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Anyone use these rat traps?

  • 25-07-2019 2:02pm
    #1
    Effects
    Registered Users Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭


    Watched a few videos of this rat trap: https://www.automatictraps.ie/

    Look simple and effective. Has anyone here used it or have any feedback on it?


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  • #2
    Dakota Dan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    Why not use rat bait?


  • #3
    2018na
    Registered Users Posts: 215 ✭✭2018na


    Can they be got in Ireland. I think that’s an amazing invention


  • #4
    Base price
    Registered Users Posts: 11,132 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    Dakota Dan wrote: »
    Why not use rat bait?
    Cause owls, buzzards and other birds pick up the poisoned rats/mice either to eat or feed to their chicks which causes them to die.
    Early last year I bought an electronic rat trap/killer similar in style to the mouse one that I bought a few years ago. The mouse one was very effective but I had difficulty encouraging the rats into the trap.

    The reason that I bought them was
    1. You can throw the dead mice/rats onto a shed roof for the birds to eat.
    2. I cannot set a spring trap cause I keep thinking it's going to snap my fingers either when I'm setting it, putting it in place or even just looking at it :o

    https://www.ie.screwfix.com/procter-electronic-rat-killer.html?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=CPC&utm_campaign=Shopping&gclid=Cj0KCQjwyerpBRD9ARIsAH-ITn-wslnTMVbXyPfdL2i-nK0dIA4pfL3JFDuFkD3Q_iJpWOXX1XJLDRcaAkjTEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds


  • #5
    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,473 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Base price wrote: »
    Cause owls, buzzards and other birds pick up the poisoned rats/mice either to eat or feed to their chicks which causes them to die.
    Early last year I bought an electronic rat trap/killer similar in style to the mouse one that I bought a few years ago. The mouse one was very effective but I had difficulty encouraging the rats into the trap.

    The reason that I bought them was
    1. You can throw the dead mice/rats onto a shed roof for the birds to eat.
    2. I cannot set a spring trap cause I keep thinking it's going to snap my fingers either when I'm setting it, putting it in place or even just looking at it :o

    https://www.ie.screwfix.com/procter-electronic-rat-killer.html?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=CPC&utm_campaign=Shopping&gclid=Cj0KCQjwyerpBRD9ARIsAH-ITn-wslnTMVbXyPfdL2i-nK0dIA4pfL3JFDuFkD3Q_iJpWOXX1XJLDRcaAkjTEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

    Found a dead owl in the yard a few years ago.
    Haven’t put down bait since


  • #6
    CJhaughey
    Registered Users Posts: 14,906 ✭✭✭✭CJhaughey


    I have one for about 5 years now, very effective. I would recommend getting one with a counter as you don't know how many animals have been dispatched and scavenged. You get 24 kills from a single 16g cartridge and the counter lets you know when to replace the cartridge.
    The new ALP system is a lot better than the old bottle type system as you can get 6 mths from the pump.
    They are introducing a new Bluetooth attachment soon that lets you know when and how many shots the trap has fired to your phone.


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  • #7
    2018na
    Registered Users Posts: 215 ✭✭2018na


    Where can it be got. Online I presume


  • #8
    Effects
    Registered Users Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭Effects


    Yeah, looks like you can get them from the website I linked.
    I wanted to avoid bait as I'm worried about other animals eating it or possibly second hand poisoning as mentioned above.
    I haven't seen the rats much, just one last year and my other half spotted one last week.
    They are digging a lot in the front garden, some pretty big entrance holes in some places.


  • #9
    Dunedin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,225 ✭✭✭Dunedin


    Base price wrote: »

    https://www.ie.screwfix.com/procter-electronic-rat-killer.html?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=CPC&utm_campaign=Shopping&gclid=Cj0KCQjwyerpBRD9ARIsAH-ITn-wslnTMVbXyPfdL2i-nK0dIA4pfL3JFDuFkD3Q_iJpWOXX1XJLDRcaAkjTEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

    Just ordered one of these last night. What bait did you use?


  • #10
    Base price
    Registered Users Posts: 11,132 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    Dunedin wrote: »
    Just ordered one of these last night. What bait did you use?
    Peanut butter smeared over the holes on the inside. Let it come through the holes to the outside to encourage them/get the taste.


  • #11
    Dunedin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,225 ✭✭✭Dunedin


    Base price wrote: »
    Peanut butter smeared over the holes on the inside. Let it come through the holes to the outside to encourage them/get the taste.


    Set it only 20 minutes ago and light flashing already.


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  • #12
    Masala
    Registered Users Posts: 3,462 ✭✭✭Masala


    Dunedin wrote: »
    Set it only 20 minutes ago and light flashing already

    Keep us updated..... mouse or rat.?


  • #13
    Jb1989
    Registered Users Posts: 2,421 ✭✭✭Jb1989


    Dunedin wrote: »
    Set it only 20 minutes ago and light flashing already

    Mouse or rat. Big or small?


  • #14
    Dunedin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,225 ✭✭✭Dunedin


    Jb1989 wrote: »
    Mouse or rat. Big or small?

    Nothing calving so no chance of me going back out to the shed. Can wait til the morning as I’m sure whichever it is will still be there.


  • #15
    Dunedin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,225 ✭✭✭Dunedin


    Masala wrote: »
    Keep us updated..... mouse or rat.?

    False alarm- light flashing but nothing in it ????


  • #16
    Chisler2
    Registered Users Posts: 436 ✭✭Chisler2


    Effects wrote: »
    Yeah, looks like you can get them from the website I linked.
    I wanted to avoid bait as I'm worried about other animals eating it or possibly second hand poisoning as mentioned above.
    I haven't seen the rats much, just one last year and my other half spotted one last week.
    They are digging a lot in the front garden, some pretty big entrance holes in some places.


    At this time of year rats' lairs get flooded and they are homeless, cold and flooding (and hunger) forcing them closer to humans. They dislike us as much as we dislike them. Personally I take great care never to "corner" a rat...........a lesson left me by my late father. However rats live in complex matriarchal family arrangements, appear conscious of mortality, and there is evidence they mourn their dead. They're food to some species, and they eat others.


    I used big bait-and-snap traps............reluctantly!..........a few years ago. Pressure from farmer neighbours was "put down bait". I would never do that. As a teenager I monitored the decline of the peregrine falcon in the Wicklow Mountains as a result of eating (and feeding their chicks with) poisoned prey. Bait is never never an answer. It throws the ecological balance off-kilter. Neighbours who BROUGHT me rat-bait (which I refused) came a year later to wonder why Greater Tufted Barn-Owls had reared three healthy juveniles on my tiny patch..........and that TWO nesting pairs of kestrels had raised their chicks in trees on my land. If they stopped putting down rat-bait to keep their cow-sheds clear of rodents, THEN the barn-owls and other raptors would come back. As Joni Mitchell says in her song "Don't it always seem to be/That you don't know what you've got till its gone".



    Don't worry about the rats. They are as keen to avoid humans, as we humans are to avoid them. A great natural arrangement. I'm sure that, as soon as the heavy rains and sleets of winter abate, they will move away from your home.


  • #17
    Donegalforever
    Registered Users Posts: 405 ✭✭Donegalforever


    Chisler2 wrote: »
    At this time of year rats' lairs get flooded and they are homeless, cold and flooding (and hunger) forcing them closer to humans. They dislike us as much as we dislike them. Personally I take great care never to "corner" a rat...........a lesson left me by my late father. However rats live in complex matriarchal family arrangements, appear conscious of mortality, and there is evidence they mourn their dead. They're food to some species, and they eat others.


    I used big bait-and-snap traps............reluctantly!..........a few years ago. Pressure from farmer neighbours was "put down bait". I would never do that. As a teenager I monitored the decline of the peregrine falcon in the Wicklow Mountains as a result of eating (and feeding their chicks with) poisoned prey. Bait is never never an answer. It throws the ecological balance off-kilter. Neighbours who BROUGHT me rat-bait (which I refused) came a year later to wonder why Greater Tufted Barn-Owls had reared three healthy juveniles on my tiny patch..........and that TWO nesting pairs of kestrels had raised their chicks in trees on my land. If they stopped putting down rat-bait to keep their cow-sheds clear of rodents, THEN the barn-owls and other raptors would come back. As Joni Mitchell says in her song "Don't it always seem to be/That you don't know what you've got till its gone".



    Don't worry about the rats. They are as keen to avoid humans, as we humans are to avoid them. A great natural arrangement. I'm sure that, as soon as the heavy rains and sleets of winter abate, they will move away from your home.

    But in the meantime ??


  • #18
    Dunedin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,225 ✭✭✭Dunedin


    I’m all for animal welfare and generally go beyond the call but the buck stops with rats. Hate the bast**ds and will do whatever it takes to get rid of them.....


  • #19
    Effects
    Registered Users Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭Effects


    Ah rats are cool. I just don't want them anywhere near my house.


  • #20
    ABitofsense
    Registered Users Posts: 657 ✭✭✭ABitofsense


    Did the trap work yet? Im thinking of getting one or two for around the farm. Im not a fan of using poison


  • #21
    Kangaroolala
    Registered Users Posts: 38 ✭Kangaroolala


    Very efficient, you can use peanut as your prey.


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  • #22
    Dunedin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,225 ✭✭✭Dunedin


    ABitofsense wrote: »
    Did the trap work yet? Im thinking of getting one or two for around the farm. Im not a fan of using poison

    To be honest, I think the poison worked first. I had poison down a week before I got the trap and I saw none the last few nights (watching on camera).

    I got two mice!! Have the mouse version the past couple of years in the house and serious yokes to catch mice so assume rat trap would be similar.


  • #23
    quidel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 76 ✭✭quidel


    Base price wrote: »
    Cause owls, buzzards and other birds pick up the poisoned rats/mice either to eat or feed to their chicks which causes them to die.
    Early last year I bought an electronic rat trap/killer similar in style to the mouse one that I bought a few years ago. The mouse one was very effective but I had difficulty encouraging the rats into the trap.

    The reason that I bought them was
    1. You can throw the dead mice/rats onto a shed roof for the birds to eat.
    2. I cannot set a spring trap cause I keep thinking it's going to snap my fingers either when I'm setting it, putting it in place or even just looking at it :o

    https://www.ie.screwfix.com/procter-electronic-rat-killer.html?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=CPC&utm_campaign=Shopping&gclid=Cj0KCQjwyerpBRD9ARIsAH-ITn-wslnTMVbXyPfdL2i-nK0dIA4pfL3JFDuFkD3Q_iJpWOXX1XJLDRcaAkjTEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

    Bought one. Quick question but - Does the green light stay on all of the time or only when you insert the batteries (it flashed for a few seconds)? Have the trap down a wee while and no joy yet! Mouse droppings inside of it and peanut butter cleaned:-(


  • #24
    Base price
    Registered Users Posts: 11,132 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    quidel wrote: »
    Bought one. Quick question but - Does the green light stay on all of the time or only when you insert the batteries (it flashed for a few seconds)? Have the trap down a wee while and no joy yet! Mouse droppings inside of it and peanut butter cleaned:-(
    The light goes off about 5 seconds after you turn it on. It flashes when there is a dead rat/mouse in it.
    You did turn it on?


  • #25
    quidel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 76 ✭✭quidel


    Base price wrote: »
    The light goes off about 5 seconds after you turn it on. It flashes when there is a dead rat/mouse in it.
    You did turn it on?

    Yea, it’s turned on. Just a very crafty mouse it would appear. I’m sure it’s luck will run out soon enough! Thanks.


  • #26
    SixtaWalthers
    Registered Users Posts: 249 ✭✭SixtaWalthers


    Rats could be cool, and I am not against them but what they are doing at my home this summer? Usually, it is a perception that rats come into houses in winter to get some warm place to live and eat, but why a big sized rat want to live in our home? When I searched online, then it came into my knowledge from here that rats or rodents also relocate in summers because they warmth habitats are not suitable for the summer season. However, they still can infest your home or even pets. Yes, we have a dog at home.

    Again, though I am not against these rats but in this coronavirus pandemic, I really want to get rid of these rats. I tried many methods to force them to leave our house like the use of strong smells, etc., but it didn't work. Now, I am looking for traps. I found several rat traps here, but I am confused about their sizes. Do you think small traps can catch a big rat? Or I would have to go with significant trap options?

    Secondly, what are your views about glue traps? Do you think they work better?


  • #27
    49801
    Registered Users Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭49801


    SixtaWalthers wrote: »
    Rats could be cool, and I am not against them but what they are doing at my home this summer? Usually, it is a perception that rats come into houses in winter to get some warm place to live and eat, but why a big sized rat want to live in our home? When I searched online, then it came into my knowledge from here that rats or rodents also relocate in summers because they warmth habitats are not suitable for the summer season. However, they still can infest your home or even pets. Yes, we have a dog at home.

    Again, though I am not against these rats but in this coronavirus pandemic, I really want to get rid of these rats. I tried many methods to force them to leave our house like the use of strong smells, etc., but it didn't work. Now, I am looking for traps. I found several rat traps here, but I am confused about their sizes. Do you think small traps can catch a big rat? Or I would have to go with significant trap options?

    Secondly, what are your views about glue traps? Do you think they work better?

    The sonic plugs are quite effective deterants in a house or in yards. One per room. Can be got in the coop... like below
    https://www.coopsuperstores.ie/Farming/Farm-Hygiene/Pest-Control/Sonic-Mouse--Rat-Repeller-Small-0512969


  • #28
    Jjameson
    Registered Users Posts: 2,745 ✭✭✭Jjameson


    49801 wrote: »
    The sonic plugs are quite effective deterants in a house or in yards. One per room. Can be got in the coop... like below
    https://www.coopsuperstores.ie/Farming/Farm-Hygiene/Pest-Control/Sonic-Mouse--Rat-Repeller-Small-0512969

    I bought one for the meal house. I seen a mouse sitting on it one morning. Gimmick imo.


  • #29
    djmc
    Registered Users Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭djmc


    Jjameson wrote: »
    I bought one for the meal house. I seen a mouse sitting on it one morning. Gimmick imo.

    I wouldnt be a fan either having used one in the past plenty traps online


  • #30
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,729 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    SixtaWalthers wrote: »
    Secondly, what are your views about glue traps? Do you think they work better?

    Needlessly cruel. Just kill it and get it over with plus they are indiscriminate, catching things that aren't rats.


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  • #31
    Base price
    Registered Users Posts: 11,132 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Needlessly cruel. Just kill it and get it over with plus they are indiscriminate, catching things that aren't rats.
    They are also illegal to use in Ireland.


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