Electronic Mouse Trap

I've been buying Victor electronic mouse traps for around two decades. They sure do work! There are some differences between the older model 250S and the newer model 250B. The older model would blink green and buzz when you turned it on. It also blinked green and buzzed when a mouse was in the trap. The newer one does not have a buzzer; it does blink green 3 times when you turn it on, and blinks every ten seconds when there's a mouse. But no buzzer. Probably an improvement, since the buzzer can scare away other mice. Also, the older model was loaded with batteries from the back of the unit, while the newer one loads on the bottom of the unit. It's actually much easier to load batteries with the newer model, BUT unless you're using peanut better, any seeds or pellets will fall out of place unless you load the batteries before you load the food. You will get mice very quickly, usually overnight the first night. Don’t put them out in the open. Mice like walls. Every once in awhile there's a false flag and the mouse somehow is able to jump back in time, but not very often. When there's a green light blinking, the likelihood that a mouse is in there is around 95%. Peanut butter works real good. I use a butter knife to scoop up a teeny bit, pea size or smaller, and shove it off the knife using a spoon or another knife. It's okay to get some on the back wall of the unit, because mice will go there first and lick it, and then have to explore and find the door to get more, and then, zap. You don't have to clean the peanut butter off every time. If there's still peanut butter, just leave it and re-set the trap. You need to be careful to clean any peanut butter off the metal plates. I use a paper towel and Q-tips. AND here's the important thing - a dead mouse will stay in there for months until you collect it, but it's likely to leave dead smell and debris in the chamber. So the thing to do is make sure you check for the green light every day and empty it. If you leave it too long, you might wind up with a mess in the compartment that can't be cleaned, and then you'd have to ditch the trap. Oh yeah, be sure to wear disposable gloves whenever you deal with the trap, because if you touch it with your hands, then you sent will be on the trap, and the smart mice won’t come near it. If there were one thing I'd improve with the trap is the mouse compartment door doesn't open quite wide enough to carefully put the peanut butter in there. It’s a little awkward to get a knife in there and deposit the peanut butter carefully in the designated spot at the back. You want to avoid getting anything on the metal plate or it might not zap. Use a Q-tip if you get anything on the metal plate. The door does open wide enough to discard the mouse; just turn it over inside a bag, and you won't have to look too closely at the mouse. I am still using the older 250S model, although the "refills" for the mouse compartment are not longer available through Victor or third-party vendors. The newer 250B model does not have a "refill" for the mouse compartment but it zaps mice just as well, except you have to get rid of the mouse the next day; you can't just throw a refill away like with the older model.

This is the absolute best mouse trap I have ever tried; bar-none period (it's even your better than your beloved pussy cat) in every way that I can think of besides the fact that it does cost money. The trap is easy to bait, easy to set, and easy to dispose of the dead mice (which will be every single one you need to eliminate)! They will be caught/killed 99.9% of the time without much of mess besides a drop or two of mouse pee every now and then, which can be rinsed out easily. It will even kill those little pesky bastards that repeatively out-smart your conventional spring-type traps. I have been having 100% success using pretzel sticks and peanut butter. I first use one pretzel stick to scoop out a pea-sized bit of peanut butter. Next I break that part off and put it in the bait cup instead of using only peanut butter like the instructions say. Next, I use the remainder of that one pretzel stick (broken into pieces) to make a little bait trail leading to the trap with one piece placed in the trap entryway just before it is totally out of sight. After he/she has devoured the my free offerings, they will start to smell the irresistible aroma of peanut butter. As they chomp on my final tasty gift and go a little bit further past a partition wall inside the trap, they will finally see that the food that is creating such a delicious the smell does exist just ahead. At this precise moment in this process, I bet every would-be victim is overcome with a sudden, uncontrollable desire to greedily start gorging themselves on this unbelievable bounty presented before them. However upon taking the small step in order to reach this fabulous feast, the victim has unknowingly stepped on the second metal pad (closing an electrical circuit) which leads to an instantaneous deadly flow of electricity through their body. The electrocution process is silent and happens at speed of light without any lengthy wait on death row or even having any chance of a last minute pardon (unless you forget to turn the trap on or have weak batteries! But all jokes aside, it sounds pretty violent but the tiny mouse is dead instantaneously and he/she probably never knew what the hell happened, but YOU WILL....no more filthly, disease carrying mouse! Only thing left to do now is empty or replace (at a cost) the death chamber, re-bait, and get ready to give many more heartfelt goodbyes to the rest of the mouse's family!! However, my experience has been that re-baiting is usually unnecessary; as long as your first offering is still good and fresh. Needless to say, but as a reminder, the trail of pretzels I suggested will ALWAYS need to be replaced but by no means necessary in order to have success. The main reason that I like to put the extra bit of luring bait to see if it's there later thus reporting to me whether or not all the mice have been eradicated, since hungry mice absolutely cannot resist the fragrant temptation of pretzels and peanut butter. There are only 2 reasons that I can think of why mice wouldn't want to endulge themselves with this irresistible bait combination is because either they're not hungry at the time or they are not in house anymore (which is preferred IMO)! The extra baiting around the trap is really more of a mouse presence indicator for me and not required to rid your home of pests. I honestly cannot say enough positive things about this trap. It's worth every stinking penny and I don't brag on many products or leave a lot of positive reviews unless I feel it will be beneficial to others. Boy, I really wish I was the one that invented this or that I could buy stock in this (either way, I would be wealthy)!!! All of my life I've heard people say that you can't build a better mouse trap! After using this one, I would have to respond by saying, "YES you absolutely CAN and Victor has done it even better with their second attempt some 100+ years later!! Now even you will be able to confidently say, "Death to all you nasty, scurrying,##@@@, $$##@@, mice!!! I WILL get you _______ now!" Or whichever descriptive words work for you. Haha

Ordered 2 humane mouse traps last October '25. One unit caught 1 mouse, otherwise they haven't worked. What they have done is feed mice and use batteries. I've read all the good reviews of this product and just a few too many reviews share a "long tutorial" theme which should have been a red flag. So, put in fresh double A's, inspect/clean the metal bases and make sure no food or debris or whatever ekes over from the bait compartment because its game over if those metal plates get compromised. Place against wall. Bait with a partial nugget of cracklin oat bran dashed with peanut butter, lowered into place - tweezers, glove-draped hands. 12 hours later the bait is stripped of peanut butter, no flashing light, no sign the trap was even entered by a mouse. Repeat this process enough and you wonder - do the mice eat through the vent holes by the bait zone? Do I have 2 units with short circuits? I could send a lot of time on these mouse traps. I could set up infrared cameras. Get out my electronic testing equipment. Whatever it is, I'm done. They're still brand-new. Its too awkward trying to smear bait into the bait zone in the first place. Q-tips, whatever ... back to other techniques, including the drowning buckets. If you need to literally 'take a class' to use a mousetrap and set up a shop area to keep the mousetrap working, etc., maybe you're looking at a poorly designed mouse trap.

These traps are diabolical, but highly effective and easy to use. They seem durable and high quality. Fairly pet safe, but not completely, as my dog managed to get the first trap that I set, remove the lid, and eat the peanut butter inside, so either it didn't hurt him, or he learned a valuable lesson about electricity.

I had read literally HUNDREDS of reviews for this product, both good and bad, but leaned more towards the positive when I decided to place my order. We had been finding “evidence” of these little critters for months on our counter, black stove and in kitchen drawers, but nowhere else. We had two cats that usually took care of the problem for us, but one of them moved out this summer with his owner. That’s when we found out that the tuxedo kitty was WORTHLESS and were about ready to borrow the one that had moved out for a few months to show Mr. Tuxedo what a “real” cat is supposed to do!! Enter the Victor M250S Indoor Electronic Humane Mouse Trap. When I was scrubbing the stove one day, awaiting our new kitty replacement, I noticed there was an area that was especially dirty below the digital dials for the temp & time, etc. I thought that was just a regular vent that heat comes out of when in use, but apparently, it’s a super-highway for our vermin friends to gain access to our counter. The few times we didn’t get a chance to do dishes before bedtime, we would awaken to used frying pans on the stove that one could only describe as a community port a potty for these ba&%#rds that had invaded our home. When our Victor trap arrived on 12/28/2022, I did exactly as instructed. Put in fresh batteries, put a tiny piece of peanut butter in the space provided being extra careful not to get any on the electric part using rubber gloves so as not to transfer my scent, then placed it on the counter next to the stove. Day #1 nothing but mouse poop on the spoon rest on the counter. Day #2. Made sure nothing edible was on the counter or stove. Nothing. Day #3, same thing. Day #4 God as my witness, that night my roomie fried up a few pieces of ham in a pan and sat down to eat. I walked past the kitchen to the living room, sat down and saw something out of the corner of my eye in the kitchen. All the lights were still on which made it very easy for me to see that one of our furry enemies was on the stove heading towards that frying pan!! He got up on the ledge of it and it must have still been too hot for his little feet, so he backed off and scurried behind the stovetop but not so much that I wasn’t able to see his paws and nose twitching, just waiting for the pan to cool down. I situated myself so I could see straight into the kitchen to view his little antics and sure enough, about 5 minutes later, there he was….IN THE DAMN FRYING PAN. I got of my chair quickly, walked towards the kitchen and stomped on the floor, thinking that would scare him off, but all he did was jump out the pan, turn around on the stove, and had a stare-down with me!!! OK, GAME ON!!! I took the frying pan, put it in the sink with soap and hot water and proceeded to set him up for his demise. Keep in mind that this whole time, the Victor trap was only inches away from the stove this whole time with peanut butter in it. Apparently OUR mouse had a more discerning pallet and preferred meat protein. I donned rubber gloves and carefully cleaned out the peanut butter and got out my jar of saved bacon grease. He was gonna LOVE this, I just knew it. I smeared a tiny dab of grease in the designated spot and set the trap next to the stove. I then took about a teaspoon of grease in another frying pan, heated it up to melt, then placed the pan on the counter right next to the trap. I knew the smell would be irresistible to him. I swear he was actually watching me as I was using the stove!! It took him maybe 2 minutes once I backed away, to get on the counter. He meandered to the frying pan immediately. It must have still been warm, because he backed off and proceeded to clean his little paws while perched ON TOP OF THE TRAP that was right next to the frying pan!! Bath time completed, he hopped into the frying pan and proceeded to lick off what little grease he could, then scurried back behind the stove. Day #5, nothing. Day #6, nothing. Day #7, the roomie and I both got a touch of the flu and barely went into the kitchen for anything. Day #9, I was more on the mend and went into the kitchen to make a cup of coffee. No green light and I couldn’t even remember if I had re-set the trap because I was so disappointed in the product. Not sure if it’s really the fault of the product or not. OUR mouse was just too smart and apparently a picky eater. Because we had the flu, there wasn’t anything on or near the counter for any “visitors” to eat. I took a look at the trap and no light was flashing and my brief look inside didn’t appear to have one in it so I set it back down on the counter. I was going to return the trap later that day but since I was there, I would slide the on/off switch to make sure it was set. When I did, it smelled funny; kind of an electrical smell and I wondered if, since I hadn’t been feeling well, that I hadn’t been able to smell that when we first got it and that that was what was keeping the critters away from it. I went back to my day and didn’t think about it for a few hours until I mentioned it to my roommate. She asked if I was certain it hadn’t caught something. I double checked, and sure enough, it was full! The bacon grease worked!! An hour later, the roomie was making a piece of toast. She had left a stick of butter on the counter the night before to thaw and this is what she found. Pic attached. It looks they were eating it like a cob of corn. This had never happened before! I don’t know if the mouse the trap caught had eaten the butter before getting on the trap or if he has friends that like meat protein too, but we were totally grossed out! I’ll be re-setting the trap with butter this time to see if any friends are tempted. Be patient and try different kinds of bait. It works!! *** UPDATE *** That next night, the trap caught another big fat one and we haven't seen any new poop on the counter since. I find it hard to believe that we only had 2 total in the whole house, but time will tell. I'm going to put some fresh batteries and fresh butter and keep it on the counter until we are convinced we have them all. Being that it's small enough to not be in our way for cooking, etc., there's no reason not to keep it up and set. VERY happy with our results!!

Works extremely well and is very easy to clean up. I’ve caught two mice in two days. Setup was quick and simple. I was a little confused by the instructions about the bait bin, but it basically means putting peanut butter near the small vent holes in the back. I also saw another recommendation to place tape over the vent holes so the mice can’t lick the bait from the outside, which I did. As someone who is absolutely terrified of mice, this has been the easiest and least stressful way I’ve found to catch them.

This did a fantastic job of killing a mouse. Unfortunately, after the 1st mouse died, the others chewed the end of the trap where the peanut butter was completely out. I'll try to hot glue a piece of galvanized wire over the hold to see if that sticks. So, 2nd comment: I had purchased a pair of these; so, I went ahead with the other. It’s caught a mouse every night! I bought another when I was at the hardware store. Same price, btw. I still haven’t “patched” the first. I’ll let you know how that works out when I do. All in all? I’m satisfied. Mice are so destructive that it’s hard to design anything to stop them.

Had a mouse problem in a shed and after cleaning and sanitizing the shed put 2 traps inside. Every day it is getting multiple mice. Keeping the shed empty until I stop getting mice in the traps. Then I will switch to the repellent. This is such an easy device to use. Not mice guts, no half dead, no worries with toxins and other chemicals. This is hands down effective. Best purchase.

صغير جدا لا يمكن أن يدخله فأر كبير فقطلصغار الفئران والصغيرة جدا كل الجهاز لا يتجاوزحجم كف اليد

Oggetto consigliatissimo!!! In casa avevo notato "tracce" di un topolino che, furbo, schivava le varie tavolette adesive. Ho voluto provare con questa trappola. Per iniziare ho messo semplicemente delle noccioline americane (arachidi) in un piattino di plastica per vedere se l'esca era gradita: spolverate! Poi sono passato ad inserire le noccioline nella trappola, ma tenendola spenta: noccioline spolverate Infine ho messo le noccioline nella trappola accesa: ZAP! Ospite beccato! Il secondo giorno ho provato a spostare la trappola in un altro luogo: altro ospite beccato! Note importanti: 1) maneggiate meno possibile trappola e esca, i topi sono molto diffidenti dall'odore dell'uomo 2) la trappola deve essere con l'ingresso messo lungo un muro 3) lavate accuratamente la parte con l'esca dopo ogni cattura (si lava con acqua e sapone) 4) Stranamente con la seconda cattura lampeggiava la luce rosse (batterie scariche) invece di quella verde, anche se le batterie erano cariche 5) Il led di avvenuta cattura lampeggia MOOOOLTO lentamente (circa 10/15 secondi) 6) Usate batterie con discreto amperaggio (Duracell). Io la uso con ricaricabili NI-Mh da 2500 mAh e non fa una piega! 7) Prima di mettere in funzione la trappola individuate, col metodo di cui sopra, l'esca adatta

This is a seriously cool mouse trap! This thing makes me feel like I’m living in the future. Not only does it look the business but it’s also super easy to setup and provides a tidy, mess free mouse trapping environment. The problem with standard traps is that they can be messy when successfully activated. The problem with sticky traps is that they are effective but awfully cruel and a nightmare if you stand on one or have pets. The problem with humane traps is that mice (in my experience) just don’t use them and even if they did, they can be cruel too if you’re on holiday somewhere and the poor thing is left to starve to death. This trap, then, is the best of all worlds. It’s super easy to setup. You just separate the two compartments and put 4xAA batteries in the left side. You then open the right side (the mouse catching bit) and put a big dollop of peanut butter on the end panel. This, cleverly, has a plastic wall next to it which is perforated with holes to let the mouse sniff the goodness inside! You then click both pieces back together and switch on. When you do this, a green light shows and there is a satisfying buzz/hum to let you know that the electrification mechanism is armed. You then place the box next to a wall in a troublesome area and wait for a curious mouse to sniff the peanut butter, enter the trap and be immediately electrocuted. It’s quick, effective and there’s no mess. If a mouse enters the trap and actives it, the trap flashes a green light on top to let you know that it’s caught something. You can then safely switch it off, dispose of the mouse and wipe out the container ready for re-arming. This thing is seriously cool and works like a dream. After unsuccessfully attempted to remove mice with the other type of traps, this thing attracted and disposed of them straight away. Yes, it’s more expensive than your standard traps but it’s way more effective, much cleaner and you don’t run the risk of causing immense pain to your fingers when the setup process goes wrong! Snap!!! Highly recommended!

Funciona muy bien. Lo único, hay que colocar el cebo con cuidado para que no toque el metal, porque si no, se mantiene activada y te quedas sin batería. Eso sí: sólo vale para ratones pequeños.

Unfortunately this trap was only a trap for my money :( I have clear signs of mice in my house and I have tried using this trap all ways possible. It is almost as if the rats are laughing at you with it. I have tried several times with the recommended bait (peanut butter), and it didn’t work. Then I realized the rats were always going towards my dog’s treats, so I decided to place one on the bait tray - result: no dead mice and NO BAIT LEFT! They managed to get in and out with the bait and still alive…. Waste of money.