Southern Homewares Multi-Catch Mouse Trap with Transparent Inspection Window, Humane, Reusable, No-Kill Rodent Control Solution (1 Trap)

The mouse was sneaking into our bread bags, nibbling at hamburger buns and causing domestic disputes about 'who the heck takes a single large bite out a hamburger bun and then puts it back in the bag, hon?' Clearly, it had to go. I will admit that my first instinct was (after wanting to scrub my mouth out and get prophylactic treatment for hanta virus once I realised that I had been using buns from the same bag) to go to the dollar store, buy some snap traps and be done with it. I have an infant at home, and I am a bit of a wimp. That said, I also try not to harm living creatures if I can help it. Catch and release bugs with the paper and cup trick etc etc. I bought this trap after reading reviews on a more popular plastic trap that the mice were apparently gnawing through the lock on, thus achieving a hasty escape.Despite my mother's head-shaking and the dire warnings from family and friends that New York mice would never be fooled by something so humane and that I would end up buying a brutal snap-trap in the end, I put the trap out the night it came with chunks of hamburger bun inside it. Ten minutes later, I was brushing my teeth and heard a little clinking noise from the kitchen. Walked in to find a pair of beady eyes staring accusingly through the vent slats. I had made sure to put enough hamburger bun in to tide the little guy over until morning (per the instructions of another reviewer), when my boyfriend walked into the park for the Big Release on his way to work. He said it was easy enough to open the trap up and get the mouse out. It's been one month and no further sign of mice. Great trap, well made, worked like a charm. Can definitely recommend.

I purchased two of these traps about a year ago. They are a perfect solution for me and I have learned some tricks that make it super easy and even more humane. I refuse to kill a species just because they don't understand my territory boundaries. And I am a professional that works alot of hours with very little spare time living in an old country home. I have not had any trouble with the lid. I open the lid and lay a folded paper towel on the bottom. If you don't fold it, keeping it away from the edges, the mice like to get a hold of it from the outside and try to pull it through the slats for bedding. On top of the paper towel I put a small scoop of bird seed (which I keep by my door to scoop out for the birds anyway) a small scoop of dry dog food, and a small scoop of peanut butter for aroma. Place the tap asking a wall somewhere quiet where you suspect mice frequent, with the trap doors next to the wall. Then just check it every morning or night. The mice like to hide in the trap door part and sometimes I didn't see them in time, so when I started placing the paper towel more carefully I realized that almost without fail one of the first things they do is pull that paper towel out from under the good and hide under it making it super easy for me to glance at it and tell if I have a mouse. Then I take the tap out to one of a few favorite spots with woods or shelter and let them go. I dump all the remaining food out right there for a gentler beginning to the free world. Sometimes they are really scared and hide in the trap door so I just set the whole thing down with the door open and come back later or the next day and they are always gone. One time I caught a family of 6 all at once. Then I use the paper towel to wipe out the bottom and throw it away and start over. Don't worry about cleaning it out to good bcuz mice go where they smell other mice have been and you don't want any harsh cleaner residue in there. I also purchased the audio mice deterrents to help make frequented places less attractive to them. I am sensitive to noises and have dogs and this system had worked out great and I have gotten my mouse problem under control and I feel good about my methods.

This did not work for regular house mouse. The entry way is small AND there’s a metal ramp in the entry that points upward to ceiling, meaning to the naked eye, it “looks” like entry is “closed” & not at all wide open. So either the mouse is too smart or too lazy to PUSH the entry hallway “open” with his body weight. If u can imagine a SEE-SAW that’s blocking the entry hallway, that’s what it looks like. The only way the mouse COULD walk into & thru the hallway INTO the main area where the food is located, the mouse has to walk UP this metal ramp/see-saw and only when he reaches the TOP of that see-saw, it will then TIP DOWN like a see-saw to then let him INSIDE the hallways & INTO the main area of the “food room.” BUT if mouse just looks INTO the opening of this trap, the mouse cannot SEE ANY FOOD and visually will look like the opening is “shut” bc the top of the see-saw like ramp hits all the way to the ceiling, so no way to see other side of hallway. The see-saw ramp hitting top of ceiling is also the same way they are not allegedly allowed to walk back out once see-saw tips back up to ceiling AFTER the mouse walk down this ramp. This whole entry way is way too complicated for an avg dumb mouse to maneuver & also the smart mice to just avoid bc they r looking for easier entrances, ones they can just walk right thru to the food. I didn’t catch 1 single mouse with this. I did catch mice with those plastic tunnel-like traps easily except the only fault with those cheap plastic tunnels, the “spring doors” basically stop working after catching 2-3 re-use, bc the sensitivity of the spring wears down or breaks so u have to just keep buying those. But at least those still catch the mice for 1-3 time use. THIS MOUSETRAP is totally useless bc NO mice will go INTO it. AGain it’s prob bc the hallway after the beginning entry area of this trap just “looks” like there is no “open wide passage”… entry/hall looks blocked. A mouse can’t figure out that if they walk to the “BACK OF THE DEAD END hall” the floor tilts down letting them into the “rest of the hallway leading to food”…. It’s not a good “friendly & inviting” design. Unfortunately I missed window to return this useless item.Waste of money. :(

Worked great