eXuby Large Powerful Rat Traps (6 Pack) - Kills Instantly with Powerful Steel Spring - Setup in Seconds - Wash & Reuse Over & Over - Hands Free Disposal - Rat Control Without Harmful Poisons or Chem

These are easy to bait, easy to set, and they work on rats or mice. Way better than the older style snap traps that could get your fingers when trying to set them - these are far safer to setup.

I've noticed some complaints about the rat eating the bait without the trap triggering. I think it is not so much a problem with the trap, rather the people only have a mouse problem rather than a rat in the house. If you have a mouse, then get the smaller mouse version. The mouse may be too light to trigger the trap, OR, the mouse goes under the platform to get to the bait. There is a gap between the top of the bait cup and the platform, this allows mice, or very small rats, to get at the bait without getting on the platform. I wrapped some scotch tape to extend about 1/4 inch on the top of the cup.There are some complaints that it doesn't always kill the rat, rather inhumanely injures it. Well, that can also happens with the old fashioned wooden traps as well. It comes down to the position of the rat when it triggers the trap. These are much easier and safer than the wooden ones, so I highly recommend this style.

I was finishing up in the garage and I heard something saying “unhh, unhh, unhhh.” Under the workbench I and saw a rat with its head in a trap. The trap should have killed it but didn’t. It was moving around and in pain.I got some gloves and took the trap. When I picked up the trap, the jaws released and the rat got away. We chased it along the wall of the garage. it tried to stay hidden and we kept moving it toward the open garage door.The garage was filled with tools, wood, and a huge mirror box that had pictures in it. I moved everything outside. The wall had peg board on it and there was a a two inch gap at the bottom. The rats tail would sometimes sick out but I couldn’t grab it.I put an Amazon box outside the garage entrance, got a stick and herded the rat outside. I hoped that it would run away but it ran into the box. I closed the top of the box and put a piece of wood on it. I didn’t know what to do. It was injured so I decided to euthanize it.The internet is filled all kinds of great information. When I googled killing a rat, they said to gas it. I made a gas chamber using an empty yogurt container and poured baking soda in. I grabbed the rat by the tail and dropped it in and then poured in vinegar. I closed the lid. The vinegar and baking soda made CO2. It was terrible. The rat's little feet were moving and then eventually the slowed and then stopped. I put the closed yogurt container in two plastic bags and put in the garbage.I am furious that the rat trap didn’t work. I should have taken the rat and the trap and overnighted it to the people who sold it so they could deal with rat and figure out why the trap didn't work.

These baits or any bait would have some kind of design flaws. With the price of these baits, they are worth the money if we know how to overcome these design flawsHere are a few simple tricks that would make these traps work perfect 100% of the time, no mis-snap, no missing bait, no runaway trap and so forth.1st - Wear gloves because oil from your skin would rub on the baits, mice would detect human sense on the baits causing them to stay away. Also to be on the safe side, while setting up bates make sure to keep pressing one hand on the locking end else you could accidentally snap your fingers on the snapping side. I got snapped, ouch.2nd - Do not put bait in the ready-made circular hole tray in the trap. This is a design flaw because little mice just went underneath the flapper and it does not activate. Instead put the bait (peanut butter is the best bait) further back, way inside the flapper. This forces the mice to go deeper to reach the bait and push the flapper down which activates the snap action.3rd - Do not put too much bait just about a centimeter size is good enough; too much it just does not give the mice focus and it drifts everywhere.4th - If a large rat hit the flapper and it snaps only 10% of its head so the rat still alive but stuck in the trap. This can resolve by trimming the flapper 30% in, trim the flapper to where half of the circular hole. This way large rat has to move its mouth even further before the snap action takes place.5th - If the rat still alive and kicking but still trap half of it head. Do not use a shove, hammer, baseball bat, or any blunt object to put it out of its misery, because you would make a mess it would splatter blood everywhere for cleaning up. Just bring it outdoor suffocate it with bleach. If your bait keeps running away then tie it up with a string.Lastly, do not throw a raw dead rat in a garbage can because in a few days maggots and smell be all over the place and you have to clean up your trash can later. Instead, use a garden 1-gallon bucket or any small bucket insert shopping plastic bag in the bucket and put a little dirt, soil in it then place the rat in there and sprinkle more dirt on top to cover the rat, could spray some bleach on top of the soil to discourage flies. Remember to cover the top of the bucket. This way prevents flies and the soil act as a moister absorber. When trash day comes to tie up the bag and put in the garbage can.A big downside is this thing does not last, about 10 plus snaps and the click activate the flap inside worn out, and it keeps shutting. Too bad, I really like the traps; somehow, if they can make that clip inside more durable then it is perfect. Just replaced the highly sensitive moving part from plastic to stainless steel or its mechanical design that the plastic part does not die out so quickly (see update below for the fix for this, using a razor blade glue to the broken latch)Update (a week after returned)After exchanging these baits with other baits, I found out that these baits are one of the best ones even though they have flaws. Here are more flaws I found out more in this update that causes by time: Unresponsive snaps or over-sensitive snap is caused by a broken latch inside the bait. The fix is gluing a thin metal sheet-like razor blade to the releasing latch that slides out in the back inside the baits. That part breaks easily. Another flaw through time is with outdoor sunny/wet garden the baits would get rust and crack. What I do is I use odorless lubricant and lube on the metal springs to prevent rust from forming. For preventing the UV damage leads to cracks is to put more in the shade.These baits worth the money compared to all the other ones even with flaws. The other ones I brought have more flaws like flimsy, weaker spring, smaller size. These items make me feel like they are seasonal items. If their useful life is over like the plastic integrity gives out or the springs life dies out, I would order more of these baits.

Roof rats infested my kitchen. I bought 12 of these. The jaws looked powerful. Advertised to work with rats which are a little bigger than mice. Advertised as powerful kills. After a couple of weeks, only 2 rats killed. THREE OTHERS SURVIVED! They were screeching --in two cases, their heads were caught somehow but it wasn't fatal; the third one was caught in the tail. The failed kills taught the other rats to avoid the traps located nearby. Also, even though these traps are advertised as reusable, the ones that caught rats didn't work afterwards--the bait was eaten and when I tried to set it off, it didn't.