Humane Mouse Trap Set of 2

Update 1/6/2026: The single mouse from the story below did turn out to be the only one in the house and it remained so until late December 2025. In late December 2025, we saw another mouse coming out from under our stove. I got these traps back out and set one near the stove and one in the dry goods pantry. After not catching it for a couple of days, we noticed that he always tended to run behind a cabinet in the dining room. I moved one of the traps there and caught it that night -again with no bait. I took him out to a big field and released him about two weeks ago. No further sign of mice. I can't say enough about how well these work and how easy they are to use! These arrived late on a Tuesday. The wife and I debated what we should use as bait, since we had tried using peanut butter, popped popcorn, dry dog food, soft cheese, and even a dry piece of pasta (the pasta is what they're mostly eating in the cabinets) on glue traps with no success. It was too late to spend much time debating, so I just set one trap -with no bait- and put it on the shelf in the pantry closet where we keep the dry pasta. I set the other trap and put it where we keep the bread. We went to bed around 10pm. Woke up at 4:30am and checked the traps and -without bait- we had caught a mouse in the cabinet where we keep the pasta. I couldn't get somewhere to release it until around 8am, but it was fine in the little trap as it waited. I released it into a field a mile or so away and it bounded off probably only a little less terrified of me than I was of it. I've kept the traps in the same locations -still without bait- for the last four days and haven't seen any signs of further rodents. I didn't clean the trap before I put it back because it seemed to me that smelling like a rodent would only make it more appealing. While I don't believe that we had just one mouse, who knows? I was very impressed with how easy it was to set, that it caught the mouse with no bait, and that I was able to release the mouse with only minor trauma to each of us.

Easy to use and effective. Caught the little critters in one night and able to relocate them elsewhere. Highly recommend these traps.

Each time we have had to use this trap we have caught the mouse within hours! Very effective and I appreciate the humane aspect as I really hate for them to suffer. Takes minutes to set up. We usually put a whole nut or piece of bread inside and clean up is easy. Would deffinitly recommend.

My male cat likes to hang out in the garage, since he can't go outside. As the weather turns colder, the rodents look for shelter and, obviously, a food source. Like a dummy, I had a 50 lb bag of bird feed sitting on the floor in the garage, and had been putting off opening it and putting it into the metal can. Shelter = garage Food source = bird feed So, my boy brought a mouse in one night when I let him in. It was so small I hadn't noticed he had it until he dropped it at my feet, and the chase was on. The cat and I both lost it somewhere in the kitchen. I got a Havahart and used peanut butter as bait, and for good measure, put a peanut in the middle of the peanut butter. I found droppings around the trap, and the peanut disappeared. I replaced the peanut and pushed it deeper into the peanut butter, thinking it would make the little critter have to work harder at the peanut (and also allow me to tell if it had been in the trap). The next morning there were droppings IN the trap, but no peanut. I searched Amazon for something more efficient and happened across these traps. The design seemed logical and I really didn't want to hurt or kill the little critter, so I ordered a box of two. I baited the back wall of one with peanut butter - really slathered it on there good. I put it under the kitchen sink where I thought it might be hanging out, as my cat has been standing guard there for the week the mouse has been in the house. Less than an hour after I sat down, I heard a noise. I looked in the kitchen and saw the cat standing rigidly, sniffing at the cupboard door. I opened the door, and there caught in the trap was our little uninvited guest, frantically pooping and peeing as it was looking for a way out. Since it's 20 degrees and snowing outside, I wanted to release it with food in it's belly, since it had clearly come out looking for food. I put the trap in the bathroom shower, then closed the door so the cat couldn't get in there. An hour or so later I went in and saw that the peanut butter was gone, so I took it out on the deck and released it to go and live it's best life. No animals were harmed in the catch and release of this mouse. This trap worked PERFECTLY as it was designed to work. As far as cleaning it, I took a $1 bottle brush with a wire handle, squirted some Clorox foaming bleach on it, and cleaned out the trap, rinsing with hot water. I then soaked the brush in foaming bleach, rinsed it with hot water, and took it to the basement to no longer be used on dishes. I'll buy a new $1 brush at the Dollar Twenty Five store. Highly, highly, highly recommend these traps if you are looking for a peaceful, humane resolution to uninvited guests. ***DISCLAIMER - will not be effective on uninvited in-laws

Ordered these as soon as I discovered a mouse in my house. Delivered and set up the next day. It took 15 days for the mouse to go inside one of the traps. I successfully released it 12 hours later. I’m very happy to have an easy and humane solution! I put nut butter in the bait area, and I wasn’t happy it took so long for the mouse to be baited to it. There is to my knowledge zero other food sources in my house as I run a very tight ship. About 1 week before capture, I put popcorn in there which the mouse eagerly ate. I do like the amount of air flow in this design, the mouse didn’t overly condense and perspire in the trap like I have seen before. I do wonder if it is a little over-engineered compared to the simple swing door square traps I have used with success in the past. With so many parts, it’s much more of a pain to clean and the mouse poop is stuck in crevices. I wish it was a much faster catch! But, it is effective and easy and did the job.

I received a box of two traps just yesterday... less than 36 hours ago. So why am I writing a review already? Because those babies actually work as advertised! Tl;dr: Get them. Long winded review: We've lived at our current address for nearly 12 years, and for the first decade there was zero issues with pests in the garage. There was this high gap for the back door of the garage that mice could easily slip through, but no issues meant I never dealt with it. Then about 6 months ago I realized something had chewed into a box of snacks kept on a shelf. We clearly had a mouse issue. Why now? Well, I live in a neighborhood that used to be surrounded by warehouses and other industrial buildings. Over the last few years, however, those have been torn down and converted to (or are in the process of being converted to) residential/mixed use. Essentially the mice were evicted, and as the larger (and mostly empty) buildings available dwindled to nothing they sought out new places to live. Thus that back garage door gap must have looks like a "Free Lodgings!" sign to them. I took care of the door with a metal door draft stopper (anything other than metal is a waste of time and money as the mice will just chew through anything softer) and tried to scoot out mice with a good garage cleaning. I saw several exit through the open front door, and thought "Okay, I think I got most of them". Yeah, I know how silly that sounds now. Anyway, after making sure most of the edibles were sealed in mouse proof containers or moved inside the house, I eventually saw signs that they were getting into things I hadn't thought would be a problem... like bags of potting soil and old bird seed. I busted one on the edge of a box one night and realized I would need to work to get them out of the house. I didn't want to KILL them... really, if not for the mess and minor damage they're pretty harmless... so I looked into something that I could use to catch and release them outside the house. As I noted I got those the morning the day before writing this review; very easy to bait and set (peanut butter works a treat for the bait), so I had the first trap set in the garage by noon. I set the other one in the house because I'm paranoid enough to imagine one or two slipping inside and wanted to be sure. I then was out and about dealing with various life events and chores. On a whim I decided to check the trap at 6PM... and much to my surprise there was already a very chubby little guy in the trap, clearly convinced they were about to be eaten. I took it outside, walked to a nearby park, and released him. Now this is where I ran into the only drawback with this design; the mouse had been in the trap a few hours, so it was predictably messy with scat and urine. Cleaning was relatively easy, but getting the underneath of the trap trigger (the ramp the mouse steps on to get to the bait) was fairly difficult. I was able to rinse it out, but wiping it dry proved equally difficult; fortunately once it was mostly dry the rest took care of itself. Once it was dry I re-loaded the bait and put it back in the garage. Checked the next morning... and there was another one! This poor guy managed to get the end of his very long tail stuck in the trap door, but I carefully loosed the door and they (and the tail) was fine. I released them the same as the first, then cleaned/set it again. I was now concerned I wasn't checking the traps frequently enough, so I decided to look in on it a few hours later... and sure enough, there was mouse number **3**. Released this one and resolved to write this review. :P By contrast the trap in the house has yet to catch any, so I'm feeling a little more confident about the lack of mice in the house, but I plan to move it about every day or so to make sure I cover any potential mouse haunts/trails. I believe there are at least 3 to 4 left in the garage; at this rate they should be cleared out by the end of the week. Once the trap stops becoming populated I'll give everything a thorough cleaning again, and hopefully won't need to use those anymore.

These traps were easy to get set up with peanut butter and sesame seeds. And although the traps looked pretty small when I got them, or I more likely thought the mouse was bigger, it turns out that after seeing the mouse caught in it, it was plenty roomy—larger than a one bedroom apartment in San Francisco! The first mouse was caught after about a week! The second was caught a day later. It wasn’t soon enough for having been somewhat unnerved every time it (because I thought there was only one!) rustled in my room! It had the whole house but stayed in my bedroom, YIPPEE! Couldn’t possibly be a mouse that had an anti-social personality! Nooooo! It was very easy to drop him back outside without having to touch him or anything! By that point though, I was pretty much resigned to the fact that he’d never leave, and I began to feel a little like he was my pet! I did not need to pet him tho! No no no no no! No, no thank you. I was worried that I might should leave him a small container of water though, because I had no ill will, and wondered if he would die of dehydration since I didn’t have any water in my room! I didn’t want to kill him! And then I wondered, “How much are hamster/gerbil enclosures? Cheap? They have little water bottle things, right?” Before I could do an Amazon search, it finally happened! The (first) little furry thing is caught in the tube—yay! There was much celebration, with liquor, dancing, confetti, balloons, fireworks! Until I realized there was another one, which I caught the next day, only to realize now there’s yet one more than that one! And this one’s made it to the rest of the house—how very ambitious! I’m so proud of the booger! Ugh. No more confetti. No more celebration. If I catch that one and there’s still another one, using my poker room, on the opposite side of the house, I may just move to a beach somewhere and never come back! As for the traps, size-wise I can’t comment decisively on if they will fit rats, but I’d say these traps might not be big enough for bona fide rodentia like rats or squirrels or raccoons or possums! But you would probably be able to figure that out for yourself! Like I already said, if you see one, there’s more where that one came from! I did immediately block their entrance after the first one I saw, but I didn’t know at the time that the first one I saw wasn’t the first and wasn’t the only one! Aw jeez, I just heard a noise from the kitchen! Now I’m afraid to go get a coke! I used to have three cats, and even though I know it’s not their fault, I am slightly miffed over the fact that they died, a long time ago, and are not here to take care of this for me! All they’d have to do is catch them and I would pick the cat up, with it in their mouths, and then drop them outside where the mouse will easily get free from my pampered little felines and all would be good with the world! Those cats didn’t pay one penny in rent for all those years! Still, these traps are fine if you also only have dead predatory pets!

These traps are very effective. They are easy to load and safe. the quality is good.