Rat Zapper Classic

I spent a lot of time reading reviews on here on the various makes of these kinds of rat/mouse killers. I came to the conclusion that after cancelling out the 'I got this product free/discounted and therefore feel obliged/feel it's in my interests to give a good review' reviews, this one was the one with the largest number of suspect free positive reviews. I had a serious mouse problem, but not a rat problem, but having already tried first live traps, and then Rentokil poison boxes, and finding them equally useless to the pretty intelligent mice that were troubling me, I decided to try one of these and felt that the larger tunnel size, since it's designed for rats too, would make the mice less suspicious on entering. This product arrived on a Sunday afternoon, but having no batteries until the following day, I decided to place it in its first intended location, my kitchen cupboard, hoping the mice would get used to it being there and therefore fooled into a false sense of security. The next day the batteries arrived and I put it in my kitchen cupboard at 4pm, with a square of Snickers. I came back into the room about ten minutes later to find it already flashing, and found the first victim had been killed within 10 minutes of me placing it there. Tipping the mouse out was simple and I replaced the product back into the cupboard. That first night it killed six mice, the second night another 5. I then moved it into my living room and it showed the same efficiency until within 3 days, there were no more mice, and no more signs of them destroying the things that were previously being ruined every night. I should also point out, that it did all this using the same square of Snickers I placed in it on first set up. Since no mouse had ever got far enough to touch it let alone eat it, it remained as bait throughout. The mice always looked in perfect condition. No burned extremities, no hideous looks of pain or shock on their faces etc. In fact I find this product all the scarier for the fact that it is quite so terrifyingly efficient as the title indicates. But given the previous items I tried, I'd say this were one of the better ways to be killed off. If you have pets or other humans around, I would highly recommend you place this trap only where they cannot get. A dog/cat/rabbit's paws could easily reach into this product and they would be killed instantly I'm sure, and I'm sure it wouldn't do a human much good either. But that aside, so long as you are aware of this, I find this product brilliant and would highly recommend it.

OK we had a rat problem and I needed to sort it out quickly - so I bought Victor Rat Traps, Glue Boards and this Victor Rat Zapper. Don't bother with the Victor Rat Zapper!! I caught all of the rats with the traditional snap spring traps and the last one called an "Alpha" on a glue board. Apparently you need to try and catch them all in one go, otherwise they will get trap shy and just avoid them. The last one would not take the bait and so I ordered a glue board and it just ran across it, after I had worked out where his food source was coming from. Also block up any holes, even if you end up blocking them in the house. It took over 4 weeks to get them all and so I can't get a refund on my Rat Zapper, but save your cash and do not bother - it did not work for me and the rats were small enough to have got into it. I put in the most expensive batteries too, they just would not enter it. Buy lots of normal snap rat traps - the Victor ones were good, bait them up unset with either Cheese, Bacon or Peanut Butter to see which they prefer and let them get used to eating off them unset for a couple of days and set them and unleash hell. Hopefully you'll get them all in one night. I took ages for me to get all of this information off of the internet so I hope it helps someone. The Zapper sounds like a great idea, as you can just kill them cleanly and tip them in the bin, without any mucking around with traps and the inherent danger to children and small pets - but its only a great idea if it works! Sorry rats but you were starting to destroy my house!

Living alone as I do, I was shocked and horrified to see suddenly mouse evidence in my kitchen. Evidence being that of... well, mice do not use the human loo just down the hall. They are crude beings but have fine taste when it comes to food. My mice had eaten the artisanal speciality oats, stored in a plastic container, that I use for skirlie, and ignored the everyday oats used for breakfast. The bastards must die. I am relatively squeamish, so I knew snap traps or glue traps weren't an option. My growing rage at these brazen foodie mice was intensifying, so after much research and reading many helpful reviews I knew the right approach would be... the Victor Rat Zapper Classic. When I got it I was overwhelmed with an awful plastic and metal smell. But I put on gloves (to mask my scent) baited it with organic peanut butter on a skewer (you have to get it smeared onto the back wall) and waited. Nothing. For a week.... I did the dishes one morning, looked at this fancy expensive trap and thought, "Hey, it doesn't smell so plastic-y anymore." Now, the peanut butter has been there for a week.... Next morning, the light was flashing. I tipped out a fat and glossy specimen -- he'd somehow managed to get at some of the peanut butter before being electrocuted out of my kitchen and out of my life. Time of death was about 05:45. Two more electrocutions followed at 12:11 and 12:43. This thing just keeps on killing! I am starting to understand how Dexter operates. That said, if you are near the trap when the murder starts -- it can be slightly distressing. The light will flash red and you'll hear a electronic buzzing for a couple of minutes and smell a burning smell. Then it stops and the smell dissipates. If the trap is within earshot you'll hear everytime your mouse victims fry due to the electric sound. Mice are just as wary as rats. Wear gloves, mask your scent and be patient. I took off one star as the unit smelt so revoltingly of cheap plastic and metal and I think it didn't work straightaway due to this.

Spotted a single mouse, late one night... guessed they not been in our house long as we hadn't spotted any droppings anywhere - we never have food left out, but we do have two young children who always seem to drop food... So we needed a trap, didn't want one that made a mess of the mouse, or one that caught a live mouse - what would I do with it? This seemed perfect. As we have kids we didn't want to place it where they could get at it, thought behind the TV... Before I placed it that evening, I needed to go in our under stairs cupboard for some paint, that's when I spotted the mouse nest, made of shredded tissue paper behind the paint pots - painting job was on hold. Didn't want to disturb them and risk them relocating elsewhere. Decided to put trap in cupboard (we used a little pot of birdseed as bait and gently slid it to the back) The first evening, we caught one at 8pm, great we knew it worked. Was easy to again gently slide out the dead mouse and the pot of bait - dispose of mouse in bin, replace bait and rearm trap. We caught another at 10pm - this time we knew we had caught one without peeking a look in cupboard as the trap was buzzing and when we opened cupboard door there was a burning smell!!! Guess the dead mouse was causing a short across the plates - this made us worry about leaving it on overnight so decided against it. The next evening we rearmed the trap, about 9pm, we peeked a look at the trap, bingo, mouse number 3, no more that evening. We thought we'd continue like this until we failed to catch one. Next evening, bingo again, mouse 4. Next evening - nothing, next evening - nothing again... next day I decided to move some paint pots, see if I spotted movement. Was expecting to find dead babies or something as guess we must have got the female. Luckily no babies, so cleared away shredded paper nest, vacuumed under stairs. All clean. Mouse problem gone. Guess we caught the problem early before they bred. All thanks to this trap. Is now stored in loft for any future infestations. Well happy with results.

Rats seems to be able to get to the back of the trap and take the bait without getting killed. Either the current (even with brand new batteries) is not enough to kill rats, or somehow they can crawl in by only touching the sides and not the base. So apparently a waste of money for rats. However, works great for mice, and in my shed I zapped 7 mice in two days.

Absolutely recommended! What a nightmare eight months of mouse hunting. I spent a fortune on modern plastic and traditional wooden snap traps that might as well have had 'TRAP' written on them in mouse writing. No amount of well researched baiting or human cunning could entice them anywhere near. Even buried in plant pots and camouflaged with leaves failed to prevent the mouse from artfully tunnelling around the traps to eat the roots and cause plant carnage around my flat. I bought expensive bait boxes and different brands of loose poison that was placed in trays and feasted on by the mice without effect. They ate the lot and not a single dead mouse. I also tried a large humane trap that had an ensuite dining area for the mice to occupy themselves whilst awaiting their release back into the wild at least a mile away from my flat. No chance! No interest at all. So I bought a catapult. That's how frustrated I had become. Needless to say that the only result was a sore jaw from punching myself in the face with the recoil of the latex sling and some broken crockery. I was finally at the point of typing guilty searches for glue paper but I couldn't bring myself to do it. It just seemed too cruel. Then I came across the Rat Zapper. I received the Rat Zapper, stuffed some batteries into it and threw in some uncooked rice without any expectation of success. I placed a handful of rice at the back of the trap and a light sprinkling of grains in the entrance. I switched it on, went to bed and joy oh heavenly joy; in the morning the light was blinking and the mouse was caught. I could barely believe it. If you have a mouse problem then save yourself the money, time and distress. The Rat Zapper is what you need.

I have had a mouse trap in my shed for months and never caught anything. I bought the Victor Electronic rat/mouse trap and have caught 3 mice in the last week. I think all the mice in the area are attracted to it! And the good thing is that you don't have to release squashed mice. Update: Since first using this, it has been nothing but trouble. The green flashing light goes off which should indicate that it has caught something but on inspection there is nothing there and the bait is still there. This is happening all the time, I have cleaned the inside, changed the batteries but it still does it. There must be a short circuit inside somewhere.

It was down less than an hour when the first mouse went after the two raw almonds in the back of it, and got zapped. We were rather surprised, as the lights were on, and we were sitting 10 feet away, watching a movie! Apparently the dark, quiet tunnel of it makes even shy mousies feel it's worth the risk. Well, a week later, and it's safe to say the flat is mouse-free! I bought this after months of being taunted by mice that ignored our traditional traps. My uncle had a zapper years ago, and I remembered it working brilliantly on the giant wood rats we had in northern California. I was a bit concerned that it wouldn't be sensitive enough to respond to small mice, but nope! Not a problem! A few things about this that make it worth the price: 1. I never, NEVER have to look at, let alone touch, a dead mouse. The light blinks when something is in it, and we just pick up the nice, clean blue box, a d dump it into a small bin bag. Job done. 2. It's inconspicuous, and easily hidden if company comes over. We can toss it in a closet, or leave it behind the washer. Either way, no one EXPECTS a blue plastic box ro be a mouse/rat trap. .;) 3. My pets ignore it. My cat doesn't care, and even my greedy dog leaves it alone. I suspect he'd try to get into it if I baited it with cheese or peanut butter, but since those are messy and completely unnecessary, the almonds do just fine- and the dog doesn't seem to know it exists. 4. It uses AA batteries. SO easy and convenient. My uncle's zapper was made many years ago, and used D batteries. That was far less easy, so I'm glad of the change.