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easy to use and it does it's job...kills moles!

This product is next to worthless. If it weren't so cheap I would have gone to the trouble of returning it to Amazon.Where to start: 1) The "keys" to open the box come LOCKED IN THE BOX. 2) There are NO INSTRUCTIONS for how to open, load, or deploy the box. 3) The box doesn't TRAP rodents, it's sole purpose is to keep the rodent poison (sold separately) from being accessed by pets or children. 4) The wire inside the box seems to serve no purpose, and there is no obvious explanation for its proper use. 5) The extra piece of plastic in the box is to hang (?) or attach the box to a wall, but no explanation of why that's a good idea.To get the key out, I had to shake the box and dig it out with a finger. I threw away the useless extra piece of plastic. I laid the wire in on top of the bait, but have no idea what it's for, other than perhaps to give the rodent some extra exercise when they try to access the bait.I wish I hadn't been in such a hurry when I purchased this and had read the other fine reviews that would have warned me to NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT.

I live in the country in Illinois and I have been in this house for 13 years and I have more crazy mouse stories than could fill a book. I don't do poison, I don't do the horrific glue traps. I used the snap traps because there's no other choice they have to be controlled and I hated it. Hated doing it every time. I did have a rule if any survived the trap, they were rehabbed in and re-homed. It's a whole thing (the last one had babies). I've tried all kinds of store bought & homemade humane traps which have never - not once - ever worked. My cat does his part too. My house has been sealed & plugged everywhere but I'm in the middle of fields & some wooded shelter. Plus barns. Lots of habitats. Last week I discovered a very cute little young mouse in my pantry - which would quickly become a huge nightmare and clean up job but I hated to set a snap trap in there so I did another search for a humane trap and found these and then I found a video showing them in action which really helped me decide. $22 for 4 was well worth a try. I've had them for 3 days and I've caught 3 mice - seriously! Each safe & sound. Then I found these carriers for $6 each (used but in excellent condition also on Amazon) and got 4 so they can be temporarily housed until released. Ahhh I feel so much better not having my mouse graveyard and the wildlife food chain around here is better served w/ a better quality of life for these cute little mess makers too at least a fair shot. I use a mix of gourmet birdseed (raisins & nuts) & peanut butter as bait. I also add some extra peanut butter to the ceiling by the bait holder so they do actually get to eat while in there - plus they come in all the way to get it, which triggers the door. I got the XL size and a tiny mouse was able to trigger it. I think this bait works so well because it smells really good & attacks them.Be sure to clean any poop or pee because it could cause the floor mechanism to stick - pipe cleaner works well as does a wooden skewer. Check traps at least 1 time a day but 2 is better as it is cramped in there for bigger mice. Relocate them. Good Karma. Thank you to the designer of these!!!Update - still love these humane traps & ordered more. Tempted to place in barn to limit overall population & nests. But they broke out of the little pink carriers (in pics) in no time (I should've known better) and I kept recatching the same one before realizing it! Now I keep 5 gal buckets ready (w/ holes drilled in lids & some bedding) to temp house them before re-releasing them. I have 6 in sep buckets now (ok w/ bedding, food & water like mini pet homes until i can release them if im busy). Traps work excellent! No more evidence of mouse traffic in basement or elsewhere in house since I'm catching them & re-releasing them & breaking generation cycles. They get released into a good habitat away from other homes (& some food for the road)! 😉

Moles are just eatting my yard with tunnels and I got one within hours with this device, The tunnels stopped but I have to say it is very hard to set using my boot to step on and set, Once its set I pull it out of the soil then reset just enough for the plunger to touch the soil, I can look out my windows and see when it is setoff lifting up and can see it tripped, it was a big white mole and its not with us anymore.

Over the years we've lived in multiple residential areas, and I've had to deal with moles at virtually all of these homes - so I have some experience with them - both with repelling them and catching them. I normally use and have had success with castor oil products...but I recently had a mole that was tearing up my yard, and it seemed to be immune to castor oil. So after doing a fair amount of research on Amazon, I decided to buy this trap; I note that most all of these traps had mixed reviews - so I wasn't confident of the results. Nevertheless, it was worth a little bit of money to try it. And after my experience with using this trap, I'm going to bet that it would get better reviews if the directions were better and if it were a little easier to use. So let me tell you what I learned about this trap - good and bad. First the bad: this trap can be a bit difficult to set when it's in the ground - and it can also be very difficult to change its "mode" (open/close) when it's out of the ground and you need to remove the dead varmint and return the trap to a safe mode for storage. With a little bit of practice I was able to figure out the technique to use my foot to set (open) the trap into the ground; it just takes a bit of effort and a little bit of coordination. However, on the back end - after I had caught the critter and removed the trap from the ground - I had to get a little creative. I recommend the following: mount the trap between some scrap lumber (I used two short pieces of 4 x 4) and use your foot to open the trap the same way that you originally set it; then you can remove the critter. If during this process you fully reset the trap, then you can "trigger" it back to safe mode by using a thin piece of wood or metal to lift the circular disk that will close the trap. So that's the bad...now for the good: It worked once I figured out the trick to using it - and this trick isn't contained in the instructions. I failed on my first attempt because I didn't have a good grasp of the mechanical mechanism that triggers the trap - even though its pretty simple. I installed the trap across the active tunnel, and then a day or two later the mole just went right through the trap and extended its tunnel without ever triggering the trap - very disappointing. But that experience caused me to look more closely at the triggering mechanism - which then led me to figure out why I had failed. The trick to making the trap work is that the varmint has to somewhat aggressively push up against the round plate to trigger the trap; the way to make that happen is by crushing down the tunnel and then inserting the trap across the crushed tunnel. When the critter re-excavates the tunnel, he then triggers the trap. That's why I failed on my first attempt...because I didn't collapse its tunnel.In the end, even with the hassle of setting/unsetting the trap, it was definitely worth the money to catch the mole that had been terrorizing my yard for weeks.