Quality Rat Trap, Humane Live Animal Mouse Cage Traps, Catch and Release Mice, Rats,Chipmunk, Pests, Rodents and Similar Sized Pests for Indoor and Outdoor, 10.6 X 5.63 X 4.33 Inches, One-Door

Easy to catch and easy to release, a distance from your house so they don’t come back in

Caught the critter on the first night. This little thief was opening our dog food container and helping himself to dinner every night. One early morning, I was feeding our pets, when I looked up and saw him staring down at me from power line. Couldn't get myself to kill him with lethal rat trap or poison, so decided to try and relocate him somehow. This trap made it easy. Put a little bit of dog food in the trap, and done. Caught him the first night, then relocated him to open field. I was worried a larger rat could maybe open the trap door, but it actually has mechanism to lock it once it closes. Also worried that it didn't have a handle, but you can actually lift it from the long metal bar used to hold the trap door open. The trap is sturdy and well built. Excellent product!

I would recommend taking a small piece of cardboard smearing it with peanut butter, adding a few black oil sunflower seeds from my bird feeder, and resting it on the “trip” in the back of the trap. If you apply too much peanut butter to your cardboard the weight of it triggers the trap. You can figure out by trial and error how much you need for the perfect balance to set your trap. This method also keeps the trap clean for when you set it the next time. The two pictures (one with the set trap and the other with the rat) are taken within two hours of each other! I caught a total of six rats within two days. And I realize my problem was solved when I started catching, chipmunks and sparrows.🤣🤣 Another trick I learned was if I put a dish towel, size cloth over the cage after I caught my rats that they were much calmer, and it was easier to transport them off to their new home at “ the little cabin in the woods.” It also made ME calmer and more secure about holding the cage knowing that I wouldn’t have a frightened rat lunging at me as I picked up the cage. Everybody wins.

We had one small rat that entered our house, and it took us months to trap it. I had four traps in different areas of the house where I knew it frequented. One of them was this brand, two was from HavAHart. Another one was a HavAHart but it was too small and the critter was able to back out of it after it ate the bait. IMPORTANT MENTION: the size of the grid of this JGRZF Quality Rat Trap is perfect. The other two HavAHart traps were functional but the grid size is 1" square. If you search the internet, rats can easily squeeze through that size and this is what mine tried to do. However, it somehow got it's hind legs stuck under the trap as it tried to push itself free. And so, it waited like that for a few hours until I got home. It took me 2 hour of trying to coax it to reverse out after lifting the trap a bit. It finally did, but again tried to escape through the 1" grid elsewhere. I quickly put the trap into a huge garbage bag drove it a few miles away to an unkept area full of blackberries in the wild.

I have used these for smaller squirrels that were digging under my house and patio. While I don’t like to do things like that I also don’t like all of the foundation around my house torn up. They’re easy to work and it’s nice to have my home rid of the squirrels.

Oh boy, I can see why customers would return this item. It is very cheaply made and with no instructions, it took me a minute to figure out how it works. Made in China and feels like braces wire. It can easily be moved around since it weighs about 3 ounces and it appears to be so flimsy that any self respecting chipmunk would be able to get out. Not worth the money. Buy American made.

This is a perfectly well made trap. It's sturdy. It's not hard to set. The rats are really smart. They walk around it. They walk over it. They had a little party next to it, with music and everything. They didn't even wear masks, which I found to be hopeful in this time of pandemic. But they did NOT go in it. No way, no how. I've baited it with everything yummy. I've let it sit there, quietly, to get the rats used to it. Nothing. Period. I'm thinking of using it as a planter.

My rat was very smart. He seemed to know from the get-go that this was a trap. He was not falling for the peanut butter on a Ritz. I finally mixed some peanut butter with a little bird seed and put some right outside the trap, right inside, and the finally on the trigger that closed the door. Winner winner! Was able to let him go without injuring him. This trap is self explanatory and super easy to use. Tricking the rat is the hard part.