Squirrel Ouell Traps Outdoor (Big)

Astoundingly effective. No assembly required, ready to use out of the box. This looks pricey compared to other traps, but it is worth the price.We live an urban area with abundant gray squirrel population. After paying for professional removal for our soffits (and expensive trim repair), our removal service informed us the only way to prevent future damage was to regularly trap squirrels on our property.I've been using the Ouell 411 for 6 days and have caught more than a dozen squirrels. I use half a peanut butter cracker sandwich as bait. The squirrels have never reached the bait; I only have to replace it when the peanut butter dries out and has less scent.Every squirrel has been fully dead with no sign of struggle, so I am assured of its effectiveness as a humane trap. There has been one instance of blood as some others reported.The trap isn't placed anywhere special. It's on our deck under a tree where I regularly see squirrels. If you use a smelly bait, location won't matter too much.The only downside is that the trap does take some strength to set and it could easily break a finger of set carelessly. I recommend a) watching a how-to video first and b) pulling the bar back with the trap opening facing away from you.I also recommend screwing or nailing the trap down, otherwise the squirrels will move it around.

The media could not be loaded. We feed the birds everyday, which in turn attracted Squirrels. We didn't mind feeding everyone, until the squirrels decided bird seed wasn't enough and started chewing electrical wires. Almost $4000 later, we made the decision to buy a non lethal trap for catch and release and a lethal trap as we weren't sure which trap, if any, would work best. We set up both traps and sure enough, both work amazingly well!This lethal trap dispatches squirrels extremely fast. Once the trap hits, the nervous system of the squirrel reacts for literally less than a minute, which happens to everything on this planet with a nervous system after it passes away.I've read other reviews about this trap that said the squirrel was not "killed" right away. This trap has literally caught 5 squirrels and everyone of them was done quickly. We have a camera out back because it also shows our car as we live in the City. Even if the squirrel entered the trap at different angles, the squirrel did not suffer much, if any, based on how strong this trap is. I captured some video from our out back parking area so you can see how the squirrel died quickly. I take no joy in killing anything, so if it wasn't a fast kill, I would have sent the trap back. Watch the video and make the decision for yourself if this is the right trap for you and your family.Below are some tips on how to use this trap as the first two weeks were a bust until we modified some things:1. Make sure you use the safety hook when setting this trap. This trap will require some strength to set. Once you get the first trap bar pulled back, the second bar goes pretty easy. Make sure you use both trap bars or the animal might suffer. (Maybe that's what happened in other reviews where people said the animal did not die right away? Not sure...) ALWAYS Use the safety latch when setting and baiting this trap.2. Instead of mounting the trap onto something with the mounting hole at the back of the trap, I weighed the trap down with some pavers to anchor it as other reviewers said to make sure it was weighed down or mounted to avoid the trap flying in the air. Any weight on the back will hold this trap down.3. I tried putting the bait in the back of the trap like the demo video and had no success, so I started putting a handful of peanuts in the front of the trap just beyond the tripping mechanism inside the trap. I did not leave any food outside of the trap as recommended. I found that putting about 20 shelled peanuts inside worked better than even peanut butter which would wash away in the rain, attract ants, and just overall make a mess on the patio parking area. Sometimes Bluejays would take the peanuts directly at the entrance but would not set off the trap. I learned quickly to use 20+ shelled peanuts (handful) as the first 5 peanuts would be taken by the Bluejays and the trap was bait less after that. Bluejays are very smart and will rob your trap without setting it off. The Bluejays rob this trap often, which is why I recommend using a handful of peanuts spread out from just beyond the tripping mechanism inside the trap. Make sure the peanuts go all the way back to the nail inside the trap. Make sure to set the safety latch, BEFORE BAITING, if the trap is set while you bait it!!! Using this method of baiting, I have caught 5 squirrels in the last two weeks. 0 in the first two weeks trying the video recommendation baiting method.4. Use gloves when setting this trap to hide your scent. I do not use gloves on the peanuts, just when setting the trap or handling the trap. I also leave the trap outside so the rain washes away any scent including any urine from the dispatched animals, etc... Once it rains and the peanuts get soft/soggy, I empty the trap and use fresh peanuts as bait. Fresh peanuts make a world of difference compared to soggy watered down peanuts (squirrels would not even look in the trap with soggy peanuts). Fresh peanuts the night before usually ends up with a catch the next morning.That's about all I can think of at the moment. I posted a pic of how I bait this trap also. This is a great lethal trap for squirrels and other possible rodents. It works quickly and seems quite durable so far. Highly Recommend this trap if you need a lethal squirrel trap!!!

Well made, great quality. A little scary setting the trap the first couple of times. Secondary safety catch is an excellent feature when loading. 14 days with 9 tree rats gone.I have not gotten an apricot or almond in five years. They got into my attic and started causing damage. The gloves came off. I got eight males and one pregnant female. I love this product.Just a general note, don’t waste your time and money I spent hundreds of dollars for:Electric traps, cayenne pepper (bought in 2 lb. restaurant size from Costco). Fox urine on tabs hung in tree, ammonia, netting and even blood meal sprinkled around trees. Nothing would stop them until I got this trap.Be careful when setting, it is quite powerful. After eliminating 2 and sealing attic I mounted it up on privacy fence so it wouldn’t get neighborhood cats or small animals. Got 7 more this past week. It works like a charm.Good Luck

No squirrels encountered any threat of death or injury from this trap because it would not stay set -- usually not even long enough for me to walk more than a few steps away from it, much less for squirrels to consider approaching it. At worst, they might have been a little startled the first few times they heard the kill bars spontaneously slamming down onto the wooden platform.After multiple fails with this trap over a period of days, I tried adjusting the angle of the wire loop that the hold-down bar goes into. Bending it back toward the end of the bar did not solve the problem. Either the bar or the loop still kept sliding away until there was not enough contact between them to hold. Trying to adjust the angle toward the end of the hold-down bar and further efforts to reshape things into functionality resulted in screwing up the whole assembly. When I saw that the lower wire loops that hang just inside the trap entrance were unintentionally bent out of their proper orientation, I gave up and threw the trap away.It was all a waste of time and money. Wish I had returned it as soon as I saw that it didn't work right, instead of ruining it further in failed efforts to make it operable.