OW-7 in-/Outdoor Electric Rodent Trap, Instant Kill Mouse & Rat Zapper with Waterproof Cover, Sound & Light Alarm, and Batteries or USB Power Source, Waterproof Grade IPX4, Black

BUY THESE. Just BUY THEM NOW. I had zero experience with these nasty critters, and I tried to do the whole 'peace and love, I'll just try to deter them' thing, and yeah, that didn't go well. These nasty things got bold. Too bold. So when I saw that they had destroyed two of my most beloved houseplants (by eating them literally overnight)? Oh, yeah, no more miss nice lady. These things had to DIE. I wanted absolutely nothing to do with touching or even looking at these things, and after much, much, MUCH research, I decided to try these devices, as they seemed to be both effective and easy (with no need to touch). I followed directions closely, and set them out where I had seen the most mouse poop. No lie - 30 minutes after I first set these traps, I come downstairs to see four (I bought two packs of 2) BLINKING GREEN LIGHTS!!!!! That meant I had 4 CRISPY CRITTERS! Oh, but now that meant I had to...dispose of them. I grabbed a paper grocery bag, opened it, then grabbed a small kitchen towel and placed it over my hand while holding the device. I turned off the trap, opened the top, briefly looked to get juuuust enough visible confirmation (a small tuft of fur was all I needed to see), and then I dumped it right into my paper bag. I did the same with all the rest. I emptied, cleaned, replaced the batteries, and then re-baited all the traps, then set them in the exact same spots. I went on to have a 100% kill rate within the next 48 hours, with me re-baiting and re-setting about 4 times. After that, there was nothing. No more mouse poop, no more noise, no more killed houseplants! I left the traps out and after about 5 days, I caught a couple more, but nothing like my initial success. So I re-bait and move them around to different spots if I don't see any activity after like 4 or 5 days. This seems to be pretty effective, and I'm just so much more relaxed. I had no idea how much energy it was taking to be on high alert with this vermin. Well, now they're CRISPY DEAD VERMIN, and my technique hasn't changed, I've simply become much faster. It takes me about 5 minutes, start to finish, to empty, clean, re-bait, and reset all four traps (if necessary). And yes, you do need to actually clean the zappy death compartment and change the batteries every time they work. I have a pretty good stash of rechargeable AA batteries (and that's all I've used), and they've been really great with these devices. Seriously, look no further. Your search is over. Get these, follow the directions and watch the peace return to your home (or workshop or garage or whatever - I don't know your life).

I've had this for about 8-9 months and have caught countless mice! The source of our problem: we have those double cellar doors that open outward, with a gap underneath that cannot be sealed and still be functional. I had tried EVERY kind of mousetrap, nothing was ever consistently successful (they're too smart!) I found this, thought it was a little pricey, but would probably pay itself off quickly if it actually worked. It did! At first, I would bait it with pb, cheese or a chocolate chip, place it inside near the top of our basement stairs and would catch them here and there, I wasn't too impressed. Until this one mouse tormented us for about a week, (running around while we were in the room!!) So I moved it around a few times that week, paying attention to where it would hide in between scurrying. I found the "sweet spot" thanks to that mouse bc once I caught that one, I caught several per week for the next couple weeks!! I emptied it so often, I stopped putting bait in it and it was still working! I haven't baited it since and its still working excellently. There are no signs in my home of any mouse activity now. The only signs are the green flashing light and the smell if i forget check it. (It fit under a kitchen counter that someone neglected to put a piece of wood on the front of the base). I would highly recommend this as the only solution to anyone with uninvited house guests! You will save so much money (and stress), not continuously replacing those cheap traps that they steal bait off of or get stuck to but arent always sticky enough to prevent their escape. It is so easy to use and to clean, just turn off, dump mouse/rat out, slide lid off and wipe it down with a paper towel/cleaner or hose it out and dry it. (Dry is important) Then bait it (or not, it's STILL mind blowing, to me, that bait is optional!) Flip the switch on, it will flash to indicate that it is on, then it will not light up til something has wandered into it. Once a mouse/rat enters, there is no escape, it's literally toast! And anyone that isn't having success with this, just try relocating it until you find your "sweet spot"

It works. Easy to set up, no mess, easy disposal. I only wish I'd bought it sooner instead of wasting time with snap traps that never did the trick.

After many failure attempts to catch a very smart big rat roaming around the house, I finally got him with this electric shock trap.

We put this in a couple places in the house and one day my wife decided to put it in the babys crib (no baby inside) where she found some droppings. In the middle of the night I was confused as there seemed to be a flashing light in the room. I finally came to my senses and realized it was the TRAP! Oh man, there was 3-4" of tail sticking out of it. I didn't have the heart to open the trap so I held on to the whole trap and launched the rat into the forest. 2024-August Update: we have caught like 6-7 rats in this and each time we set the trap it probably takes a few days to catch one. We put it on the car seat inside the car as a rat got in my wife's brand new subaru and was chewing the kids seat. BAM! Another dead rat. We have never even changed the batteries in this thing either. Such a good product. In fact I only changed the bait today after a year+ of use.

It is straightforward to use and is effective.

These are the best traps ever have seen rats running across my back garden from some ones garden so put a trap down next to the rat run never looked back have been trapping rats now every day have used bird seed has bait you can turn the beep sound off I just look for the green light flashing easy to use I like them because they are battery ones and very effective