Flip N Slide Bucket Lid Mouse Trap |2 Pack| |Multi Catch| |Made in USA | US Pat D1,039,648s

Seriously, 20 stars! It works really well. First, I will say that I was mildly annoyed that the way it was packaged for shipping was a little uninspired. I had ordered two of these lid traps and they placed both into a box. That doesn’t sound like much of a problem, however, the two didn’t really neat well one on top of the other, so, the one on the top that was resting over the one on the bottom arrived warped and refused to sit flat, even when snapped onto a 5 gallon bucket. It still works but it had a little warping to it. I’m sure it doesn’t impact its effectiveness but it does mean that the black flipper part, when in its resting position, actually doesn’t sit flush with the yellow snap-on lid…it sits just a little lower on one side and means the black flapper part, swivels at a slight skew to the left. Now, a disclaimer for the squeamish, not that I feel a disclaimer should be necessary for a product designed to catch mice…but the product caught more mice than I ever even realized we had. I live in a modest farm with chickens. The feeder that we hang down from the ceiling with a chain sits off the ground about 2 to 3 inches. Any higher than this and our chickens can’t really get at the pellets in the deep ring that encircles the central cone of the feeder that holds surplus pellets that help to make sure that the pellets in the ring never goes empty as the chickens eat the pellets. Well, the mice figured out at some point that, not only was their a ready supply of food in the chicken coop, via this feeder, but that if they jumped into the ring of pellets around the central cone, and dug down far enough, they could squeeze through the gap between the bowl/ring of pellets and then dig their way up into the center of the cone in the middle. They could eat without being pecked or killed by the chickens. To get into the central cone, they have to dig a lot against a never ending replenishment of pellets pouring into the void they make in the bowl/ring. The act of digging meant that pellets would fly out in all directions, out of the bowl and into the floor. I would fill it up with about 5 lbs of pellets when I put the chics away at night, and by morning nearly 4 lbs if the pellets were now on the floor of the chicken roost. Worse, is that the mice had proliferated to the point that they were consuming nearly 3lbs of pellets the dark of night, and when they had to be in guard through the light of day, they managed to consume another pound of pellets. I was constantly refilling their feeder on a daily basis and going through chicken pellet feed like it was going out of style. That stuffs not cheap. However, most concerning than the loss and waste of food was the feces and their diseases. The chickens regularly killed whatever mice they could peck to death, and then try to eat it. And, the mice feces was not only all over the ground, everywhere, but they would defecate inside the laying boxes and inside the feeder. If you have ever seen chickens, they’re not the smartest. If it’s small and they can get it into their beak, they’ll try to eat it. I was always concerned with the eggs they produced and if the eggs might have diseases. Also, I didn’t want my chickens getting diseased. The mice feces was everywhere. We had to wear masks when we regularly cleaned out the roost because their was so much of their feces that their was legitimate concerns for contracting something from the dust that billows out when mucking out the roost along with so much rodent feces. It got to the point that, when putting the chickens away at dusk, the mice would be coming out of the woodwork, literally, in numbers that looked plague like when I would enter the roost and turn on the light. It was crazy looking. Anyway, the real disclaimer, many mice did not survive. Stop reading any further if this upsets you. I don’t like the idea of taking life, even if it should be mice. However, I draw the line when their numbers are out of control and causing great risk to health. I looked long and hard for a trap that would be effective, as I’ve seen some bad reviews on traps that claim to be really great. Well, I can tell you that this is the real deal! When I got the lid traps, I snapped it onto one of the many skate 5 gallon buckets I have around the farm. The directions/pictures aren’t the clearest for where to put the bait. Hence, I did it wrong when I first applied some peanut butter to the trap. I had read a review that mentioned putting peanut butter on the louvering lid. THIS METHOD IS WRONG!!! Instead, the raised dome over the louvering lid terminates into a kind of rounded “nose” right at the tip of the louvering lid that causes mice to walk out too far to fall in. In this “nose” of sorts is where you want to put the bait/peanut butter. The lid is designed to stay flat until the very end, enticing mice to walk out until they’ve reached a point of no return. However, the peanut butter, when applied to the lid, does two things. It defeats some of the careful balance in the louvering lid sometimes causing the lid to swing down too early because the peanut butter has weight too, adding to the buildup of weight from an approaching mouse. I watched more than a few times where mice were able to escape the swing of the lid because they hadn’t gone far enough over the lid to hit that “point of no return”. Second, the peanut butter, when added to the louvering lid rather than in the nose of the dome, adds texture. The lid is slippery, but the peanut butter helps to actually give some grip and so the mice weren’t sliding down enough before they caught traction in the peanut butter and were able to jump back far enough out of the overhead/dome and escape…not always, but usually. Plus, when a mouse did fail to escape, as they slid in and over the edge of the louvering lid, they took some of the peanut butter bait with them on their coats, essentially wiping the bait off each time. This left little to entice other mice to investigate the trap. The peanut butter in the nose of the de was magic. Once I switched to doing this, and put the bucket trap in a place that the curious chickens couldn’t interfere with it or scare the mice away, the morning count every morning for nearly two weeks was nothing short of a blessing. In two weeks, I had caught nearly 200 mice. 200!!! I hadn’t dreamed it would be that successful and so quickly. I also hadn’t realized we had that many though I knew we had a lot. I mean, 3 to 4 lbs of pellets don’t disappear, daily, with only a few nice. I thought maybe 40 because I had estimated about that many scattering each night when I turned the light on in the coop to close it up for the night ti protect the chickens from nightly predators. I still have the trap out and baited, but only because I want to nip it in the bud. Should anymore visitors in the night decide to try and raid the chicken food again. The daily catch after about 1.5 weeks began to slowly decrease until the end of the 2nd week I caught just a single mouse. I had placed pellet food inside the bucket trap, and hung the chicken feeder high up out of the reach of their insanely high/far jumps. This limited food and forced them to find the peanut butter in my trap. I also realized that, if I already had one or two mice in the trap, others seemed to feel like the food in the trap was a safe place to eat and they wanted in on the food too. So, I left pellets down in the bucket to give them something to eat and to keep them fed and to get their eating noises to attract the other mice to the trap. Worked like a charm. I wont say exactly what I did with the mice, but numbers like that, and the infestation they were causing, along with the dangerous health implications of their feces in everything and everywhere, I simply wasn’t going to let them go…and to take them somewhere else to be someone else’s problem wasn’t right either. All I will say is that their end was as humane as I could possibly make it. As for those who may have a mouse problem, not ideal for rats really, this is it! It’s seriously that good! I will tell every farmer I know about this simple but extremely effective trap. I also hang my feeder up high now at night to not encourage their return. But, as for how effective this trap is…I Couldn’t be happier. And, after those two weeks of heavy catches, I haven’t see a single mouse, not even one, or signs of one, in two months since. Not in the food, not in the traps, no pecked to death nice, nothing. Awesome!!!

spent a few months with evidence of mice in our house. In the past I have put out "poison" (MouseX - safe for other animals) and that seemed to take care of the issue. It was not seeming to make a difference this time. Kept finding little poops and nibbles out of things (even if we put items in giant zip lock bags they would get through it). This made us very fearful that we may have had a horrible infestation and the methods we used before were not making a dent in the issue. We looked online looking for solutions and saw some YouTube videos regarding these bucket traps. We decided to purchase (at first i ordered two not realizing for some reason that there are two that come in one order). You need to provide your own bucket for it but we just went to Home Depot and bought one but should work with any standard 5 gallon bucket. You can either be super humaine and just collect them in the bucket and then release them or you can put water in the bucket and since mice are not good swimmers, they will eventually meet their demise...I put water in it (about 1/3 filled). We used peanut butter and spread it on the inside top of the yellow dome part so when a little critter would go to eat it, it would be like them walking the plank. We placed the ramp on the proper place to create easy access to the trap and went to bed. To be honest, I was a little nervous in the morning to look in the bucket so I avoided it for a few hours. I finally braced myself (not knowing if there would be 50 or none in there) and removed the top. One little guy was floating in the water. I apologized to him and then removed him from the house. Feeling confident that it worked and not as scared to view the contents, we set it up again for any additional friends he had. After a few days of nothing in the bucket, we decided to move it into the basement incase they just weren't coming upstairs. After a few weeks downstairs, nothing in the bucket and no sign of little poops, it seemed to take care of the issue. I would highly recommend this for anyone having issues. The video also used it to catch rats so if you have an issue with them either in the house or in a garage/barn, it would work for that as well. *Update* still amazing. Many months later we saw evidence of mice again. Put one bucket in our kitchen and had the other one (without water or bait) stored in the basement. I discovered the one in the basement had 3 dead mice in it so it works even without the bait although it may take longer. Mice climb on everything so they will eventually climb on the bucket and surprisingly fall in. If you have trouble with the little critters you can use either to catch and release with an empty bucket (just check often so the little guys don't suffer for weeks in the bucket - I feel bad about that) or fill with water to permanently get rid of them.

Caught 7 so far! Working great. Easy to dispose of them afterwards. Definitely overpriced considering the production cost, but it does catch more than one overnight. Good for basements or garages. Safe for pets if just using peanut butter as the attractant.

While convinced this "next generation" Flip n Slide bucket trap would capture the rats in my attack, to my disappointment, the rodents did not agree with my prediction. I placed the traps in areas where I knew the rats visited and waited for days. However, my vermin friends had no interest in seeing my humane traps. So, I contracted the services of a local pest control company, who came out yesterday. They rodent-proofed the outside of our house and placed old-school kill traps in our attic. It only took two hours before I heard one of the old-school kill traps trigger above my office ceiling. Upon visiting the site, I found the trap had killed one of the uninvited guests. To my disappointment, the old-school kill traps are still the most effective method to attack vermin. Conclusion: Based on my experience with this product, I came to the determination that the Flip n Slide bucket trap is not a good trap for rodents, but it is an excellent trap for consumers.

Firstly I want to say that I don’t often leave reviews. I usually like a lot of products but I’m far too busy with life to take the time to sit and type out a whole spiel. But the amount of PEACE OF MIND these lids have given me warrants my time and recommendation to pay it forward and encourage others in similar situations to pursue this, because if I didn’t see the positive reviews I wouldn’t be here feeling as calm as I do. I’m sure anyone considering this is going through something similar to what I experienced where you’re going about your daily motions and to your dismay come across evidence of dreaded mice in your space! To you I say BUY IT! It’s low stakes, takes 5 minutes to set up, can catch an unlimited amount (but you should empty often so they don’t piggy back onto each other to get a higher jumping for escape vantage point) can be used long term as many times as necessary and is GUILT FREE! (If you want the backstory/experience read on…) I am someone who researches the heck out of everything I consider buying to make sure I’m not wasting time and money on products that don’t have a chance of working, and when I came across this, from both the reviews and internet research, I knew I had to give it a go. Initially searching for a solution to catch the mice I noticed that the most common type of traps being advertised and seemingly effective from reviews were inhumane ones such as glue or snap traps etc. I was personally at my whits end with the situation and feeling like my space was infested and my items soiled so I actually started considering these options. However luckily my husband encouraged me to search a little harder for a humane option to try first to at least give the little guys a chance, because let’s face it, it’s not great to have them in your space, but mice can be so unassuming and cute in their own way. Plus I personally don’t want to carry the thought of harming innocent creatures on my conscience when there is another option to try. Long story short, I stumbled upon these lids, was skeptical at how effective it would be, even after reading reviews, because I see that some people haven’t had as much luck as others. I determined it was worth the try because if it doesn’t do the job you can still return. To address the bad reviews, from my research into mice, I think that the people who haven’t had a good experience may have had either very smart mice, very patient mice that notice things have changed in the environment (because there’s now just a bucket in the space) and were waiting a few days/weeks and probably relying on some other stash they had before investigating further, or they’re dealing with something that is not just mice. I will say to give this kind of trap the best chance I recommend following the instructions to a T, placing the bait (ideally peanut butter, I’ve tried other things in other traps and the most consistent results are from peanut butter probably because it’s the most pungent and like what they seek out because nuts.) in the correct spot on the trap so it’s at the far end and they have to step past the point of no return, and placing the buckets in locations that have a lot of mice evidence/activity but is still a bit obscure so they are less nervous to investigate because they can still be hidden and in a familiar place. Plus make sure you use buckets that are slick on the sides and have no grooves they can use to dig claws in and climb. (Also for your own ease of cleaning/switching out traps I recommend placing some tissue or foil paper at the bottom of the trap to line it if you catch anything) Following these steps I successfully caught 11 mice and counting over the course of a few days and no longer hear dreaded rustling in the garage or walls leading me to believe they have single handedly addressed the issue and now even if others try to find a home here, they’ll be swiftly shown the door out! I say buy it! (FYI from my research it seems only the brand name is designed to be this effective, not sure why that is but I’m not shying away from a few bucks when it comes to my peace!) Thanks for reading this far if you did!

my dogs always locate these and lick off the peanut butter I use for bait. So far, a failure. I also am concerned this summer about copperheads locating these and climbing inside going after the mice if I ever catch any.

These work great

The Flip N Slide Bucket Lid Mouse Trap is a fantastic solution for pest control! It’s incredibly easy to set up—just attach it to a standard bucket, and you’re ready to go. The design is both clever and effective, allowing it to catch multiple mice without needing frequent resets. I love that it’s reusable and doesn’t require any harmful chemicals, making it eco-friendly. The sliding mechanism works smoothly, and cleanup is a breeze. It’s been a game-changer for keeping my camper mouse-free in the winter. Whether you prefer a humane approach or traditional methods, this trap is versatile and reliable. I highly recommend it for anyone dealing with rodents. It’s worth every penny!