RinneTraps - Flip N Slide Bucket Lid Mouse Trap |2 Pack| |Multi Catch| |Made in USA | US Pat D1,039,648s

I don’t recommend it

Excelente producto, lo compré hace un año para mi negocio y en todo ese tiempo he atrapado no menos de 15 ratones. Facil de utilizar y de limpiar. Definitivamente recomendado.

Seriously, 20 stars! It works really well. First, I will say that I was mildly annoyed that the way it was packaged for shipping was a little uninspired. I had ordered two of these lid traps and they placed both into a box. That doesn’t sound like much of a problem, however, the two didn’t really neat well one on top of the other, so, the one on the top that was resting over the one on the bottom arrived warped and refused to sit flat, even when snapped onto a 5 gallon bucket. It still works but it had a little warping to it. I’m sure it doesn’t impact its effectiveness but it does mean that the black flipper part, when in its resting position, actually doesn’t sit flush with the yellow snap-on lid…it sits just a little lower on one side and means the black flapper part, swivels at a slight skew to the left. Now, a disclaimer for the squeamish, not that I feel a disclaimer should be necessary for a product designed to catch mice…but the product caught more mice than I ever even realized we had. I live in a modest farm with chickens. The feeder that we hang down from the ceiling with a chain sits off the ground about 2 to 3 inches. Any higher than this and our chickens can’t really get at the pellets in the deep ring that encircles the central cone of the feeder that holds surplus pellets that help to make sure that the pellets in the ring never goes empty as the chickens eat the pellets. Well, the mice figured out at some point that, not only was their a ready supply of food in the chicken coop, via this feeder, but that if they jumped into the ring of pellets around the central cone, and dug down far enough, they could squeeze through the gap between the bowl/ring of pellets and then dig their way up into the center of the cone in the middle. They could eat without being pecked or killed by the chickens. To get into the central cone, they have to dig a lot against a never ending replenishment of pellets pouring into the void they make in the bowl/ring. The act of digging meant that pellets would fly out in all directions, out of the bowl and into the floor. I would fill it up with about 5 lbs of pellets when I put the chics away at night, and by morning nearly 4 lbs if the pellets were now on the floor of the chicken roost. Worse, is that the mice had proliferated to the point that they were consuming nearly 3lbs of pellets the dark of night, and when they had to be in guard through the light of day, they managed to consume another pound of pellets. I was constantly refilling their feeder on a daily basis and going through chicken pellet feed like it was going out of style. That stuffs not cheap. However, most concerning than the loss and waste of food was the feces and their diseases. The chickens regularly killed whatever mice they could peck to death, and then try to eat it. And, the mice feces was not only all over the ground, everywhere, but they would defecate inside the laying boxes and inside the feeder. If you have ever seen chickens, they’re not the smartest. If it’s small and they can get it into their beak, they’ll try to eat it. I was always concerned with the eggs they produced and if the eggs might have diseases. Also, I didn’t want my chickens getting diseased. The mice feces was everywhere. We had to wear masks when we regularly cleaned out the roost because their was so much of their feces that their was legitimate concerns for contracting something from the dust that billows out when mucking out the roost along with so much rodent feces. It got to the point that, when putting the chickens away at dusk, the mice would be coming out of the woodwork, literally, in numbers that looked plague like when I would enter the roost and turn on the light. It was crazy looking. Anyway, the real disclaimer, many mice did not survive. Stop reading any further if this upsets you. I don’t like the idea of taking life, even if it should be mice. However, I draw the line when their numbers are out of control and causing great risk to health. I looked long and hard for a trap that would be effective, as I’ve seen some bad reviews on traps that claim to be really great. Well, I can tell you that this is the real deal! When I got the lid traps, I snapped it onto one of the many skate 5 gallon buckets I have around the farm. The directions/pictures aren’t the clearest for where to put the bait. Hence, I did it wrong when I first applied some peanut butter to the trap. I had read a review that mentioned putting peanut butter on the louvering lid. THIS METHOD IS WRONG!!! Instead, the raised dome over the louvering lid terminates into a kind of rounded “nose” right at the tip of the louvering lid that causes mice to walk out too far to fall in. In this “nose” of sorts is where you want to put the bait/peanut butter. The lid is designed to stay flat until the very end, enticing mice to walk out until they’ve reached a point of no return. However, the peanut butter, when applied to the lid, does two things. It defeats some of the careful balance in the louvering lid sometimes causing the lid to swing down too early because the peanut butter has weight too, adding to the buildup of weight from an approaching mouse. I watched more than a few times where mice were able to escape the swing of the lid because they hadn’t gone far enough over the lid to hit that “point of no return”. Second, the peanut butter, when added to the louvering lid rather than in the nose of the dome, adds texture. The lid is slippery, but the peanut butter helps to actually give some grip and so the mice weren’t sliding down enough before they caught traction in the peanut butter and were able to jump back far enough out of the overhead/dome and escape…not always, but usually. Plus, when a mouse did fail to escape, as they slid in and over the edge of the louvering lid, they took some of the peanut butter bait with them on their coats, essentially wiping the bait off each time. This left little to entice other mice to investigate the trap. The peanut butter in the nose of the de was magic. Once I switched to doing this, and put the bucket trap in a place that the curious chickens couldn’t interfere with it or scare the mice away, the morning count every morning for nearly two weeks was nothing short of a blessing. In two weeks, I had caught nearly 200 mice. 200!!! I hadn’t dreamed it would be that successful and so quickly. I also hadn’t realized we had that many though I knew we had a lot. I mean, 3 to 4 lbs of pellets don’t disappear, daily, with only a few nice. I thought maybe 40 because I had estimated about that many scattering each night when I turned the light on in the coop to close it up for the night ti protect the chickens from nightly predators. I still have the trap out and baited, but only because I want to nip it in the bud. Should anymore visitors in the night decide to try and raid the chicken food again. The daily catch after about 1.5 weeks began to slowly decrease until the end of the 2nd week I caught just a single mouse. I had placed pellet food inside the bucket trap, and hung the chicken feeder high up out of the reach of their insanely high/far jumps. This limited food and forced them to find the peanut butter in my trap. I also realized that, if I already had one or two mice in the trap, others seemed to feel like the food in the trap was a safe place to eat and they wanted in on the food too. So, I left pellets down in the bucket to give them something to eat and to keep them fed and to get their eating noises to attract the other mice to the trap. Worked like a charm. I wont say exactly what I did with the mice, but numbers like that, and the infestation they were causing, along with the dangerous health implications of their feces in everything and everywhere, I simply wasn’t going to let them go…and to take them somewhere else to be someone else’s problem wasn’t right either. All I will say is that their end was as humane as I could possibly make it. As for those who may have a mouse problem, not ideal for rats really, this is it! It’s seriously that good! I will tell every farmer I know about this simple but extremely effective trap. I also hang my feeder up high now at night to not encourage their return. But, as for how effective this trap is…I Couldn’t be happier. And, after those two weeks of heavy catches, I haven’t see a single mouse, not even one, or signs of one, in two months since. Not in the food, not in the traps, no pecked to death nice, nothing. Awesome!!!

This mouse/rat catching lid does fit the recommended bucket as advertised so don’t believe the reviews that say it isn’t a good fit. However, it needed a little more thought because I was trying to clip it on the lip of the bucket when it fits snug just inside the rim. We will have to wait for how effective it is.

Advertised as American made product but received the Chinese copy. It was junk and broke in pieces during assembly. Can't believe Amazon would allow this on American made products. Everyone looses!

These are fantastic. They're working too well! Biggest user issues: 1) Use a proper 5G bucket. All of the 5 Gallon buckets I've used in Canada work without issue (19L bucket?) 2) Don't bait the flapper, you bait under the "hood" (above the flapper). It's really that simple. Most people think you need to bait the flipper/flapper, but after the first time doing it: you should be able to figure it out. 3) Try to avoid direct sunlight for them, they're plastic, nearly-all plastic cracks and fades in the sunlight. Note: I bought one from amazon.com for $45 a few years ago. ... I bought 4 this time (effectively a 2-for-1), brother is using them at his home and restaurant (outside).