Mice Cube 3-pk Humane Mouse Trap - The Only Mousetrap You'll Ever Use

I had the urge to do some weeding out of things we don't use, etc. My neighbor's below us had moved out of the building a month before so the apartment was vacant, slowly being worked on for the new owner to move in. We have been here for 8 years & had heard from these neighbor's that they were hearing mice in the walls, etc. They had torn up insulation in the cellar like crazy trying to find them & their route in. I personally thought they were tripping as they are meth heads. Well, as I was clearing out useless items I thought I saw like 10 flower seeds way in the back of my cupboard next to the stove with a little bit of crusty stuff. As I sat there trying to figure out how the heck seeds got there I realized I had seen these before. We have had pet mice, gerbils, rats over the years & it was definitely mouse droppings! We also ended up finding more in the stove drawer. We had lent our Havahart trap to a relative last year as we never had a use for it so it was time to look for another humane mouse trap to see what we were dealing with. We received the 3-pk of the Mice Cubes August 20th, 2016 & hubby wasn't too into it as I thought he would be so I put a trap in the drawer of the stove with a half Ritz cracker with peanut butter. Well, we caught one within hours. So, we put it in a critter tank until we catch another one to let go together, at least that's the plan. We start naming them by number in Spanish and realize that's not going to work as I don't know Spanish and now we have had to put out the other 2 traps, in the cupboard & behind the stove & we are up to 26 mice, sometimes 2 at a time. Sometimes they have a tag team and the bait is gone but most of the time each trap has had one. It has slowed down a lot recently some days there is nothing, the last 3-4 caught have been youngsters. We released our 79th mouse this morning (10-11-16), so these really do work and our neighbor's weren't imagining things. Out of the 79. One had perished in a trap, & it didn't look right, very skinny so we are assuming something was wrong with it to begin with. Also, a very disgusting aspect of catching these were finding out about 10 of them had bumps on them with Bot flies in them! We didn't know there were Bot Flies in Maine! GROSS! They are called Cuterebra and are one of the most disturbing things we have ever seen. The Vet said they need to work their way out on their own as trying to get them out of the mice before releasing them would cause them more harm than good. Now we keep our eye out for Bot fly pupae in case they fell out of them when they were in our house! Fun stuff!

I love animals of all kinds, including mice. But I don't want them in my kitchen, and if one does make an appearance, I want to be able to relocate it safely and humanely to an outdoor location better suited for us both. I first used a Mice Cube over thirty years ago, and was amazed at how quickly they work! I put a small dab of peanut butter on a piece of bread and tucked it at the far end of the trap. You can put a thin line at the entrance, where the door meets the "floor" of it, but I found it made the door sticky and prone to failure, enabling Mousey to grab the snack and hightail it out before the door closed. I placed it in the path we'd found its crumbs in, and turned in for the night. Around 4am, I heard a squeal and checked the trap, and there it was. Getting the little guy out promptly is important; there are air holes, but it can be a tight fit for a larger mouse, and this one was clearly distressed. I drove to a park about three miles away - important to be sure they don't migrate back in - and released him into woods. Do keep your fingers away from the door when you do this, as the mouse might nip at you on his way out! And monitor it carefully - after a few hours trapped inside, they can expire. You can reuse these - wash well, and disinfect before setting again - but I just tossed it. I keep a three pack on hand in my present home, but haven't had to use them yet! Definitely the best humane trap I've seen.

These are awesome traps, but you need to: 1. Put a small rock or something on top, because a crafty mouse will tip it over and then get out once he's eaten the snack you laid out for him. 2. Have a property big enough so that you can take the mouse far enough away so he won't scamper right back in your house, or go over to your neighbor's house. 3. Remember to check your traps often, so the mouse doesn't starve to death, that's pretty lousy. And the longer they're in there, the more mess they make. If left long enough, a very smart mouse will find an exposed door edge to chew somehow, and then open the door, and escape. Again, after eating the food first. It's happened to me more than once. 4. Clean the poop out afterwards. Mice won't go in as readily if the trap is filthy. A garden hose comes in handy. 4. A wheat thin cracker with a thin spread of peanut butter is just the ticket. Jelly is optional. 5. Put out several traps, not just one.

I bought two of these 20+ years ago and caught many, many mice with them. Eventually they wore out and I couldn't find any like them, so I tried a variety of other traps. I couldn't catch a mouse with the others, not one. So I've kept looking for these and finally found them!! I heard a mouse scratching around last night, so I baited a trap with my usual shredded cheese this morning. I always leave a little bit sticking out from under the door to entice them. Within a couple of hours I heard the familiar tinking sound of a mouse trying unsuccessfully to get out the little door. I carted him out of the house, down the road a bit, and let him go on the other side. He tried his best to stay IN the trap! lol But I persevered and now he's living on the outside. These traps have never failed me. They're SO easy to use and because they're clear, you can see what you've caught without having to open it up. Easy to clean, too. If they're stuck in there for several hours, they may try to chew along the edge of the door with those strong little teeth. That happened to me, and once they'd made a tiny bit of headway, every mouse after that went to work on the door until eventually (after about 40 mice) they got the hole big enough to escape through, so I had to patch it the best I could. The patches didn't last, though, so I eventually had to toss them which is why I needed more. I will be vigilant this time around, though, and not give them a chance to try and chew the doors. These really are superb traps, simple, easy, and effective.