Why Are These The Most Popular Mouse Traps On Amazon? This seems like a scam. Mousetrap Monday.
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Mousetrap Monday tests out the top selling mouse traps on Amazon. Buyer Beware.
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Have you considered The Dizzy dunker, Is to big for the average home. It might catch many as you say but I wouldn't buy it unless i had a large scale issue. My Favourite is "the Better Mouse Trap" its easy to set and clean, similar to the plastic one you showed I'm still using my better mouse trap after 20+ years, just add peanut butter.
I enjoy the videos, but the Dizzy Dunker is too big for my domicle and impractical on my property. I use multiple bait houses outdoors and Victor Electronic Traps indoors. Sorry Shawn. I'll still continue to support your channel with 👍🏻's and being subscribed.
I wonder if you could feed the mice to a pet snake?
I also use the spring traps.
I've had very good luck with the TomCat brand not letting the rodents get loose after they get mired.
I haven't had problems with Shawn's hands getting into my cupboards since I started using traps...
@atticstattic - Lol. 🤣
The one good thing about glue traps is that they are actually great at catching insects inside your home.
Spider glue traps work a treat!
Yeah I use them a lot in my garage and basement to keep the crickets under control. It get really bad if I don't.
Agree---I cut them in smaller strips and place throughout the house---Works great
@@haroldsmith5761 I just tried that and it's extremely efficient and effective
@@Blue-bf8lv spider glue traps sound like a scam to get you to buy more fly glue traps 😆
The only people I found to buy these are the ones who think snap and electric traps are too "barbaric." It is quite ironic, really, because you are just making the mouse starve in agony.
How often are you having conversations about mousetraps? Are you a mousetrap salesman?
I own two grain silos next to my barn. Mice are a pain, and my neighbors have the same issues, hence the conversations we have about mouse traps and how we effectively catch them. It's called communicating with your neighbors; you should try it sometime.@@kiwe3546
@@kiwe3546if you have mice its a conversation most people have with someone lmao
Not true. I taught in a school that was infected with kangaroo rats. We were not allowed to use anything except glue traps because of the children. The school was never fumigated, nor did I ever see an exterminator truck at the site.
Probably the same idiots I encounter that think it's barbaric to hunt for meat instead of buying it at the supermarket
I used a similar glue trap for a small fruit tree that was infested with a type of flying insect, don't remember the name. Every once in a while it would catch a lizard and I felt bad for them, I found I could put a little oil on a q-tip and rub them at the attachment point. Some of them took a while to free, but they would run away pretty much unharmed.
I have a “Shawn Woods lives here” sign outside my house. I have no problems with mice, rats, squirrels, chipmunks, moles, voles or gophers…
And sometimes yellow jackets 🐝
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
I've been bitten by brown recluse spiders twice, I use the glue traps without remorse.
Scorpions aren't any fun, either
Thank goodness for Shawn's hairy hand for testing these traps.
I use the glue traps mainly to catch bugs not mice
Flypaper, basically. I’ve used sticky traps to catch insects, too. Especially fruit flies.
@@censusgary i said for bugs not flies. SMH
i got mine for roaches, wound up catching field mice, not much bigger than roaches. i thought my window AC was losing a bearing, the squealing was coming from a mouse. "Roach motel", don't know if they still sell them.
@@jand8303 ...What do you think flies are?
@@AirLancer their not bugs! Try again! SMH!
I agree the oldi wood traps (or modern redesigns in plastic) are some of the best along with the aligator one click style. I've used both and had sucess. Never liked glue traps as they tend to be alot messier. Even when I cought a mouse in them it was not uncommon for them to drag it around in their struggles and stick it to something else. And thats not even counting all the times someone other than a mouse managed to get themselves stuck to the things by accident.
A friend and I caught 19 mice in one day with one old fashioned snap mouse trap. We kept reloading it every time we got one.
You would think the mice could smell the stink of death, but I guess not.
I have had equally good stats.
Boy didn't even flinch from getting snapped 😮
A mouse trap isn't too powerful. It stings, but it's not too bad. A rat trap though....
@@volvo09 still I would still be nervous but Shawn is a professional
I was gonna joke that he has a lot of practice not flinching when looks in the mirror but Shawn's not that bad.
When I was living in a place with a mouse infestation (when I started watching this channel!), I basically went with the Tomcat glue traps. There were kids in the house so I had to be careful with snap traps, and the crocodile-style snap traps just never did anything. I did check those glue traps daily and had to dispatch the mice caught. Not a great option but for whatever reason, it was really the only effective one.
The sticky ones aren't considered humane here in the UK.
Just because people don't find them inhumane doesn't mean they aren't inhumane.
Occasionally the nanny state has a point.
@@jorgemtzb9359So you agree.
Yes, I think they banned them here. I remember talking to someone who had the unenviable job of spending a day at work killing mice stuck to cardboard traps.
If you check daily it's not that different from a catch trap.
Glue traps suck. As an animal control officer I’ve removed those glue traps off of countless snakes, birds and larger mammals such as raccoons Edit. Olive oil will remove the glue board
The glue traps have never failed me. This is opposed to the snap traps which never seem to catch any mice or rats.
facts always works
Does it work, once rat is stuck? Meaning it will last till pick them up next morning?
@@user-vz2vd8xm2ocube law or something like that anything with less mass and volume stays stuck with exception to some insects I would suspect there's a really small chance of them trying to chew off a limb or escape but it usually end up being them getting stuck again or dragging the whole trap which is very noticable the catch master is what I used and it cleaned up most in a couple weeks with changing out traps every day or so. And don't fold them it catches more.
I caught 4 mice in 2 days using the wooden Victor snap traps
Vegetable oil helps to unstick from the sticky traps. Also, it cleans the glue if it get on another surface.
Oh damn, I wish I knew this. My roomba got stuck in a glue trap once and I used kerosene to clean it and the floor.
@@WilliamWonkait seems like those little robots seek them out! Clorox clean wipes will clean it off too. Spoken with experience lol.
You inadvertently discovered the cheapest waxing kit on Amazon.
I always come to Shawn for my beauty tips.
I used the catchmaster and also the alligator teeh style snap trap. It all depends on the environment. I used Catchmaster glue trap for door areas with not a lot of traffic of course. The snap trap I use (works 100% for me) when I know there is an active mouse that needs to go ASAP. If you realize there is a mouse and they have eaten something partially take whatever it was and put it in the trap, gets them everytime.
The only legitimate use I've seen of glue traps is Japanese beekeepers using them to protect their hives from giant hornets. They catch one on it, and then all its friends come to its rescue and get caught too
Glue traps. For people who want their mice to reflect on their life choices and regret entering the house before dying.
So a really good deal
A friend had a car parked for months unused and rats were nesting in it and chewing wires. The rat or rats managed to escape a glue trap, though losing a lot of fur.
Glue traps are good for spiders and other small unwanted bugs.
I used to use max catch and they would only work if a mouse walked onto it by mistake even then a lot of times there would just be a patch of fur left over from the mouse forcing itself off the glue. One day I literally watched a very annoying mouse walk up to the glue trap with some peanut butter on it sniff the glue and walk around it. Bought some cheap wood traps from the dollar store and it was caught within 10 minutes of putting the trap down.
The Dizzy Dunker where I have room and the Victor snap traps were I do not have the space for the Dizzy Dunker.
I use glue boards because they're the only thing that will fit inside my air vents and under my furniture. They were 100% effective until a few weeks ago when I had a mouse escape twice. Got him on the 3rd try.
i had mouse problems at my last apartment and glue traps worked most consistently if i placed them right. but after one too many times having to put a mouse out of its misery i swore having mice in the house was preferable to using glue traps again
I will not allow glue type traps in my apartment. I had contractor for the complex set up glue traps. Then had mouse escape the trap running around with huge bloody hole in its side. They inhumane in every sense of the word.
I honestly think we should outlaw sticky traps for mice!
I think we should outlaw mice in the house.
I think why those Max glue traps sell so much per month are for commercial use/sales. They are like everywhere in NYC office buildings.
I give you a thumbs up for testing them all with your hand
Yeah, he’s pretty handy that way.
Love how you snuck your own trap in there! I was thinking if you count the mice the trap catches instead of the traps, yours would pay for itself in no time!
did i just watch a 9:24 minute ad and have fun? keep up the good work shawn
The glue boards work, maybe not as well on bigger rats, but they work nonetheless. That's why they're the most popular.
used them to catch scorpions. pretty cheap option
Snap traps work too, and are also cheap. The real difference is convenience. There's no mechanism at all to glue boards. Nothing to set or bait, and no need to check often and reset. Worth more to lazy people than a humane kill.
@@bBlaFI set several types of snap traps for rats and didn’t catch a single after month of resetting them.
@@irogers858 exactly and other bugs
@@bBlaFThe difference is efficiency. You don't have to put faith in the rodent being hungry or being lured to the trap, just walking on the flat surface of it is enough to be caught. It offers quick relief which is favorable from a marketing perspective.
Glue traps are absolutely inhumane. It may be "just a mouse", but it's still a living thing that feels pain. It's crazy to me that some people don't have any empathy for animals
I don't like having mice in my apartment - they are LOUD in the walls and that's just the start of the problems. And since I live on the ground floor they have no trouble finding their way in. So I'll get em if I really have to. But glue traps? No. Noooo absolutely not lmao. No need when there are so many humane options available.
kinda ticks me off how the responce i see from some people who use glue traps i presume are all like “oh what do you wanna NOT use a trap at all then Dummy????” no there’s OTHER traps. They act like glue traps are the only thing out there
They work, but once my cat stepped in one that i thought i had hidden better, panicked and flailed until it got her back too. Absolute nightmare. Haven’t got one since
If you use veggie oil (just pour it over the glue area), it comes off.
Exactly the traps catch all kinds of small animals not just pests
I prefer a cat as a mouse trap as it's always looking for them but we also don't have too many mice in my area
I bought some of these sticky ones once, it got the mouse but its fur was torn out, its skin was torn and it was still alive, I felt absolutely horrible and binned the rest, they're so bad
I used a glue trap only once, seeing the poor thing struggling on the pad broke my heart and I could never used one ever again. I can't stand them suffering even if they're invasive and damaging to have around the house.
Orkin set these in my garage once without telling me. I was outside working one day and a mother Quail with her babies wandered into my garage and two of the babies got stuck in one of the glue traps. Needless to say they did not survive. Glue traps are such a lazy way of trying to catch rodents.
I had about 2 months of my kitchen being terrorized by a mouse, getting into all my food and leaving droppings everywhere. I tried so many different traps to catch it alive and none worked. I eventually got desperate, and those glue traps were the only things that finally worked.
I have found that the glue traps are best for getting the young ones once you manage to get the mother. The adults either get themselves off of it or avoid altogether. My number one tip is spraying an enzyme cleaner around the building. Once I caught my one rat I sprayed daily at a strong concentration, using a garden sprayer. Bonus I've noticed much fewer spiders as well in my older house :) Having that one rat, and her babies, was a horrific time!
I hate glue traps, because I've seen mice rip their backs off to get away then go die in the wall.
They get stuck to wild animals too. If a skunk or any other animal tries to eat that mouse they get the glue trap stuck to themselves and die of starvation or exhaustion trying to get it off and getting stuck.
Snap mouse traps work great to teach your dog to stay off the couch, or buried shallow in a hole they won't stop digging!
Only had to set once, now just toss an unarmed trap on cushion when I leave...he knows 😂
I personally use max-catch glue traps laid flat for spiders, not mice.
Sticky mouse traps are so brutal to the creature you catch with it.
What a man to just stick his hand in a mouse trap
I saw one of these in action at a friends house years ago. The mouse was alive and stuck so well that even its eyeball was stuck to the glue. Horrible sight, i felt so bad for the little thing. My friend thought it was funny...
Don’t ever turn your back on that friend.
snap traps, set effectively, are the most humane with a quick kill. Poison traps are terrible too... eats them from the inside out over the course of days.
Lol you haven't had them chew through your electric or bread
@kitten_582 not like it's malice on the mouses side. But in my friends defense, the mice did kill his computer. Got in via a missing slot cover in the case, the proceeded to pee into a pci slot. Fried the motherboard and the mouse!!
y’know i hear about how people are afraid of getting their fingers snapped by the more manual traps and i see shawn here letting his fingers get hit full on and not even flinching
JUST USE HALF BAKEING SODA AND JIFFY CORNBREAD MIX 🤷♀️
I use glue traps.. I like the sanitary aspect of it.. it is not humane but I dispatch them asap. 😢
The small sized glue traps do work, but I will never forget when one got stuck to a trap in my room and I didn't have the heart to do anything to the mouse and hoped it was just pass away quickly. After three days of hearing the little guy making noise at a mostly regular interval, I was glad to finally be able to get rid of it but in honor gave him the name Trooper when those days were mentally draining on me but I just didn't have the heart to kill it directly.
I definitely would not go around telling people this it makes you look weak
@@brandonfoley7519 it makes him look like he has empathy.
cooking oil works great in stopping the sticky traps. Found an harmless garden snaked in one at my home. Sprayed some oil on it and left him, came back and he was gone.
Ive seen tails and legs left on glue traps. I dont like to use them. The alligator style traps are my go to budget trap.
I remember getting a rat in an electric trap and was astonished that an inch or so of it's tail was missing and thought another rat had been canibalising it...til I saw the sticky with a piece of tail on it :) The only thing the glue traps are good for is getting large numbers of young ones, and you must monitor them constantly to be humane.
I've had mice escape the glue traps, plus I got bit by one that was still alive. Snap traps are my favorite.
The glue is not sticky in cold weather so they do not work when cold which is when we get the most mice in Michigan.
The foldable glue boards make better bug catchers than mouse catcher.
I use the glue tray sticky traps in my crawlspace. You should see the size of the spiders it catches. Yikes. I also use the rat and jumbo sized one in my quail shed. If anyone isn't aware, quail are notorious for flinging and kicking their feed out everywhere. I get sprayed with kicked food when topping off their feeders all the time. They cause such a huge mess that I literally can't catch mice with traps that entice mice to go for food. So I use sticky traps where the mice hide and travel. For all other locations I use Rhinne's dump bucket trap. It works great to catch mice who are searching for food... Just not in locations where food is so easy and common to reach the mice do not care.
Great vid pal,i used the victor quick kill traps after seeing your vids and the big cheese rat trap with penut butter and worked a treat,had to stick the victor down as they are light
No one is talking about what an effective trap would be for a small space (think of an apartment) with kids, cats, and a dog. The Dunker is great but requires quite a bit of floor real estate thanks to the ramps.
I used to use Tomcat glue traps but it leads to pretty nasty situations. You keep having to keep track of them and if one disappears one day you know a mouse dragged it away somewhere and now you need to go look for it and hopefully it's not under the stove or somewhere like that. Vector snap traps are way better although maybe a little more gross to dispose of since the platform is much smaller and the mouse could be bleeding or worse.
I put some tape on the edge to fasten them to the floor.
Some of the best mouse traps are the living kind I’m talking about animals cats dogs owls I got a few on my farm and ever since I started getting them I rodent problems have just dropped
Dogs work way better at getting rid of mice then most other mouse traps
@@_thresh_ But dogs are completely trash in comparison to owls
I'm in the UK and we had mice in the house for weeks and no amount of snap traps or humane traps would catch any of them. I set up cameras to see where they were going to and from. One pack of glue pads later and they were all dispatched within a week. There is talk about them being banned over here so i bought 100 of them. If you know the route of the mouse the pad will stop them dead.
I did the same but don't worry about them being banned as sellers are just retailing them as insect traps when Amazon stopped people from selling them as mouse traps.
They already are illegal in parts of the UK, criminal offence to use them.
so your issue wasnt the traps, but not knowing the path they were on? and, say, if you were to use the same traps that "didnt work" before and place them where the mice go, maybe that would have worked fine?
@@thegorgon7063- Better watch out for random attic checks by the plod then. They’re sure to enforce this ‘crime’ with the full weight of the law!
if your snap traps didn't work that just means you're bad at placement and baiting
Look at the reviews for the dizzy dunker. Apparently it has a lot of issues as well.
For some places like where i live sticky traps are used for more than mere mice such as bugs and various other pests but thats just where i live im not sure where else.
I had a adult mouse and several young stuck together in a glue trap once. You could hear them crying. I never used them again.
I dreaded going in to my kitchen job and hearing the shrieking, it was so awful.
Does that alligator trap have a strong spring? I've used a few of that style in the past and they always fail to kill the mouse. I once caught one in the middle of the night by one foot. He was running around the room with it dragging along. Not wanting to deal with it at 3:30AM I closed him in the room. The next morning I came to a trap with a leg chewed off in it.
A friend of mine had a pet hamster that escaped, only to find it in their sticky traps I told them not to use those sticky traps again
The max catch mouse trap is great for brown recluse spiders. Brown recluse, which live in the southern US is a very nasty spider, and if the spider bites you, you may need to go to the doctor. Putting out tons of sticky traps is one way to help combat the brown recluse. The tunnel type trap is nice because it is less likely to accidentally get on things.
Brown recluse are one of the most overhyped spiders. The amount of incorrect information that's out there is crazy. And I should know! My brother's uncle's nephews cousins former roommate was bitten on the arm by a brown recluse while on vacation in Alaska, and his left pinky toe rotted off and he died three times.
Another factor is the trap's ability to reset itself, like with a bucket trap. I seem to remember you doing a video where you covered the back of the snap trap as mice are afraid to enter covered spaces. Mouse is forced to go around to the trigger.
Poor man kept using his hand to show off the trap
Glue traps are absolutely inhumane and probably should be outlawed, in my opinion. Glad to see Shawn agrees with the inhumane part.
My parents use these and I've had to rescue a mouse and a Garter snake that were both alive still in our garage. Its a hassle but olive oil was the best thing to get them unstuck.
@@justinarney3050Any vegetable oil works well. No need to splurge on olive oil. :)
So... I think everyone is aware why these glue traps are popular. They're cheap, easy, work well, no moving parts... Mouse suffering doesn't come into the thought train. It catches mice, nuff said.
Anything on Amazon with more than a few thousand reviews, I assume those reviews have been farmed and I just keep looking.
I bought the dizzy dunker recently and love it. If I could give it more than five stars I would.
I really need something, but when I looked at the reviews had a bad rating with many saying they didnt work for them....do you know why???
I have used glue traps to catch mice, but I checked them frequently and then used vegetable oil to release the mouse and then let it go outside. I absolutely did not let the mice stay there till they perished.
I usually use the Tomcats and have for 4-5 years since finding them and they do a great job. The sticky kind just work if you put them where you have seen the vermin, unlike the classic wood and metal traps that are supposed to break their necks and almost never worked. Usually within a day of putting one out I have the evil critter and it is toast.
You are readily condemning a wild animal to die of starvation
@@brandonfoley7519it's not wild once it's in your house.
@@kitten_582 mice are not domestic
the tom cat style glue trap works well, because the deeper stretchy glue tends to let them sink in more, insuring the catch.
Me and the family bought the Tom Cat brand glue traps to catch mice from a recent infestation. After two or so weeks of catching mice, I'll say that they are remarkable for the performance. I hear as the mice struggle to break free which sets me off immediately. But the only time when a mouse escaped was when I was pulling one off of a trap, and since I wasn't wearing gloves it nicked me on the middle finger, and it hopped away. Since those two weeks, I haven't seen a single mouse yet, but that's not to say that they may have become wise to the locations. But idk... It certainly helped us when it did.
Been buying the glue boards to catch roaches; ironically the "catchmaster" that says insects doesnt keep them, over time they are able to escape those. The other kinds work fine tho for bugs the flat board gets more traffic than the tray cuz bugs might go around instead of stepping up.
I use another brand of that third style of trap, I've seen them called T-rex style traps. The bait cup is also removable for ease of set up. Thing hasn't gone off in months though.
Also with the tom cat. You gotta realize they are typically on theirs side or belly up. Arms, legs, everything pinned a coated in that gunk. Once their are partially on it, its like the blob, holding onto every piece of fur and limb.
I use the wooden Victor traps and have for years. Peanut butter always works.
have you ever tried a wcs tube trap of a fenn mark 4 or 6 on squirrel removal ? they also work on rats .
Shawn- care to review baking soda/ corn meal? It seems to be working for me.
If you use those glue traps at your home you literally despise life…
I prefer the victor quick kill trap. With the bait cup being covered, i havent had a trap not set off empty. Been absolutely effective for some time.
Glue traps are inhumane. I honestly wish they would be outlawed. Im glad to see that you are not a fan of them.
I’m glad you’re not in charge of making laws. 👍
@@kiwe3546 So you are a fan of animals dying agonizing deaths?
@ shaggyd485 No. I’m just glad you’re not in charge of making laws.
@kiwe3546 OK troll, unless you have something relevant to say, keep your comments to yourself. I love you. Have a nice day.
I think they already were banned but people still sell them. Its a very bad trap to use.
Unfortunately, I've only had luck with sticky traps in my apartment. I've only caught one or two rodents on snap traps, but the sticky traps have caught a few dozen. I hate that it doesn't instantly kill them, but snap traps have barely worked
If you've caught a FEW DOZEN mice in your apartment, I'd consider moving!! 😮
@@beercanrich99 it's over the course of a decade haha. We usually get 2-5 every winter. It adds up really fast
I had the same experience. The glue traps have worked great. The snap traps have been useless.
i said it above, I'll say it here again, if your snap traps are "useless" it means you're baiting and placing them incorrectly. As Shawn said they take some amount of skill to use. If you just put peanut butter on them the mice will lick it off. You have to use bait that causes the mouse to tug the trigger. Dried up peanut butter inside of the trigger works best for me, the mice cannot lick it off
The trap in the thumbnail is very good for small mice. I had four small mice clean off a snap trap two nights in a row. We got some sticky ones and they worked great!
Do this video again next year, and The Dizzy Dunker will be in the top five!
I have never had problems with rodents in my life, I just watch your channel because I like you and your profession is interesting
I live in the san diego east county area near campo ca. We have deer mice here that just seem to be able to run across glue traps and not get caught and they are large enough to get away from regular mouse size victor snap traps. I have to use rat traps and jaw traps on them to get the little monsters and i find that the victor rat snap traps with the big yellow bait pedals are the best for the hard to catch ones.
I used a few glue ones before. You know immediately if you got one. Mice are LOUD if they cant escape
I've dealt with those disposable glue mouse traps, I really hate it when I accidentally get my hand stuck on it.
I use the sticky traps to catch spiders. Occasionally a mouse or lizard gets caught. I usually use a little oil to get them out, wash them up and release them outside.
How do we get your trap to the tip of the Amazon list? I bought 4 and gace 3 out to friends.
lies, you have no friends.
Bacon works well on snap trap with rind to hold bait...
I have always found the second one works well if you take a small pice of cotton ball with peanut butter rubbed into it after you use the handy teeth on the bate tab to get a firmly griped on to the trap
Glue traps work check them frequently and dispatch the mouse