Indoor Electronic Rat Trap, Humane Electric Rat Traps Indoor for Home, No Touch, No See Traps - M241B - Quickly and Humanely Kill Rats Indoors - 1 Pack

I have now bought a total of 7 of these units, and will probably purchase more they work so well! We bought 1 to start out with to help curve the winter "mice" problem in our basement that seems to always happen every year. Within 2 weeks that 1 single unit wiped out a solid family of mice. We then ordered 3 more to go in exterior buildings around the house to help combat them from making it in the house and those worked just as well! There are days where these will catch multiple mice in the same day. Fast forward a year, I purchased 3 for my work at a garden center and we've now taken out about 2 dozen mice in about a month with these 3 units! In short... THESE WORK! A Q-tip with some peanut butter is all you need to load these up. Be sure to keep these traps along the wall and/or by doorways and somewhat out in the open so it's an easier find for the rodents. Also, one thing to keep in mind, if you have gravel, or chunks of anything happen to get on the metal middle plate (the plate that senses and zaps the mouse), the plate will malfunction and not sense anything on it. So be sure to keep them clean and debris free! Otherwise, they are very super easy to use, easy to maintain, long lasting for both the unit and battery life (I've yet to change the x4 AA batteries in any of the units), much easier and safer to use than an original or traditional mouse trap, and make it for a speedy and humane kill of the mouse. I'm definitely happy that I went with these over anything else! They are pricey for what they are, but they pay for themselves quickly in the sense of ease of operation and/or if you've had things get damaged by mice/rodents already, the value in damage will out likely out weigh the cost of these quickly!!

DO NOT BUY!! The redesigned model cannot be opened to clean and there is no bait door. Please look at some of the one star reviews, the redesign is horrible!! if the metal plate gets dirty you cannot access it to clean off. Also when you bait the metal plate on the back with peanut butter, the rat/mouse can get to it from outside the trap. If gets hot the peanut butter melts onto the metal plate and you have a mess, which you cannot clean because of the poor design. PLEASE do not buy, you'll be sorry and for the price you'll just get upset like me. Victor (Woodstream Corp.) should be embarrassed to have redesigned the perfectly good prior model to save a few cents. I wish I could get my money back!

I've been trying to humanely trap/dissuade a family of mice/rats in my attic. I've done the scented "scare away" sachets, I've done the humane cage trap to capture them and take them someplace far away and release them. Unfortunately, none of that worked over the course of three months and they're so active they are waking me up at night. I had it. At 3:00am this morning, I had been woken up for the last time. I ordered this trap. I've had it in my attic for all of 30 minutes and it's killed three of the suckers (so far). I was not expecting this level of result so quickly. I used a blob of peanut butter as the bait. I've emptied it within a couple minutes of it going off (so the other rats/mice don't have enough time to see what happens to those who enter). I've also set up a wifi cam with motion sensing and night vision so I could be alerted and watch when one approached the trap. That's been a huge help in doing this so rapidly. Highly recommend that to anyone dealing with a lot of rats/mice. Seriously... This has produced more results than all of the stuff I had bought prior... and though I thought I was going to feel bad about killing them, this seems to be fast, efficient, and relatively humane. So easy to use. Solid and perfectly sized so you can easily pick it up and dump it. It also looks pretty easy to clean when everything is done.

So far we’ve got 3 rats in these, best bait is a pice of dog food, dog treat, and birds seed. The Tom cat attractant doesn’t work. These are the best solution that is working so far.

We had a rat issue. I called a pest control and bought this item. The pest control people were great at finding the entrance into the attic but this rat zapper killed more rats than 4 of their traps combined. So happy with it! No more rats in the attic.

As others have pointed out, this item has serious design issues. Difficult to clean, mainly, because it provides no easy access to the interior (for cleaning or baiting), and specifies indoor-only use, because it's not made for wet conditions. I gave it 3 stars because of that. However, the overall operating principle (store up an electric charge and deliver it in a single killing incident). I have caught/killed 3 rats so far, and all of them outdoors. Here's how: It happens that the reason the rats are attracted to our yard is that we have a backyard bird feeder. Birds are very messy eaters, so there is always seeds and peanuts on the ground under the feeder. This is what attracts the rats. So instead of peanut butter (messy and hard to clean, I put some of the bird seed in the bait area of the trap, and put it in a dark area along the route they take. Outside, with a brick to hold it down, and a large shallow basin to cover it and keep water out. (I put it outside, even though you're not supposed to, and it worked fine, even though it it rained briefly.) I put it out when I spot a rat, and the next day, or the day after, there's a dead rat in there. This is my experience, your mileage may vary.

I paid a professional company a lot of money to rid my attic of rats. They placed 5 cheap plastic rat traps with peanut butter as bait and left them for several weeks coming back now and then to check them and replace the baiat. They didn't catch even one rat. I took matters into my own hands and bought one of these. I ended up catching 3 rats in 3 weeks. Yes, it kills them. I don't care. They were in my attic ruining my insulation and air ducts, not to mention chewing holes in my roof to gain access. Anyway, I placed just one of these in the attic and also pointed a security cam with night vision directly at it so I could monitor it without going into the attic. I made sure to place it so I could see the indicator light on top that tells my it needed to be emptied. For bait, I used little bits of Slim Jim. That's what did the trick to finally bait them inside. Peanut better did nothing. When the trap caught a rat, it was super quick and bloodless. I was able to catch a trap on cam. It's not something I want to watch again, but I was surprised and glad at just how fast it was. Cleanup was super easy and there is no smell, as long as you clean it up fast enough. Just turn the trap off and empty into outdoor trash. You never have to touch the rat itself. The batteries each lasted for at least one kill. They say they can last more but I always replaced them after one use just to be sure it had full power. These seem well made and after catching the 3 rats, my attic has been rat free for a few months now. If you're looking to trap rats yourself and don't mind that it's lethal, these work great.

The problem with this unit is you can't clean it. You have to stick some peanut butter in through a few small holes on the end of the device. You can't get into it to clean it out and put fresh bait in. The directions in the box say to reach in with A-Tips to clean it out. Well its a vertical surface and you would have to have a Qtip that has a 90 degree bend in it and fiddle with it to even get to it much less clean it good. Seriously, whoever designed this never had to use it! You can't take it apart as when you fight to take the top and bottom apart, the wired connections are soldered and you risk breaking something trying to disassemble it. worst design ever so you peanut butter, as recommended as bait, just spoils in there and you fight with putting a cloth on a foot long stick to try and clean it out. This model is a M421B. Apparently the model M241 has a removable bait door to access the bait and clean out, much better design. DO NOT but this model. It really sucks trying to clean it. It kills the mice, just can't clean out the bait, dumbest design ever.