Indoor Electric Mouse Trap, Instant Eliminate Rodent Zapper with Pet Safe Trigger, Black, Small

I will never use another type of trap again. After literal years of trying EVERYTHING including but not limited to snap traps, glue traps, and the viral "bucket with the ramp on it", I am so happy to find the most humane and effective option.. Within 1.5 to two weeks of having 2 baited with just ritz crackers in our apartment we have managed to get rid of four mice, compared to MAYBE one mouse every 3-4 months if that! SO worth it, have already recommended to 5 people. Device appears to be durable, battery operated, easy to clean and they look discreet.

Very easy to bait, set and release the dead mouse from. WAY better than the D-Con tunnel snap traps I used for years. Virtually foolproof and the kill is most certainly instant. Some reviewers complained that it didn’t catch a rat, but it’s way too small for that. And shame on anyone who ever uses glue traps or poisons. They are both terribly inhumane and can easily harm other animals. An owl eats a poisoned mouse and now the owl is dead too. Just brilliant. I take zero pleasure in killing mice but simply can’t have them in the house, and then I leave them out back to be scavenged. Circle of life.

Beware the deceptively high rating on this listing, it is the combined ratings of 9 different products. This review is for the small outdoor tunnel snap traps.They are pretty bad, and probably a waste of your time and money. Read the reviews others have left for them. There is some defect (probably loosey goosey manufacturing tolerances) that causes them to either not latch or get stuck latched, often right out of the box. And if not then, after a couple triggers.I got 'lucky' and I was able to initially set all of them without any apparent issue. After a few months of them not catching anything, I investigated further in case something was wrong, and found that 3 of the 4 were either incredibly hard to trigger (impossible for a mouse) or just completely jammed and immovable. One worked as I would expect, on a hair-trigger, and to its credit, managed to catch two mice eventually.I contacted Owltra service, politely asking if there was a way to fix them, and if not asking for replacements, but never got a response.Several months later, I bought a second of their electric traps (which work like a champ) and saw the cheery little note that said to contact them if there was any problem. Encouraged by this, I tried emailing them again about the faulty snap traps, this time with receipts attached to add legitimacy, assuming my first email just got lost or accidentally overlooked.This time they responded, passively aggressively noting that I ordered them a year ago and asking in broken English whether they worked well for me for the past months (???). I think they were trying to imply that I'd gotten my use out of them. Ignoring the attitude, I re-iterated that 3/4 never worked and went into more detail about the problem.They ignored me again. A bit peeved now, I initiated contact with them a third time, noting my frustration and the fact that I had also contacted them previously 4 months ago about the same issue, screenshotting the old email.This seemed to get their attention and they responded within a couple hours, just to say that they didn't get my first email and that the traps were out of warranty now as I ordered 'a long time ago' - as of that last email, a few days past a year for the first two I ordered, a month short of a full year for the second set. Subtract 4 months if we go by my first email. I have to assume the warranty period must either be 6 months or this site's default 30 day return window or just whenever they feel like 'a long time' has passed.They did then offer a generous 10% discount on my next order. I decided this wasn't worth the time and that my effort would be better spent writing a novel warning others of this experience, so I did.Not that it was strictly necessary, as other reviewers report a similar customer service experience (why include that happy little 'contact us' note at all, Owltra?! Just save yourselves the effort of ignoring all those emails!)I really do like their electric traps, those do work. Just something fundamentally wrong with these snap traps, and Owltra are utterly dismissive of their own failure. They make it impossible to trust them as a company, so I will be looking for alternative electric traps for my next purchases as well, and I recommend others do the same, since any problem that falls outside the Amazon 30 day return window is likely going to become your problem, not theirs.Which is pretty bad for a product like a mouse trap that may take weeks or months to show any result!

I was over run with mice, and I think I saw a couple rats as well. I couldn't be sure, because I read that rats and mice don't mix. But, I do think that a couple of rats got in there. This caused me to order the rat sized trap, because, what if Mama Rat showed up? It was like a horror show.In the past, I have tried snap traps. These will get you one or two, until the rest learn how to steal bait without getting caught. This time, I didn't start with snaps. I just jumped to glue traps. Glue traps work for the most part, if you buy ones with the strongest glue. But if any part of the mouse can catch a solid edge, then they can pull out of it. In addition to this draw back, they don't die right away, but linger for a couple of days. You have to bash them inside of a bag to avoid this grisly detail. And that is just as bad as having them sitting there suffering for days.I moved on to electric mouse traps. Yes, this is a successful solution. The trap I bought is only meant for indoors. I was very careful with it, not wanting to get zapped myself. The directions are well written and easy to understand, except it is not clear which way to push the slide button to turn it on. Slide the toggle toward the back door to turn it off, and towards the opening to turn it on. The green light signaling it is on only flashes once for about 5 seconds. If you don't see it, just repeat the steps. Turn it off, then back on.The back door is vented. I once saw a mouse attempt to open this door, but he couldn't. Don't waste your time thinking that you add the bait here. I think that's what it's for, because the bait tray is right there. But, I didn't use peanut butter, and my bait wouldn't fit through the opening. It was much easier to add bait through the top. I do not think human scent ever deterred those guys from going for the bait.Let's say you're all set up. This trap takes 4 C batteries. 1. You turn off the trap. 2. You take the battery door off. 3. You take out one or two of the batteries (I always took out two.) 4. You take the trap top off. It comes apart using two hands, but so easy! 5. You put the bait in the bin. 6. You put the top back on. This can be done with one hand. This trap is well made and the plastic parts are thick and sturdy. 7. You put the two batteries back in. Put the battery compartment door back on. 8. Turn on the trap and watch for the green light to flash. Bingo, you're ready to go. You can do all these steps very quickly.I use a green pellet poison bait, the kind you buy in a bag. They love this stuff. I have one pellet in the trap. For some reason, this trap worked better when the pellet was not in the middle but on the left of the bin. I don't know why. Maybe they could smell it better. I always put another pellet right in front of the open entry way. The height of my trap kept me from seeing the alert flashing light, so whenever I saw this green pellet was gone, then I looked for the flashing light, which meant that one of them had entered the trap and tripped the circuit. I caught 12 of them in a row, one by one.The first one I ever caught scared me really bad. The trap set off with a sizzling sound, and the terrible smell of burning fur. It scared me so bad that I brought a fire blanket out to keep near the trap. I didn't need it except for peace of mind. I don't always hear the sizzle, but you can. The mice don't make any noise, because they are dead. When you go to dispose of them, all you have to do is go through the steps above and take the top off. The body can be dumped into a bag without any mess. If you smelled burning fur, you might see that left over, but no body mess at all.I had one incident of the trap being tripped without a mouse in there. Then again I saw this once: A mouse came flying out of the entrance, hit the side of the phone sitting there, and fell off the bookcase all the way to the floor. He disappeared somewhere, not dead. He did learn to fly. So, I think there's something about the mechanism that scared them so bad that they jumped out, avoiding getting fried. That only happened twice. I dunno. I'm not sticking my fingers in there! The bodies are always near the bait bin. The bodies are bloated immediately, like kernals of corn popping. But, they are intact.The difference, I think, between the mouse-sized trap and the rat-sized trap, except for size, is the length of time the circuit remains on. Mice get one-half the amount that rats get. I can't remember how long the rats get zapped for, except I remember that it's twice as long as for mice, which is 90 seconds?. This could account for the burning fur. There were no flames or char marks or anything like that. Nor was the mouse stuck to the floor. So, although it is disconcerting, I think it is safe. It also could be that the batteries were new, and now they are worn down a bit, although still working well. Less sizzling, but effective.I was surprised this trap worked so well. I think I got them all, but I'm keeping the trap ready to work just in case. Always wash your hands well, although you never have to touch the rodent. I'd buy this again. It's us against them, and I am not living with mice in my kitchen and walls. This is my home, and I'm protecting it.