OWLTRA OW-2 Indoor Electric Mouse Trap 2 PCS, Instant Kill Rodent Zapper with Pet Safe Trigger, Black

BUY THESE. Just BUY THEM NOW. I had zero experience with these nasty critters, and I tried to do the whole 'peace and love, I'll just try to deter them' thing, and yeah, that didn't go well. These nasty things got bold. Too bold. So when I saw that they had destroyed two of my most beloved houseplants (by eating them literally overnight)? Oh, yeah, no more miss nice lady. These things had to DIE. I wanted absolutely nothing to do with touching or even looking at these things, and after much, much, MUCH research, I decided to try these devices, as they seemed to be both effective and easy (with no need to touch). I followed directions closely, and set them out where I had seen the most mouse poop. No lie - 30 minutes after I first set these traps, I come downstairs to see four (I bought two packs of 2) BLINKING GREEN LIGHTS!!!!! That meant I had 4 CRISPY CRITTERS! Oh, but now that meant I had to...dispose of them. I grabbed a paper grocery bag, opened it, then grabbed a small kitchen towel and placed it over my hand while holding the device. I turned off the trap, opened the top, briefly looked to get juuuust enough visible confirmation (a small tuft of fur was all I needed to see), and then I dumped it right into my paper bag. I did the same with all the rest. I emptied, cleaned, replaced the batteries, and then re-baited all the traps, then set them in the exact same spots. I went on to have a 100% kill rate within the next 48 hours, with me re-baiting and re-setting about 4 times. After that, there was nothing. No more mouse poop, no more noise, no more killed houseplants! I left the traps out and after about 5 days, I caught a couple more, but nothing like my initial success. So I re-bait and move them around to different spots if I don't see any activity after like 4 or 5 days. This seems to be pretty effective, and I'm just so much more relaxed. I had no idea how much energy it was taking to be on high alert with this vermin. Well, now they're CRISPY DEAD VERMIN, and my technique hasn't changed, I've simply become much faster. It takes me about 5 minutes, start to finish, to empty, clean, re-bait, and reset all four traps (if necessary). And yes, you do need to actually clean the zappy death compartment and change the batteries every time they work. I have a pretty good stash of rechargeable AA batteries (and that's all I've used), and they've been really great with these devices. Seriously, look no further. Your search is over. Get these, follow the directions and watch the peace return to your home (or workshop or garage or whatever - I don't know your life).

I've used Victor electronic mouse & rat traps for over 10 yrs. They're VERY expensive, but definitely more humane & that's important. I've been frustrated w/ them because they stop working before even going thru 2 sets of batteries. Many of those traps never make past 1 set of batteries. All the cleaning & treating them as good as can be doesn't work! So I decided to try the 2-piece electronic Victor mouse traps since maybe if the part that holds the bait fails, it can be replaced cheaper than the entire trap & it would make cleaning easier too. But my orders have not been successful. I was sent the same old 1-piece traps instead, & when I tried to re-order the 2-piece traps, they just never came & I've been waiting since early Nov & over a month later still waiting for them to be shipped from Victor. So tried these Owltra mouse zappers in the meantime. Not only did they make it here in decent time, but they work so much better! So good in fact that I'm getting tired of seeing the green light flashing AGAIN & AGAIN. While waiting on the Victor's to come, the mice have been nesting & I have lots of baby mice getting caught now. Thanks a lot Victor for all the additional killing of little critters I now have to do because of your slow/non order fulfillment. The Owltra's just go & go & go! Even the bigger, fatter (pregnant) mice easily fit & go into Owltra traps, unlike the Victor mouse ones. In the past I had to use the Victor RAT size ones to allow for the pregnant & bigger mice to get in it (even more expensive & more dangerous for a pet paw to reach in & get shocked too). The owltra traps r made just right to put in a snack or cereal box to keep paws away from trap openings as well as easily slide into narrow places mice travel thru that the Victor is too wide to fit in. Another thing, the Owltra's are also 2-piece w/ the batteries/electronics in the top piece that removes so the bottom piece can be soaked in water to clean. The entire bottom part is open for easy cleaning & baiting. As for baiting, I've used 1/4" pieces of beef jerky for the strongest smell attractant w/o being wet & messy, I found that some goldfish flakes, dry dog or cat food nuggets, or bird food work best. Mice will come to these things w/o a hitch. Peanut butter, cheese, & crackers just don't work well to attract mice to traps & tend to mess up the electronics w/ moisture & smearing. But now I'm sold on the beef jerky bits! Best bait of all. Trust me, I've had over 10 yrs experience w/ Victor's electronic traps; bait matters! These Owltra's don't even need bait after the beef jerky has been used & that scent is in the trap along w/ the scent of previous mice being in the traps. The scents remain after the jerky is gone & keeps drawing more mice in to sniff around & u got 'em, no re-baiting even required! The scent of previous mice in a trap makes other mice consider it to be a safe mouse-friendly place to enter. So that matters too, & after the 1st catch, u have that scent in there which attracts more to enter. As for baby mice, it's not unusual to catch 2 @ a time because the Owltra trap design is much different from the more size restrictive Victor trap. The Owltra's cost less than the Victor alternative too. I'm an Owltra fan now! Good-bye Victor. I do have to say that the newer Victor mouse traps have much improved over the older ones tho! I'll give 'em that! But the Owltra's have outperformed Victor in real life usage for me in an old house in winter & in an area w/ large outdoor summer mice presence that come looking for a warm place to winter over in. Hope all this info helps someone. Please be humane tho!

It works. Easy to set up, no mess, easy disposal. I only wish I'd bought it sooner instead of wasting time with snap traps that never did the trick.

After many failure attempts to catch a very smart big rat roaming around the house, I finally got him with this electric shock trap.

We put this in a couple places in the house and one day my wife decided to put it in the babys crib (no baby inside) where she found some droppings. In the middle of the night I was confused as there seemed to be a flashing light in the room. I finally came to my senses and realized it was the TRAP! Oh man, there was 3-4" of tail sticking out of it. I didn't have the heart to open the trap so I held on to the whole trap and launched the rat into the forest. 2024-August Update: we have caught like 6-7 rats in this and each time we set the trap it probably takes a few days to catch one. We put it on the car seat inside the car as a rat got in my wife's brand new subaru and was chewing the kids seat. BAM! Another dead rat. We have never even changed the batteries in this thing either. Such a good product. In fact I only changed the bait today after a year+ of use.

I have been using this trap in a chicken coop on my property for the last few days. It was very easy to set up and fine if it gets wet. I am catching mice every single day. Ican't remember the last time I set traps and caught them this consistently. Plus if the chickens got at the mice or anything else I don't have to worry that they are consuming bait. Will be buying more.

It is straightforward to use and is effective.