This is a seasonal ritual at our house. I hear the mice move in with the cool weather and I get out the mousetraps. A tiny bit of peanut butter in the bait cup and they are caught. If I don't get all of them with the trap the rest seem to move on to safer pastures somewhere else after enough of their buddies have been killed.”

I would like to thank your company for making the "perfect" mouse trap. I have tried at least 20 other trap brands and they have all had various degrees of success, but none work as well as yours. My daughter bought me six (6) of your mouse traps for my birthday and after setting all of these traps around two of our properties, I was amazed at the response. Best traps I have found on the market.”
- Duane Schenck

Within thirty minutes or less of placing the Snap-E® Mousetrap, I had a dead mouse. I used some candy a mouse had eaten into as bait. I am ordering six more. These traps work! I have had about twenty of the old wooden ones sitting out around the house for three week and caught NOTHING!”
- Anne Smith

I'm catching mice every night in my greenhouse with these Snap-E® Mousetraps. They are so easy to set that I don't even flinch any more as I reset them - they never snap while they are being set. I've tried lots of different brands of mousetraps and these are far superior to the rest.”
- Mark Parsons

I love being able to catch multiple mice with one setup. This way I can let it sit for a couple days and catch multiples. The Ketch-All® Multiple Catch Mousetrap is the best mousetrap I've found. I'll be buying several more.”
- David Benn

You guys are great! Just a note to say 'Thank You' for the 2 Metal Lid Replacements for our Mousetraps. A great benefit was when I saw 'Proudly' made in America. That is what America is made of and we need to get back on track with showing the world! Great products, made by great people who back up what they produce! Look out mice... 2 traps back in service. Thank you!”
- Janine Hatt

I have set thousands of these traps while running Thoroughspect and have never found a better trap ever. The traps are exactly what a mousetrap should be in that they are fast-reacting, easy to set and release. In addition, they have a visible yellow bar that can be seen in crawl spaces and attics to see if they have been triggered.
- Brian M. Sweig

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The Man Behind the Name: Brick's Journey to Lasting Innovation

Albia, IA (April 2, 2024) – How does a janitor create a third-generation, family-owned lineup of pest control products that spans 100 years? With a little bit of the entrepreneurial spirit and a whole lot of innovation.

The year is 1924, and Austin Enos “Brick” Kness is a 34-year-old widower with six kids at home. While the economy is on the brink of the worst economic downturn in history, Brick takes a job at an Iowa high school as a janitor. Mice are prevalent at the Midwestern school, a single trap unfit for catching the influx of rodents infesting the country school.

Taking matters into his own hands, Brick finds a large, square oil can, a small tuxedo tobacco can, a spring from a curtain rod, and wood from the base of a crate. Fashioning the items into a trap, he sets it up in the school overnight. The next day, the makeshift trap is found with seven mice inside. Word scatters around the school, and soon, everyone is asking Brick to build them a trap.

As time went on and mice were caught, Brick acquired a patent for his ingenious design. Just three years after his discovery, a manufacturing company in his namesake was formed, replicating the trusty trap for schools and homes alike.

Today, on shelves across the country, you can find the oil-can-tobacco-curtain-rod invention, nowadays referred to as the Ketch-All®. Its inventor is the one and only Brick, better known by his last name, now trusted for over a century: Kness.

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