The Big Cheese Electronic Mouse Killer

Absolute scam. It now fails to even light up after 5 months; rats will enter the trap, eat the bait and leave. $70 for this garbage from Bunnings. I bought the rat version. Not happy Bunnings; if you're going to peddle this kind of product that is basically a scam, you'd better be prepared to deal with Consumer Protection as a consequence. Show details

Worked well, failed after one season – It caught a mouse every night last autumn (with peanut butter). Now I tried it again and it's dead. I tried two sets of new batteries. Disappointed. Show details

Absolute Junk Product – Wife bought this trap from Bunnings it’s had two sets of AA batteries and not a kill it’s just a feeding station. She bought the Rat killer as well that uses C cell batteries and that is rubbish too Total rip off Show details

Amazing mouse destroyer – The ongoing road widening construction has resulted in mice being a constant nuisance in our cellar for the last four months. In order to capture and eliminate them, this device has proven really helpful. Highly recommended! Show details

Works great, but faulty design – Had 2 of these and they offer a 100% kill rate guaranteed. However they definitely have a design fault or cheap components as both of them have failed between the 6 - 12mth mark. Keep your receipt. Show details

Mouse killed within the 1st night – Impressive results. I put the trap on the 1st night with some peanut butter as advices and next morning the mouse was there. I do feel it will only work with small mouse. But got the job done. Show details

Faulty Chinese junk product – Put batteries in, put bait on, rats eat the bait, nothing happens, you refill the bait, rinse, repeat. Buy the most expensive one you can find because this is plain garbage. If you buy it, keep your docket!!! Show details

Big Cheese electric rat trap - almost $100 should be rotten cheese stay clear – absolutely useless - I bought the rat trap options, did not work at all, the rat is still annoying me - runs around inside the ceiling. keep you docket( I did not ) because you are meant to set it down for a week or 2 while the rat gets used to it. now I am basically fattening the rat, and babies I can hear in the ceiling Show details

Don't waste your money – I would give this product no stars if I could. Mice would walk right in eat the bait and walk right on out. The product is rubbish and im annoyed I can't find the receipt for a refund. Straight in the bin is where it belongs! Show details

Really effective – Caught 2 within an hr! Would probably have caught more if trap was bigger! Peanut butters works for me. Must be some really hungry mice! Easy to use and humanely killed. Now can bury them without having to worry that other animals might get poisoned from eating them. Show details

Very effective – Quite easy to set up. Caught a mouse the very night I bought the product and have so far got 5 mice over a week, all from the same position. Show details

Works! – I bought this back in May after finding mouse droppings in my kitchen cupboards. It did take me a few positions around the kitchen to trap the mouse. In the end I left it in one spot and didn't look at it for a month. And it worked! Caught two mice.  Show details

Fantastic trap! Caught two at the same time – Tried peanut butter, dog food and Parmesan cheese didn’t work! Used corn flakes and put at bottom of kitchen cupboard caught in less than 1 hr! Fantastic product highly recommend! Maddy S  Show details

No result – We bought this trap from Bunnings and set it up exactly as instructed, used peanut butter as bait, fresh batteries, green light came on. After 48 hrs no catch. We saw one of the mice running around still, alive and well. A waste of money.  Show details

Finally found the one ! – We purchased this after the good old snap traps being hit and miss ! We caught 4 mice in the first 2 days. We live on a rural property so isn’t unusual to have this much activity. It was easy to set up and very easy to dispose of the deceased mice. Best trap and have already recommended to family members.  Show details

One Hour Success – After years of my wife literally having to pounce on mice, and she has caught a few, we decided to give this thing a try. Less than an hour and the little fool screamed for maybe three seconds and gone. Money well spent. YAY!!! Show details

Worked perfectly! – Bought this at Bunnings and was a bit sceptical at first, as we used other mice bait in the past that didnt work. However, am glad to say this product worked exactly as described and got rid of 2 mice! Highly recommend it. Show details

Definitely works with the right bait – Saw mouse inside, first one in years. Having had moderate success years ago with an expensive, heavy duty D battery version, I updated with this cheaper model as the reviews were good. Bought ‘big cheese’ mouse attractant as bait, placed device against wall in mouse pathway and waited. One week later and mouse still coming and going. Handled… Read more

device with disposable gloves to reduce human smell and added raw oats to the bait tray. Later that day one dead mouse.

Needs some patience – I spotted mouse in my house for the first time in a few years, and did some research. I bought this from the Bunnings after reading the good reviews here. Along with it, I also bought Ratsak. I used peanut butter as bite, and left it under the kitchen sink where I noticed mouse activities. For the first few days, nothing happened. I could still… Read more

see mouses were active, but neither Ratsak or the Big Cheese was touched. I repositioned the device and let the entrance side towards the open space instead of the wall as instructed. Still nothing happened. I decided to take it back to the Bunnings and asked for a refund.

The following morning, I opened the door under the sink, there was a dead mouse inside the device. The next day, another one! Since I only spotted one mouse, I thought that is all. Guess what, another one after 3 days - I did not even change the bait. It is also very easy to dispose the body: put on gloves, open the lid over a rubbish bin, and through the bin bag in the rubbish bin.

Therefore, highly recommended!

Did the job – We bought this trap and the first one must have been faulty as mice could get the bait and escape. But we got another and it works really well. Keep your receipt when you buy so you can ensure yours works. We've caught three mice with it so far and none seem to have suffered long. It's easy to set up and easy to clean. We've gone through a lot of different ways of getting rid of mice that never seem to work but this seems to be the best solution. Show details

Only one that works – I had tried nearly product out there, nearly killed the dog when mice pulled out the wax block for her !!! Just a bit hard to separate the two parts, love to see the dead mice and I don’t have to touch them !! Great product. Show details

Humane this is NOT – Bought this because I hoped for an instant humane kill as sometimes snap traps go horribly wrong. Humane?! Heard mouse squealing in agony for a full minute, then it got out thank god. Horrible! Show details

Big cheese electric trap – Small unit. Great design.Easy to use. Mice are dead stiff. No mess (blood/ faeces etc) just open lid and tip out. Very happy with this product. Will most likely buy a second trap. A piece of mueslie bar fits in perfect as bait and can't be drug back out. Only thing. I would have added small cage for bait, so when tipping mouse out bait stays in. Otherwise can't be more pleased. Show details

Works well – No success with peanut butter, tried cheese and it was gone without the mice being caught. Left it out to reset. Perhaps the mice were looking for more cheese and thought the thing was broken. Caught two so far in less than 24 hours with no bait. Just a clean dead mouse each time.

Works and kills in an instant, much nicer for mice than regular traps! – It works and yes it's more expensive but it kills quickly and doesn't leave the poor mouse to suffer. Use gloves when setting it up bc they can smell you have touched it and normal peanut butter then wait. We managed all of ours in two days without any issues. We have a dog and a toddler and it was perfect.

Yep ... works!! – We live on a rural property, and like it or not, mice are always a challenge. We've been struggling to maintain a pair of the old Supreme brand Aussie made traditional mousetraps. Those old enough will realise the vintage of these ... but in our experience, they are the last of the mousetraps that really worked well. So as they rust more and more,… Read more

and the springs become inexorably less spritely, we've been on a mission to find suitable replacements.

We've tried the traps that catch the critters live, but these seem hit or miss for some reason. Maybe the mice can communicate and warn each other away ... who knows.

So when we noticed these electronic traps in Bunnings a month or two ago, it seemed worthwhile giving one a try. They sell for a few cents under $40, and in essence seem to be simplicity in itself. You simply bait them up ... the company recommends peanut paste ... and we can vouch that this works. Put in the required AA batteries, turn on the switch - a green LED flashes 10 times to acknowledge the power-up ... and you're primed and ready to go.

There's a hole just big enough for a mouse up one end, the bait sits up the other, and in between is a pair of metal plates across which the charge travels. When the mouse's body straddles the two plates he completes the circuit and ...kebang!!! A nice humane death. The bait lasts until it goes off, as the mice never really get a chance to eat it. It's easily accessible for replacement and cleaning of the recess that holds it.

By virtue of design, the trap can catch only one mouse at a time, then you simply lift the lid, take out the dead mouse ... or hold it upside down and let it fall out if you're that way inclined, close the lid, reset the switch, and the thing's ready to go again. It's highly portable, so moving it round from place to place searching out the rodents is a breeze. Weighs in at around a half kilo. Said to be rated for indoor use only ... but I'd reckon you could easily use it in a carport or chookyard/guinea pig cage so long as it has a roof on it to keep the rain or dew off.

The literature says the trap's good for about a hundred mice before batteries need changing. We've probably caught 12-15 since deploying it a couple of months ago, and the thing's still going as normal ... so it's too early to tell yet if the instructions are accurate or not. We've never had anything other than a stone dead mouse after activation, and when you think about the design, it's unlikely that a wounding would be possible.

Overall, it does what it should, no poisons required, and the mice don't get to tell their mates about the danger. A good design that's worked well so far!!