VictorM310S Tin Cat Multi-Catch Live Mouse Trap - Indoor and Outdoor Humane Catch and Release

I saw a lot of reviews from people complaining that the mice wouldn't go in the trap, but within hours after setting mine out I caught three mice, with two of those being in the same trap. The mice, for reference, are white-footed mice. I used peanut butter on a scrap of wax paper as bait.Place the trap with the lid up so that both doors are against a wall. The hinge for the top cover is stiff, a mouse would never be able to open it.Placement really matters here, you can do everything else right but you won't catch a single mouse if you put the trap somewhere the mouse isn't already going. If you see a mouse dart along a wall out of the corner of your eye, and that makes you want to buy these traps, remember exactly where you saw the mouse. Put the trap there. This trap will catch the mouse.As for how humane the traps are, I can't imagine they're particularly cozy given the traps are metal, but they will not injure the mice. I released the three mice just this morning, and they all hopped right out of the trap and sprinted away at top speed, so I know they weren't hurt.Make sure you release the mice several miles away from your home unless you want them to come back. >5 miles minimum.Just expect the trap to get filthy if you catch mice in it. They're mice. They are going to poop and in the trap, it's just what they do. You can rinse it clean and set them out again.Would absolutely recommend this product to anyone with a mouse problem. It's cheap, it works, and it's easy to use. Exactly what I wanted.

I live on a farm, and have a chicken coop where chicken feed is readily available to the chickens 24/7. Unfortunately, this means that chicken feed is also available to mice 24/7. Because the chickens live in an older barn, there is no way to block the entrance of mice. No matter what I do -- or how clean I keep the chicken coop -- large numbers of mice WILL migrate into the coop from the surrounding fields. Fortunately they roam the coop at night AFTER the hens go to sleep on their roosts, so at least the chickens and the mice almost never meet up with one another.Our barn cat - and a few neighborhood strays - do their part to keep the mouse population down. But when you have open food on tap 24/7 in an old barn that is out in a rural field, there is only so much that barn cats can do.So we finally bought our first Tin Cat about a month ago. That thing really WORKS!We are drawing 15 to 25 mice into it every night, and we're beginning to see a significant drop in the amount of chicken feed we're putting out each day.I notice that some here suggest trapping the mice and then releasing them LIVE. I suggest to you that those folks do not live on a working farm in a rural area. And they are not trying to raise a flock of chickens in a healthy and clean environment.Let them continue to release their captive mice live -- but I do not intend do that. We have too many live mice already living in the fertile fields that surround the old barn. Where do you think the mice are coming from in the first place?Instead, I kill the mice and then dispose of them.I have an old 8 in. by 13 in. by 3 in. deep metal cake pan -- perfect size to place the Tin Cat in after I retrieve it from the barn in the morning. I fill the cake pan with water, and then place the mouse filled trap in that pan for about 10 minutes. Obviously I do not open the metal box before dropping it in the pan of water.When I come back 10 minutes later, I pull the Tin Cat trap out of the water, drain it, carefully open the metal box up, and empty the now drowned mice into a plastic garbage bag. I wear disposable latex gloves as I do this, needless to say, and dispose of the dirty gloves in the same bag before I seal it up.After cleaning and re-baiting, I put the Tin Cat back into the barn so that it is available after dark to catch another batch of mice.The Tin Cat has worked so well that we are already seeing a significant drop in the amount of chicken feed that we're having to put out each day.And it has worked so well that tonight, I just ordered two more of the Tin Cats from amazon.The thing I appreciate most about these metal mouse traps - above and beyond the fact that the things just work really well -- is the fact that they are perfectly safe for use around my chickens. The chickens don't seem to pay attention to the little metal boxes at all. But if they were to, there is no way that they could open the box, or get access to the mice that might be trapped inside the box. The Tin Cat is safe around lively, playful chickens, barn cats, and just about any other farm animals or family pets.I'd give the Tin Cat more stars, but amazon limits me to just 5.

This trap does not work. This mouse trap is simply ill designed. After catching several mice with the plastic cube type mouse trap (Mouse Cube I think is the brand) I thought I would try this one. It failed completely.I think the problem is the design. The mouse must walk up a ramp to get into the trap. The ramp is made out of tin, like the rest of the trap, and is extremely stiff. This ramps does not pivot or otherwise swing up or down. The weight of the mouse has to force the tin ramp down or it can’t get in. The opening where the ramp comes closest to the top is extremely small and I don’t think the mouse can get past it unless the ramp moves, but it is too stiff to do that.Another flaw is you can’t see what is in the trap without picking it up and look through the side slots. There are no slots on top.The top does not snap shut, it merely closes without any latch or friction mechanism to keep it shut. I put a rock on top of it so the mouse couldn’t push it open. The top isn’t so heavy that a mouse couldn’t push it up.The instructions are all but worthless. Basically its open trap, put in bate, close trap.For bate I used peanut butter on a Ritz cracker. This has never failed in the past, so I think the failure this time can be attributed to the mouse trap.This is an expensive trap, but the cost of an item that fails to work is more than the price paid. The costs will include shipping, the time to discover the trap has failed, and the cost of a new trap.AD2

The Tin Cat is a simple classic humane trap that works well. The large container allows for easily placed bait and adequate space for your trapped critter until you relocate them. One note- the weight and force required for a rodent to enter the trap doesn't work well for baby mice (they are just too small). These are easy to clean - we pop ours open and into the dishwasher to remove peanut butter remnants.

It caught some mice at first, but quickly became stiff where it was supposed to close behind the mice. It no longer worked at all within a couple weeks of purchase. It became rusted and too stiff to close behind them. I tried oiling and sanding the bad areas, but couldn't get it to work again. It is basically useless now.