Insensitive. Mouse just eats the bait and moves on to the next trap. Must lubricate mechanism|

I have been using Victor traps for decades, but the ones I received in this collection are so insensitive that the mouse can simply eat the bait without setting it off. This has happened with both peanut butter and cheese. Very frustrating. I have used eight of these traps without any success. Update: Finally caught a mouse using these traps. The key was to lubricate the activation lever mechanism with some canola oil prior to putting cheese on the pedal. That night I caught a mouse with the lubricated trap. I raised the rating to four stars. These traps are made in china, and the quality control is poor. Roughly half of these traps will not fire due to the pedals having too wide a lip that goes over the metal release bar. I fixed some of them using pliars. But the lubrication worked well so I recommend that solution.

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