OWLTRA OW-2 Indoor Electric Mouse Trap 2 PCS, Instant Kill Rodent Zapper with Pet Safe Trigger, Black

This is amazingly effective! And you don't have to look at the mice that are zapped in container. Just pull off the top and look away as you throw out the pest. It's convenient like that. The only drawback is that only mice can fit through the entry. If you have those monster rats, they can't fit. Maybe OWLTRA can make a rat size unit. I have lost count of the mice that seem to love the peanut butter in the trap. Easy to set, easy to clean and not scary for the mice. Batteries last long.

Sorry for the long life story before the review (skip to next paragraph if just wanting the review): As one who loves all animals (and has had mice as pets in her youth) but who has enough common sense to know that wild mice running freely in a home is a definite NO due to diseases they carry and the filth/mess they create if not in a caged, managed, cleaned (i.e. a pet friendly) environment, I knew I had to come up with some solution when I suddenly found a mouse in my basement after I had a new furnace installed. I tried humane traps, I tried deterrents of all kinds, I tried outdoor sprays, mothballs, peppermint essential oils and while I believe those "sort of" helped, it was not 100%. I KNOW I will NEVER use a glue trap (that is true torture for the creature!!!!) or poison as they may die outside and poison another critter if eaten or they may die between walls in the house and attract more critters. Finally a neighbor set some snap traps and my heart broke EVERY SINGLE TIME. While effective, it was awful. I could hear it, some looked like they were injured instead of instant and likely died slowly and then there was clean up. I just couldn't - so the neighbor had to keep coming back if someone was caught. Fast forward, the neighbor is no longer there, I've had a mouse free home for years (using preventative methods still, sprays, powders, peppermint oil, etc.) and have kept a couple snap traps refreshed and baited for a while. Suddenly I noticed peanut butter is missing on both traps but nothing triggered. Back to the internet, I see these electric traps. I watched and read review after review, watched YouTube on how to use and discard, read that it is still torture but it's quick and has less chance of causing a bad injury but not death, etc. and decided to give it a try. My stomach still turns and my heart hurts everytime I set it up and worse yet when I see the light flashing that someone is in there. But out of all my experiences in dealing with this, so far, this has been the best option for me in managing this. In a perfect world, they would all climb into a humane trap, get spayed/neutered and released in a happy mouse haven where they could live out their days in freedom. However, the reality is they can't live here. So finally the review: The trap is compact, neat and easy to understand. I put a small pea sized amount of peanut butter in the bait area with a toothpick and put the lid back on, installed batteries (4 AA), set the trap along a wall with the opening facing out, turned it on. The green light flashed to indicate it was ready. 2 days later....nothing. I went back and put a tiny, thin smear of peanut butter on the outside of the trap bait area and the next day the green light was flashing to indicate someone was in there. I turned off the trap and it certainly wasn't pleasant opening the top to find a dead mouse, but it was easier to drop it out into a bag, close the trap, and reset it after I re-smeared the outside a teensy bit. The next day, round 2 was caught. I don't have to touch the dead mouse, I don't have to look at it, and I haven't heard the trap "do it's job" like I did the snap traps. I have since set another one and see how this goes. I don't look forward to having to clean the trap but rather this than some of the other options. I appreciated the warnings that the trap should be placed in a clean, dry area away from anything flammable (laundry lint, chemicals, etc.) and that it is intended for indoor use only. I also liked the suggestion of uninstalling the batteries if concerned about getting an accidental shock during cleaning or removing the dead. If anything changes in my review, I'll update it but so far this seems to be the way to go for me - I wish I could find their entry point(s) and prevent all of this. :( RIP little mice. :'(

The OWLTRA OW‑2 Indoor Electric Mouse Trap blew me away. I’ve tried snap traps, glue traps, and every “humane” gadget out there, and nothing has worked as consistently or cleanly as this. The setup took only a minute, and the design is smart—no mess, no guessing, no drama. When it activates, it does exactly what it promises, and the indicator light makes it easy to check at a glance. What I appreciate most is how safe and contained it feels. No exposed parts, no unpleasant cleanup, and no worrying about pets or kids getting into it. It’s compact, easy to empty, and resets instantly. Within the first 24 hours, it solved a problem I’d been dealing with for weeks. If you want something reliable, sanitary, and effective, this is the trap to get. OWLTRA nailed it. Highly recommended.

Much easier then the old wooden ones. Much cleaner to dispose of, and worth the price. Runs on 2 AA batteries that lasts, and when light flashes on top you got one.

I've used Victor electronic mouse & rat traps for over 10 yrs. They're VERY expensive, but definitely more humane & that's important. I've been frustrated w/ them because they stop working before even going thru 2 sets of batteries. Many of those traps never make past 1 set of batteries. All the cleaning & treating them as good as can be doesn't work! So I decided to try the 2-piece electronic Victor mouse traps since maybe if the part that holds the bait fails, it can be replaced cheaper than the entire trap & it would make cleaning easier too. But my orders have not been successful. I was sent the same old 1-piece traps instead, & when I tried to re-order the 2-piece traps, they just never came & I've been waiting since early Nov & over a month later still waiting for them to be shipped from Victor. So tried these Owltra mouse zappers in the meantime. Not only did they make it here in decent time, but they work so much better! So good in fact that I'm getting tired of seeing the green light flashing AGAIN & AGAIN. While waiting on the Victor's to come, the mice have been nesting & I have lots of baby mice getting caught now. Thanks a lot Victor for all the additional killing of little critters I now have to do because of your slow/non order fulfillment. The Owltra's just go & go & go! Even the bigger, fatter (pregnant) mice easily fit & go into Owltra traps, unlike the Victor mouse ones. In the past I had to use the Victor RAT size ones to allow for the pregnant & bigger mice to get in it (even more expensive & more dangerous for a pet paw to reach in & get shocked too). The owltra traps r made just right to put in a snack or cereal box to keep paws away from trap openings as well as easily slide into narrow places mice travel thru that the Victor is too wide to fit in. Another thing, the Owltra's are also 2-piece w/ the batteries/electronics in the top piece that removes so the bottom piece can be soaked in water to clean. The entire bottom part is open for easy cleaning & baiting. As for baiting, I've used 1/4" pieces of beef jerky for the strongest smell attractant w/o being wet & messy, I found that some goldfish flakes, dry dog or cat food nuggets, or bird food work best. Mice will come to these things w/o a hitch. Peanut butter, cheese, & crackers just don't work well to attract mice to traps & tend to mess up the electronics w/ moisture & smearing. But now I'm sold on the beef jerky bits! Best bait of all. Trust me, I've had over 10 yrs experience w/ Victor's electronic traps; bait matters! These Owltra's don't even need bait after the beef jerky has been used & that scent is in the trap along w/ the scent of previous mice being in the traps. The scents remain after the jerky is gone & keeps drawing more mice in to sniff around & u got 'em, no re-baiting even required! The scent of previous mice in a trap makes other mice consider it to be a safe mouse-friendly place to enter. So that matters too, & after the 1st catch, u have that scent in there which attracts more to enter. As for baby mice, it's not unusual to catch 2 @ a time because the Owltra trap design is much different from the more size restrictive Victor trap. The Owltra's cost less than the Victor alternative too. I'm an Owltra fan now! Good-bye Victor. I do have to say that the newer Victor mouse traps have much improved over the older ones tho! I'll give 'em that! But the Owltra's have outperformed Victor in real life usage for me in an old house in winter & in an area w/ large outdoor summer mice presence that come looking for a warm place to winter over in. Hope all this info helps someone. Please be humane tho!

(This review is for the mouse version not the larger rodent or rat versions.) You can buy a bunch of cheap snap traps for the price of just one of these electronic traps. I bought those cheap ones first but there were so many drawbacks to them I switched to these and I'm happy I did. The first reason I didn't like the snap traps is that when they work you've got a (hopefully) dead mouse in plain view. I don't like walking into my kitchen and seeing a mouse carcass. With these traps everything is covered and out of sight until you're ready to deal with it. Yes the dead mouse is still there with these but I don't have to look at it until I'm ready. Another reason I don't like the cheap snap traps is that you have to arrange barriers so that the mouse can get to them but pets can't. I have two cats and quickly found out the barriers need to be pretty big and heavy to keep the cats away from the trap and the caught mouse. Kind of a hassle when I needed to place the traps around my kitchen. But But the biggest reason I switched from the cheap traps is that they don't always kill the mouse. Unfortunately, they sometimes just crush part of the mouse without killing it leaving it alive but suffering in pain in the trap until you notice it (which could be hours if you're away or asleep). I don't want mice in my house or garage but I also don't want fellow mammals to suffer needlessly. These traps worked great for me and eliminated the mice that had infiltrated my house within 3 days. They are easy to empty—just lift off the lid and dump into a trash can. You don't need to touch the carcass, pry it out of the trap or even look at it. Quick and convenient and the trap is ready to go for the next mouse as soon as you put the lid back on and flip the switch. I happened to be nearby when one of the traps caught a mouse. The trap emits a low whine or buzzing sound when it's activated. It's pretty quiet but I was able to notice it in a silent room. It stays activated for a while (I'd guess about a minute) to make sure the job is done. When it stops making noise after a short wait the light starts to flash to let you know it's caught a mouse. A previous reviewer mentioned a smell but fortunately there was no smell at all that I could detect. I had no issues with non-kills; when the light was flashing on my traps there was always a dead mouse inside. I'd guess an issue some other reviewer may have had is if the contacts that connect the top to the bottom get dirty or corroded. The trap likely won't work properly if it can't make a solid electrical connection. I have two cats and I wanted to make sure these traps would be safe around them. Fortunately, the way these traps are designed with the location of the opening and the internal barriers there is absolutely no way even the most inquisitive cat is going to be able to get a paw in there let alone have two different paws touch the two metal plates. (Without going into the details on how this type of trap works a mouse would need to contact one of the metal plates with a front foot and the other with a back foot in order to be dispatched.) There is no way even a small cat or dog could do that and the voltage and current likely wouldn't be enough even if they could. You don't need to worry about your cats with this trap. Obviously, though, if you have rodent-sized pets such as hamsters you'll want to make sure they can't get near these. One thing I would change about this trap is to make the bait cup removable for easier cleaning and changing of the bait. What I did is put my bait peanut butter on a small scrap of paper and then put that down in the bait cup so that the peanut butter didn't stick to the trap itself. Another thing I would change is to have the trap self-test the connection to the bottom part when turned on. It should flash or something to let you know if the contacts are not making an adequate connection. I'm very happy with these traps and definitely recommend them despite the high price.

We heard noises in a partition wall of our kitchen the weekend after Thanksgiving. I ignored it for a couple of days until I actually saw the mouse. I called our pest control company - no results (quite frustrating). I bought about 3 different kinds of glue traps - no results. There is actually one kind of glue trap sold on Amazon that I placed to only watch the mouse crawl over it like a bridge. I bought 3 different kinds of snap traps - no results. I bought the spin traps - no result. I tried the old ¨bucket trick¨ - no results. At this point I am about 3 weeks into the frustrating situation of having a mouse in my house with a concerned wife, a 3 year-old, and a newborn. I finally got my son to leave the traps alone, but explaining why they were there just concerned him. I finally came across the Owltra electric traps. Humane, reusable, effective - at this point I've filtered through many products and I've heard it all. I am about $200 into a never-ending battle - why not try Owltra? The product is well made but is low profile. I was able to fit it behind a couch that seemed to be the mouses favorite tunnel (even through no glue trap or snap trap in that location had produced results). A week goes by and I am still frustrated. I happened to glance over behind the couch and I finally saw the green light! No mess, no agonizing mouse, no problem. These traps might be reusable, but I just took the batteries out and tossed the whole thing into the garbage can outside. These traps aren't exactly cheap, but I was not willing to clean up after a dead mouse and reuse the trap. The mouse was actually larger than expected and this trap still got the job done. A week went by and my wife wakes me up last night. She heard scratching in the wall when she went to the kitchen for a mid-night drink of water. Great! Here we go again. I had left the second of the two Owltra traps in place behind the couch. I figured it could just live behind the couch. I went and walked the kitchen after my wife woke up and heard nothing. Went to lay back down with the thought of having to deal with another rodent in my house with small children. I woke up about an hour ago to do my morning computer work before my children wake up. I came out to my living room and saw the green light of success flashing nice and bright before I could turn the lights on. Now I'm not excited that I have had 2 mice in my house in the last month when I had only had a mouse in my house one other time in the last 8 years, but I am quite excited about this product. I do not typically write reviews, but this product has worked great. It is not the cheapest solution, but I believe it is money well spent.

Worked right after I put it down. Got a chonker. Quick and clean. Seems like it takes a little while to set off as it ate half my peanut butter. Hoping that means it won't go off if my cat stuffs her paw in there.