Rat and Chipmunk Traps. Prevents Accidental Triggering with Dual Tunneled Design. Covered Snap Traps for Humane Kill, Reusable, Pest Control for Rats, Indoor & Outdoor Use. 2 Pack

We have probably 5 rats that have come to occupy our wood pile this summer and the time has come. I was hoping a neighbor's cat would succeed in taking care of the problem, but not happening. I have never used a big snap trap because I don't want the neighbor's cat to get caught in the trap, nor do I want to use poison, since a poisoned rat will get eaten by an owl or hawk and the poison will harm the owl or hawk.I had some success in the past using electric rat traps, but they are intended only for indoors and although using outdoors should work, our coastal dampness ruins the traps over time. And, of course an unexpected midnight rain has ruined my traps before and they are expensive. So I was pleased to find this tunnel trap at a reasonable price.Received the 2-pack yesterday, baited them with peanut butter and put them out by the wood pile before dusk. I was a little concerned the tunnel may be a bit too tight for a large rat, but bingo! - one down and more to go. The rat squeezed right in and got nailed. Really a nice easy design. Easy to empty by just re-arming and dumping the critter out. Very happy with these!

These work extremely well. I was using bait stations for several months and so I think the rodents were extra comfortable entering these traps. I’ve caught moles, rats and many many mice. The kill rate on mice is 50/50 so I will often drop the trap in a bucket of water since the mice are trapped inside but not dead many times. It would be great if they manufactured a 25-30% smaller trap of this style for mice. I do wipe them down frequently with Clorox wipes to help remove the odor of death. I also have to move them to different areas of my yard since I think they learn to not trust them after cousin Joe entered and never returned. Or, I’m actually eliminating the mice in that are (doubtful). Anyway, I highly recommend these and I live in a very rural area that is u set constant assault by rodents.

This trap works great for mice and chipmunks!! I've been using it off and on for about a year (I got it last summer). We had some construction happen last year and mice were all over my sheds. Not any more. We also began to get chipmunks who did up your flowers and garden last year. This year they had multiplied and were becoming a problem. So far we've caught about 6 chipmunks and the problems seem to be resolved. Works great! There's a hole in the bottom where a little piece comes out to fill with cheese or peanut butter. The locking mechanism works wonderful! No more snapped fingers setting a trap. To clean out it opens up and you can spray with the hose. To clear a rodent you just push the handle and it's released into a bag to pitch. Best trap since the original traps!

This is the most impressive trap I have tried, in terms of quickly and effectively catching vermin. I got three rats which had been spending time in the engine compartment of my truck in just a few days. I also tried it with some voles which had been tunneling in our pathways and it was sensitive enough to trap those as well. It is also easier and cleaner to empty than most traps. So far, an easy 5 stars.Then in a single night both traps disappeared from opposite sides of our house! The best case scenario is that they caught something, and then scavengers came along and carried off the traps with their contents. The worst case scenario is that something like a cat or raccoon reached inside and got its paw in the trap. It might have then run off in fear. I have searched our yard pretty well, so whatever took the trap went over our fence or through one of only a couple of holes big enough for the trap.The solution would be to manufacture these with a place to attach a thin metal cable, and provide instructions to do so. That way the trap would not get lost and if there is an animal I don't want to kill I can try to release it, or at least place the trap in or under something which would exclude that type of animal the next time.My next steps: 1) Buy another pair of traps. 2) Find or make a hole and attach a cable. 3) If the trap is catching something I don't want to hurt, put a weighted piece of plywood over it so that rats can still get it but larger creatures can not. I'll have to figure out how not to block the mechanism.

Easy & effective.I put a nut butter as bait, armed it, placed it behind my trash bins and viola, next morning my first catch!I tested to make sure it was dead by poking it with a shovel, and no movement. picked up the trap, and released into a garbage bag, and all done.Rearmed it and ready to go!A modification though is that the nut butter attracts ants, and the other traps bait was basically gone. I've instead used a chunk of the bait box bait in the trap. Hope its as effective.

Works great. Two tips I learned after using it; (1) use gloves when unboxing, setting the bait and setting up to keep the human scent off the trap. The first time I used i did not use gloves and it took about a week for the first kill. After, i used gloves and was having kills that night or the next day. (2) use peanut butter or something sticky on the bait to get them to stall and set off the trap and use cracker crumbs or pretzels or something similar outside of the trap to lure them closer.