Tomcat Kill & Contain Mouse Trap, Never See a Dead Rodent Again, 2 Traps

I rarely take the time to review anything, but I hope this helps someone else catch their unwanted guests. We had little critters who managed to sneak in and I knew they were nesting in the cupboard. Also saw signs of their presence under the sink where the garbage is kept. After baiting these with PB and leaving for a week along the kitchen floor board, I was about to discard and declare them crap. But then decided I needed to remove every other food source, so after a couple of days of locking up every possible food scrap and taking the garbage out nightly I heard the trap and a couple of bumps last night. I was too nervous to check so I waited until morning. Sure enough this morning I picked up the triggered trap with the lever clearly indicating mouse caught. It was slightly heavier than I remembered and caught a glimpse of a small tail inside. I looked no further as I dumped the entire thing into my garbage. I know some people say you can reuse, but I'm more than willing to pay $5-6 to get a fresh trap and set it out to hopefully catch any remaining friends or relatives of said mouse. We live in the woods and we had the home fortified by experts a few years ago, but the persistent buggers have chewed their way inside again. I haven't been able to reach any personnel at the companies to return, so I am proceeding with DIY. These traps are a great way to deal with the issue without seeing dead mice lying around. Just bait, remove ALL food sources and be patient. They will come...

These traps were incredibly easy to used and bait. However, I bought these traps To prevent my pets or children from getting injured and to spare my wife from picking up the dead mouse if I wasn’t home. In theory it was the perfect conceptualized mouse trap for a busy house. When this trap arrived I was ready to declare war on the invaders. I put on my camo gear, covered my face with camo paint took some peanut butter out of the cabinet and baited this rodent killing machine. I turned the switch to “set” and tucked it in a spot where I saw mouse droppings. Then I shut off all the lights, Turned on my night vision goggles and waited. Nothing happened, that fury bastard beat me, but I was determined to win the war. I repeated the process the second night only this time I used popcorn to make a trail to the plastic rodent guillotine. I set the trap and went to bed. By dawn I woke up like a child on Christmas, went running down the stairs and to the trap. Boom! The indicator on the side said mouse caught! The pride of winning this battle washed over me. I had defended my castle against an fierce enemy . But wait, why is the trap so light? Surely if a dead mouse was in here I would have been able to feel the weight difference of such a light and sleekly designed trap. I rotated the device in my hand to peer inside of the killing machine. There I stood, with all the pride draining from my short lived victory. The mouse had indeed been attracted to the trap, it followed the popcorn trail of happiness right inside of the devil’s mouth to feast on the peanut butter buffet set up inside. Once inside it tripped the killing mechanism as designed. But this mouse in my house was no ordinary mouse. He must have been a ninja mouse because he dodged the killing instrument likely with a three quarter lateral spin and landed on one hand. He proceeded to eat the peanut butter, then chew his way out of the trap to warn the other ninja mice. I was beaten, defeated by a mouse. I packed up my family and our belongings and moved to new house leaving our old house to the victor. At my new house though, we adopted 70 cats, and although we smell like a mixture of broken dreams and cat urine we never heard from the ninja warrior mouse or his friends again.

Getting rid of pesky mice is never a pleasant job, but these Tomcat mouse traps make an ugly job much easier. It’s worth the expense of these one-use traps to have the dead mouse completely contained within the trap and not visible. I actually keep a trap on the counter on each side of my stove (where they seem to enter my kitchen). Upon returning home after a few days away from home, I realized that “while the cat (me) was away, the mice did (try to) play.” Oops, their mistake! Caught one. No signs of any other mouse activity. 🤞🤞🤞I’ve used these Tomcat traps for several years. They’re easy to set, unobtrusive, self-contained, effective and a very neat, “pleasant” way to manage an unpleasant household problem.

I started seeing mouse poop but had not seen a mouse at all. Ordered a 2 pack and received them the next day. Set the traps that night and the next morning when I checked the traps a mouse had already been caught. I moved the 2nd trap where the 1st trap had been and the next morning another mouse was caught. The only reason I am not giving 5 stars is the instructions about the indicator are not clear. It says the indicator will point directly at mouse caught when there is a mouse inside. The indicator was closer to saying not set so I thought it went off in error and looked inside to see a mouse was in there.

Almost works as advertised. Sometimes hard to set. Shake it and rotate it while setting and eventually you will succeed. However; yesterday noticed it had caught a mouse but the poor creature was still alive but trapped inside. Cruelty is not acceptable in a mouse trap IMHO. Not many good choices out there. Some work, others do not and all enclosed models are too expensive.