Tomcat Press 'N Set Mouse Trap, Plastic, Spring-Loaded Mouse Killer with Grab-Tab, 2 Traps

Why do the destructive little buggers have to be so stinking adorable??? Even dead as a door nail, as a horrifying amount of mice now are after only 36 hours of use of these traps in my garage. What do I love? Most importantly, their effectiveness. We had a dead mouse in 30 minutes after setting these up! The timeliness might be because of the attractant gel, but WHATEVER! The trap immediately did its job. Oh, and on the subject of effectiveness, the design is really great for actually quickly KILLING the rodents which is far more humane in my opinion. The bait and pressure pad are deep enough into the trap that it’s not going to accidentally just get an arm or a leg caught, leaving them in agony and you with the quandary of what to do with an injured, live mouse. They’re also rather substantial, so bigger rodents probably couldn’t carry it off if it was just stuck on their tail or limb. (Yes, it happens with traditional traps!) I’m also totally impressed with the ease of use. These are literally a snap to set up, just fill the bait area (we use the Tomcat Attractant Gel which is EPIC at attracting mice), push down the lever on the opposite side from the jaws part and it clicks into place, open and set to spring. Aside from how effective and easy these traps seem to be when paired with the attractant gel, the best part of this product for me is no SNAP anxiety! The pressure pad is clearly very responsive but it’s set back a bit in the device so placing the trap after setting isn’t traumatizing like it is with the old wooden and metal snap traps. I have been making my husband set and place our traps until now because the probability of the old traps triggering while setting up or placing them scared the heck out of me. These are easy as pie to release as well. Just push the little trigger thing on the back again and the dead pest is released so you can dispose, replenish the bait and reset without having to touch anything gross. I actually did it myself this evening without incident. Granted, I picked the full trap up with tongs, ran like a lunatic to the garbage, attempted to release the mouse with said tongs, failed, then reluctantly used my hands to click and release the mouse into the trash. Easy peasy, no yucky touchy! I then clicked it back to ready again, used my tongs to pick up and carry it since it was “locked and loaded” and I’m a big chicken, and I walked it back to the spot it had been before. I’m sure I looked like a wacko, but I’m telling you, for me to touch the trap AT ALL is a huge thing. I felt confident that I could trust these not to accidentally snap and harm (or scare) me after seeing my husband do it a few times without incident. (On that subject, I read several reviews saying they got limited use from the traps... we are a day and a half in and they have each probably gone off and been reset 3-5 times and they’re still going strong. At this price point, I was good with knowing they might only work a few times but have been pleasantly pleased to find that ours are operational again and again.) I’m feeling a mild twinge of remorse, as their cute little faces are all clearly quite surprised by the fatal SNAP and I know they’re just trying to eat and stay warm... but the amount of time it’s taking to clean up the mess they made out of my pantry and equipment storage shelves (they shredded a styrofoam block into a billion little pieces which got EVERYWHERE, not to mention chewing through packaging, eating and scattering my dry goods all over the shelves) makes me morbidly check the traps embarrassingly often hoping to see that another intruder is toast. Synopsis: These traps are completely awesome, buy without hesitation! I’m so glad we did. Oh, lastly, I couldn’t find the Tomcat Attractant Gel here on Amazon so we had to go get it at the local hardware store. Far better than peanut butter, cheese, etc. It’s well worth the time it takes to track that stuff down. It’s magic!!!!

Sorry, this is a book 🥴 Open, Bait(PB, quite a bit). Make sure the Black pressure plate is up. Snap. Place. Wait. What could be more simple? I have 8 set. I re-bait(PB) every 10/14 days. Just a bit of fresh on top. I checked mine 3 days ago. Reset ✓ Place. Wait..... Mine are viewable. Tic Tok Tic Tock Tic Tock BOOM🤯 🐭🐭🐭🐭🐭🐭🐭 7, gone in no way painful. That's 17 since the weather changed. Wash in soapy water. Refill with PB. Reset. Replace. Part of life. They carry disease, mites, fleas, etc. I've used these since they 1st showed on Amazon. I wouldn't use any other brand. They've never failed. I bought mine in 2013. I'm buying 8 more for $18+. Not sure how one reviewer said, "2, one and done". "Too expensive"? Be gentle with the trap pressure plate and catch. You must wash theses ocassionally, to keep the grime out and the trigger working. Especially with PB. I use a q-tip to place the PB in the well, but also put a good amount above. Not enough to weigh down the pressure plate though. I personally don't use the "Glue traps", due to their cruelty factor. I am a, Sr ER Vet Tech(24 yrs), and avoiding suffering is part of my job/soul. I don't like having to end the life of a mouse, but when you're in the middle of 280+ acres, surrounded by State Forest, well.... It's truly a no brianer. Plus, I'm feeding my local raptors. Every so often we see a Bob Cat too. This product is stellar, and I don't use that word lighty. Here, it's deserved! I toss the remnants in the same spot, as we have some Red Tail Hawks, and Owls. Both speicies has learned the routine. Especially the 2 Hawks. They sit on the telephone pole, and eat their pseudo catch/kill. I have some great photos. I caught one sitting on my front deck/porch railing once. Abosolutely a breath taking Red Hawk. We just looked at each other. I was definately blessed by Mother Nature that day. Not a week later, a Great Horned Owl landed on the line to sit at my barn. We have binocculars at every door and the barn. My barn cat drops them in a pile, so they go to the deceased mouse pile as well. I guess he thinks they're presents for me lol. I praise him at the pile. He's a great cat and never leaves the barn. That's his domain, and he's got it covered....along with the horses, whom he loves.😽♥️🐎 The Raptors and Owls have stayed wild, and I was told to give a couple weeks between replacing with more. They need to stay wild, which I knew. *It's a great way to feed, but FAR AWAY FOM YOUR HOUSE"! We have a trail camera set for the nocturnal creatures. I highlhy recommed these traps. I shared the above, to give some great ideas for use of deceaced mouse remnants. "Want Not. Waste Not". Every creature needs to eat. My Grand mother used to say that oftern. I've found listening to her is wise 🥰 A plethera of usefull knowledge. "Happy Thanksgiving" to all 🦃 I'm truly gratful for so many things!

They’ve finally done it. They made a better mousetrap. Setting the old wooden traps correctly was an art form. I’m no artist and I when I see my PB gone but no sign of the culprit, it’s annoying to say the least. Trip the trap, put PB back on, reset the trap and wait another night to see if I’ll be feeding another mouse or actually killing one. These traps are so foolproof to set and they way the cup holds the bait, it makes it virtually impossible for a mouse to get fed without getting dead. In fact, since I’ve been using these for about a week, I’ve had 6 mice shed their mortal coil and only one even managed to eat a noticeable amount of PB. I know they’re disposable but I reuse them. I’m sure most people do if they can stomach removing the mouse and any necessary cleaning of the trap. That brings me to my second point. I have not had to clean these traps at all yet. I’m sure eventually the PB will need to be replaced and I’ll clean them thoroughly at that time. They hit the mouse with a larger surface area which doesn’t tend to spill much blood etc. like the old wooden traps. Overall, an excellent mousetrap. I’m so glad I bought these and can stop playing Russian Roulette with the mice and those wooden traps. Easy, fast, effective and clean!

We bought these traps after reading a very detailed (and convincingly unbiased) article in which the authors compared 12 traps recommended to them by pest-control professionals. Tomcat Press 'n Set stood out as the clear-and-away best value. Not only was it one of the least expensive and easiest to use, but just was as effective as the best performers (and much better than the others). It is, indeed, very easy to use. I can set it one-handed (which is especially convenient when I place it in a hard-to-reach location). Similarly, dropping the mouse into the rubbish bin doesn't require a second hand to release the jaw. . .I can hold the trap and pull the lever with the thumb of the same hand (which is convenient, because I'm often carrying more traps in the other). Cleaning is also pretty easy. Just soap and water. (For that matter, if I had an automatic dishwasher with a sanitising cycle, I probably wouldn't hesitate to use that to avoid having to scrub traps that become badly soiled.) Baiting is also easy. I recommend cradling the trap in the hand and, while using the thumb to hold the jaw lever and the index finger to hold down the trigger plate (to expose the bait compartment for easy access), add bait with the other hand. These traps are strong, but are not finger breakers. I intentionally snapped them on my fingers a couple times (just as a test) and found they didn't hit hard enough even to cause a bruise or lingering pain. That's because, instead of using a narrow bar, these traps grip the mouse with a toothed jaw. However, it is because of that feature (the sure-catch jaws) that I feel these traps performed short of my expectation. They don't always deliver the instant kill I would prefer. I find that, more often than with the traditional wire-bale traps, there is a period of struggling after we hear the snap. That's why I gave four stars instead of five. Even so, the kill speed is *usually* good. . . overall at least as good as, or even better than, most other traps I've tried (including many of the wire-bale traps, but not all). We have experienced a fair number of misfires (but not frequent), and have only very rarely observed the bait being stolen without triggering the trap. So, the sensitivity is decent. (I think maybe the trigger plate sometimes gets nudged inadvertently when mice run past. Maybe having a smaller or rounded plate might reduce the number of misfires so the mice only trigger it when actively after the bait.) I think they are great traps and are an important part of my arsenal. . . especially for those out-of-the-way locations that I must reach blindly, which is nearly impossible to do with an already-set conventional trap (not to mention the danger of *checking* it blindly). I heartily recommend them to someone for whom “ease of use” is a major requirement. (Particularly those customers who might lack the eyesight or dexterity needed for setting a conventional trap reliably.) After all, the effectiveness of even the very *best* performing mousetrap is ZERO if the owner finds it impractical to use.

After discovering mouse droppings in my daughters bedroom and freaking out, I Purchased two humane traps. Then I discovered mice have excellent homing skills and can find their way home within a 2+ mile radius. No thank you. 😬 So I researched similar and discovered these are one of the top rated mouse traps. Day 1: I set 4 traps out the first day, and within 24 hours I had four dead mice. (I would sing “three blind mice” but technically it was 4,, and they were not blind, they were dead. RIP mice 🐭 I wish I could humanely trap the mice that have taken over my home and garage, but unfortunately they are destructive, carry disease, & can even cause electrical damage and housefires. It’s just not worth it. These took about 30 seconds to set up. I used peanut butter instead of the $18 gel that they recommend, and clearly peanut butter works great. You only need a tiny amount. Fill it directly in the center hole on the trap. Also, I tested this with my hand and sure enough it snaps very quickly and is very sensitive so I am confident the mice are immediately killed and do not suffer at all. This is important to me because I do not want to harm animal needlessly or cause them needless suffering. As far as removing the mice, there’s a handle on the end and you just squeeze it in the mice trap into a garbage sack and yours no need to touch them although I did use a plastic dog poop scooping bag just in case. Fast, easy, definitely effective, and reusable. Five stars

Amended 3 mos. later. Don't buy these. They break after a couple months. Most of them are broken. Original post: I've ordered 18 of these in the last 3 months and have the following opinion: What I like about the new plastic design is they are killing machines! We have large voles and meadow mice in our vegetable garden and this trap works great to reduce their numbers. They are relatively easy to set but the hole for the bait requires a little dexterity. No big deal. What I don't like is the catch that is used to set the trap is a small piece of plastic and it breaks off after awhile. I've had two go so far without a great deal of use. The broken ones are in the photo and have a missing cross piece that is part of the catch mechanism. I hate throwing away more plastic and hoped these would last longer than they probably will. I've also found sometimes the paddle trigger doesn't always spring the trap shut. So, I've been applying a tiny amount of vegetable oil to the plastic catch that is missing in the photo. This may also help prevent the catch from breaking. Would I order them again? Yes, because they are more effective than the wooden type, easier to set and our garden is important to us. Postscript: single use traps and in the garbage.

I had a suspicion that a mouse took housing under my shed this Winter. Now that Spring has arrived, I purchased another brand "easy load" mouse traps. Similar to the old wood ones but has bait cup and spring loaded trip plate. Caught 2 mice first day. Reloaded and it took 3 days to catch another mouse, kept cleaning the bait and not tripping plate. Finally got that mouse. For the next 3 days, the mouse would cleanup most of the bait without tripping the trap. 2 traps side by side, with small box over the top. Only access to bait was thru small hole cut in front of upside down box. This went on for days, bait gone, teeth marks on trip plate, no mouse. Decided to try these Tomcat traps. Much easier to set. Placed small amount of peanut butter in bait cup, set trap, box on top, went to bed. Next morning, box was upside down and there was Mr Mouse no more! I noticed that the mouse was sideways in the jaws of this trap. So this smaller mouse finally met his doom when he tried sneaking around the jaws of death for another free meal. Very simple to set, gently press rear part down to set the humongous jaws. The trip plate is extremely sensitive which is excellent. In fact, I decided to load a little more peanut butter after setting the trap. Barely bumped the trip plate and WHAM, the trap caught its first finger! Ouch....They are made of all plastic, so go slow and easy when setting the trap. The other brand did catch 2 mice at first. One day I got down to ground level to peek at the traps inside the box and a mouse ran out of the box, almost hit me in the forehead, then sharp right turn under my shed. When this sneaky mouse got it last night, the snap crackle pop of the trap going off, not only ridded me of the rodent, but had enough punch to throw the upside box off the trap and to the right. This mouse's luck ran out when it challenged TomCat Mouse Trap. UPDATE: Caught another mouse today. Very small mouse tripped the plate! This mouse thought it was smart and squeezed between box inside wall and trap. I had 2 traps side by side, with bait facing front. This little mouse tried to approach from the side across both traps! Trap #1 snapped on this critters neck, Trap #2 on the body. The old saying "more than 1 way to outsmart a mouse" is true if using 2 of these traps side by side with the rear of trap blocked. Took photos but forgot to attach them.

If you own a house the unfortunate truth of the matter is, that at some point you are going to have a mouse somewhere near you. It's not a fun thing to deal with, but the joys of homeownership rarely are. We have a small dry goods pantry in our basement that for many years we simply had organized on metal shelves. Everything was neat and tidy until one day I went to grab a bag of almond flour and realized there was a small hole torn in the corner and almond flour was spilling all over. I did some casual glancing over the bags of walnuts and pecans and everything seemed fine until I got to a bag of whole raw almonds that also had a hole in the side. It seems our little mouse friends enjoy almonds in every form. The first thing we did was we got rubbermaid containers for everything in our basement pantry. The snacking stopped. The next thing we did was get bait stations that promise to have mice eat from the stations and take the poison away and die in their own space outside. We had found one tiny little nest of cardboard and paper behind the boiler, so we left it there and set out a few stations. The nest got bigger. We moved on to snap traps. The original mousetrap. My husband insisted that no one can make a better mousetrap than the actual real mousetrap. We baited the trap with almond butter and peanut butter because our mice apparently shop at Whole Foods and two days later we had empty traps and no mice. The mice beat the traps. I cleaned up the nest, tossed the traps and decided maybe the mice would just go away on their own. They did not. The little nest reappeared, so I purchased these traps because 4,000+ people cannot be wrong about something so simple. First, we put almond butter in the trap and set them. Then I picked the trap up and went to set it down next to the little nest and SNAP I nearly lost a finger. ***Please be careful with these traps they are very sensitive and if you are not careful you will end up with a broken finger.*** We reset the trap and placed it ever so carefully and by the next morning we had our first mouse. I know these traps can be reused, but mice carry disease and these traps are super cheap, so we tossed the entire thing. We set another trap with more almond butter and then next night another mouse. I guess our first mouse had friends. We just set out another two more traps. These work. The mice are killed on their heads, so it is an instant snap and, at our house at least, they get to have a last meal of almond butter.