This trap was worth the money just to get this one smart rat. I assume he wasn't as shy of the trap on the table as it was a new food location for him and not one he was completely familiar with yet. That worked a treat, the next morning, one very dead rat. Smart little guy sniffed out the feeder that I left on our porch table, climbed up and feasted himself, so the next night I emptied the feeder, left it on the table again this time with the Nooski next to it, baited with chook food at the pointy end and a small pile at the trap entrance. Initially setting out the Nooski he even avoided that, probably as it was something new in the coop. This guy was very trap shy, even avoiding baited traps when we removed the feeder overnight. This rat was feasting on our chook feed, getting at the feeder in the coop. So for me, this trap worked where the Ratsak poison and traditional snap traps didn't work. Some reviewers have complained about this trap being hard to set - it does require some dexterity as you need to roll a very small thick rubber band down a cone right to the end and make sure it stops just on the lip and at the end of the trigger. It's fairly kid and cat/dog safe with the trigger and band down at the end of the tube. There's no blood or messy remains to clean out. The trap is easily reset ready to go again.
The rodent might die in the trap or in it's death throes, die a few inches away from the trap. There's a trigger set off by the rodent's head, releasing the band off the end of the cone and snapping down around the neck or upper body of the animal, cutting off air and blood flo. Once set and baited the rodent will enter the trap and crawl up into the cone where the bait is. The trap uses what are basically castration bands (typically used by farmers to dock sheep tails and testicles).
TLDR: This caught the smartest rat in the neighbourhood. This review is for the rat model - a bigger version of the mouse trap.
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