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Havahart 1020 Two Door Cage Trap for Mice and Rats 10 x 3 x 3 | 
 enlarge | Brand: HavaHart
Category: Lawn & Patio
List Price: $16.99
Buy New: $13.52
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Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 842
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 10 x 3 x 3
MPN: 1020
Model: 1020
UPC: 036348010203
EAN: 0036348010203
ASIN: B0000DINGG
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | For trapping mice, chipmunks, shrews, voles, and similar-size nuisance animals | | • | Two spring loaded doors | | • | Smoothed internal edges protect and prevent injuries to animals | | • | Efficacy proven in extensive field testing means higher catch rate and fewer escapes | | • | Comes fully assembled and ready to use with Instructions and tips on baits and trap setting included |
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Product Description
Havahart, 10" x 3" x 3" Live Animal Cage Trap, For Mice, Moles & Shrews,1 LB.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 29 more reviews...
 Efficient, Long Lasting, Humane September 26, 2007
pinxet (USA)
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
About 15 years ago, our apartment building began having occassional mouse problems, with my own apartment receiving 2 or 3 visits from a stray little fellow each year. I was truly appalled to see some of the more modern solutions in the stores -- I'd always had a problem with the idea of the traditional spring traps and poisons, but the houses containing sticky-bottomed floors seemed unduly cruel. I don't want to kill the little SOBs, let alone torture them; I just don't want them as roommates.
The Havahart live trap is a good, humane, cost effective solution to it all. The mechanism is a simple bait-table connected to a set of two thick and sturdy exterior wires which -- on a new trap -- trips very easily (a bit of delicate, deft handling of the exterior wires is needed to get the trap to not spring closed during setup -- those with large fingers will have a difficult time with it I would think). Following capture and release, a good cleaning in a bucket of bleach, well rinsed, and the trap is ready to go again.
For the more romatically inclined, there's a good feeling to be had in preparing a Wine & Cheese Platter (actually, I use toilet tissue and peanut butter) in my attempts to be a good host to the occasional visit from Mr. Mouse. The trap works well enough that normally I see no evidence of a mouse in my kitchen prior to him appearing in the trap -- over the years, I've come to regard the visitors less as disease-ridden destructive vermin, and more as a cute if unkempt old friend who gives me a good excuse to swab the kitchen in bleach.
I normally replace traps every five or six years, and not because they break or become non-functional-- Over time, the trap tends to get a funky dark tarnished patina which is simply too unattractive to my eye. With reasonable care, these traps can be a one-time purchase which need no replacement.
Aesthetic loss aside, after a year or so of use, it helps to oil the moving parts of the trap -- without this, it's possible for the mouse to enter the trap, steal the bait, and leave without tripping the mechanism. Be careful also of too heavy-handed handling of the trap when cleaning -- although sturdy enough, the walls of the cage can be bent with a bit of pressure, which will prevent easy movement of the doors and bait-table.
This is, to my mind, one of those superior products which one always returns to. Whoever crafted the phrase "build a better mousetrap" never saw one of these. It's cheap, it's permanent, it works.
Catch 'em live March 2, 2007
J. M. (Athens, TN United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
We love this trap. We've used it for years, and it was a fantastic investment. (Much cheaper than a hundred snap traps!) It's a little tricky to prop the metal where it bends, and if you set it "hard" it apparently doesn't release the hinge -- we have lost mice that took the bait but didn't spring the doors. But lordie we've caught many. We usually leave just one door open. I like that it is roomy and airy enough for the caught mouse to finish their final meal and wait for me to release them, rather than being stressed in a tiny plastic chamber. Bait tip: best stuff we've found is pine nuts, which they adore.
Havahart Mouse trap really does work! May 13, 2007
K. Meding (Thousand Oaks, CA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
We purchased this Havahart trap along with another type of trap called the Tin Cat. We had been using tiny single plastic humane traps that we purchased at OSH. The Havahart, although I found the instructions a little vague, has worked the best. It's a little hard to set if you're using bait that moves (we use cat food nuggets) as you have to set the trap so that the food holder is level, then reach your hand in to set the bait there without touching and setting off the trap. But once you get it in there, this trap works really well. And the mouse has enough room that if you don't grab it immediately, he can move around freely. The Tin Cat trap, on the other hand, did not catch anything!
Mouse Catcher August 5, 2007
Country Girl (Cumberland, WI USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
These traps have worked great for us. So far we've caught 7 mice & moles. We have one in the garage & one outside where we think they come in. I have not caught any chipmunks in them. My mother also has one & she's had good luck with her's too. We just use peanut butter for bait. Work great. Probably will get some more for the house.
Chipmunks September 1, 2007
M. Garcia
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I left the Havahart cage outside in my garden, and in a matter of 2 weeks it caught 3 chipmunks. They were destroying my garden. Finally it is chipmunk free. I placed a piece of apple in the trap and that did it.
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