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Customer Review
- Reviewed in Canada on March 15, 2020Cool looking units and certainly easy enough to load and arm. I bought the 6 pack for mice and also the 4 pack of the much larger, stronger rat traps from another vendor. We've only had a handful of mice about that the cat kept up on, but recently we suspected a rat. After installing an infrared cam in the crawlspace our fears were confirmed. 1 large rat and 1 much smaller.
After setting the traps out I was incredibly disappointed after a week of checking the video to see that none of the traps in view had been tripped, let alone a catch.
After reading all these reviews I was dismayed about that and decided to rebait them. I was angry to find all but two of the traps had been raided without being triggered. I baited 6 with peanut butter, one with pulled pork, one maple syrup and two with milk chocolate chunks that I rammed into the cup under force. One of the chocolate did in fact catch a small mouse. The other had tooth scrapes on it but the rodent gave up on it without putting enough effort into it to trigger it.
Although well designed and built, the bait cups on these are much too far forward. The pest is able to lean over and lick out soft baits like peanut butter without needing to contact the trigger plate.
Therefore, what I'm going to do is forego the bait cups altogether. I'm going to reach up through the bottom with my pinky finger and smear a dab of peanut butter as far to the rear as I can under the trigger plate.
That way any mouse or rat will have to put it's head through the bait cup hole on the trigger plate to be able to reach it with it's tongue. I think it's inevitable that the trigger will release if a pest tries to reach it under the trigger plate.
If anyone else tries this, please comment with your results. I'll try to update with my success level. Thanks.
Update 11/23 Removing the bait cup and baiting behind it did give more success but my baits still got stolen without a trigger sometimes. Therefore, I now bait them behind the bait cup as before but I now reinsert the empty bait cup. The rodent then has to try get it's tongue in the gap between the cup and the trigger plate. Or it can try getting it from under the side of the trigger plate. Both are hard to do without releasing the trigger. I haven't had traps out for 6 months but just put them out after finding damage this week. after out for 3 days I've bagged 3 mice in last 36 hours. Some traps have gone untouched, but when they do make an attempt at the bait it seems they trigger it 100% of the time now.
