Havahart 0745 Extra Small 1-Door Humane Catch and Release Live Animal Trap for Squirrels, Chipmunks, Rats, Weasels, and Small Animals

I bought my Havahart animal trap in 2015. It still works, and I still use it. PROS reliability virtually no maintenance simple to use, simple to set does not harm animals CONS none that I can think of I live on the south coast of Oregon. One of the advantages of living here are the birds that visit our feeders just outside our living room windows. Not only do the feeders attract birds, the seed that lands on the decks also attracts chipmunks and squirrels. They are fine to a point. The birdseed also attracts some nasty RATS! I spent a long time watching the rats get fat and trying to figure out how to get rid of them without getting rid of the animals I enjoy. Conventional rat traps were out because they would kill not only the rats but the chipmunks and squirrels as well. Poison was out for much of the same reasons, plus we had cats and dogs at that time. What to do? Enter Havahart 0745 live animal trap on Amazon. Within a matter of months, I had the rat problem under control. If I inadvertently trapped a chipmunk, I simply let him go with a sharp tongue lashing. As far as what I did with the rats when I caught them, I will leave that to your imagination. Nothing cruel, merely effective. I would estimate the efficiency of the Havahart live animal trap to be somewhere in the 90th percentile. There have been very few instances where the bait was gone, the trap was sprung, and no critter in the trap. A few of those instances were operator error, i.e., me. As far as my bait, it was the birdseed that attracted everyone, so it is birdseed I use for bait. It works well. Our seed has sunflower seeds in it, and I think that they are the main attraction. The cuteness of our gray squirrel and chipmunk population has lost some of its luster as of late. We have one old mama gray that is pumping out babies constantly. A couple of weeks ago, we saw seven very large, very well fed gray squirrels at one time on our deck. We felt we were under attack. Time for a new, larger Havahart trap that can accommodate chubby gray squirrels. Enter the Havahart Medium Professional Style One-Door Animal Trap for Rabbit, Skunk, Mink, and Squirrel - 1078 . Much like its predecessor, it is very reliable. Three attempts to trap, three captured squirrels! Today, since the chipmunks are multiplying even faster than the squirrels, I deployed the small Havahart, and the squirrel-sized Havahart, and caught one of each critter each! Happy happy. Can you tell that I am thrilled with my purchase?

THE SKINNY: • it simply just works! (2 squirrels in 2 days) • easy setup, simply operation • reliable trapping and holding EXTENDED REVIEW: **note: I’m basing all of my feedback of this trap on its effectiveness with squirrels** EFFECTIVENESS: After seeing just how effective this was within a mere 48 hours, I’m actually kind of annoyed having WASTED SO MUCH TIME READING REVIEWS AND COMPARING OPTIONS.... and all b/c of a small handful of reviews on here that made me second-guess whether or not this was the way to go. I say this bc my trap worked brilliantly at both trapping several mid-sized squirrels here in California (using walnuts, FYI) as well as holding them for several hours each. So I really have NO idea where the bad reviews are stemming from... user error? random anomalies? review meddling from competitor brands? BUILD QUALITY: DON’T TRUST the reviewers who trash talk the trap or those who uploaded pictures of traps allegedly broken by squirrels. I’m wholly convinced those are either entirely a scam (ie: fake reviews posted by competitors in the guerrilla warfare practices of online retailers) OR were caused by some larger animal ego couldn’t fit inside but tried to break his way in to get the food (likely a raccoon). I mean, sure... it’s obviously not some German-built trap, engineered by a team of graduate students at CalTech... it’s a China-made collection of low-grade metal linked together! Routinely surprised at just how unfairly high consumer expectations have become as many have started to reject the widespread (and long held) understanding that you get what you pay for. And for $20-something dollars, this thing works great! Not sure it’s gonna last me years, remain rust-proof throughout that time, and continue to operate as new some 200 squirrels bouncing and rattling it’s insides later... but even if mine were to break right now, after catching 2 squirrels... shoot, I’d still give it 5 stars — $10 bucks per evicted squirrel... bargain!! MODIFICATIONS : Placed mine on the dirt ground just below their favorite oak tree. Wanting to alleviate all of their jitter-filled anxiety, I actually removed the trap door completely and placed some walnuts in there for squirrel #1 to gain some trust with it first. Within 2 hours the nuts were gone. Put the door back on, added a couple more walnuts, BOOM! As others have said, they can start to freak out and move around erratically once trapped so I do recommend either placing a brick or 3-5lb Wright of some kind to the top. I actually zip tied the side of the trap to a couple metal tent stakes I drove into the ground, just so it couldn’t be tipped over as that’s the only way they could potentially break out is if the cage were to get knocked to its side. RECOMMENDATION: • STOP wasting time • TRUST a squirrel-hating Californian • IGNORE bad reviews • BUY this trap + walnuts • EMPLOY some basic common sense when setting up and securing the trap • EVICT those disruptive little bast****!

En mi caso lo compré por ratones medianos... como de las 6 noches que lo he puesto he atrapado 3 ratones... por lo que lo recomiendo bastante... es muy simple de instalar, aparte que lei en los comentarios que el infalible es con crema de cacahuate, lo que me dió excellentes resultados... el problema únicamente es matarlos... en mi caso me los llevo como 20 cuadras lejos de mi casa a liberarlos hahaha

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J’avais beaucoup de difficulté à éradiquer les écureuils indésirables qui endommageaient ma propriété ! Cette cage est ultra efficace… plus besoins de les éliminer… quelques graines de tournesol des deux côtés et sur la détente. La seule chose à ne pas oublier, remettre en position blocage sur les portes les deux tiges destinées à cet effet. Sans quoi… l’animal n’as qu’à pousser sur les portes et s’enfuir. Fonctionne très bien aussi pour les Tamia. Je vous le recommande !!!!

I bought this item having read the reviews, all of the positive reviews are spot on, I have caught five squirrels in four weeks, but not baited every day, two of which were extremely canny creatures and one them escaped but could not resist the next days food contents although it was very wary it was recaptured. The recommendations are leave a trail of 4 or 5 hazelnuts or similar from just outside the trap and a few inside to entice the blighters and get them used to entering the trap and leaving quickly, leave a 'real treat' at the back of the trap beyond the footplate that trips the door. I used pieces of stale bread with some walnut oil on it and garnished it with peanut butter all in a very small muffin case, they could not resist, I have not had to wait long for a result as canny as they are but the reason one managed to escape is because put onto the grass lawn can stop the trap door from falling 100% as the grass can hold up the door ever so slightly. I overcame this by placing the trap in a short plank of timber which kept the grass away from the door baseline. Boy was the squirrel angry when he fell for it a second time it worked hard to open the door from the inside but soon realised that it was in vain. Two pieces of advice though; May and June are good trapping months as squirrels forage and cause damage to crops extensively having eaten their larder contents over the winter and this seasons nuts and berries have not matured enough to be eaten yet. Only set the trap up if 'you' are available to safely and humanely deal with the trapped creature within an hour of capture as with the early summer heat unnecessary distress can easily be caused to them. These traps are well made and effective I would highly recommend if used correctly and humanely..

Love this cage! We've had the bigger Havahart 1077 cage that we purchased a decade ago to trap and relocate nuisance squirrels. We had a batch that was creating quite the mess on our soffits and killing them wasn't something I felt comfortable with. We had mixed success catching rats (we moved and are located close to a creek so we get lots of rats). Rat poison is not something we felt comfortable with and the larger cage we had wasn't sensitive enough to trigger the door. Bait would get eaten all the time it was frustrating! We put a security night vision cam directed at the larger cage to see what was going on. The rats would go in and out without triggering, it was funny to capture the travels on the "rat cam". In looking at other Havahart cages, I felt this smaller 0745 one might be better. Ordered it with free shipping, I was willing to wait. Within 24 hours of receiving it, I caught three critters! Baiting it with peanut butter I was able to catch a squirrel, reset it and catch a rat the first night and after resetting it caught another squirrel within hours! The lever is very sensitive (great design!) so it would likely catch the smallest rats (or even mice possibly). LOVE IT!!!! I like the way I can remove the door to rebait without thinking it's going to snap close on me like the bigger Hanahart 1077 trap I was using. Get the right version for the critter you need to catch. This one works beautifully for squirrels and rats. I now have to find someone in town with a snake that needs live feed... Might as well put these critters to good use! LOL I'm posting "ratcam" pictures for amusement. Enjoy!