Victor M310S Tin Cat Multi-Catch Live Mouse Trap - Indoor and Outdoor Humane Catch and Release

Hi all, Story is below; How to use: To catch your mouse: I bought a set of nitrile gloves to handle the trap and food to keep my scent off of it. I placed a dollop of JIF peanut butter on 2 saltine crackers per trap both about 2" from each side vent and towards the front away from the trap doors. I recommend using a piece of electrical or similarly sticky take to keep the door closed as I found it opens quite easily, I do not know if a mouse is capable of forcing their way out of the top if it isn't secured but there isn't a locking mechanism, so please be aware of this going in. I think placement is key here, upon examining the dropping patters I believe the mouse was doing discovery until it found food. Which in a bag of chips it did. I placed the trap in the back of my pantry area, hidden by a few totes of food stuffs with the openings along the baseboard. And within about an hour or two I had caught the uninvited guest. I drove the mouse about 2.2 miles from my home and released it in a field, it took off so quick I couldn't get a picture(sorry). Brown Hair, Black eyes, 2 ears, 3" height about 10 oz. if you see it let me know. Lol If it comes back I will let you know, but I think we are good. Story: So I bought these yesterday and had them delivered same day. I came back from a 1 week trip and it appears that in my absence I acquired a roommate. Probably my fault as I had roll sealed a bag of chips and crackers but... So I purchased three of these, put two in my room(a converted garage), one near a small separation in the Sheetrock I need to patch, one in the loft above the room and one in the back of the room where my refrigerator and kitchenette is. Well this morning about 3-4am my little new roomy was quite noisy lots of metal clicking(it was trying to get out.) Seeing as I went to bed at 230 I would say these traps work quite well. Or perhaps it was extremely hungry and not too bright. Either way ymmv. I would definitely recommend this trap as they are reusable, you are cautioned however to put some tape on the lid and sanitize it after use with a bleach/water solution 1:9. When finished with trap to bag it so you don't have a graveyard accidentally. Good Luck

I live on a farm, and have a chicken coop where chicken feed is readily available to the chickens 24/7. Unfortunately, this means that chicken feed is also available to mice 24/7. Because the chickens live in an older barn, there is no way to block the entrance of mice. No matter what I do -- or how clean I keep the chicken coop -- large numbers of mice WILL migrate into the coop from the surrounding fields. Fortunately they roam the coop at night AFTER the hens go to sleep on their roosts, so at least the chickens and the mice almost never meet up with one another. Our barn cat - and a few neighborhood strays - do their part to keep the mouse population down. But when you have open food on tap 24/7 in an old barn that is out in a rural field, there is only so much that barn cats can do. So we finally bought our first Tin Cat about a month ago. That thing really WORKS! We are drawing 15 to 25 mice into it every night, and we're beginning to see a significant drop in the amount of chicken feed we're putting out each day. I notice that some here suggest trapping the mice and then releasing them LIVE. I suggest to you that those folks do not live on a working farm in a rural area. And they are not trying to raise a flock of chickens in a healthy and clean environment. Let them continue to release their captive mice live -- but I do not intend do that. We have too many live mice already living in the fertile fields that surround the old barn. Where do you think the mice are coming from in the first place? Instead, I kill the mice and then dispose of them. I have an old 8 in. by 13 in. by 3 in. deep metal cake pan -- perfect size to place the Tin Cat in after I retrieve it from the barn in the morning. I fill the cake pan with water, and then place the mouse filled trap in that pan for about 10 minutes. Obviously I do not open the metal box before dropping it in the pan of water. When I come back 10 minutes later, I pull the Tin Cat trap out of the water, drain it, carefully open the metal box up, and empty the now drowned mice into a plastic garbage bag. I wear disposable latex gloves as I do this, needless to say, and dispose of the dirty gloves in the same bag before I seal it up. After cleaning and re-baiting, I put the Tin Cat back into the barn so that it is available after dark to catch another batch of mice. The Tin Cat has worked so well that we are already seeing a significant drop in the amount of chicken feed that we're having to put out each day. And it has worked so well that tonight, I just ordered two more of the Tin Cats from amazon. The thing I appreciate most about these metal mouse traps - above and beyond the fact that the things just work really well -- is the fact that they are perfectly safe for use around my chickens. The chickens don't seem to pay attention to the little metal boxes at all. But if they were to, there is no way that they could open the box, or get access to the mice that might be trapped inside the box. The Tin Cat is safe around lively, playful chickens, barn cats, and just about any other farm animals or family pets. I'd give the Tin Cat more stars, but amazon limits me to just 5.

Did not work for us. I’ve heard it works for others. I don’t know why it didn’t work. I put things inside of it that reviews and the product suggested I put inside of it. I placed it in the location suggested. I know for a fact we had mice because I was seeing them. And still caught nothing.

works well as designed. The smell is not great once they die. The traps work though. You just have to make sure they have expired before opening to dump them and wash the trap out. Not the easiest to clean but its doable just wear gloves and a mask.

excellent moyen de les capturer sans leur faire de mal. Le meilleur score: 4 d'un coup. Bien sûr, relâchées dans la nature loin des habitations ensuite. On en a bien attrapé une quinzaine en quelques jours. Elles étaient devenues très effrontées et allaient directement dans la volière de mes oiseaux et commençaient à grimper le long des barreaux pour grignoter les graines en hauteur. Le plus simple a été de mettre le piège directement dans la volière....tout à veillant à faire place nette autour, pour qu'elles soient plus intéressées par le contenu du piège que par les graines éparses. Pour augmenter l'efficacité, coincer un tout petit morceau de gâteau juste au bout de la trappe d'accès et parsemer de sucre ou céréales la trappe d'accès (par les petits trous du haut). Ce qui fait qu'elles avancent dans la trappe sans se rendre compte qu'elles se font coincer. Certaines sont très malignes.... il y en a une qui a réussi à ressortir, je ne sais pas trop comment, une autre s'était cachée sous la trappe d'accès, ce qui fait que j'ai cru que la boîte était vide et quand j'ai ouvert pour vérifier quand même, elle a bondi dans le jardin... Il m'en reste encore une à attraper, si c'est l'une de celles qui a déjà expérimenté le piège, cela va être plus difficile. Je renouvelle l'appât tous les jours pour qu'il soit frais (gâteau, céréales, chocolat, etc...). En conclusion, c'est très propre et il n'y a pas de mise à mort. Sûrement du stress pour elles, mais dès que je vois qu'il y en a une, je ne tarde pas pour la relâcher.

Dopo aver provato le trappole a gabbietta classiche, che non hanno funzionato, con questa mi sono trovata benissimo. Ho già catturato e liberato vivi 5 topini. E' importante posizionare la trappola con le due aperture (una per lato) vicine al muro, in un punto che sia sulla loro traiettoria. Dentro ho messo un biscotto doppio farcito di cioccolata. Ci si accorge della cattura perchè il topo a tratti corre freneticamente avanti e indietro andando a sbattere sulle due bascule agli ingressi, quindi si sente tac tac tac, come un metronomo. Ma comunque è possibile vedere dentro dalle fessure che si vedono in foto, senza dover aprire la trappola. Comodo anche da "eliminare", si porta la scatola fuori senza rischio di venire a contatto col topo, io la appoggio per terra, apro il coperchio, e lui se ne va tranquillamente nella direzione opposta a me.

had a bad mouse infestation in the chicken shed. after numerous attempts with home made bucket traps and snap traps catching absolutely nothing... i purchased this trap. no more worries about chickens getting caught in the snap traps or knocking over the bucket trap. this trap caught all the mice within a week!. Nice and easy to open up and drop the mice into a bucket of water (or set them free away from home if you prefer) and no escapees either. Would definitely recommend this trap for anyone to use anywhere.

Solo quiero compartir que soy muy feliz con esta trampa. Yo creo que cumple con la función de trampa humanitaria. Ya que no es como otras que hacen súper ruido y son súper malvadas. Esta me gustó la verdad yo no esperaba que atrapara nada. Me llego ayer así que solo la saqué del empaque y naaa más tarde pongo el cebo y la dejé olvidada pegada a la pared y hoy al despertar cual fue mi sorpresa? Ya estaba habitada por un ratón. Me siento más tranquila porque había tenido que usar de esas trampas feas de pegamento y se que era horrible para el ratón y para mi. Esta es una alternativa muy buena tanto para ellos como para uno. Saludos!

Works better than any other trap I've gotten. I've used other snap traps. but the small mice don't quite trigger those traps. But this tin cat trap works great.