Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

These baits or any bait would have some kind of design flaws. With the price of these baits, they are worth the money if we know how to overcome these design flaws Here are a few simple tricks that would make these traps work perfect 100% of the time, no mis-snap, no missing bait, no runaway trap and so forth. 1st - Wear gloves because oil from your skin would rub on the baits, mice would detect human sense on the baits causing them to stay away. Also to be on the safe side, while setting up bates make sure to keep pressing one hand on the locking end else you could accidentally snap your fingers on the snapping side. I got snapped, ouch. 2nd - Do not put bait in the ready-made circular hole tray in the trap. This is a design flaw because little mice just went underneath the flapper and it does not activate. Instead put the bait (peanut butter is the best bait) further back, way inside the flapper. This forces the mice to go deeper to reach the bait and push the flapper down which activates the snap action. 3rd - Do not put too much bait just about a centimeter size is good enough; too much it just does not give the mice focus and it drifts everywhere. 4th - If a large rat hit the flapper and it snaps only 10% of its head so the rat still alive but stuck in the trap. This can resolve by trimming the flapper 30% in, trim the flapper to where half of the circular hole. This way large rat has to move its mouth even further before the snap action takes place. 5th - If the rat still alive and kicking but still trap half of it head. Do not use a shove, hammer, baseball bat, or any blunt object to put it out of its misery, because you would make a mess it would splatter blood everywhere for cleaning up. Just bring it outdoor suffocate it with bleach. If your bait keeps running away then tie it up with a string. Lastly, do not throw a raw dead rat in a garbage can because in a few days maggots and smell be all over the place and you have to clean up your trash can later. Instead, use a garden 1-gallon bucket or any small bucket insert shopping plastic bag in the bucket and put a little dirt, soil in it then place the rat in there and sprinkle more dirt on top to cover the rat, could spray some bleach on top of the soil to discourage flies. Remember to cover the top of the bucket. This way prevents flies and the soil act as a moister absorber. When trash day comes to tie up the bag and put in the garbage can. A big downside is this thing does not last, about 10 plus snaps and the click activate the flap inside worn out, and it keeps shutting. Too bad, I really like the traps; somehow, if they can make that clip inside more durable then it is perfect. Just replaced the highly sensitive moving part from plastic to stainless steel or its mechanical design that the plastic part does not die out so quickly (see update below for the fix for this, using a razor blade glue to the broken latch) Update (a week after returned) After exchanging these baits with other baits, I found out that these baits are one of the best ones even though they have flaws. Here are more flaws I found out more in this update that causes by time: Unresponsive snaps or over-sensitive snap is caused by a broken latch inside the bait. The fix is gluing a thin metal sheet-like razor blade to the releasing latch that slides out in the back inside the baits. That part breaks easily. Another flaw through time is with outdoor sunny/wet garden the baits would get rust and crack. What I do is I use odorless lubricant and lube on the metal springs to prevent rust from forming. For preventing the UV damage leads to cracks is to put more in the shade. These baits worth the money compared to all the other ones even with flaws. The other ones I brought have more flaws like flimsy, weaker spring, smaller size. These items make me feel like they are seasonal items. If their useful life is over like the plastic integrity gives out or the springs life dies out, I would order more of these baits.