Kness The Big Snap-E Mouse Rat Trap, Easy Set, Re-Useable, Durable, Easy To Bait, Provides A Sure Catch.

We have a bird feeder outside a rear window above our deck. Rats moved under the deck to take advantage of the droppings. They became so bold that they began entertaining while we tried to enjoy our dinner. My lovely Clara was appalled.I tried a home-made-spinning-can-over-a-barrel trap that didn't work. I tried a catch-and-release trap that didn't work. In both cases our large rats, 13" from nose to tail, were too smart to take the bait. And nobody in the neighbor would offer the services of their bad-ass cat.Two neighbors recommended their RatZappers. But, one got shorted out in the rain and the other had not come back from another borrower. So, I decided to purchase two Kness Snap-e Rat traps because:+ they are safer to set than the old wooden Victor traps+ they claim to close faster because the clamp only has to travel 90 degrees instead of 180.+ The trigger is a pressure plate rather than a latch, so the rat just has to place its weight on the plate to stop being a rat.The Kness traps sure looked promising when I got them. They were very easy to set and very quick to close.So, I set the traps, bated them with sunflower seeds and put them under the deck at dusk where only the rats would find them. The next morning, one of the traps had disappeared and the other was sprung, upside down and empty. I guessed that the first one either caught something large enough to run off with it attached to its head OR something made off with the carcass with the trap still attached. The second one suggested that at least one rat was too quick for the trap.I kept baiting the one trap that remained and putting them under the deck. I tried almond butter, but got no takers. Went back to sunflower seeds and was rewarded with a small 6" mouse. The next day, I caught another small one. The day after that, I caught an 8-incher. Still no big boy.Then I took another look under the deck when the sun was just right and saw it. It was the missing trap attached to the head of a giant rat! He hadn't traveled far, but his coloring made him difficult to see in faint light. The rat was decomposing, but I was able to extract it without fouling the trap thanks to Kness' 90-degree bend.

I researched and purchased these traps after seeing them used by an expensive animal control company to deal with a flying squirrel problem in the eaves of a cabin. I live a mere mile from the national park boundary of the Great Smoky Mountain nat.park in a log cabin. We get animal visitors and invasions ranging from squirrels & raccoons to grown black bears and coyotes coming right up on the back deck. The particular challenge was removing a large colony of southern flying squirrels which previously unknown to me are incredibly fast and agile as well as the amazing ability to run up walls and upside down across ceilings with no regard to gravity. These animals had nested deep in the roof structure and were keeping my family up at night with noisy squeaking and loud nocturnal scampering that was especially loud in back bedrooms only feet above beds. Upon locating the entry and exit holes that were soffet/eave vents on the underside of a roof, the problem arose of how to get a conventional trap close enough to attract and do the job without other animals getting caught by mistake. Enter the Snap-E rat trap. These small squirrels are not much bigger then a large rat. I was pleased to see that the manufacturer designed mounting holes so that these traps can be mounted upside down in areas that only this species of squirrel could reach. The bait tray is an enclosed well that holds the bait independent of the trigger mechanism protecting the sides of the bait preventing nibbling or snatching to steal the bait.The trigger mechanism is well designed to cover the entire kill zone so that the animal cannot use the trap itself as a platform to get close to the bait for stealing. The best feature is the spring design in its raw strength and speed. The right angle design allows the striking bar to travel half the distance as a traditional victor type trap drastically shortening the reflex time an animal would have to get clear. The second advantage to the spring/strike bar design is the ability to lift the striker without getting near or touching the kill zone of the trap in the case of stray blood or tissue reducing risk of infection. Being that Flying Squirrels are heavy carriers of typhus it was very important to release the trap without touching the carcass. These traps are simply better designed and industrial in nature making the superior product in this area.As they have said since the black plague, build a better mouse trap and the world will beat a path to your door.

The house immediately next door to ours burned out, sat abandoned for four years, and became an urban wildlife refuge. Once the city boarded up the windows and doors, the stray cats (and possums and raccoons) weren't able to get in and control the rodents, whose population then boomed. First came the mice, which came into the house. We'd found Snap-E mousetraps locally and were amazed at the success rate and ease of setting and unloading them as opposed to traditional wooden traps.The outdoor pests weren't rats, but similar sized rodents that burrow, destroy gardens and ornamental plants, and can undermine foundations. They're not the cute little critters depicted in the old Disney film. We tried live trapping them, but the results were mixed at best, and didn't seem to make much of a dent in the population. We tried a traditional oversized wooden trap, but it proved between unsatisfactory and hazardous. They stole bait, tapping at the trip to set a hair trigger had a learning curve that I wouldn't recommend, even while using a piece of wood to keep from breaking fingers, and most amazingly, more than once one of them set it off, got caught and flipped several feet- and escaped. That's not a surmise- I heard the trap go off in the shed, checked it, saw one of the little buggers in the trap still moving, went to get a bag to put it in, and it was gone by the time I got back.So I ordered a pair of the Big Snap-Es. They're not perfect. The triggering pressure cannot be adjusted, but they're easy to set and don't hazard fingers. The vermin have stolen the peanut butter out of the cup, but they come back for the easy meal and get an instantaneously fatal surprise. We haven't had any "visitors" for a few days, but I'm sure that they'll be back, and am confident that the Big Snap-E traps will handle the problem.

Earlier this fall, after a very expensive service call from a plumber, I found out that some creature chewed through the rubber tubes of my forced air heating system (plumber left me a chewed tube as evidence). I recall seeing some dropping in the basement, they did not look like mouse dropping (tubes rather than balls), so I got both a  Snap-E Mouse Trap  and rat/chipmunk trap as I don't want to have another service call.I am attaching a photo of both next to each other for size reference (I was wondering about this before buying both). This weekend I set them both up, and they were fairly easy to set up. The instructions did not mention what to use as bait, so it took me some research to find what works best. It appears that many people find that peanut butter works best because it is sticky and cannot be easily carried away like a piece of cheese.I placed the traps on cardboard I cut away from a large cereal box. This will make it easier to handle the disposal of the intruder.I was a bit worried that I will have trouble setting it up as due to a recent back surgery I can't put a lot strength into pushing on levels, but it was not hard. I had to push on the level until it caught a hook. The trap was fairly easy to set off, while I was moving it around to place in the right place it got set off. Luckiness I was not moving it with my hand. Note that it got flipped and moved about 2 feet away from where it was before it triggered.Within a week of putting out the trap I had results. Thankfully there was no blood and guts.Ali Julia review Snap-E Mouse Trap

I'm blown away. I've had a problem with rats the last couple of months. Honestly to call these things rats isn't really fair to most rats. This is bigger than anything I've ever fed to my snakes. These rats should come with little saddles attached. They're HUGE.I've tried the humane traps with peanut butter. The rats were too smart for that, even when placing it directly in their path. I've tried bait... didnt' work work at all so decided it was time to get dirty since I could hear them running around the walls. I bought 3, baited them with peanut butter and set them where i'd seen the rats running repeatedly (face the trigger plate TOWARD the wall). Two were against a baseboard and I put the last one on our garage pantry shelf where they had been gorging on boxed groceries (my rats really liked barley and ramen apparently).Check traps on morning 1 - nothingMorning 2 - trap one is missing (wtf?) and traps 2 and 3 are untouched. When I saw the trap literally gone I was beside myself. These are STRONG traps, but these are also big rats. I thought maybe they got sprung and the rats drug them away or something... Got out my flashlight and went digging. Eventually found the rat, stone cold dead. Apparently these traps are so strong that when they trigger they flug the rat and the trap over 3 feet away from where the trap was set. Rat's neck was completely crushed. I'm guessing he never knew what hit him.Morning 3 - walk into the garage and see an even bigger rat laying in the middle of my garage (dead) with the trap around his head. This one had been set high on a shelf where I have kept ramen and barley. Apparently, same thing happened. He hit the trap and it flug him clear across the garage.You can easily dump the rats and re-set the traps without ever touching the dead rat which is very nice. These traps can be used over and over again easily. They're very well made / durable. Very impressed and well worth the $$.