The Big CheeseUltra Power Trap Kit for Mice

I realised I had at least one mouse, and managed to catch the blighter by hand (not at all easy!) - then followed all the usual advice (fill holes with steel wool etc.) but the next day there were still chewing sounds at night and mouse spoor in the house. Not good. Wanting to cover all bases, I bought one of these and baited with a quarter of Lindt Lindor milk chocolate truffle, some nice parmesan, and a bit of biscuit. The next day, I did a double-take looking at the trap - no mouse, no bait! I had basically given a mouse a three course meal. Resolved to send this back to Amazon and call in the exterminators, but not looking forward to having dead mice in the skirting. Re-baited the trap just in case. This evening, I heard a buzzing noise. And lo! Dead mouse, with his nose in the chocolate. Easily bagged and disposed. As witnessed first hand, it was over in a few seconds - mouse did not suffer unduly. Reset the trap, just in case, and sat down to write this review. Bzzzzt! Another mouse. Now slightly horrified. Waiting to see what happens in the next 5 minutes...

I purchased one of these a few weeks ago - unfortunately for me (the mouse not so much), rather than kill it, I just provided Mickey with a nice little home and an evening meal. He made a bed using my loft insulation, tucked into the peanut butter and then left his cosy abode. (See pic).I returned the faulty trap and requested a replacement but exactly the same thing has happened with trap two. The batteries were brand new in both traps, (I did try different ones just in case they were the faulty culprit), but the light flashed green on all occasions, so I know it isn't the batteries.I can't believe 2 traps would be faulty, it must be a fault with the design surely? Are they all dud? I don't know, but I won't try for a third time, in the two weeks I've spent so far trying to get replacements, no doubt I've got 100+ more baby Mickey's in my loft right now.So my recommendation...NO. DO. NOT. BUY. Don't waste your time, your money or your peanut butter. Look elsewhere - and then please be kind enough to let me know which trap you found that actually works, so I can buy that instead. Thank you.

Arrived yesterday, one day early, set last night, and up to now 12 hours later, 7 mice caught and killed. Instantly, without a squeak. Convinced it could have been more but dead ones blocked the way for others. Why do I think this? Because only once have I re-baited because the mice die before reaching the bait. That one time all the bait was gone and I believe another mouse had climbed over his dead brother without touching the metal plate!

Fairly simple and certainly most humane way to dispose of problematic mice.Moving into a Farmhouse we had ALOT of little critters making unwanted appearances. We didn’t actually realise how many until we started using various forms of pest control.After catching many through traditional mouse traps, they started to stop falling for it, and despite having the ‘quick-kill’ mousetraps which were certainly humane in their speed, they weren’t so pleasant to dispose of.Enter the electric mouse killer.This was brilliant in many ways, but I found after a while it did have a few flaws.Firstly, I noticed the entry hole seemed very small. Don’t worry about that, they cheeky little critters will certainly fit.Setting it up with either cheese, peanut butter or Nutella, the first couple of nights we had zero luck, whilst the other traps in the vicinity caught a few. Maybe they just got there first.Soon though, we were catching mice each night. What was best was it was so easy to dispose of. No nasty ‘kill bar’ to have to release and the mice just look like they were asleep instead of any unpleasant mess to clean.After a while though, it stopped working. The green light showed it was powered on, but the mice were happily entering the device, eating their full and getting away.I found that cleaning the electric plates with some wet paper towels (MAKE SURE TO TURN OFF AND REMOVE BATTERIES) did the trick, the next day it was back catching.But now it seems I have to clean the device this way each time for it to work.For this reason I gave it 4 star instead of a full 5 star.With this in mind, is it worth the money compared to a normal ‘quick kill’ mouse trap?Well, if you live in a Farmhouse/Countryside and inundated with ‘visitors’, then perhaps not, as multiple traps would cost a lot.However, if you have just one-or-two little critters you’d like to rid yourself of, then this would be good.The main difference - no nasty kill mess to deal with compared to cheaper mousetraps, so if you’re a little squeamish, or don’t want to be upset by any mess, then this is definitely for you.

Well I never expected to be writing a very positive review of The Big Cheese, but it has worked like a dream. You have to be canny though, and patient. I've had a mouse problem ("just one", said the pest controller) for a very long time and have tried mouse bait myself (that was all the pest controller did), but, like him, without any obvious success. With spring coming, and a possible mouse baby boom, I felt I had to do something more drastic - besides the scratching above my head at night was, frankly, doing my head in.I had some mouse bait (Roshield block bait) that I had been using prior to getting this zapper and I continued to use it with The Big Cheese (much cleaner than peanut butter). What I did was bash up a couple of blocks of the bait into smaller pieces between sealed in newspaper (wearing gloves, very impt), put some into an open container in the loft that the mouse (mice) were used to seeing and eating from, and a few bits into the Big Cheese at the end. I placed the Big Cheese close to the open container, in such a position that it would be easily seen but would not move if a mouse entered. At this point I did not turn it on. The bait in the open container was, predictably, taken quickly, but not in The Big Cheese, since this was an 'unknown' to the mouse(mice) and not trusted yet. I refilled the open container. This again was taken. I must have very resilient mice because they don't seem to die they just keep coming back for more. When the open container was empty a day or so later, I did not refill it; the original bait was still in The Big Cheese. I turned The Big Cheese ON. I figured that with nothing to eat they would tentatively perhaps, try to get the stuff in the bait station. I was right. Next day, one dead mouse! However, I could still hear scratching above my head at night, so I went through the same procedure again, as above. This time it took one day longer (maybe a week all told), and when I checked today, there was the other one. I don't know if there are any more, but I will re-set just in case. One important thing to say is to use gloves when handling anything that a mouse will get close to and sniff at; they can detect anything human and will stay away. Even emptying The Big Cheese, use gloves (who wouldn't anyway at this point!) so as not to add your DNA if re-setting. You get the picture? Be patient and remember, slowly, slowly catchee monkey. It worked for me.PS I did take a picture of the first mouse in the trap, which is very visible since it's see-through, but decided to spare you the spectacle. It was both a moment of triumph to see it there, but also of distaste generally. So do it yourself and have your own experience.