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What Customers Are Saying
Customers are sharply divided on these traps' effectiveness. Many praise the ease of setting, mess-free disposal, and reusable plastic design, reporting consistent success catching mice overnight with peanut butter or cheese. However, nearly as many report critical failures: traps that won't trigger, weak springs, premature snapping, or bait theft without capture. Some describe repeated success over weeks, while others find the mechanism poorly engineered or loses tension after few uses. Overall, reviewers remain split between strong satisfaction and frustration with reliability.
Customer review summary generated by AI, including incentivized reviews.Doesn’t work
Would Not RecommendUnfortunately I don’t have my receipt, but this product is a waste of money. I used the gel and the trap closed, but no mouse. Then, several times I tried peanut butter. The trap was closed and the peanut butter gone. So, all I was doing was feeding the mice. Poor ineffective product…
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Beast
Ive killed over 50 mice in 3 years with the same two traps
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Awesome & effective trap , in Minnesota;I
Would RecommendAwesome trap; I can’t keep up with disposable of all the UN-invited “guest” in my garage here in autumn Minnesota; cheers for your literal “better mouse trap”
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Faulty design
Would Not RecommendSpring mounts break rendering trap useless. After several days of set the mounts break off on its own without being touched. 3 of 4 I purchased broke beyond repair in 5 days time.
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Don't buy if have pet
Would Not Recommendour Neighbors had this mouse trap and our cats foot got caught in it and broke its leg because of this do not buy if had Pet's and dont put it in a spot that someone would step on it
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Terrible Trap
Would Not RecommendRecently bought these traps due to using similar ones at work and bait. To begin with, the bait was extremely hard to squeeze out to put in traps. Checked the traps after a few days bait was gone and the trap had not been set off. Put peanut butter in traps and moved them to different places. Was woke up at 2 a.m. by a screaming mouse dragging the trap through the house. It had caught its tail! So I ended up having to kill it. Checked the other trap and all the peanut butter was gone but once ag...
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Thought it would help....
Would Not RecommendI purchased 4 packages of the snap traps (8 total traps) [love the idea of the easy setting and easy disposal of dead mice), and set them all up around my basement. Next morning checked the traps and 3 of 8 were moved and all 8 of the traps had their peanut butter gone and no traps set off. Tried again the next night and same results. We will be switch to a different kind of trap now. Very disappointed.
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work great
Would Recommend[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Had a big problem with mice in my shed. I set these in the shed and worked wonders caught 2 mice in the first couple days. I will buy again they do a great job. I use all kind of mouse traps and I find that tomcat works the best
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Worthless
Would Not RecommendI was using traditional mouse traps and getting one mouse a week. Husband came home with tomcat. No mice for a month. Did an experiment, put out traditional trap and tomcat. Getting mice every week in traditional. Tomcat is untouched. Useless
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Garbage
Would Not RecommendWas a bit dubious when I realized how little force these produced upon closing, but it turns out that wasn't a problem - because the mouse picked it clean the first night without it closing at all. Next night I put an old school Victor snap trap out and the next morning that trap was laying upside down on top of a (very dead) mouse. Don't waste your money.
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Excellent
Would RecommendI've been using it for about a Month now and everytime the trap was in action the mouse was caught and killed .
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Safe around kids ,pets and mice
Would Not RecommendMouse is eating bait right off 2 of the traps and its not springing the trap. Yet it goes off when i gently touch the top of it.
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Didn’t Even Dent a Plastic Straw
Would Not RecommendAs soon as I got this product home and went to set it, I triggered it and the result was laughable. It didn’t hurt in the least. So out of curiosity, I decided to trigger it with a disposable plastic straw. It hardly bent it into an oval, and definitely didn’t cause any damage to it. I’ve sent a message and will be submitting my receipt for a refund.
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Only works once
Would Not RecommendI bought 10 of these mouse traps because it said they were reusable, so for the price I thought they would be great. To my surprise they worked great, but after snapping one time catching mice, you can’t get it set again to stay open. So don’t waste your money for a one time purpose!!!!!!
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Mouse trap
Would Not RecommendWe bought these a few months ago. They seem to work with rice crispy. However now they won’t stay open every time we pull it back it closes again. These are great if not using a lot but wouldn’t recommend in the long run. Now we are with out traps since they won’t work anymore and still have a mouse issue.
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Disappointed!
Would Not RecommendI bought a two pack. Twice both traps were licked clean and no trigger.
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Low success rate
Would Not RecommendI bought 12 of these and put them in mouse boxes all around my house. I fill the removable tray with peanut butter. I'm lucky to get 1 to go off filling them 3 times a week. They lick the trays clean, poop and peace out. Lots of work with a 2.7% success rate. Poor in my eyes, wasted my money on what I thought was a company that made good products. I don't want to poison as I live next to a state park and there are hawks and owls and all type of animals that would eat the poison mouse and also di...
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Easy to use and clean and easy disposal
Would RecommendBought this today and killed all five mice in my apartment with in 3 hours. Works great and easy to use.
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1 For The Price Of 2 !!!
Would Not RecommendNOT WORTH IT. Let me first say I rarely write product reviews, and have never written a negative review. However, quality standards in manufacturing a simple mouse trap shouldn't be that hard. We"ve used Tom Cat Snap Traps for years. Understandably, the tension in the spring became weaker over time due to repeated use. These traps were mostly reliable. UNTIL THIS YEAR. We bought several packages from 2 different stores that are 75 miles away from each other. Right out of the packaging, one tr...
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