TOMCAT Rat Snap Rat Trap

This rat trap WORKS! I suggest adding peanut butter, or part of a banana on the bait section. It snaps on the neck/head. It usually is instant death or about 1-5 mins for the rat to die. This is actually more humane than those sticky traps ...which can mess up rodents legs. Some sticky traps' glue isn't strong enough for rats unless you get the large sticky traps from a pest control service. But, then you have to be concerned with how to exterminate the rodent after it is stuck on the sticky trap. I have removed mice and a rat from stickies and allowed them to go back into a wooded area, but you have to be too careful so you aren't bitten. It just is too upsetting to use sticky traps. The snap trap is superior.

Rats in the garden. Poison: not for me, because so many other critters feed on them. I definitely prefer the Tomcat to the older style spring traps. Easier to bait and clean, safer to set. Also, the rats can't nudge/jostle it into snapping out of the kill zone. However, because the trap is small and light, it was no problem for a red-tailed hawk to carry off the whole package. It only happened once so far- the cost of doing business I guess.