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5.0 out of 5 stars
Best trap so far, May 11, 2009
The Victor trap with the plastic yellow cheese is by far the most effective trap I have used. Much to my surprise, the cheesy plastic yellow cheese seems irresistible to mice, and doesn't require messy peanut butter.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Is newer better? Is this the beginning of the fall of our civilization? I worry!, November 24, 2009
Being a pure traditionalist, in more ways than one, I was shocked and outraged when Victor...yes folks, "Victor," introduced this new trap. This is one of the most un-American acts I have witnessed since...well to be honest, I cannot remember such a heinous change. It equals to, and far exceeds Coca Cola trying to change their formula a number of years ago.
Victor mouse traps, or the concept of their design, has been around since the late 1800s (English "Little Nipper), and has been a household item since before anyone reading this review was even born. The traditional metal peddle that you smear cheese peanut butter has been replaces with this horrid yellow thing.
Now growing up (I am addressing the older crowd here) who among you did not get a certain thrill out of the danger of setting one of these things. It was scary as you did not know when or if your fingers were going to get wacked. One the traps were set, you have to admit that there was a certain satisfaction, often buried deep in your consciousness that received a certain amount of thrill when you heard the distinct "snap" and was pretty sure another furry little critter had been done in and sent to his or her maker. The hunter instinct is still in us; often buried deep, but never the less there. It does not take much of a leap of the imagination to picture yourself dropping a boulder on the head of a Wooly Mammoth, rather than merely wacking a mouse. A primal urge is being satisfied even in the meekest of us. As you gaze upon your fresh kill the next morning you have to admit that a tingling feeling goes through our body...."Me Jane (or John), me have killed...me have protected, me have provided! Alas, with this new trap, that genetic need is quite often not satisfied. A part of me lays a large part of the blame of the recent falling of our Western Civilization right on the door step of the Victor Company!
Now I loved the old traps as I am a good sport. You have to admit that the average mouse with even one with an average or less mouse IQ had a wee bit of a sporting chance of actually stealing the cheese, enjoying the eating of it, and bragging to the other mice about his near brush with death. On the other hand, I like a sporting chance myself...I simply want a fare shot at the little varmints. These new traps simply do not catch as well as the old one did and this gives the mice an unfair advantage.
I fear that I must give these new traps less than the five star rating I would have given to the old.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
mice love this trap!, November 12, 2009
if you want to keep your mice fat & happy, this is the trap to get. nothing fattens up a mouse more than a great buffet table. i bought eight traps, three would not engage, three "snapped" but caught no mice, but they enjoyed the peanut butter. one did not "snap", but all of the peanut butter was gone, and another one did not "snap" but most of the bait was taken.....do not waste your $$ on these; unless you love mice......
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