Victor M241B Indoor Electronic Rat Trap, Humane Electric Rat Traps Indoor for Home, No Touch, No See Traps

Worked perfectly & quickly. I know some of the reviews questioned it, but I had a rat (large mouse?) under under cabinets - I knew it was there because the smaller spring trap had been sprung a couple of times. I placed this trap last night and this morning found the mouse. Completely dead, inside the trap. It was very easy to dispose of. I highly recommend this!!!

The problem with this unit is you can't clean it. You have to stick some peanut butter in through a few small holes on the end of the device. You can't get into it to clean it out and put fresh bait in. The directions in the box say to reach in with A-Tips to clean it out. Well its a vertical surface and you would have to have a Qtip that has a 90 degree bend in it and fiddle with it to even get to it much less clean it good. Seriously, whoever designed this never had to use it! You can't take it apart as when you fight to take the top and bottom apart, the wired connections are soldered and you risk breaking something trying to disassemble it. worst design ever so you peanut butter, as recommended as bait, just spoils in there and you fight with putting a cloth on a foot long stick to try and clean it out. This model is a M421B. Apparently the model M241 has a removable bait door to access the bait and clean out, much better design. DO NOT but this model. It really sucks trying to clean it. It kills the mice, just can't clean out the bait, dumbest design ever.

After researching a lot of different mouse traps, we finally tried this electronic trap. I originally tried the Rinne Flip N Slide Bucket lid no-kill mouse traps where the mouse climbs on top of a 5 gallon bucket (not included) to reach a bait and falls through the trap floor which flips down into the bucket. There are a lot of knock offs out there that may work well, but I bought the original Rinne trap and it just didn't work for us. We had two set up in our basement where there was mouse activity and we did catch one mouse, but it escaped every time and that's because the trap floor, when closed, is not flush with the yellow lid and apparently the mouse can escape through small gaps. We put small pieces of almond in the back of the trap floor so the only way the mouse could reach it, was to walk back and the trap floor would flip down and the mouse would fall into the bucket. Twice the almonds were gone and we peeked in the bucket and saw mouse poop but no mouse.So I gave in and looked for an electronic trap that would at least humanely kill the mouse quickly. This Victor trap is very easy to use and set up. You just put in four AA batteries (you could use rechargeable batteries but we used regular to try it out) in the top compartment which slides open. Then you put bait in the back of the unit. The instructions say to put peanut butter through the holes in the back of the unit. But the cleaning instructions say not to get the metal plates inside wet. I don't see how you can easily clean the unit without risking getting the plates wet. Especially when using peanut butter. Instead, we just put a small piece of cheese in the back. The power switch is on the top and after you turn it on, it will blink green a few times and then go dark and remain dark. When the trap catches a mouse, the green light will blink until you turn it off and remove the mouse. Note: When the trap has a mouse and blinks green, the green light blinks slowly, not nearly as fast as when you first turn it on. It's about 9 seconds between blinks. So if you're quickly checking on the trap from a distance, you should look at it for a while to see if it the green light blinks. Or, just go up to the trap and look inside because one end of the trap is completely open.On the second night, we got a mouse. So it works and I'm ordering a second unit to put in another room in our basement.Update: After setting up the second unit (both in the basement), we have caught a total of seven mice. So the traps are working consistently.

We walk every day in the early morning and have noticed a rat running around outside our house. This was highly recommended so I bought it. I was skeptical as I thought no way can 4 double A batteries kill anything. Set it up and two days later, Bam! Big rat dead and disposed. Bait is still good so put back to see if another one is lingering.

This purchase started while watching "We're the Millers." Oddly enough, just after the scene where Kenny gets bitten by the spider, I saw something moving across the floor in my basement in a odd pattern. For whatever reason, I though it was a big ol' spider and tried to find it. Whatever it was, it had concealed itself underneath my TV stand, so I grabbed a flashlight and started looking for it. Finally, I discover that, rather than a hairy spider, it was a tiny mouse. After a few minutes, it scooted out and hid under some other furniture in the basement, and I was able to scoop it up into a dog bowl and cover the bowl so it couldn't escape. It was a tiny mouse, probably a baby. As I went to release it out the back door, I discovered another baby mouse by the back door, so I scooted it out the door, too. Once the first two were out the door, I began my research and saw that mice typically have litters of around six, but up to 12 mice. Sure enough, about 30 minutes later, I find a third baby mouse in the basement. Now I"m convinced I have a serious problem, with another 3 baby mice probably around somewhere, plus a mother and maybe a father. It's peculiar, because I haven't seen any signs of mice in the house previously. I get rid of the third mouse (this one gets a flight off the back deck after I offered to show it to my wife, but she wasn't interested.)So I did my research on Amazon for solutions and saw several options - the traditional snap trap and various humane options. I kind of liked the idea of sending mice down the Green Mile, so I settled on these given the positive reviews and quick results that seemed to be reporting. So I ordered two. Well, actually, four because I apparently placed the order twice. The next day, they showed up thanks to Prime shipping. One small issue, I didn't have enough batteries to load up all four, so after getting the Skippy peanut butter (fewer chemicals than the store brand reduced sugar that later gave my wife an allergic reaction), I prepared the traps according to the manual. They were easy to unpack, prepare and deploy. In accordance with the instructions, I placed them around the basement along walls triangulating where I had encountered two of my three little visitors. After putting them out in the evening, I retired for the night and anxiously came back downstairs in the morning, expecting to find another mouse or two had shuffled off this mortal coil. Alas, no flashing LEDs on the traps to tell me I've succeeded in this particular Mouse Hunt. Day after day, I go through the same process each morning, thinking I might find a victim in the traps, but, alas, each day I'm left disappointed. On the positive side, however, I haven't found any signs of mice in the basement, nor have I spotted any.So long story short, they're easy to set up and prepare, they're relatively innocuous, and there's no evidence of mice ignoring the traps. Old Sparky may work, but I haven't been successful yet.Update: December 2024 - after having these out for four months and not having sent any mice to their final reward, I happened to notice one flashing green as I walked by. Sure enough, picked it up and there was the first victim of Old Sparky inside. Moved it outside prior to cleaning and resetting to avoid any stink in the house. Decided to check the other two I had put out. One was unused, as of yet, while the second one was patiently flashing green, telling me yet another mouse had crossed the rainbow bridge or whatever the mouse equivalent is. Mr Jangles will no longer be performing on the Green Mile at any rate. So, it’s now traps two, mice zero.