M241B Indoor Electronic Humane Rat and Mouse Trap - No Touch, No See Electric Rat and Mouse Trap

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!!

I live in the country mice and kangaroo rats are just everywhere. I used to use sticky traps and snap traps but there's so many mice that you just end up spending so much money. I was skeptical on buying this due to the price but holy cow since I've had it I've bought like six more. Don't worry about the people that say you need to clean out the bait all you need to do is take some peanut butter on a stick from the outside of the Trap put it through the hole towards the highest hole so it gets on the inside. The only maintenance you'll need to do is every so many mice you may have to take like an alcohol wipe on some needle nose pliers and wipe off the floor plates on the bottom so that way they don't get so dirty the machine thinks it's caught a mouse I've been using these things for months and they have done nothing but pay for themselves I will never buy a sticky trap or snap trap ever again for mice rats these things stay outside sometimes I put them in a plastic shoe container to protect them from the elements and then just cut a hole in the shoe container like in the cartoons. Absolutely great and then when you catch a mouse or rat all you do is turn the button off and I just go out into the field and shake them out of The Catcher And they fall right out turn it back on and put it back to where it goes

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.

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.

OK. First one that arrived was defective apparently. Not only did it not zap rat, the rat started to build a nest in it! it was packed with wood chips and shredded paper towel in 48 hours. But Victor was good about a warranty replacement. Put the new one out with bait. That worked. Very well. Surprisingly well. I found just tossing in some loose cat food works fine. Less messy than peanut butter. So far it's caught three rats in a week. I'm satisfied. In the past we tried snap traps and rats either knew to avoid them or how to steal the bait without triggering. Thus far the rats haven't figured these electronic traps out. And it's not messy. So I just dump the rat out for whatever nighttime scavenger comes along and they get a free dinner.