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 $$.

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.

I bought 2 Rat Traps. I first bought the Intruder 16525 The Better Rodentrap. Then i bought the BIG Snap-E. I figured having two different types of traps would be a good idea incase one performed better than the other, also so that the rats don't get too used to the types of traps. ( I hear they are pretty smart ).I placed a small amount of peanut butter on both traps and set them along areas the rats may travel. About 3-4 weeks went by and neither of the traps had been set off. A few more days went by and at the middle of the night i heard the Intruder 16525 The Better Rodentrap go off. I then went to go and check on the trap but it had not snagged anything, i guess the rat got away since it continued to make noises in the night.Another couple weeks go by and i heard the Big Snap-E go off. I went to go check on it and i saw the rat laying near the trap basically dead. Somehow the rat managed not to get stuck in the trap, However....I think it killed it near instantly because it only took me like 15-30 Seconds to get to the trap. No Blood, no mess at all, it was just laying next to it. I am pretty sure it died near instantly.This is a great trap, it has a a lot of force to it and its snap is loud and noticeable. So even if by some chance that the rat does not get stuck in the trap, it will probably die shortly afterwards.If i can give a small tip i would say to Smear a good amount of peanut butter all over the stepping lever, put on a good enough amount that you can smell the peanut butter.Good luck to you all, make sure to wear gloves when disposing of the rat and wash your hands and disinfect the area with bleach afterwards.Good product.

Worked great the first time, but lately the bait is removed and NO RAT. Sets very easily and safely but have lost the bait quite a few times. Bait needs to be stuck a bit in the well to work well. Try using cut up small beef jerky wedged into the well. This seems to attract the rats and has the best chance of not being able to be "stolen"