Victor® Quick-Kill® Mouse Trap

I bought two of these. The first one disappeared on the first night, which I assume is because a mouse didn't get killed and dragged the trap away somewhere. The second one gets the bait stolen out of it almost every time, I think because the trigger on the bait cover isn't sensitive enough. I did get one, and only one, clean kill out of it. It is essentially useless.

I purchased this trap last week. First night, a mouse tripped the trap from the side, rather than the front. Sadly, the kill bar does not contact the base on the sides , resulting in a mouse , caught by the neck and still very much alive, flopping around on my countertop. Definitely not a 'quick kill'. Mouse was still alive on release. Second night, killed one mouse. Third night the trap will not reset at all. Seriously not impressed. Would not recommend this product. If there was an option for less than one star I would have selected it! I want quick kill, if I must, not mouse torture!!

So the 1st two attempts were unsuccessful. I went online and saw that it was suggested to face the bait side towards the wall. Well that worked. However, the only mouse that was successfully killed was a small one. Maybe a stronger spring mechanism would make this item a little more successful.

Warning: only effective on very small mice. The spring is not strong enough to kill or capture any but the smallest of mice. Also, the trap is not heavy enough: you should brace it or tape it down. (Adding second star for ease of use/design.)

Easy, effective, mouse destroyer. Landlord stated that there was no mouse problem after I complained about chewing sounds behind the walls. I picked up a two pack of these and so far I've removed 8 mice from roaming my apartment at night. You can see one minor foul in how the trap worked in the images, where the mouse and trap are not connected, but, clearly the end goal was achieved. The next kill for each trap with earn them a promotion. My only complaint is that there is no location to place the appropriate sticker so that they may be addressed by their rank, and respected for their excellent service.

I live in a small one bedroom apartment next to a field, I been getting field mice. I bought these new traps, I have had success in humanely killing two mice. The bait cover is very sensitive, slight touch to it sets the trap off. Thank you for improving your design of the old wooden traps.

I bought this product because it was advertised as "quick" and "humane." It was quick to catch a mouse, but NOT at all humane. The mouse was pinned by its neck, but the "kill" bar did not break the neck. In fact, the mouse scampered off after I released it. If you use this product, there's a good chance you will be consigning mice to long and tortured deaths, making these traps just as cruel as glue traps or poison. The trap is very easy to set and easily triggered, but it is a terrible design with a ridiculously weak spring. I'm going back to the cheaper wooden traps with powerful springs. Did they even test this thing?? Horrible product.

These are the easiest to set traps I've ever used and not only that I don't ever have it going off while I'm placing it into position. Two modifications I've made to these traps to ensure there effectiveness with both mice and rats are 1) shortened thus tightening the spring by approximately 5/16" (reinforced the plastic piece that the spring attaches too) 2) I cut / filed teeth into the kill bar (figured incorporating a straight razor would be too much). Now when that sucker gets tripped I can hear it outside upwards of 50 ft away. And I've never had one suffer unlike the wooden traps where I had to start tying them to something so they didn't pull a Houdini and disappear.

It doesn’t always kill the mouse. I’ve been using these traps for 2 years now and never had problems. I really like them since they are easy to set and handle. They were highly effective last year too, killing many many mice. This year however, for the past 2 weeks the mice haven’t been always been dying as a result of the snap - on 3 different traps. Their necks are trapped under the snap. This morning (why I came here) the mouse was running stuck in the trap. when I opened the trap outside it ran off. Not sure if all the traps reached a certain age where the springs are too old. But right now, similar to other reviews it’s not giving a lethal blow to the mouse. I do feel really bad that they would suffer vs instant death. I think I might buy some live catch traps now as this morning really made me feel awful. The poor mouse was scared for sure and most likely suffering.

The traps are advertised as 'Quick-Kill', yet every mouse we've caught with one has still been alive, just caught, in immense pain. There is a reason the phrase:'If it 'aint broke, don't fix it' exists, and this is a perfect example of that. You'd be better off getting the regular wooden traps, and those ones are cheaper