Features:

  • Cleanly, quickly and humanely kills mice and rats with a strong and deadly shock.
  • Easy to use. Insert batteries, bait, turn it on, place, and relax
  • Hands-free "no touch, no view" disposal reduces "yuck" factor of a common mouse and rat trap
  • Safe and sanitary. While always wise to use caution around kids and pets, there is no blood, mess, chemicals, or poisons
  • Great for home use and occasional infestations
The little bugger is smart and takes the food right off the old school ...

I've been tracking this little bugger that's been visiting my kitchen uninvited for the past week. I put out my motion cam and caught the "bad hombre" roaming and eating and pooping around the kitchen while the family is in bed. Totally unacceptable! Went to Wallyworld and got quite an arsenal of traps and had no luck for two days. The little bugger is smart and takes the food right off the old school trap without triggering it. Decided to go high tech and got this beautiful Rat Zapper thing from Amazon with same day delivery. First night no luck using a piece of bacon smeared with some cheese. Very disappointed. Second night I got a bigger piece of cheese smeared with peanut butter and jackpot!! I was a bit disappointed at first when I saw my motion cam alert go off every 30min all night but turns out it was from the trap's blinking light that it scored a kill. Win. Easy to clean too, just dump everything out. I put the gooey bait on a piece of paper and slid it into the trap so when I dump it out, everything comes out easy. I am renaming this Rat Zapper to a new code name "Freaking Awesome Rat Trap 2000" (aka FART 2K). Here's a pic of the little bugger right before it got executed (or electrocuted) by FART. RIP and let this be a warning to all other mice to not even think about coming near this kitchen. Ban! UPDATE-Mickey came back and brought friends and got FARTed. Got a pic of the little new bugger sitting on top of the unit right before it met its maker. This device is the bomb. Quick tip if you use rechargeable battery to make sure it's fully charged each night for maximum lethal dose. Happy hunting.

Worth the money for the first rat it killed, and it continues to do it's job well.

I used to not have trouble with rodents, except for the odd thing being chewed here and there in the garage. Then one day, we got into my wife's car, after it sat in the garage over the weekend. It stunk. The seat belts were chewed. The seat track covers were chewed. There was pieces seat foam, feces (and god knows what else) on the carpets. I then made the disgusting discovery that a rat had found it's way into the covered, but otherwise large, empty, and insulated area underneath the center console. It had made a nest with socks, hair bands, dried, unused diaper wipes, and other bits and bobs my very small children had thrown on the floor of the car, as they do. I'm still disgusted at the thought of breathing in air that was blowing around in this nest and then out the vents. It was by some random chance that I happened to open a plastic box one day that had the rat inside. I managed to trap it and kill it. It had cost us hundreds of dollars in car repairs, and hours vacuuming, shampooing, and wiping down the inside of the car. I thought my problem was solved, until 2 months later when there were further signs of activity in the car. At that point I knew I couldn't leave it to chance, I had to do something ASAP, before the damage was worse. Given the cost of the previous unwelcome occupant, I went all out and multi-spectrum. Traditional snap traps, glue traps, a plank-bucket dealie, and finally as a hail-Mary, the Rat Zapper. Initially I didn't bait the zapper, and for a couple of weeks nothing happened. The glue trap had also failed. Earlier in the week it had caught something, but all that was left were chunks of fur and some tail skin. I figured this was a foreboding sign. Finally more stuff was chewed in the car and in desperation I peanut buttered everything one night. I woke up the next day and proceeded through my menagerie of death. The plank? Pieces of peanut butter were floating in the water. Something happened, but there was no rat. The snap traps? No kidding here, it had managed to eat the peanut butter off of every single one without setting them off! I had never seen this before. Sure, some get away after it snaps, but this was some ninja level sht. Finally I glance into the far corner of the garage and to my surprise and relief I see a faintly blinking red light on the wall. Success! It had gone after the peanut butter in the zapper, and never came out. The tail alone stuck 6 inches or more out of the trap. It managed to bag some sort of monster rat. That alone, was worth the price I paid for it. After dumping the rat and disposing of it, I got another one a couple of days later. Now I'm going to buy a second one. Is $45 a lot for a rat trap? Not if it works. That money is worth it for the ease of use, success in trapping, and the peace of mind that I won't open my car door one day to find some squatter had moved in.

Works great with a few tweaks

I bought this to cut down a chipmunk population that was causing damage to my stone walls and patios ($3500 to date) collapsing from all the tunnels beneath them. I caught a chipmunk within 5 minutes which was great til the squirrels found it. So I made an adaptor they couldnt fit thru. They find the seeds outside the unit but cant get in to trip the unit. I catch 5-10 munks per day now. Hoping to cut down the population enough to begin rebuilding damaged areas this summer. The adaptor consists of 3" length of 2" plastic tubing avail at depot. Cuts easily w chop saw. Then I caulked it into a small peice of wood. You can skip tube but squirrels will gnaw thru the wood eventually. So far theyve given up after eating seeds outside of unit. I have lots of fox in my yard so I leave the munks for the fox and theyre gone every morning. No poison to pass on to other animals. For the chipmunk lovers Im sorry but its out of control with hundreds of chipmunks. Im having 4 stone walls completely torn down and rebuilt with concrete centers so they wont collapse. And a 20x20 brick patio ripped up and rebuilt all due to these chipmunks so please save the bs...I tried to live with them but the damage has gotten out of hand.

It Really Works!

Well they say you can't reinvent the mouse trap but they DID! This thing is assume! I've been averaging at least one kill a day for the past 20 days and the batteries Duracell AA are still going strong! I recently had a mouse infestation and after trying traditional traps decided to go high tech. This thing will have a daily kill when a mouse won't even go near a regular trap. Best thing to do it put a VERY small amount of food in front of the opening and place a larger amount in the back of the food chamber and zap they just keep coming. Like I said I've had tremendous success with this one and actually plan on buying one more. I think I've located where they are coming in so between the two if I only get two kills a day within a month or two I would hope to get them all. One thing I would recommend you just don't want one to get away he possibly wont come back so clean the trap I would say after 10 kills once you get the hang of it it's quick and easy just remove the batteries and get a soft brush with a long handle so you can lightly scrub the metal plate with a little dish washing detergent let it air dry and you should be good to go. Just take care of this thing and it should perform flawlessly for you. Well Good Luck!

"Love" doesn't mean love.

When I say "I love it," I don't mean I love it. I mean it works—and well. I left it in the package for about two months after I bought it because I hate killing anything. But after we found a nest of field mice in our deck box, I decided it was time to use it in the house to kill the ones I knew we had. I put in raw sunflower seeds. I figured if birdseed were their favorite food and they could gnaw a hole in a resin deck box to get to the bag, they would have no trouble finding the seeds. I set it on the floor in the dining room near our piano. It was just a gut feeling, since I see mice come into the kitchen and then run away. I guess that's where they hide. I set up the trap and went to bed. In the morning, a dead mouse. I put more seeds in the trap, and a few hours later, another dead mouse. I did it again overnight, and a dead mouse. The third one was the only one I had to deal with (my husband wasn't home to dispose of it). It wasn't too upsetting. I put more seeds in and turned it on. Within minutes, literally, I heard the buzzing sound. Our fourth mouse. (Fortunately, my husband came home while I was sobbing—less about having to kill them than knowing I had at least four mice in my house.) The trap is set for the next. It is quite possibly the most amazing and efficient mousetrap on the market. I've tried spring traps and about three different humane, no-kill traps. And forget comments about them being hard to clean or smelling. They don't have any kind of odor. They're metal and plastic. And if you put in dry bait, you don't have to clean anything. There's no blood. There's no chance for decay. The little light flashes to tell you something's inside, and that's that.

Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaa, it works!

I live in a 115 yr old Victorian house, which I love, except for the "hauntings". Well, it didn't take too long to discover that I had "friends" living with me. I found rat droppings on the stairs leading to the upstairs, which I don't use often. Then, I discovered a few holes chewed into the wall and wooden stairs!! I repaired as best that I could and tried to figure out what to do. I hear them at night, chewing into wood, running in the crawlspace between both upstairs floor and downstairs ceiling!! Even my dogs (4 of them, big ones) looked freaked!! Of course, I didn't want to lay out poison for obvious reasons, because not only dogs, but owls, feral cats, and other valuable wildlife would become poisoned as well. OR, I didn't want them dying in the walls. Glue traps are very inhumane. I did the research and found that regular, cheap reusable traps are the best, but, YIKES, that would mean I would have to perhaps touch the rodent as I opened the trap to dispose of it. I would throw away the trap! So, then I came across these things! I really was in doubt as to if a zap from 4 AA batteries would kill something, but figured I had not much to lose as I came across a live one inmy kitchen last night and chased it to yet another hole!! I got two traps, figuring that it would double my chances of success. So, they got here in two days, and I put a few kernels of dog food as instructed, at the ends of the traps, set it "ON" and me and the dogs went to watch Animal Planet. Suddenly, I heard a loudish noise like plastic hitting the floor!! I kinda knew it was the zapper. I was too freaked out to do a thing and my dogs looked afraid as well. It was only 9pm. But then, 5 minutes later, another loud plastic noise! So, 15 minutes later after a glass of liquid courage, I ventured out into the upstairs hallway and sure enough, both red lights were blinking on, signalling a "kill". YIKES. I timidly pointed my flashlight into the first, and lo and behold, there was a large, dead rat!! Not Norwegian rat sized, but from tail to nose, about 10". Dead, dead dead. Slid out easily into the disposal bad. Checked the second trap, nothing!! But empty bait. So, I figure my friend munched out the first one, got zapped, but not enough to hurt him, so while brave, he went into the second one and YAHOOOOOOO, the dead was done and quick! The dog food was still in there!! When I check the traps in the morning and if they are loaded with rat carcasses, I am going to order a bunch more of these traps!! They really do take the ICK factor out of rodent murder for sure! Its still a bit early to say if I am for sure in love, but man oh man, this is so exciting to me!! Why have I not heard of these things before?? I figure that since it worked immediately on a medium sized rat, well.............it will work on any other type of rodent that is just common in the South and in these types of homes. No blood, no guts, no gore and it does a clean, quick, humane kill. I feel like a Viking!

This Thing Kills !

I decided to write this review after having tremendous success with this Ratzapper machine... I don't think I've ever been more satisfied with the proclaimed results from a tool. We HAD a flying squirrel invasion in our attic... Over the few months that it took me to find and seal the entry points around the roof (there were many tiny spaces you might never know were there nor could a squirrel fit through) this death trap spit out a squirell very quickly everytime I set it up and baited it. I bought the Rat Tale remote kill indicator light which proved very useful saving unecessary trips to the attic to check the trap. I used peanut butter in a bottle cap in the back of the trap with a trail of sunflower seeds leading into the trap with a few scattered around the entry opening. I had a couple of escapes at first with conventional alkaline AA batteries. I switched to high quality NiMH rechargeables which have lower impedance and recharged them after every 3 or 4 kills and never lost another catch. Perhaps a coincident but that was my experience. After every few kills I cleaned the trap by soaking it in a pan with an inch or so of soapy water with a little vinegar. I also tried to clear the trap promptly to keep the smell of death out of it. I found it useful to put everything I needed to set the trap in a bag so I could just grab it when I needed to eradicate an infiltrator. Below is photo of my Dr. Death Bag. You can call yours something more pleasant. Thanks Ratzapper for the return of a good night's sleep with no noisy partys going on in the attic.

If you've got rodents just buy this immediately!

I can't think of a product I've ever purchased that hits the mark like this one. We live in Brooklyn, NY, with almost everyone else in the world. We're the 1st and top floor of a brownstone and our landlord had the basement excavated an extra 4 feet down. It disturbed a mouse population. I saw a couple, figured we had a few. I found their hole too - it was around the drain pipe for the sink. I got the Rat Zapper, put two chocolate chips in it, turned it on, and put it under the sink near the hole. 10 minutes later I looked and the light was flashing - 1 down! I repeated, 10 minutes later, another! I can't believe it, but over the course of 3 days I zapped 15 mice! Yikes! I've now plugged the hole with copper mesh and they seem to be completely eradicated. One note however: While I agree that there's no "mess," killing 15 mice did create a bit of an odor. Not that sweet, disgusting rotting-in-the-wall smell, but a hint of fried mice. Also, I was at the sink when one entered, and I could hear the sound of mouse-in-electric-chair. I'll live, but it was a bit jarring. There's no way to kill something that isn't a bit unnerving (IMHO), but I can't think of a quicker, seemingly more humane way to deal with mice. Let's be honest: they can't stay. And you're not talking them into leaving... This beats poison or any other traps by a long shot.

Rat Zapper Classic Rat Trap RZC001

I have a sports car that I have not driven in 4 months because I have not got around to having the oil changed. I came out one "morning" and heard noise in the engine compartment and opened up the hood to see 2 large rats scatter away. I find a very "nice big" rats nest with rat droppings sitting there and it takes me over half hour to clean up this mess. I have always had great luck using the standard mouse traps so I go and buy 4 of these and put cheese on them the first night knowing that I will have results the following morning. Wake up and find the cheese still there. I try again the next night with the same results. I then buy 8 more traps and over the next 8 days I use peanut butter, bacon and salami with not even one trap being snapped open. Obviously they have out smarted me. I go on amazon and start looking at rat traps and notice that the "Rat Zapper" has a lot of great results so I buy one. I turn on the trap the first night putting "dry dog food" in the back of the trap and come out the next morning and bingo-one dead rat. I turn on the trap the second night again in the morning I find another dead rat. I don't think there are any more rats but I will set the trap again tonight just to make sure. I have never taken up the time to write a long review on anything in my life but after the second morning seeing the blinking red light on top of the "Rat Zapper" I felt that I should let other people know how easy it is to get fast results. I know this is not too politically correct but I am pretty excited that both of these rats are dead.

One Rat Zapper richer, one mouse poorer

When the late-night scrabbling above my bedroom began, I was in denial. Maybe it was a bird. OK, it was a mouse but maybe it'd go away. Well, of course the mouse didn't go away. I was reluctant because I was new to a house and only familiar with extermination methods ranging from century-old to macabre. Learning of my problem, an acquaintance asked, his eyes glittering, "Have you tried the Rat Zapper?" I decided to try the Rat Zapper. It does what it's advertised to do. Straightforward, easy to bait and prep, no mess. Shaped like a wastebasket for metaphoric emphasis. I sandwiched crunchy peanut butter between three gummy bears, laid the trap and found an ex-mouse inside 12 hours later. For all I can guess, this guy went to the big cheese wheel in the sky within 90 minutes. When no kills appeared for three days after I'd reset the trap, I could be confident my attic was clear of just the one. If I hear any more scrabbling, I know how to respond. Update 11/30/17: Heck if I know where mice are entering my attic, but with the arrival of cool weather I've bagged four more using the same trap. Although I understand the unit works best when cleaned, the inside of mine is so spattered with peanut butter and smoldered Laffy-Taffy something should be warding the rodents off — and yet the little rascals keep crossing the hot plate. This trap deserves nose art and mouse-shaped kill markers. Woodstream, do you sell stickers? Update 10/31/18: The moussacre continues. Cool weather, two more in two tries. I've simplified bait to a single snip of garlic bread from a weekend pizza order. Who can resist restaurant-grade Italian? Apparently, even sandwich bread will do. Same Zapper unit, same set of AAs. I kind of feel sorry for the cute, little critters. But only kind of. Update 12/26/19: I purchased a replacement Rat Zapper. The only reason why was because the Zapper did its thing but I got busy and didn't check the trap for several days...in the middle of summer...and so with *that* picture painted, I'm happy to report my new Zapper zaps mice as ably as the first.

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