The Original Big Snap-E Mouse Rat Trap, Easy Set, Re-useable, Durable, Easy to Bait, Provides a Sure Catch.

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 $$.

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.

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.