Multicatch metal mousetrap : Lawn & Patio from Procter Bros Ltd

Multicatch metal mousetrap
from Procter Bros Ltd

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		Gardener Price: £7.32

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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Humane Traps PSPMMT PSPMMT High quality galvanised steel trap designed to catch and hold up to 10 mice at a time. PSPMMT Clear plastic lid ensures you can see at a glance when you have caught something. PSPMMT Extra ventilation points to reduce stress to captured mice.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS

Customer rating stars IT'S GOOD TO BE KIND TO MICE! Posted: 15 August 2010
This little metal mousetrap is brilliant, it deserves a better name. I caught several mice at a time and let them go. Ok so I had to pop to my local park at odd times of the day and maybe people did wonder what I was doing in the trees; but the mice were safe. Mind you, I did worry about them after I let them go and hope they will settle in their new home.

Seriously it worked really well and leaves no messy smelly bodies behind, so even if you don't care about the mice that's a good reason to use it. I now have a mouse free home and a clear conscience!

Customer rating stars Ideal for Outside Posted: 11 August 2010
Our mouse problem (so far at least!) seems only to be outside of the house. The little blighters have been seen quite openly sitting on their haunches munching happily through out courgette crop! So they had to go.

Got one of these traps as describe as anodised steel, and suitable for outdoors. Seems well made and the mechanism pretty fault proof. Had it outside for about 2 weeks now and have caught and released a couple of mice, not quite the families I was expecting but each one is a win in my book! Be careful to check the trap regularly, these "humane" traps can quickly become inhumane if you leave the mouse in to long.

All in all for the price, it's a great buy. Top bait tip - Peanut Butter!

Customer rating stars Pretty good stuff! Posted: 08 August 2010
I'm in the process of getting another one of these.
I've tried all the other humane ones, but they are very ropey, normally falling to bits within days, or just plain garbage that doesn't work.
This one only broke on me when we got a very active house mouse, which was able to force its way back out (with a bloody nose!) after managing to find the tiniest space, and bent the see saw in the process.
For the field mice we have it has been great.

A few hints:

(1) Be very careful when checking for a mouse: sometimes you can look through the window and not see the little so and so, leading to a horrible death. One of their favourite hiding places in under the see saw, and the only thing you may see is the tip of a tail if you look very hard. I would have liked to have seen a viewing window in the side too.

(2) If the mice aren't going into the trap, bait it with chocolate and be very VERY sure you're cupboards are secure. We finally discovered that the muppets that put together our kitchen had not totally closed in the entire cupboards (holes in bottom, holes at back) so the mice were having a fine old time eating pasta, digestives etc. Once we emptied the cupboards the trap started being used. You can buy steel wool to block up gaps (they can't eat through it) or at a push use brillo pads (not where they can get wet!).

(3) If you have one, you will soon have LOADS! Ours had increased to over 100 by the time we discovered the kitchen fitter activities in (2). The antique Irish linen inherited from Hubby's Mum also bit the dust through a hole in the back of a chest of drawers.

(4) The recommendation is that you take them a mile away or they'll come back in to their young. They seem like very attentive parents (we had a spectacular full family catch of 2 adults and 5 of the cutest little baby field mice!).

(5) Make sure you put the hole-side against the wall. I've also had catches putting the trap on its side with the hole at the bottom and the viewing windows looking sideways - I don't keep accidentally kicking it that way in our small kitchen.

(6) I'm still sceptical about the sonic/electrical deterents - I'm waiting to see what this winter brings. Since I got the deterent in the spring there has been a dramatic decrease in numbers, but that could just be because of closing up the deli, advanced trapping, and field mice generally moving out in summer anyway. I'll update the review when I have more evidence on that one!

(7) Field mice - as I've discovered - can fit through the tiniest space (e.g. UNDER the washing machine). I had to re-wash all the clothes in a drawer when I discovered ours had been using it as a lavatory, squeezing in through a gap of about 0.5 cm. As an interesting aside, field mice seem to have a toilet area (in our case cupboard and drawer). Don't put the trap in there as they won't go in and eat where they have pooed.

And yes, we have cats! The mice are clever little sods who are very adept at keeping out of the way of the cats, rambling through the walls, in the roofspace and just scampering up an down the plumbing pipes to to deli in your cupboards. That said, we did have a few 'casualties' - I've never seen a cat look as smug as our 18 year old tom cat, letting out muffled meows round the (live) mouse in his mouth!

Overall, this is the only humane trap I would recommend. Hopefully some of the hints will give you a starter for dealing with your uninvited guests.