Upgraded Electronic Rat Trap

I spent a lot of time reading reviews on here on the various makes of these kinds of rat/mouse killers. I came to the conclusion that after cancelling out the 'I got this product free/discounted and therefore feel obliged/feel it's in my interests to give a good review' reviews, this one was the one with the largest number of suspect free positive reviews. I had a serious mouse problem, but not a rat problem, but having already tried first live traps, and then Rentokil poison boxes, and finding them equally useless to the pretty intelligent mice that were troubling me, I decided to try one of these and felt that the larger tunnel size, since it's designed for rats too, would make the mice less suspicious on entering. This product arrived on a Sunday afternoon, but having no batteries until the following day, I decided to place it in its first intended location, my kitchen cupboard, hoping the mice would get used to it being there and therefore fooled into a false sense of security. The next day the batteries arrived and I put it in my kitchen cupboard at 4pm, with a square of Snickers. I came back into the room about ten minutes later to find it already flashing, and found the first victim had been killed within 10 minutes of me placing it there. Tipping the mouse out was simple and I replaced the product back into the cupboard. That first night it killed six mice, the second night another 5. I then moved it into my living room and it showed the same efficiency until within 3 days, there were no more mice, and no more signs of them destroying the things that were previously being ruined every night. I should also point out, that it did all this using the same square of Snickers I placed in it on first set up. Since no mouse had ever got far enough to touch it let alone eat it, it remained as bait throughout. The mice always looked in perfect condition. No burned extremities, no hideous looks of pain or shock on their faces etc. In fact I find this product all the scarier for the fact that it is quite so terrifyingly efficient as the title indicates. But given the previous items I tried, I'd say this were one of the better ways to be killed off. If you have pets or other humans around, I would highly recommend you place this trap only where they cannot get. A dog/cat/rabbit's paws could easily reach into this product and they would be killed instantly I'm sure, and I'm sure it wouldn't do a human much good either. But that aside, so long as you are aware of this, I find this product brilliant and would highly recommend it.

OK we had a rat problem and I needed to sort it out quickly - so I bought Victor Rat Traps, Glue Boards and this Victor Rat Zapper. Don't bother with the Victor Rat Zapper!! I caught all of the rats with the traditional snap spring traps and the last one called an "Alpha" on a glue board. Apparently you need to try and catch them all in one go, otherwise they will get trap shy and just avoid them. The last one would not take the bait and so I ordered a glue board and it just ran across it, after I had worked out where his food source was coming from. Also block up any holes, even if you end up blocking them in the house. It took over 4 weeks to get them all and so I can't get a refund on my Rat Zapper, but save your cash and do not bother - it did not work for me and the rats were small enough to have got into it. I put in the most expensive batteries too, they just would not enter it. Buy lots of normal snap rat traps - the Victor ones were good, bait them up unset with either Cheese, Bacon or Peanut Butter to see which they prefer and let them get used to eating off them unset for a couple of days and set them and unleash hell. Hopefully you'll get them all in one night. I took ages for me to get all of this information off of the internet so I hope it helps someone. The Zapper sounds like a great idea, as you can just kill them cleanly and tip them in the bin, without any mucking around with traps and the inherent danger to children and small pets - but its only a great idea if it works! Sorry rats but you were starting to destroy my house!

We had a mouse infestation after a next door neighbours house was cleared *(she was elderly and the conditions were not great), the mice migrated to our house.... We tried everything, sticky traps, snap traps, poison, trapping traps! but nothing seemed to be getting rid of the problem effectively and additionally humanely. Sticky traps and snap traps in particular are horrid. The rodents die slow and painful deaths. I want the things gone, but there is no need for slow and painful! My wife came across the Rat Zapper. We baited it with dog food and caught a mouse every night, sometime we would catch 2 - 3 in one 24 hour period. It was so good that we bought a second trap. Between both traps we caught over 40 mice and cleared the infestation. We were mouse free. These traps kill instantly. It is as humane as you get. The mice don't know whats happened, they go in an lights off. No blood no mess, so its easy to dispose of the dead mice. Often I wouldn't even need to re bait the trap as the mice don't even get as far as the food. They are a bit more expensive, but well worth it. I have given 4 stars not 5 because i have to say they do seem to not stand the test of time. My first set of 2 RatZappers lasted about 2 years. After which point I had to buy a brand new trap.

It was down less than an hour when the first mouse went after the two raw almonds in the back of it, and got zapped. We were rather surprised, as the lights were on, and we were sitting 10 feet away, watching a movie! Apparently the dark, quiet tunnel of it makes even shy mousies feel it's worth the risk. Well, a week later, and it's safe to say the flat is mouse-free! I bought this after months of being taunted by mice that ignored our traditional traps. My uncle had a zapper years ago, and I remembered it working brilliantly on the giant wood rats we had in northern California. I was a bit concerned that it wouldn't be sensitive enough to respond to small mice, but nope! Not a problem! A few things about this that make it worth the price: 1. I never, NEVER have to look at, let alone touch, a dead mouse. The light blinks when something is in it, and we just pick up the nice, clean blue box, a d dump it into a small bin bag. Job done. 2. It's inconspicuous, and easily hidden if company comes over. We can toss it in a closet, or leave it behind the washer. Either way, no one EXPECTS a blue plastic box ro be a mouse/rat trap. .;) 3. My pets ignore it. My cat doesn't care, and even my greedy dog leaves it alone. I suspect he'd try to get into it if I baited it with cheese or peanut butter, but since those are messy and completely unnecessary, the almonds do just fine- and the dog doesn't seem to know it exists. 4. It uses AA batteries. SO easy and convenient. My uncle's zapper was made many years ago, and used D batteries. That was far less easy, so I'm glad of the change.

Second night, a large rat was caught and killed, due to the rats size, the claim it is a "no see" trap is not correct, however, I was impressed with the speed of catch. Unfortunately, there was another rat lurking around, this one had perhaps learn't off his dead mate, and has never entered either of the the traps placed, but has managed to gnaw open the bait door at the back! Fixed this and wedged the traps against a wall to prevent access to the rear of the trap. Since then no interest in the traps at all. Decided to place 3 "snap" traps in appropriate places, worked first night! No more signs of rat activity over the last 3 nights. These electronic traps seem a good idea, but if the rat is one of the clever ones, they are pretty ineffective. So in summary, although a little more messy, "snap" traps are the way forward, and also better value (I bought a box of 10 Victor wooden snap traps for less than 1 electronic trap).

Spotted a single mouse, late one night... guessed they not been in our house long as we hadn't spotted any droppings anywhere - we never have food left out, but we do have two young children who always seem to drop food... So we needed a trap, didn't want one that made a mess of the mouse, or one that caught a live mouse - what would I do with it? This seemed perfect. As we have kids we didn't want to place it where they could get at it, thought behind the TV... Before I placed it that evening, I needed to go in our under stairs cupboard for some paint, that's when I spotted the mouse nest, made of shredded tissue paper behind the paint pots - painting job was on hold. Didn't want to disturb them and risk them relocating elsewhere. Decided to put trap in cupboard (we used a little pot of birdseed as bait and gently slid it to the back) The first evening, we caught one at 8pm, great we knew it worked. Was easy to again gently slide out the dead mouse and the pot of bait - dispose of mouse in bin, replace bait and rearm trap. We caught another at 10pm - this time we knew we had caught one without peeking a look in cupboard as the trap was buzzing and when we opened cupboard door there was a burning smell!!! Guess the dead mouse was causing a short across the plates - this made us worry about leaving it on overnight so decided against it. The next evening we rearmed the trap, about 9pm, we peeked a look at the trap, bingo, mouse number 3, no more that evening. We thought we'd continue like this until we failed to catch one. Next evening, bingo again, mouse 4. Next evening - nothing, next evening - nothing again... next day I decided to move some paint pots, see if I spotted movement. Was expecting to find dead babies or something as guess we must have got the female. Luckily no babies, so cleared away shredded paper nest, vacuumed under stairs. All clean. Mouse problem gone. Guess we caught the problem early before they bred. All thanks to this trap. Is now stored in loft for any future infestations. Well happy with results.

Worked 3 times on first set of batteries. Replaced batteries even though first set still showed as fully charged. Then worked 5-6 times on next set. Swapped to new batteries again, but now continually triggers itself - i.e. light flashes but nothing inside except all the untouched bait! Has also made a worrying electronic noise a few times, which I suspect means that it's shorting out - rather concerning as it's a machine designed to give an electric shock! Have contacted manufacturer so will see what they say & post back if I get any reply. Definitely should be handled with rubber gloves from the onset, & that includes bait & fitting batteries. Also, it seemed worthwhile to be patient - i.e. put a generous amount of bait out for a few days without switching it on so that the critters get used to it. It worked well until it stopped working! Rather expensive to stop working in such a relatively short time. Addendum 30th Sept' 2017: have been contacted by manufacturer who recommend another very thorough cleaning as per the instruction book - I will clean it again and see if that fixes the problem. If you try this please do remember to REMOVE the BATTERIES before putting it anywhere near water! And only clean the bottom part - do not get the top part wet as these voids the Warranty.

This thing 100% works on rats if they enter it. I read a lot of mixed reviews on this, So was a bit sceptical if it would work or worth the money. Our home has a extension built on to the back off the house used as a kicthen and we live near a railway which atracts rat. Problem is that the railway has been under construction for 2 years and last winter we be hearing alot of moving in the ceiling. Sounded like a army of mouse which turned out to be rats. I baited the device with peanut butter on the rear wall. I then placed dry cat food and dry dog food on the peabut button, as we knew that was there food source in our home. I then placed the device between our fridge and the cooker, A area where we knew they was active. I then placed some food and bread in front of the device to bait them :D First day we got nothing. 2nd day around 2pm it has killed a baby rat which i thought was a mouse at the time. But the big shock came at 11pm that same day. I came downstairs and saw the light flashing green. Has i looked down to get a better view, I saw a huge tail which must of been a good 10 inches long. I knew at this point we was dealing with rats. As i looked inside i could see that this was a very large rat which was the length of the device. Could see its fat body and feet. Wasn't very nice to see that time of night. Thank god i didn't have to look at it to much as this device makes it easy to get rid of them. I just placed the device in a black bag and wraped the bag around the device to get a good seal then tipped it upside down. The weight of the rat was a bit shocking compared to when dealing with mice. It was like dropping a full can a beer into a bag. Next day it killed another baby rat. 1day later another baby rat. It had killed 4 in total. But then nothing. Then i came face to face with a large rat in the cupboard which it has failed to kill due to it avoiding the device. Prob was smart enough to notice it had wiped out its family. Anyway we had one of them Ultrasonic Rodent Repeller devices in our living room which i placed in the kitchen. And after a week the rat has seem to have vanished for good. No signs of rats for a good month now So this device does work if they go inside it. You just need to cut off there food supply. They are sneaky so can easy get into places you think are safe like top floor cupboards Also if you get this device, Make sure the positive side up on the battery is making full contact when you insert the battery's Also the device will make a buzzing sound 60 seconds after you turn it on. I read some reviews that confuse this with the device being broke and not working One more thing. Battery's used were Duracell Plus Power Type C Alkaline Batteries, pack of 6 Device name: Victor Electronic Rat Trap