Roshield 2 x External Rat Snap Trap Control Protector Box - Rodent Safety Kit for Gardens, No Poison Solution - Green Professional Quality

Worked a treat!! Tasty morsel of peanut butter or white chocolate on the pressure pad and no more ratty!! Securely tucked inside the housing safe for pets and children. Easy to open and dispose of catch!!

Well made but a lot of rats gets away

Good product.Good supplier - very helpful.Yet to catch a rat, but no evidence of infestation either. I feel should a rat appear it will quickly be dispatched.

These are well made boxes with terrifyingly strong traps. You must take great care not to get fingers anywhere near the mechanism!I have pretty much cleared my back garden of a rat problem. I can't use bait as I have cats but they alone are not enough of a deterrent. These traps are clearly more humane than poison. It looks to me that death really is instant.I also recommend the use of the same brand attractant, especially as it is food grade and therefore benign to humans and animals.

Purchased these some weeks ago after watching the video explaining how to use and all of the virtues. I suppose now they are banning poisoning rats there is a need to get rid of the millions of plastic boxes out there that can no longer be used for rat bait so a bit of modification and you shove a big mouse trap inside. In theory I suppose if a rat stuck it's head in the trap it would do it some damage (the rat not the trap) but in my case the rats are' flicking the vees' and setting it off then eating the bait.I am not a Newby to this and can usually outwit and get the rats in the end but I think what this needs instead of a single side facing trap in the box it need two traps back to back and I am tempted to make my own modification to achieve this.Watch this space for an update and I will ket you know how it goes.Update. Just reduced from 3 to 2 stars as box not big enough for the plan I had. Only any use for original use for these boxes which is to bait with poison for rodents. Trap idea is pretty useless as mentioned by others and above. Really cannot recommend these at allUpdate, chucked out the rat traps, purchased a pile of rat bait, slid it onto the internal rods in the boxes and within 2 weeks rats were wiped out. This proves these boxes are perfect for their original use and so am going to give them another star as they are some use after all but forget using them with a trap inside.

Looks as though it will do the job. You need to know what you are doing with this sort of thing,it is not for the faint hearted.Our farmer son is dealing with it

During the first lockdown I set up a more elaborate bird feeding centre (originally just a window feeder) partly through boredom as we were all stuck at home, the birds are entertaining. Set it up along a hedge opposite a window so we could be entertained and bring more nature to us.I didn't forsee that would include RATS!We're two fields away from horse stables, hedgerows and some scrubland link our garden to the stables so I guess they've made rat runs from there since discovering the bird food. First time we saw anything was in broad daylight and noticed movement in the hawthorne hedge, didn't know rats could climb trees and run along thin branches! They were looking at ways to get onto the feeders.Then found a big rat on one of the bird feeders (it's one of these based on a slim metal pole you stick into the ground). Amazed that they'd been able to shimmy up a shiny painted tube. Watched them and they do it with ease. Some grease smeared all up the pole stopped that.After getting over the initial shock of seeing a rat I thought well, what harm are they doing, I'm a nature lover and they're only part of nature so I thought I'd leave them to it if they were just going to feed off the seeds that fell to the ground.But then we saw another and another and after a few months some baby rats, a whole family of rats! We started to worry about our neighbours and their reaction if they saw our garden full of rats or the rats were to go into theirs.I then started finding evidence they were digging and burrowing at the foundations of the house and neighbours fence. They were also putting off the birds when they were near the feeders. Enough was enough.I bought two Roshield rat trap boxes through Amazon and caught nothing, a few weeks later I tried the Roshield bait boxes and again nothing, just more rats!I put a wildlife camera near the entrance to these boxes to find out what was going on and mice were frequently going inside to eat the seed and bait (little teeth marks in the bait, not rat teeth) but the rats just investigated from the outside sniffing around but they could obviously smell a rat! They never went inside the boxes. I also tried the Roshield bait spray and the boxes were outside for months so the new plastic smell would have gone.I also tried a roller fitted to the top of a 25 ltr bucket of water but only caught mice that way.Rats are too smart, not wary, they'll happily come out in broad daylight if it's quiet.So I spent a lot of money and bought an air rifle, now all the rats are gone...... for now.