The Best Mousetrap

After more than 18 hours of research and interviews with industry experts, and a combined eight hours of baiting, setting, and detonating mousetraps, we are confident that the Tomcat Press ‘N Set Mouse Trap is the proverbial “better” mousetrap. It’s easier to set than the competition without hurting your fingers and easier to empty without touching a dead mouse—and it traps mice just as well as anything else we tested.To get more news about Mice Glue Book, you can visit senpinghz.com official website.

With a powerful snap, mouse-grabbing teeth that remind us of the Monster Book of Monsters in Harry Potter, and a sensitive trigger, this simple, inexpensive trap did its mouse killing job just as well as more traditionally designed traps. It’s small, discreet, and so inexpensive that you can buy bagfuls at a time without hesitation, yet just as effective as bulkier gadgets that cost far more money.
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The Victor does a fine job killing mice, but is trickier to set up than our top pick and doesn’t make it as easy to discharge a dead mouse without touching the body. That means it isn’t as easily reusable, but it’s also cheap enough to throw away along with a dead rodent—and that adds up to some savings when you need to buy a lot of them.

Why you should trust me
In my lifetime I’ve dealt with mild-to-moderate mouse problems in two houses and a studio apartment in Madison, Wisconsin, and a one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn, New York. In those instances, I relied on the classic wood-and-wire snap traps, as well as a catch-and-release trap. Also, I’m descended from three generations of butchers, who taught me the value of a quick and clean kill, so I’m no stranger to this kind of thing.

To write this piece, I consulted Shawn Woods, a mousetrap enthusiast whose weekly video series, Mousetrap Monday, shows him testing all kinds of mousetraps. He covers how to set them up and their successes and failures, as documented by an infrared motion camera in his Oregon barn. Woods has over a million subscribers, and like Wirecutter, makes money from traps purchased through affiliate links on his videos, but he’s not shy about explaining exactly why he likes and dislikes certain traps. He rarely gets freebies from trap companies, and he told me that he spent about $10,000 on traps in 2017.
Who this is for
This guide is for someone who wants to deal with a one-off or recurring mouse infestation on their own before consulting the professionals. I realize nobody wants to kill mice—and I considered several no-kill traps in this research—but my reporting led conclusively to traps that do kill the mice. Live-catch traps have a tendency to become lethal if they aren’t dealt with quickly leading the captive mice to die of stress or hunger if left untended, even just overnight. If you are able to transport the captured mouse before they perish they would need to be relocated more than a quarter mile away from your home to keep them from returning, which is inconvenient and in some states illegal. You can read more about the problems we have with no-kill traps below.
How we picked and tested
I started by learning everything I could about mice and mousetraps. I looked at the top results on Amazon, Google Shopping, and retailers like Home Depot and Lowe’s. I read countless owner reviews and forum posts online to find common problems among the different types of traps—from the ubiquitous snap trap to the more obscure (and often gruesome) varieties like the rolling log, which I discuss more in The competition.

I asked the experts about their favorite traps, and their criteria for a good trap. I also talked to about a dozen Wirecutter staffers—spanning many age, geographic, and socioeconomic demographics—about their past experiences with mice. The experts and I delved into details like how to bait and set a mousetrap, how to prevent mice from entering your home in the first place, and, of course: Why not just get a cat?