped on one this morning and got it stuck to my shoe), although inexpensive when bought in bulk. If you have pets then glue traps anywhere a pet can get to are a bad idea. I burn the traps (along with the dead mice) as I don't want to have anything else get stuck to them and you can't remove the mouse from them. I have had a few mice get caught and then get unstuck too.These plastic traps will be useful, but it remains to be seen if remaining mice will still get trapped by them. I rebaited with peanut butter and noticed some of them are now missing the bait. I don't know if it as a really small mouse that got to the bait or if it was ants, but I decided to rebait with cherrios this AM - we'll see how that works - I crammed the cherrio into the hole in a way that would force the mice to try to pull it from the hole, thereby hopefully exerting enough force against the trip platform to set off the trap.All in all, I recommend these as part of an effort to get rid of mice in a building where there are no pets (pets might trip them and the spring is very strong so it might injure a pet).

Old review: I would rate these 5 stars if they worked properly. I was looking forward to receiving my order with the recent mouse problem in my garage. It appears that sometimes the mouse doesn't set off the trap. I caught three mice within 48 hours and when I checked the other traps I realized the bait had been eaten and the trap didn't go off. I don't know if the mice are too small or if the trap isn't sensitive enough, but I didn't read anywhere how to set the trap to be more sensitive for small mice. At any rate, they are easy to set! I hate putting my fingers on the old wooden ones and found difficulty setting them. I am going to try again and add new bait. Wish me luck! ****UPDATE**** I switched to my all time favorite mouse trap SECRET BAIT that works really well. You might not have heard of this, but it was my 8 year old son who tried this first and it's like a miracle! I've been using it for over 20 years now, but when I read these reviews, advocating using peanut butter and cheese, the traps worked only half the time. Here's our famous family mousetrap secret bait..... Take a chocolate chip, put it under hot water until it starts to melt, then push the melty choco chip in the feeder of the trap. When it dries it becomes hard and the mouse has to work at it. Since I switched my bait back to what I know works, these traps are working GREAT!! I have been getting a mouse everytime I check the traps!!! I love these traps, easy to set and works great with the right bait!

I don’t like glue traps. Just because I want to get rid of vermin, there’s no reason to make them suffer. Plus mice are smart and will parkour right over them. Baits leave dead smelly mice in your walls or behind furniture and that’s really unpleasant to clean up. These traps are tempting, strong, and deliver a quick death.It’s a little tricky to clean the peanut butter out of the little cup, but if it hasn’t sat around too long, it’s not really that bad. The fact that they are plastic and you can clean them makes them very reusable and a great value.It’s also a one-handed operation to dispose of the mouse without touching it. I was barely squeamish at all.These traps are very effective and I highly recommend them.

Disappointed because the AKCHY are easier to set and clean, but not effective. I set 12 traps, 6 traditional wooden style and 6 AKCHY in a cottage attic for the winter. Got four mice, all with the traditional wooden traps. The nearby AKCHY's were all devoid of their peanut butter bait, and four were tripped, 2 were not. Two of the wooden traps had not tripped, one had bait left, one did not. This is about as close to a fair test as I can come up with. Headed back to the cottage with 16 of the traditional traps.I did catch a mole in our basement with an AKCHY trap and it was easy to use and clean. I dispose of the traditional wooden traps and their victim. In this case I also discarded the AKCHY traps.

UPDATE: Initially they appeared to be effective. However either they become less sensitive or the mice get smarter because they are able to eat the bait without tripping. I thought I would try something new, but going back to the old school tried and true Victor wooden traps.They work! I have only been using these for a week yet but they have been very effective. I have already nailed several mice.I did find after my first catch on a couple that the plastic hook which latches the trip mechanism seems to be a bit tricky to set. I have found you need to use both thumbs, one on each side of the latch to get it to catch the hook of the latch. This is the only reason I deducted a star. We’ll see over time how they hold up.