Victor Electronic Rat Trap 1-Pack, Indoor Humane Electric Rodent Killer | LED Battery Indicators, No Touch No See Design, Kills up to 35 Rats per 4 AA Battery Set

I have now bought a total of 7 of these units, and will probably purchase more they work so well! We bought 1 to start out with to help curve the winter "mice" problem in our basement that seems to always happen every year. Within 2 weeks that 1 single unit wiped out a solid family of mice. We then ordered 3 more to go in exterior buildings around the house to help combat them from making it in the house and those worked just as well! There are days where these will catch multiple mice in the same day. Fast forward a year, I purchased 3 for my work at a garden center and we've now taken out about 2 dozen mice in about a month with these 3 units! In short... THESE WORK! A Q-tip with some peanut butter is all you need to load these up. Be sure to keep these traps along the wall and/or by doorways and somewhat out in the open so it's an easier find for the rodents. Also, one thing to keep in mind, if you have gravel, or chunks of anything happen to get on the metal middle plate (the plate that senses and zaps the mouse), the plate will malfunction and not sense anything on it. So be sure to keep them clean and debris free! Otherwise, they are very super easy to use, easy to maintain, long lasting for both the unit and battery life (I've yet to change the x4 AA batteries in any of the units), much easier and safer to use than an original or traditional mouse trap, and make it for a speedy and humane kill of the mouse. I'm definitely happy that I went with these over anything else! They are pricey for what they are, but they pay for themselves quickly in the sense of ease of operation and/or if you've had things get damaged by mice/rodents already, the value in damage will out likely out weigh the cost of these quickly!!

The problem with this unit is you can't clean it. You have to stick some peanut butter in through a few small holes on the end of the device. You can't get into it to clean it out and put fresh bait in. The directions in the box say to reach in with A-Tips to clean it out. Well its a vertical surface and you would have to have a Qtip that has a 90 degree bend in it and fiddle with it to even get to it much less clean it good. Seriously, whoever designed this never had to use it! You can't take it apart as when you fight to take the top and bottom apart, the wired connections are soldered and you risk breaking something trying to disassemble it. worst design ever so you peanut butter, as recommended as bait, just spoils in there and you fight with putting a cloth on a foot long stick to try and clean it out. This model is a M421B. Apparently the model M241 has a removable bait door to access the bait and clean out, much better design. DO NOT but this model. It really sucks trying to clean it. It kills the mice, just can't clean out the bait, dumbest design ever.

Last year trying to be kind I captured and erll released rats which led to a horror show of rats running up my bed at night and learning that's not kind. In fear of being overrun again, a quick kind death seemed the lesser v of evils. After 5 days of nothing, woke up to the rat dead. No more cleaning droppings first thing in the morning. Even with my horror of dread animals, was able to empty this trap into the garbage. Cleaned it with a long handled soft brush and paper towels. Use gloves, but there's absolutely no mess and nothing gory. Batteries last many days making moving it easy. Bait, turn on and that's it. Bait is 3 pieces of dry cat food dropped into trap through openings. Clean, quick, and It Works! Worth every penny. Would recommend it to anyone.

This purchase started while watching "We're the Millers." Oddly enough, just after the scene where Kenny gets bitten by the spider, I saw something moving across the floor in my basement in a odd pattern. For whatever reason, I though it was a big ol' spider and tried to find it. Whatever it was, it had concealed itself underneath my TV stand, so I grabbed a flashlight and started looking for it. Finally, I discover that, rather than a hairy spider, it was a tiny mouse. After a few minutes, it scooted out and hid under some other furniture in the basement, and I was able to scoop it up into a dog bowl and cover the bowl so it couldn't escape. It was a tiny mouse, probably a baby. As I went to release it out the back door, I discovered another baby mouse by the back door, so I scooted it out the door, too. Once the first two were out the door, I began my research and saw that mice typically have litters of around six, but up to 12 mice. Sure enough, about 30 minutes later, I find a third baby mouse in the basement. Now I"m convinced I have a serious problem, with another 3 baby mice probably around somewhere, plus a mother and maybe a father. It's peculiar, because I haven't seen any signs of mice in the house previously. I get rid of the third mouse (this one gets a flight off the back deck after I offered to show it to my wife, but she wasn't interested.) So I did my research on Amazon for solutions and saw several options - the traditional snap trap and various humane options. I kind of liked the idea of sending mice down the Green Mile, so I settled on these given the positive reviews and quick results that seemed to be reporting. So I ordered two. Well, actually, four because I apparently placed the order twice. The next day, they showed up thanks to Prime shipping. One small issue, I didn't have enough batteries to load up all four, so after getting the Skippy peanut butter (fewer chemicals than the store brand reduced sugar that later gave my wife an allergic reaction), I prepared the traps according to the manual. They were easy to unpack, prepare and deploy. In accordance with the instructions, I placed them around the basement along walls triangulating where I had encountered two of my three little visitors. After putting them out in the evening, I retired for the night and anxiously came back downstairs in the morning, expecting to find another mouse or two had shuffled off this mortal coil. Alas, no flashing LEDs on the traps to tell me I've succeeded in this particular Mouse Hunt. Day after day, I go through the same process each morning, thinking I might find a victim in the traps, but, alas, each day I'm left disappointed. On the positive side, however, I haven't found any signs of mice in the basement, nor have I spotted any. So long story short, they're easy to set up and prepare, they're relatively innocuous, and there's no evidence of mice ignoring the traps. Old Sparky may work, but I haven't been successful yet. Update: December 2024 - after having these out for four months and not having sent any mice to their final reward, I happened to notice one flashing green as I walked by. Sure enough, picked it up and there was the first victim of Old Sparky inside. Moved it outside prior to cleaning and resetting to avoid any stink in the house. Decided to check the other two I had put out. One was unused, as of yet, while the second one was patiently flashing green, telling me yet another mouse had crossed the rainbow bridge or whatever the mouse equivalent is. Mr Jangles will no longer be performing on the Green Mile at any rate. So, it’s now traps two, mice zero.

After researching a lot of different mouse traps, we finally tried this electronic trap. I originally tried the Rinne Flip N Slide Bucket lid no-kill mouse traps where the mouse climbs on top of a 5 gallon bucket (not included) to reach a bait and falls through the trap floor which flips down into the bucket. There are a lot of knock offs out there that may work well, but I bought the original Rinne trap and it just didn't work for us. We had two set up in our basement where there was mouse activity and we did catch one mouse, but it escaped every time and that's because the trap floor, when closed, is not flush with the yellow lid and apparently the mouse can escape through small gaps. We put small pieces of almond in the back of the trap floor so the only way the mouse could reach it, was to walk back and the trap floor would flip down and the mouse would fall into the bucket. Twice the almonds were gone and we peeked in the bucket and saw mouse poop but no mouse. So I gave in and looked for an electronic trap that would at least humanely kill the mouse quickly. This Victor trap is very easy to use and set up. You just put in four AA batteries (you could use rechargeable batteries but we used regular to try it out) in the top compartment which slides open. Then you put bait in the back of the unit. The instructions say to put peanut butter through the holes in the back of the unit. But the cleaning instructions say not to get the metal plates inside wet. I don't see how you can easily clean the unit without risking getting the plates wet. Especially when using peanut butter. Instead, we just put a small piece of cheese in the back. The power switch is on the top and after you turn it on, it will blink green a few times and then go dark and remain dark. When the trap catches a mouse, the green light will blink until you turn it off and remove the mouse. Note: When the trap has a mouse and blinks green, the green light blinks slowly, not nearly as fast as when you first turn it on. It's about 9 seconds between blinks. So if you're quickly checking on the trap from a distance, you should look at it for a while to see if it the green light blinks. Or, just go up to the trap and look inside because one end of the trap is completely open. On the second night, we got a mouse. So it works and I'm ordering a second unit to put in another room in our basement. Update: After setting up the second unit (both in the basement), we have caught a total of seven mice. So the traps are working consistently.

Works Great. Use Peanut Butter, birdseed with a lot of sunflower seed as bait. Makes it easy to clean.

We discovered we had a mouse problem, so I purchased this Victor electric trap along with a pack of the claw clam traps. I set them all up around the point of entry, and while the claw traps caught 5 mice over a 3 day period, the victor trap caught nothing. So side by side, the other traps outperformed this one. This may be better if you have a larger rodent problem (like rats), but didn’t work for my application. I liked that it was portable, but be advised it does take 4 double A batteries. I’m not sure how long they typically last since I only had this on for a week. But if you keep it on continuously for a long period, you could go through a lot of batteries which can become costly. The other thing I didn’t care for about this trap was how you had to go about bait placement. You had to stick a glop of peanut butter (or whatever bait of choice) through the small holes into the back in order to smear on the back bottom plate. I found it to be a little messy and not as easy as the claw traps which had a removable reservoir that could be easily filled. Then when it came time to clean the peanut butter when the trap was no longer in use, I had a really hard time getting to it and wasn’t able to fully wipe it away. I have small hands but still couldn’t fit them inside far enough to access the back where it’s instructed to place the bait. I would have liked it better if the back flap could open for easier access for both bait placement and cleanup. All and all this trap was on the expensive side and didn’t stand up to the $8 claw traps I used simultaneously.

Niice size, but a lot of short comings in design. First, baiting with peanut butter is difficult to prevent from dropping onto the metal plate. Second, virtuely impossible to clean without lid to remove for access cleaning.