D-Con 00027 Ultra Set Covered Snap Mouse Trap
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of D-Con 00027 Ultra Set Covered Snap Mouse Trap
Customer Review: always better than humane
Summary: 4 Stars
this work great and very effective in terminating rodents without seeing the gore.
i have used this for many years and it is one of the best out there. it is much safer than an open snap trap and a lot less visible than sticky bait traps.
the best bait i use on this is a drop of peanut butter with a bacon bit on top... always works, every time!
additional methods to help would be to spray all your cracks with poison and fill it with steel wool. then caulk up ALL your openings! the wool will damage their gums permanently and prevent them from coming in. the poison is for their litter when they go back to their breeding nest. the caulk is to seal and hold everything together.
also, common sense like don't leave food out, keep your area clean, seal your garbage and waste units, do not leave doors open, etc. don't give them any reason to come to your area.
oh, and find the source! find the droppings and surround the area with traps.
if a trap doesn't kill the rodent, NO humane trap will work, ever! a lot of people don't realize how strong their survival instincts are. and they breed like rabbits! if a rodent gets released, no matter how far yo do it, 1) it will find a way back to your house, 2) if not, you made it someone else's problem, 3) it may be carrying a litter and you just contributed to their population, 4) you gave it a chance to reproduce again. you have to kill them, period.
remember that these things killed a quarter of a nation @ one point in time and have destroyed entire crops of sustainable food putting a whole country of people into starvation!
Customer Review: Does the job!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought four of these knowing that we probably had multiple mice, and I wanted to get this done as quickly as possible. They were delayed a couple days due to the heavy snow in the northeast last week, but arrived quickly nonetheless. I baited all four with a little peanut butter, and a popcorn kernel on top. Why popcorn? Well, that's the bag the critters kept breaking into (we left it in the cupboard as a sacrificial food to hopefully preserve others). I placed them back to back against the wall where I'd seen mice droppings prior on two different shelves.
The next morning I found THREE dead mice in three of the traps. Big stinkers too. Very obvious, as tails stick out the back! Plus, the lever to set the trap is in the "up" position once the trap is set off. Emptying the traps for re-use is very easy. You just bend the plastic cover up, exposing your friend, and pull the lever down a little to release him to his eternal resting ground. Re-bait, and you're set. One interesting thing is that the bait was eaten out of a couple of the ones that sprung and caught mice. I can't tell if the mice get to the bait and have an opportunity to munch prior to their demise, or if their morbid friends come have a buffet once they're gone. It doesn't seem like there's room for anyone else to sneak up to the table once someone's caught, but frankly, I don't care too much.
I thought they were a little pricey at first, but having seen the results, I'm thrilled. FYI, I also have a couple of those circular "no see, no touch" ones, and I have not had any luck catching anything with them, for what it's worth.
Customer Review: Easy to use!
Summary: 5 Stars
As fall moved in this year here in New England, I discovered that field mice wanted to set up housekeeping in my kitchen. My nice young landlord came stuffed a few gaps full of steel wool and set a couple of those traditional wooden mouse traps for me. Worked like a charm. I had barely turned out the lights when the traps went off and started clattering across the kitchen floor. Fair enough - but then there were more mice. The nice young landlord showed me how to reload the traps after discarding the mouse, which of course requires you to handle nasty wires covered in mouse guts. After struggling for about 3 hours and setting exactly no traps - my hands are not strong enough anymore - I came to Amazon to find something that I could easily set, that would in fact catch mice and that would not require me to touch the results. The d-CON 00027 Ultra Set Covered Mouse Trap fits the bill! This trap is really easy to load, even for my older hands. You don't end up with the thing snapping your fingers. It is even easier to unload - walk out the door, open the front flap and the mouse drops out. Best of all, you don't even have to pick up the trap to see if there is a mouse - if the lever is still down, the trap is still loaded. Highly recommended and I will be ordering more!
ADDENDUM: Today is February 2, 2011. My mousetraps have been catching a mouse each a day, every day, since the I got them. I have yet to have one fail or break and they are still dead easy to load. Some of the best money I've ever spent!
Customer Review: Great Trap. Best Bait Is.......
Summary: 5 Stars
Mice started early and prolific this year and we were having zero success with live and standard snap traps. Our ability to effectively place snap traps these days is limited by young, inquisitive small dogs and the mice were easily avoiding them. The traps anyway, the dogs caught a couple. So, we bought four of these enclosed traps out of desperation. So far, nine mice down in just three days. Two traps along the wall on mouse path from a baseboard radiator to our Pomeranians' kibble bowls that they'd been regularly raiding have picked off four. One trap in the pantry right next to dog food storage got two more. Fourth trap way down the hall next to the washing machine has taken out three, one every morning. We think that must be the route they use to get out of the house to party at night and come back in the morning with a fatal case of the munchies.
The bait. Well, with no peanut butter in the house, no inclination to go get any, and the mice's demonstrated addiction to our dogs' premium kibble (Natura Innova) we decided to just try baiting the traps with that...dog food. Amazingly sucessful.
These traps seem to be sturdy enough for some reasonable level of repeated use. One is showing some difficulty in resetting after catching three mice, but hey...it's done it's job nicely. First four purchased from Amazon. But, picked up four more at Lowe's today since I was there anyway and they were only about four bucks each.
We live in Colorado with a lot of surrounding open space that make field mice a routine, annual problem. But I think we just might run out of them early this season.
Customer Review: First Mouse Traps Used but the Best
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been an Amazon prime addict ever since they launched, but this is my first review of a product. That says how much I have been impressed by these.
As some of the reviewers suggested, peanut butter worked wonders as a bait. The mice go bonkers over it. I filled the tiny cup with Smuckers Peanut Butter to the brim (make sure you do not overflow the cup) as it can cause the spring to release early. I placed one in the pantry and one near the washing machine adjacent to the wall (remember they use the walls for navigation).
I turned off the lights in my kitchen and tuned a recorded Bill Maher show and right about the time the Monologue finished, I heard the trap sound. Bingo I made a kill in the first 10 mins. Emtyping the trap of the dead mice was very easy, pull the spring and tilt the trap in a trash bag. You dont even need to touch the dead mice with anything. I ran some hot water in the washer room sink over the trap, just so as to get a good feel of cleanliness, before I put the next scoop of peanut butter.
I didn't hear the sound but the other trap accounted for one too. I refilled them both and woke up two find two more. Four in all. I hope I got them all. Will lay a couple traps tonight, just in case.
Pros:
Ease of Use.
Mice are dead instantly
No Need to touch for releasing the dead mice.
Cons:
The areas sorrounding the small cup are a little sensitive, a little peanut butter on sorroundings will not let u pull the spring to set the trap.
Its not a biggie for me.