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MultiCatch Mouse Trap: Humane & Lethal Mice Solution
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Where I live up in the mountains and surrounded by nothing but forest land and where the Mice and Red Squirrels are absolutely tenacious it's working great for me ! They did nearly 12k damage on one of my classic cars and I'm at war with them now and they are hip to snap traps .
I bet I've caught around a dozen already in the short time I've used it . I did have to touch up the pointed end of the tipper plate with a fine file on mine, or it would stick sometimes ,but that only took a few lite licks just to get a minor burr off the casting.
I wish I could afford 4 more to do all my buildings !
Caught 6 voles in less than 2 weeks. Will probably buy a couple more.
Thank you very much.
However, it needed a little more thought because I was trying to clip it on the lip of the bucket when it fits snug just inside the rim.
We will have to wait for how effective it is.
This bucket trap seemed like the perfect solution. I set it up on our patio under a bbq cover, where we had seen poop. That evening we were relaxing on the patio and could hear a little mouse checking it out. He was pretty cautious tapping the trap door but eventually fell in. The next morning we released him in hills.
We’ve since caught 2 more. I wish we could catch more than one at a time but I can’t really blame the trap for that. Seems like the mice are at least smart enough to know not to fall it or the same trap their buddy just went into.
I just bought a second one so hopefully we can at least start catching 2 a night.
2) The traps were easy to assemble and install on two 5 gallon buckets that I had on hand.
3) Location matters. In the first two days of use, I have caught (and humanely released) two mice, both of them caught in the same location. Each time I found a mouse in that trap and did not find one in the other trap, I relocated the second trap in the search for another “sweet spot”. The more successful trap has the ramp placed right next to the wall, about two inches from a box that has just enough room between it and the wall for a mouse to sneak through.
4) Some mice are more clever or luckier than others. I found the first one sitting in the bottom of the bucket. The second one was clinging to the underside of the tilt panel trying very hard, but unsuccessfully, to escape.
5) While the product is made in the USA, I am not sure the instruction card was printed in the USA. The word “Separate” is misspelled. The direction to put sunflower seeds and grass in the bottom of the bucket is right below the picture of the underside of the lid, which is a little confusing. I guess the intent is to provide a more pleasant landing place for the mouse while it waits for you. But this instruction has nothing to do with the lid.
We had an outdoor cat, who died last Dec, and since then, the mouse population in our shed as exploded.
They're also getting into the garage.
I set this up in the shed initially, which is very easy to do.
Used some peanut butter and sunflower seeds, smeared up into the inside of the 'nose' of the trap.
The very first night, we caught 3 mice!!
Have since swapped it back and forth between the shed and the garage, and most recently (this am) found that I had caught 3 more mice in it!
The alternating seems to help w/ the effectiveness, as when it's in 1 location for more than a week, it seems like they stop going for it.
Recommend putting 3-4" of water in the bottom, to save you the trouble of having to "un-alive" the mice on your own, or waiting for them to expire (which in our shed, which gets very hot, seems to happen in a day or 2 of them being trapped in there. But is kinda gross.)
We have had this for a little over 3 months, and have caught nearly 20 mice (so far).
And have only changed out the bait (PB & sunflower seeds) 1x / month.
The fact that you can catch multiples of mice in one go, and then keep catching them for days (or weeks) with one baiting of the trap, is a game-changer.
Old school spring traps are messy, awkward, and only get 1 mouse at a time.
First, I will say that I was mildly annoyed that the way it was packaged for shipping was a little uninspired. I had ordered two of these lid traps and they placed both into a box. That doesn’t sound like much of a problem, however, the two didn’t really neat well one on top of the other, so, the one on the top that was resting over the one on the bottom arrived warped and refused to sit flat, even when snapped onto a 5 gallon bucket. It still works but it had a little warping to it. I’m sure it doesn’t impact its effectiveness but it does mean that the black flipper part, when in its resting position, actually doesn’t sit flush with the yellow snap-on lid…it sits just a little lower on one side and means the black flapper part, swivels at a slight skew to the left.
Now, a disclaimer for the squeamish, not that I feel a disclaimer should be necessary for a product designed to catch mice…but the product caught more mice than I ever even realized we had.
I live in a modest farm with chickens. The feeder that we hang down from the ceiling with a chain sits off the ground about 2 to 3 inches. Any higher than this and our chickens can’t really get at the pellets in the deep ring that encircles the central cone of the feeder that holds surplus pellets that help to make sure that the pellets in the ring never goes empty as the chickens eat the pellets. Well, the mice figured out at some point that, not only was their a ready supply of food in the chicken coop, via this feeder, but that if they jumped into the ring of pellets around the central cone, and dug down far enough, they could squeeze through the gap between the bowl/ring of pellets and then dig their way up into the center of the cone in the middle. They could eat without being pecked or killed by the chickens. To get into the central cone, they have to dig a lot against a never ending replenishment of pellets pouring into the void they make in the bowl/ring. The act of digging meant that pellets would fly out in all directions, out of the bowl and into the floor. I would fill it up with about 5 lbs of pellets when I put the chics away at night, and by morning nearly 4 lbs if the pellets were now on the floor of the chicken roost. Worse, is that the mice had proliferated to the point that they were consuming nearly 3lbs of pellets the dark of night, and when they had to be in guard through the light of day, they managed to consume another pound of pellets. I was constantly refilling their feeder on a daily basis and going through chicken pellet feed like it was going out of style. That stuffs not cheap.
However, most concerning than the loss and waste of food was the feces and their diseases. The chickens regularly killed whatever mice they could peck to death, and then try to eat it. And, the mice feces was not only all over the ground, everywhere, but they would defecate inside the laying boxes and inside the feeder. If you have ever seen chickens, they’re not the smartest. If it’s small and they can get it into their beak, they’ll try to eat it. I was always concerned with the eggs they produced and if the eggs might have diseases. Also, I didn’t want my chickens getting diseased. The mice feces was everywhere. We had to wear masks when we regularly cleaned out the roost because their was so much of their feces that their was legitimate concerns for contracting something from the dust that billows out when mucking out the roost along with so much rodent feces. It got to the point that, when putting the chickens away at dusk, the mice would be coming out of the woodwork, literally, in numbers that looked plague like when I would enter the roost and turn on the light. It was crazy looking.
Anyway, the real disclaimer, many mice did not survive. Stop reading any further if this upsets you.
I don’t like the idea of taking life, even if it should be mice. However, I draw the line when their numbers are out of control and causing great risk to health. I looked long and hard for a trap that would be effective, as I’ve seen some bad reviews on traps that claim to be really great.
Well, I can tell you that this is the real deal!
When I got the lid traps, I snapped it onto one of the many skate 5 gallon buckets I have around the farm. The directions/pictures aren’t the clearest for where to put the bait. Hence, I did it wrong when I first applied some peanut butter to the trap. I had read a review that mentioned putting peanut butter on the louvering lid.
THIS METHOD IS WRONG!!!
Instead, the raised dome over the louvering lid terminates into a kind of rounded “nose” right at the tip of the louvering lid that causes mice to walk out too far to fall in. In this “nose” of sorts is where you want to put the bait/peanut butter. The lid is designed to stay flat until the very end, enticing mice to walk out until they’ve reached a point of no return. However, the peanut butter, when applied to the lid, does two things. It defeats some of the careful balance in the louvering lid sometimes causing the lid to swing down too early because the peanut butter has weight too, adding to the buildup of weight from an approaching mouse. I watched more than a few times where mice were able to escape the swing of the lid because they hadn’t gone far enough over the lid to hit that “point of no return”. Second, the peanut butter, when added to the louvering lid rather than in the nose of the dome, adds texture. The lid is slippery, but the peanut butter helps to actually give some grip and so the mice weren’t sliding down enough before they caught traction in the peanut butter and were able to jump back far enough out of the overhead/dome and escape…not always, but usually. Plus, when a mouse did fail to escape, as they slid in and over the edge of the louvering lid, they took some of the peanut butter bait with them on their coats, essentially wiping the bait off each time. This left little to entice other mice to investigate the trap.
The peanut butter in the nose of the de was magic. Once I switched to doing this, and put the bucket trap in a place that the curious chickens couldn’t interfere with it or scare the mice away, the morning count every morning for nearly two weeks was nothing short of a blessing.
In two weeks, I had caught nearly 200 mice. 200!!!
I hadn’t dreamed it would be that successful and so quickly. I also hadn’t realized we had that many though I knew we had a lot. I mean, 3 to 4 lbs of pellets don’t disappear, daily, with only a few nice. I thought maybe 40 because I had estimated about that many scattering each night when I turned the light on in the coop to close it up for the night ti protect the chickens from nightly predators.
I still have the trap out and baited, but only because I want to nip it in the bud. Should anymore visitors in the night decide to try and raid the chicken food again. The daily catch after about 1.5 weeks began to slowly decrease until the end of the 2nd week I caught just a single mouse. I had placed pellet food inside the bucket trap, and hung the chicken feeder high up out of the reach of their insanely high/far jumps. This limited food and forced them to find the peanut butter in my trap. I also realized that, if I already had one or two mice in the trap, others seemed to feel like the food in the trap was a safe place to eat and they wanted in on the food too. So, I left pellets down in the bucket to give them something to eat and to keep them fed and to get their eating noises to attract the other mice to the trap. Worked like a charm.
I wont say exactly what I did with the mice, but numbers like that, and the infestation they were causing, along with the dangerous health implications of their feces in everything and everywhere, I simply wasn’t going to let them go…and to take them somewhere else to be someone else’s problem wasn’t right either. All I will say is that their end was as humane as I could possibly make it.
As for those who may have a mouse problem, not ideal for rats really, this is it! It’s seriously that good! I will tell every farmer I know about this simple but extremely effective trap. I also hang my feeder up high now at night to not encourage their return.
But, as for how effective this trap is…I Couldn’t be happier.
And, after those two weeks of heavy catches, I haven’t see a single mouse, not even one, or signs of one, in two months since. Not in the food, not in the traps, no pecked to death nice, nothing.
Awesome!!!
I had seen this on social media a few times and though it was cool, but with those videos you never know how real they are. Turns out this is one of the few true ones. I tried it as a kill trap first with water in the bottom, peanut butter smeared in the back of the flip part. It worked amazing. The other traps I was using would injure the mice frequently and I would have to euthanize them. This may be a bit more grueling, but it finishes the job and doesn’t leave them waiting for me to find them and put them out of their misery.
Next I tried it as just a trap and again it worked wonderfully. I was able to put some pellets from my rabbits feed into the bottom to keep them alive until I checked the trap. It worked well and I was able to move quite a few to the other side of the highway they are building.
It works well and as a result has encouraged the predators that followed them to move along. I would highly recommend this if you have an infestation of rodents.
I have tried everything to try and get the mice out of my garage but nothing seemed to work - all the various no-kill options never worked, mice just seem to be too smart to fall for them or something. Out of desperation, I sadly moved to the kill options finally - sticky pads, traps, and more. Still nothing. Found this one on * and decided to give it a try but nothing, at first anyway....
Just as I was packing it up to return, I decided to try it one last time. Set it out yesterday afternoon figuring I could still return by late the next day and get my money back. Checked it this morning and there were already FIVE mice in the bucket! Less than 12 hours later, that's the result we were hoping for! Added more bait to see what else I can get by tomorrow then I will take them all to a field far far away to release (they look so sad and scared in there, so glad i didn't use the water option to kill them! May not want them in my garage but no need to end their lives, IMO anyway).
TIP for anyone not getting results - figure out what they are eating and use that and that alone! I tried cheese, peanut butter, seeds, dried fruit, and more previously, but got nothing. Figured out they were snacking on dog food we stored in the garage when doing some clean up yesterday so I used that on this last try. Bingo! If unsure, just bait it with anything it MIGHT be, hopefully you'll figure out the magic ingredient and get similar results :) Good luck!
However, there came a point where the peanut butter was disappearing from a couple of the traps every night without the traps being triggered! I knew there was one last elusive rodent in my midst. For a few nights, it played me for a fool and enjoyed a protein-rich treat while leaving it's foul droppings in my home. I finally decided to purchase and pull out the big gun in this war: this RinneTraps Flip N Slide!
The first night this trap spent on duty was fruitless, but that was likely user error on my part. I left the other peanut butter-baited traps out along with it. Imagine my surprise when I awoke to discover a couple had been eaten from again whilst the Flip N Slide was empty. I remembered the part about the scientific method that said to control for variables, so i put up all my snap traps and left the Flip N Slide to be the sole sentry of my abode.
The next morning, I peeked into the trap and was met with the gaze of the beady little eyes of my household nemesis. I actually laughed with joy; the Flip N Slide had worked like a charm! Though this little mouse had been a thorn in my side for a while now, I had to respect his/her hustle. As a gesture of this respect, I decided to let it live, just not in my house. So I took it to an open field a few miles away from my house and released it.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the story of how the Flip N Slide bested the last of the rodent menace in my home. I highly recommend it, I'm sure it will do the same for you.