Animal Humane Live Cage Trap That Work for Rat

I Love the fact that the small animal can be trapped safely and relocated. The conventional rat and mice traps are absolutely barbaric - the poor little critters just wanna live!

After seeing many different reviews I was skeptical but needed to try this method and medium size due to a large rat. I tried putting down rat bait pebbles of ratx tomcom mixed it with peanut butter and all this rat did was lick off the peanut butter and leave the rat bait intact never digesting it. I left the door open and waited for an hour and it never went outside. So I said let’s give thisa try didn’t have anything to lose as I knew the baits were never going to work it was too smart. With this cage it was pretty durable not too flimsy. Easy to setup and The mechanism of the gate coming down to close and capture the rat was amazing. I put it out for 2 hours max. First try I placed peanut butter on the tray it has setup inside. My mistake was placing it on a piece of foil because the rat went inside without activating the tray and literally grabbed the foil and slid it off and away it went to have its food. I know this because I had installed a camera to watch it. It’s sniffed around outside a few time because it smelled the peanut butter was curious and went inside with in. When I seen it grab the foil of peanut butter and walk out the cage with such Waze and then going back 3 more times I said I need to outsmart you. 2nd try I placed just a small amount of peanut butter directly onto the tray it has. it went in, started licking the peanut butter on the side of the tray and then it happened! He triggered the tray and snap! The cage door came down. It has this slide metal piece when the tray snaps closed that metal piece will come down to lock it in place. For me, I was watching on the camera the entire time. As soon as I heard the snap of the lid I ran to grab it because if it’s size it did try to throw itself against the closed lid and thrashed inside but I was ready and waiting. In all I used this for 2 hours and caught it!! If you have a camera that you can add to the area and watch and see what it does you can outsmart it lol this one was smart and knew! but I highly recommend. It was worth every penny and the quality was great and most importantly it did the job! Should’ve purchased this sooner and not waste money on pellets.

worth purchasing it

Best advice for smart rats (ie: you have tried everything else on Amazon and you can't catch anything) 1. Get these traps (I started with 3) 2. Put a piece of cardboard on the floor of the trap. This serves 2 purposes: 1. They don't have to try to walk on the rough wire cage bottom, the cardboard is nice and smooth and 2. they will leave their scent behind. REAL important for you to convince them this is the local all-you-can-eat-rat-friendly location. 3. Select a high rat-traffic area (lots of droppings) and set it there. Be sure you can turn off lights and make it fairly dark (they have great night vision) they like to be stealth and usually only feed at night. You want a quiet place away from human and other animal (dogs and cats) traffic. That's where they like to hang. I tried 2 locations up on top of boxes and shelves, these caught more rats than the cages on the ground. 4. Feed the traps for 3 days BUT LOCK THEM OPEN, DO NOT SET THEM TO TRAP. Yes, lock them open. Feed them tons of goodies in and around the traps. Think Golden Corral. Let them get comfortable, fat and happy; bring their friends. 5. Evening, the 4th day: feed the traps again, then leave the area and set a timer or set up a camera. Check every hour. As soon as the trap springs, hustle there and pick up the entire trap (carefully, using gloves. Rat feces can carry diseases like bubonic plague). And remove the whole trap from the area. Turn off the lights and go dispose of the rat(s) you caught. Re-stock the trap, take it back to its place and re-set it to TRAP. If you can stay up late, I was collecting rats every hour in my well-fed traps. I caught 6 big ones the first night. Note: Several folks have said the rats can damage the traps, this is true. They will try to press themselves through the wire to escape or just chew the life out of everything. The cages are thin, but if you collect them quickly (1). your cage is not detroyed and (2). the distress and noise caused by the trapped rat will not drive away your other "customers" as long as you get the rats out of the area before the others catch on. ONLY trap when you have time to monitor the cages otherwise you could have a mangled cage or a dead mutilated rat. When you are done for the night, set the traps back to OPEN and feed them again. Yes, the rats do get a few good meals out of you, but you will catch them far quicker if they are confident the all-you-can-eat bar will be there again "safely" tomorrow. I have also noticed after the first night of trapping, the next night I caught only 1 in the same period of time that I caught 6 the night before. Waiting a few days and keep feeding the traps, builds up their confidence again. Then spend another late night setting the traps and collecting your "customers." Some folks kill the rats, some release them into the woods a ways away from their property. Its your call according to local laws. If your traps fail to catch new "customers," wait a few days but keep feeding the traps. Once they get confident again, have another late night trap session and you will get a good haul....until there just aren't anymore. I will update this once we get them all.

Worked great. Easy to use. Caught the rodent that was eating my garden in one night!