RinneTraps - Flip N Slide Bucket Lid Mouse Trap | Original | 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!!!

I bought this gadget to humanely catch chipmunks and redeem myself in the eyes of God. I was using the old-fashioned and highly effective "chipper dipper" bucket method. After scooping a few struggling chipmunks out of my new in-ground pool, I noticed the little guys can actually swim pretty well. This led to the awful realization that my bucket of death is a cruel method of pest control where they swim around terrified for way too long until completely exhausted and then they die. I am surely going to Hell. After 10 Hail Marys, 5 Our Fathers, and a donation to a wildlife rehab, I tried snap traps thinking this would at least be quick and they wouldn't know what hit them. I caught mice. I guess that's to be expected and is technically a bonus, but the chipmunks were still digging around my foundation, nesting in my lawn tractor and generally mocking me by shrieking every time I walked around the corner of the house. I prayed for a solution and Amazon answered with the Rinne Flip N Slide Bucket Lid. Praise Jesus and the inventors of this device. I can now rest easy knowing I am not needlessly murdering small critters and I may see St. Peter after all. In the video, you can see that I don't even have the trap set up correctly. The ladder is on the ground (because a fat squirrel tried to climb it in a previous video) but the chipper hops right up and takes a nosedive moments later. I saw a video where a mouse was able to jump back out of the bucket by bumping the opposite end of the trap door open. It's possible, but that mouse was either super smart or extremely lucky, jumping in exactly the right spot. My chipmunk wasn't so lucky or smart and stayed trapped for several hours, according to the timestamp on my trailcam. I took my first step towards atoning for my sins by releasing this guy in a nice wooded area several miles away. I'm no fool. I drove him across a river first. They're good swimmers, but I feel fairly confident that the CT River is wide enough and will not be parted by the Moses of chipmunks. Back to the bucket, though. You need to buy your own. They are a few bucks at Lowes and this lid fits perfectly. It snaps on very easily. The trap door sets in two grooves and is very tippy as you can see in the video when my guy falls in. The ladder attaches in a slot and I think it would've stayed in place if the chunky squirrel didn't climb it. At one point, several birds landed on it and the bucket lid. I used peanut butter and sunflower seeds as bait. I smeared the peanut butter on the inside of the trap and stuck seeds to it, then sprinkled seeds on the lid and around the base and ladder. I was worried one of the birds might fall in and injure itself in a panic. Luckily that didn't happen as they were not willing to go underneath where the peanut butter and seeds were stuck. The squirrels are big enough to hold on and get under to steal the bait. A few lost their grip and almost fell in, but easily jumped clear. I think if a squirrel did fall in, he would be able to pop the top off the bucket to get out. It's not a super tight fit but it would definitely hold mice and chipmunks and anything else that couldn't easily reach the top. Other people gave advice to tape the trap door closed and bait the trap a few times so the critters can get used to it. If they get the bait without falling in a few times, they'll feel safe going up there. I did not do this and plenty of critters seemed to feel perfectly safe. I caught the one I wanted, so it's a win. You could also put water in the bucket and end it, if you're heartless and mean. If you're going to do that, save your money. They will jump in without the fancy ladder and lid, trust me. As far as the trap goes, it seems sturdy enough and is extremely easy to use. I thought the price was a little high, considering it doesn't even come with a bucket, but it is made in America and it works, so I won't complain. There are apparently knockoffs from China that don't work. This real Rinne definitely does work and was worth a couple of more bucks to me. I'm hoping that also scores me a few extra points with the big guy. I thank you for reading my short novel and ask that you'll say a little prayer that I inch closer to a spot in line at the pearly gates (when my time comes, many many years from now) with each chipmunk I safely ferry across the river. Amen.

I had high hopes for this. In theory, it's exactly what I wanted (humane & made in USA), but after using it for three weeks in a back yard teeming with rats (according to my eyes, my dog, and a trail cam), it's caught NOTHING. Not one rat. I've baited it with two different kinds of peanut butter up inside the lid (one with sugar added and one without) and sunflower seeds in the bucket as instructed...even tried adding American cheese and some rat bait (both in the bucket), and not one single rat has made its way to the bottom of the bucket. They have definitely chewed the top of the RinneTrap (see photo). I reached out to the company hoping for tips and/or a refund, and after a week, I received a long list of trouble-shooting tips and suggestion of possible compensation. I am going to implement their tips and will report back if I start catching rats.

The trap seems to work pretty well. It cleaned the mice out of my shed. The peanut butter goes at the end of the lid (not on the trap door!) and I found if I put a fleck or two on the ramp it encouraged the mice to go up and explore. Why only 4 stars? I debated this, but it is a consideration so I dropped one. When I put peanut butter in a snap trap it slowly dries out, but is good for attracting mice for weeks. Because of the water right below, the peanut butter only stays good for a day or two in this trap. Then it starts getting moldy and rancid, so you have to change it out. I'm pretty sure the manufacturer can't do anything about this, but you should be aware that you're going to be cleaning out and replacing moldy peanut butter every other day.

Kills me to leave this review. RinneTraps is the OG for this design. 1 man patented these himself before the (you know who) stole the design and ran with it on AMZ. Here's what you need to know: -these work great on mice. Use peanut butter as bait. You will catch plenty of them. Put a tiny bit along the ramp and under the yellow house top to lure them in. -These are NOT suited for rats. The rats are way too intelligent and can circumvent the trap every time -My dog is an airhead and she will eat the "bait" if I don't time it right. (bait - peanut butter) -The trap door feels flimsy and unbalanced. You put the tiniest few grams of peanut butter on it and it wants to flop right open, rendering it useless. Very frustrating, could be improved. -The ground surface is also a factor. Bucket must be straight and level or the trap door will have issues. Honest 3 out of 5 stars. GOOD design with lots of mouse catching potential. NOT good enough for "the R.O.U.S.es". (like if you got the reference...most youngsters won't know it)

I watched the video and read all the reviews. I wasn't sure what kind of results, if any, I would get. So I placed the RinneTrap in a corner of our chicken run and put a few small smears of peanut butter on the ramp as well as on the underside of the lid. The next morning I checked the trap and found TWELVE mice! On day 2 I caught 3 more mice. I'm very pleasantly surprised that the RinneTrap lived up to it's hype! I am excited to see what results I'll get tonight. The lid is simple to install and has notches/clips on the outside to snap onto the bucket. The lids appears durable especially since I shouldn't have any large rodents chewing on it. The ramp is light weight and care should be taken when attaching it to the lid. It has 2 prongs that slide into the edge of the lid and I could see those breaking if you aren't careful when inserting. The same is true where the two pieces of the ramp attach. Needless to say, we are thrilled that our RinneTrap is catching mice. We give it a 100% recommendation!

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!

I had high hopes for this trap given the positive reviews. I know there are counterfeit products out there but I wanted to buy the original Rinne trap. It is easy to set up and easy to clean. The problem is, the mouse would fall in the 5 gallon bucket but it would then escape. We put almond butter (we don't eat peanut butter due to a peanut allergy) in the top of the lid and as an extra incentive, we put a small piece of almond in the front and a couple in the back of the flip floor. This way, if the almond piece in the front was missing, we knew a mouse visited the trap and if the almond pieces were missing in the back, we knew the mouse fell into the bucket. In one trap, the mouse would always eat the almond piece in the front, but not the back. Maybe it sensed the floor would flip so it never ventured far enough to cause the floor to flip. In the second trap, the almond pieces were gone and there was mouse poop in the bucket but no mouse. This happened more than once so the mouse was somehow escaping. The problem with the second trap is the black floor was not completely even with the yellow lid. There was a narrow gap between the edge of the black flip piece and the yellow lid. So the mouse probably crawled through the small gap. That's the only conceivable way it could have crawled out. I've seen videos of other knock off traps and one video showed a trap by a chicken coop and the black floor looked like it was completely even with the yellow lid with no small gap and the customer said the trap worked great. Also, these traps are packaged in thin plastic and Amazon ships it in a thin unpadded plastic bag. While no parts were damaged, maybe the yellow lid warps slightly which causes the black lid not to fit as well. Or maybe it's a design flaw that needs tweaking. But I ordered two sets of two traps to try and get a pair of traps that didn't have a gap between the flip floor and lid and both sets had varying degrees of a slight gap which apparently was big enough for the mouse to escape. Perhaps we have savvy mice in our basement but we ended up returning the traps and buying the Victor M241B electronic trap instead. While I wish the trap didn't kill the mice, we gave up and bought them and we've caught eight mice so far.