Pest-Stop Trip-Trap (Single) & The Big Cheese Mouse and Rat Attractant Bait 26 g Tube Bundle

Ordered about 7pm yesterday arrived today about 5pm! Don’t have Prime, hadn’t requested special delivery or anything so very impressed.But instructions are hopeless. For starters they were trapped inside the mousetrap & it wasn’t obvious how to open it to get instructions out! Turns out that one end, the end that is primed with bait & the mouse is caught in, comes off, but my fingers don’t have the strength or dexterity to squeeze the sides to release this end. So I thought it was doomed before I even started. But hubby managed to remove the end and the instructions.The text is small and pale, they don’t explain which way up to put the trap, 2 of the 3 illustrations don’t show anything meaningful.Had no idea where the mouse would end up or how to release it.However by looking at the photos on the website page it became a little clearer.So I put some bird food (that’s what they’ve been eating) in the end, put it in place. Within minutes 2 mice were all over it trying to work out how to get in. Within 10 mins the first was in! So it works well.I was able to carry the box vertically with the mouse in the bottom of it for a 20 min walk to the far end of the field. The mouse was quite calm. I didn’t want it to jump out, or know if that would be possible, until well away from home. I then shook it out thinking the food would come out too to give it provisions for its adventure, but the mouse shot out & food stayed in.Day 2, trap re-primed with fresh bird food & put in place. Mouse caught in 10 mins!So very effective but much clearer instructions needed.I guess it will be straight forward to cleanI don’t understand why I’m asked to rate thickness, that doesn’t seem to have anything to do with anythingFor doing the job I feel I should award 5 stars, especially for the very reasonable price.But the hopeless instructions making it difficult to use have cost it stars.But overall would definitely recommend

This trap has been down 13 months, this week it finally caught its first mouse, then within two nights a second one. However over the last week the mice have been in and out a few times snaffling the treats within.I don't think they much liked my original offerings of chocolate and digestive biscuit enough to lure them in. Swapping to gingerbread has been an immediate success.The problem is the trap door gets jammed. I've played with it empty, triggering the catch and it fails to shut about a third of the time. The green edge needs to be pulled right out and down for best chance of success. I rather suspect the smaller of my two mice could hop over the catch to get in and out and was just unlucky tonight. The bigger mouse barely fitted inside, but he was a porky fella! On the plus side, successful lootings do seem to give them a false sense of security and encourage them back into the trap.I did get a bigger, metal trap with two ramps. That took six months to make its first and only catch. Although thats also plied with gingerbread and I can hear the mice investigating it, they won't go in. One of them let out a rather terrifying squeak so I'm guessing it hurt him. I expected that trap to do better than this little plastic one but simply not the case.This one also benefits from being really compact, I can easily slot it into mice corridors as long as there is space for the door to flip shut. The bigger trap wouldn't fit and is better for larger spaces.This one is very sturdy and easy to free the mouse without me getting close. The metal one requires lifting open the top, and as anyone who's had a close encounter knows, mice will quite energetically jump at you!Both traps make enough noise to be able to hear when a mouse is near or in them. This trap would need checking a couple of times a day for the sake of the mouse and I bet they could figure out an escape left long enough, they also seem to be able to gnaw through the plastic. Tonight's catch was vigorously throwing himself against the flap when I picked it up, a few minutes after catching him. The metal one is large enough for the mouse to reside longer if there's plenty of food and tissue in there, so less stressful and more difficult to escape. Its mouse was caught while I'd been away a few days and I suspect the mouse had been in there a couple of days munching cookies and raisins.

Easy to set up/take apart for cleaning - just squeeze the sides in a bit before pulling apart. We had a little field mouse that had taken a wrong turn into house from the garden. Set up the trap with some peanut butter inside in a little foil tray, put it down before going to bed, got up in the morning and our little field mouse was inside! Other traps i have tried before are too large and won't trip with a small mouse, this one worked first time!