Victor M2 Smart-Kill Humane Wi-Fi Enabled Electronic Rat Trap Killer - 2 Traps

Have rats in attic. Lots of signs and even noise. Connected both traps to the network. Set both in attic one about 6' from router and the other 12' from router. The 6' away one stayed connected, but the 12' away from router wouldn't stay connected. Very weak WiFi in traps so basically unless your rats are chewing up your router cables, you won't be able to keep a signal. I returned both as they didn't work. Never caught a rat either. Nice idea, but poor execution of WiFi.

These work great except... the wifi feature. The app they have has good intentions to make it easy but well it just fails and flashes 10 times... I am in IT for work. I MUST SAY IT KILLS MICE WELL. Just the wifi feature needs work...

UPDATE 9/2025 I have used a case of C cell batteries and have not caught one rat. I even saw a rat scurrying past the trap with no interest at all. Original post 9/2024 I purchased one of these electronic traps a while back and it worked flawlessly so I bought two more in September. These I guess had been "improved" and the four "C" cell batteries lasted about 8 days and had to be replaced. "C" cell batteries are very expensive and I have to replace eight batteries for the two traps at a time. My older unit kept the batteries for months before needing to be replaced. I'm past the return time so I will have to eat the $90+ for the traps but I can warn future purchasers of what to expect when you have to replace these batteries every week. Plus I haven't caught one rat in the new traps. I would never have bought them had I known what the battery usage is. it's like purchasing a GEO metro expecting 50 mpg and finding that you are only getting 6 MPG.

The whole idea of an internet connected mouse trap seems kind of ridiculous. Is this an Onion parody turned into a real product? But I got a couple of these anyhow to put down in the garage to prevent a repeat of last winter’s “rodent invasion apocalypse” which cost a LOT of money to fix. They work and it turns out to be amazingly handy to get the alert to remind me to go on down and empty out the trap. I haven’t used them long enough to have a good idea of battery life but they are still over 75% after 3 weeks and 4 rodents zapped. Update - battery life has been fine - multiple months. One did lose connection and need to be completely reset. False trigger notices mean they need cleaning. So, I bought 2 more. The new ones, WR190808GVXXXXX and WR190811GVXXXXX (both on FW 1.3.3) were a royal pain to set up. Setup on an iPhone X running iOS 13.3.1 failed repeatedly. Connection to the trap’s own WiFi network failed multiple times. After successfully connecting to the trap’s WiFi network, set up failed with “there has been a network error” when attempting to retrieve the available WiFi networks so that I could select my home network. This failed 100% of the time on both units after multiple attempts. I was within 10 feet of the WiFi access point and I tried all the usual things - restarting the app, power cycling the traps and my phone. The older traps had been no problem to set up on the same phone a year ago (with an older version of iOS). I *was* able to complete setup of the 2 new traps after only a few retries using an iPhone SE running iOS 13.3. This suggests that there might be an incompatibility with the Victor app and the most recent iOS release. I reported it to Victor, so with luck a fix is coming.

Great idea but falls short in numerous areas such as the unit is built quite cheaply. The battery doors don't work well. One is so loose that so it just sits on the top. Should have had a port for plug in adapter. Should also use indicator lights on unit instead of being totally dependent on the app. Additionally, the app is awkward not working properly needing many tweaks. All that being said, it does work !!! Update: I have now purchased 6 of these units within the last month. They work great at first, then fail for various reasons such as no power, connection losses, and shock plates not working. I have returned 2 and now 2 more today. Called Victor with little further assistance. Not batteries and not a cleaning issue. Now 1 of my last 2 is malfunctioning. If not a design issue, clearly there is a defective batch or parts issue. What a hassle. i wanted to keep and have at least 4 for long term use. Can't recommend at all until Victor notifies and corrects the issue with a detailed explanation and solution. Originally rated three stars now one, zero if it were possible. 2nd UPDATE: After two calls to Victor, the first being unhelpful and useless. The second a complete opposite, offered to send replacements of the non wireless model. He explained that the wireless model has been discontinued due to known electronic/ defect issues. What is out there is left over stock. Do not waste time, effort, an money by buying this model. I am back to 3 stars because of the replacement but should have have never occurred in the first place if they recalled these which should have been done IMO.

These traps have been prolific. I bait with nut butter. Snap traps do not compare. I have the larger rat version. My exclusion work has kept the big fellas out now, but these traps keep racking up mouse kills while I find and plug the tiny holes. The wi-fi feature for me is key. I can set it up in the crawlspace and forget it until it reports a kill...sort of...see below. THE GOOD - Easy wi-fi setup. I've set up a lot of smart devices on my Android. I've set up a few of these a few times. Easiest and most reliable set up of any wi-fi device. Victor did a nice job here where so many others have failed. - Easy rodent disposal. Pick it up, dump the dead critter, set it back, get the next kill. For me, the quickest turnaround has been about 15 minutes. I found the recommended reset post-kill unnecessary. I did it initially, but I think it might have caused problems actually. - Cleaning. I haven't needed to clean it post-kill very often. Since rodents are so scent-sensitive, logic told me that the scent of former...uh...occupants would be better than the recommended hydrogen peroxide. My kill rate seems to be proof of this theory. And, honestly, I would be cleaning them way too frequently. - Easy to bait. I use a tiny cocktail spoon to load the cup with nut butter (almond butter). The rodent rarely reaches it, so I don't have to reload very often. - Exceptional customer service. THE BAD (All this is why it's not five stars.) All the negatives are about the app during operation... - Kill alarms. I've had units miss kill alarms. The first was a disaster because the unit sat for 2-3 weeks in the crawlspace after the kill. The rodent moldered on the contact plates. I cleaned it according to instructions (hydrogen peroxide and a toothbrush...yep, gross as it sounds). After that, it failed to shock and became a feeder. The good news: I told customer support and they offered a one-time courtesy replacement! Very impressed. - Connectivity alarms. I've had a unit with the batteries out, cleaning it, and it still showed connected after a couple hours, with battery life. So I check them once a week no matter what. I also delete the trap and reconnect it like a new unit after battery replacement. - Offline reporting. On the flip-side, false "your trap has been offline for more than 24 hours" alarms happen to me sometimes. I say "false" because the traps show online and they check out ok upon inspection. - Activity reporting. The "last activity" reporting in the app is odd. Traps have activity pretty much every day (despite 24-hour disconnect alarms sometimes), but there's no indication of what the "activity" is. At first, this had me checking traps when I didn't need to. My guess is that it's an "I'm alive" signal? - Multiple traps are hard to manage. No alarm indicates which trap is the originator. So you have to look at each one. Most people will probably have just one, though, so maybe not a big deal. - No apparent way to check shock capability. Because of above issues, and occasional missing bait, I wish there were some way to test the shock capability with a volt meter in addition to wi-fi connectivity. I'm sure there is some way to do this, but I haven't seen instructions online. But I'm not sure how the plate circuits work, and haven't yet experimented. BOTTOM LINE - Spendy, but worth it. Most effective trap out there. Snap traps often have bait gone and no kill even with the most sensitive hair-trigger setup. If you need to control and want fairly reliable kill notifications, get this trap. But know that alarms and notifications are not trustworthy enough to get the full benefit of set and forget.

Dunno why zero stars isn't available. Rat trap worked a while. Then one day it stopped working, couldn't connect to WIFI. Called customer service and after a lot of run around, they said they needed to reset the trap in their system and it would take an hour. No fix, I called back the next day and they gave the same run around, same fix suggestion but that it would take 1-2 weeks to REALLY get out of their system. Still nothing. Months later tried to call them again, same run around, then they tried to offer the same fix and I said we've already tried that several times and the tech said, ok we're going to turn it off and reset it then wait about *click*. Hung up on me. All this probably to try to bide time until the warranty is up? Horrible. Never buy this.

We recently purchased a cabin to use and rent as a vacation rental. We quickly realized we had a rodent problem when exploring the in's and out's of the new place. I first purchased two of the mouse sized units, but found one moved across the attic on my next visit and realized I was dealing with a rodent that was a bit bigger than I had thought. I ordered these, and after reading reviews took great care to ensure I wore gloves when handling the unit to avoid transferring my scent. They were easy to set up, and I put one in the utility room and the other in the attic. About two days later, sitting at home about 1.5 hours away, I got an alert that the attic trap had a kill. The next day, I went to the cabin and was a bit skeptical, but when I entered the attic I saw the back half of the largest rat I have ever seen sticking out the back of this device. Needless to say, money well spent. I emptied the trap by tilting it back and letting the rodent slide into a trash bag and then reset the trap. We got a mouse in the same trap the next day. As the rat size works on both, unless you are sure you only have a mouse problem I would suggest getting the rat size and cover all your bases. What I like about this trap is that I'll know when I get a kill so I can deal with it quickly as we are not always at the cabin to check the trap. I also like the idea that if a guest is at the house, I don't have to worry about a screaming rat with a spring trap caught on it's tail running around the attic. It's pretty likely that no one would ever know there was a kill, and if the guest was staying for a while I could at least come up with a plan to deal with the kill before hearing a complaint about a dead animal smell. For the wifi, it has a pretty good reach through floors and walls. I can confidently cover the whole cabin with these traps and plan to pick up a few more as I work my way through sealing the access points. This way, if I get a kill I know I have more work to do in the area.

Great product, very effective and efficient. Had a single trap and liked it so much I brought two more.

Caught a mouse, but no notification. Had work out how to manually allow notifications for the app. (The app did not check). One unit has gone flat within the first week... $11 in batteries gone. After week 2, the second unit has now failed. Lost wifi in a strong wifi area. Battery now reports 54%, but who really knows? It was 95% a day ago! I think it drains and the battery percentage is inaccurate. No kills since the last day hugh loss in battery. So far its cost me $150 (inc battery cost) to catch two tiny mice! The app is slow and clunky. Sending them back now. Total waste of time and money.

Don't waste your money. Traps dropped off wifi within 3 days. Drained 15%of batteries in two days