Price: $54.24
(as of Nov 30, 2024 14:25:14 UTC - Details)

Get rid of large-size rats quickly and effectively with the Rat Zapper Classic Rat Trap. From set-up and use through cleaning and maintenance, each zap will be a snap thanks to the easy-to-use design. This electronic trap is equipped with smart circuit technology that senses when a rodent enters it. Once inside, the rat steps on the metal plates, which completes the circuit and delivers a humane, high-voltage shock. Since rats are able to restart their hearts, the shock is applied continuously for 2 minutes to ensure higher kill rates. Unlike standard rat traps, you don’t have to touch or look at dead rodents. The rat is contained within the kill chamber, which hides it from sight, while the green indicator light lets you know when it’s time to empty. After a kill, just tip the trap to discard the dead rodent into the trash without having to touch it. A red light will blink when battery power is low. Designed for indoor use or anywhere it won’t be exposed to outdoor elements, the Rat Zapper Classic Rat Trap is perfect for placement in attics, garages, basements and sheds. The trap does not use any poisons or chemicals, but as with any electronic device, use with caution around children and pets. Note: An older version of this trap has a red indicator light for all alerts.
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
Reviewer: S. Ritchie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Rat Zappers are the BEST for Rat Patrol!!! UPDATED REVIEW!!!
Review: I cannot begin to express how incredibe this product is. I just purchased a few more of these Original Rat Zappers because they absolutely kill rats! Our area in Ahwatukee (Phoenix) is infested with roof rats due to the numerous citrus trees in yards. Some folks just won't pick their fruit so the rats run freely day and night throughout the neighborhoods. This all began about 4 years ago, and it's getting worse each year. My beloved Rat Zappers killed 3 rats on Thursday, 2 yesterday, and another one this morning. All of the rats were zapped while on my back patio so it's a huge relief to me to have this product doing its job! Much better than bait stations which actually lure the rats to your property and poison them slowly to die wherever.... I can't praise this product enough. Thank you Victor Pest for purchasing the company that invented the Rat Zapper. I will continue to use and review this product. It's been well worth the money I spend on these units! I wish they'd wise up and realize my yard means death to them and they head elsewhere.UPDATE:I continue to use these Rat Zappers with GREAT SUCCESS! I hate to say that. I wish our community would be more proactive in regards to eradicating the roof rats that continue to plague this area. The rat population has grown especially when folks refuse to pick the citrus from their trees.Please note: Victor Pest has discontinued the wonderful accessory, the Rat Tales which allowed you to place the Zappers in hidden areas and see blinking eyes on the Rat Tale warning you of a kill without having to directly check the Zappers hidden behind objects.I am really disappointed to see the end of the Rat Tales. I did not discover a dead rat in a Zapper for three days and it smelled awful once discovered and was covered in maggots.Victor Pest you made a bad decision by discontinuing a remarkably great accessory!!!PLEASE BRING BACK THE RAT TALES!!!I am guessing you did this, Victor Pest so that you can sell more Rat Packs which I truly do not think is necessary on the Classic Zapper. The four AA batteries really work for a long time here in AZ and the Rat Tales are a better and more useful accessory.UPDATED REVIEW!!! TESTIMONIAL!!!I still swear by my Rat Zappers. I have been using them successfully to kill countless numbers of large and small rats for the past few years. I have only been using the Classic purple Rat Zappers. They haven't failed me. I tried the Ultra version, never killed a single rat.I just saw that the current manufacturer, Victor Pest has modified this product. In my opinion, they should have left it alone. It was perfect.They seem to have modified the metal plate and changed the red flashing light to a green light. I have not purchased the newer version. I own many of the original Classic version.For some reason they wanted it to match their other products at Victor Pest.The red light is so much better!!!It really warns you by the fast flashing red light that you have a DEAD rat inside. I think green is a stupid choice and I understand that it now blinks very slowly to prevent battery usage. You don't want to miss the fact that you have a DEAD rat inside the unit. It will decompose, attract maggots and stink like hell.I still love the fact that I don't have to see the disgusting vermin when I turn off the Zapper, tip over the unit, and dump the carcass into a garbage bag. There is NO WAY I could handle a traditional trap and a DEAD rat in my face.II use Planters salted peanuts as bait.Victor Pest, please don't mess with a good thing. Thousands of folks should be trapping with this incredible product.VERY IMPORTANT NOTE:My Pest control man says to never wash out this unit after a successful kill. The scent of the previous rat lures other rats to follow the scent trail into the trap. From my experience, I believe this is absolutely true! He refers to this as a 'great seasoned trap' and he says he wishes he had tons of them.I live in an upscale neighborhood in Ahwatukee AZ and the rats came here years ago for the citrus trees in the neighborhood. They never left and have increased substantially over the years. It is especially bad during this colder time of the year.I have zapped/killed 4 rats this week alone on my back patio. 2 large parents and 2 baby rats. Rats run wild at night, across block walks and through yards seeking food which is being provided by unpicked citrus and outdoor bird feeders, pet food and vegetable gardens. They tend to hug and travel along walls at night so place the units parallel and against your wall on your patio.People also need to wake up and be more responsible to not help feed these vermin.Rats are rarely seen since they try to avoid human contact during the day and are nocturnal. If you are not trapping, you may never see one even though they ARE in your yards at night.Rat Zappers work! I could not live here without them.To VICTOR PEST if you read these reviews,Please bring back the Rat Tale. It is an exceptional accessory to the Rat Zapper. I use a Rat Tale on each unit.They are wonderful and allow me to see a kill without having to check each Zapper up close.I am a longtime customer who first bought this product from the original inventor company.They were superb to contact and they created a genius product!NEW UPDATE - JULY 2023I ordered 7 more Rat Zappers to have backups and today I discovered that the design of the ones I ordered has dramatically changed from the ORIGINAL CLASSIC PURPLE RAT ZAPPERS that I purchased years ago from the company who invented the product before being purchased by Victor Pest (Woodstream is the parent company).I contacted an executive at Woodstream today expressing my concerns about the changes to the product. The red exposed wire inside the unit is a problem as was detailed in a video on Amazon, when a rat chewed on the red wire resulting in the dead rat not being able to be removed from the Zapper since its teeth were still affixed to the wire!I sent photos of the Original Classic Rat Zapper to this executive, comparing it to this new revised version. Woodstream should have left perfection alone and not altered this product, in my opinion.The Woodstream designers also removed the small round opening on the top of the unit where a Rat Tale could be connected allowing you to see a kill from 12 feet away when the Zapper is hidden behind furniture, etc.I implored Woodstream by phone and email, to return to the Original Classic design which I considered flawless after using that version for many many kills over many many years.I just armed one of the revised new units and will now personally test it next to one of the Original Classic units which is still operating successfully. After reading many disgruntled recent reviews of the revised product, I want to see the results myself.The question remains, 'Has Woodstream ruined an efficient, well designed vermin eliminator by modifying a successful design?'We shall see...I will post my results as soon as I can see the new unit working.I sincerely hope that Woodstream will respect my suggestions to return to the older version design since I have truly field tested this product over many years under various changing environmental conditions. You can see that in my previous reviews above.

Reviewer: David Jacobson
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Does not reliably kill. Placing bait is almost impossible, but you can fix it.
Review: This is a review of the Rat Zapper Classic RZC001-4 Indoor Electronic Mouse and Rat Trap .Sometimes it kills the rat or mouse. So far I've gotten 1 big rat and 2 mice. But sometimes I can see some fur and residue in the chamber, but no dead animal. So it looks like the poor critter got zapped for 2 minutes, and then the zapping stopped, he recovered and backed out. I no longer recommend it. The text below is from my earlier review from before I discovered it wasn't reliably killing the rat or mouse.Added March 20, 2024: The big rat and the 2 mice are all it ever caught. After that, it didn't catch anything. Lowering rating to 1 star.The instructions call for placing bait on the back wall. But how do you make peanut butter, which is a good bait, stick to a vertical metal surface that you can barely reach through the front opening? I did surgery on mine. I cut a rectangular hole in the back about 0.6 inches high and about 1.25 inches wide. I found the magnet part of one of those things that are used to hold name tags in place on lapels or shirts. I glued a small bottle cap to the active side with a glue gun. Now I put the peanut butter in the bottle cap, slide the cap through the rectangular hole, and the magnets grab the metal back and hold it in place.Here is how it works. (I learned all this from US Patent 6836999.) There are two metal plates, one that is the main floor and back, with a rectangular cutout near the bait. There is a second slightly smaller plate in cutout area. The circuit monitors the conductivity between the plates, and when it detects continuity, it applies a series of high voltage pulses across the plates. There are about 200 pulses per second, and they continue for about 2 minutes. (The patent says 20 seconds, but in the one I have they continue for about 2 minutes.) Here is how the high voltage pulses are generated. There is a inductor similar to the coil on older car engines, only smaller. A transistor applies 6 volts from the battery to the low voltage winding. This builds up a magnetic field in the inductor. Then the transistor quickly shuts off. The magnet field then collapses, inducing a high voltage in the high voltage winding.By the way, I am quite sure that the patent is for this device. On the circuit board the resistors and capacitors are labelled with screened on legends. They match the designations in the diagram in the patent.

Reviewer: Cliente de Amazon
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Al comprar me pareció elevado el precio, pero vale la pena la inversión, solucionó mi problema de ratas y ratones en una semana (6 ratones), sacas de la caja, pones 4 pilas AA (de preferencia alcalinas dura.. o ener..), pones un pedazo de queso manchego al final de la trampa y la enciendes, hace un pequeño sonido cuando la encienden (supongo al cargar la energía necesaria), la pones cerca de donde has visto a los ratones por la noche y al día siguiente por la mañana un ratón cada día, apagas la trampa, la levantas y la inclinas hacia la basura y listo. Muy pero muy recomendable. Compré esta por tamaño ya que leí que en otros productos no caben ratas y en esta el tamaño es perfecto para ratas y ratones sin usar veneno.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I had a small group of mice who had gotten cozy in my basement. I didn't really relish the idea of handling their dead bloody bodies in snap traps and didn't want to use poison either. I was wary of this working, but it really did! It caught mouse after mouse, night after night, until they were gone. It caught 7 and I didn't have to change the battery even once. I used peanut butter as the bait and placed the trap along a wall where mice were likely to run at night. Very effective. I like that I didn't have to handle - or even look at - the mice and could just drop them into a bag to dispose of them. It's still not a fun problem to have, but this trap made it easy to deal with. Worth the money to me!

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This product has been extremely effective against mice when set correctly. It is vital you don't get human smell around the entrance to the trap - so use a long skewer to avoid touching it. Peanut butter is highly effective. Nutella has been devastating.Be patient - the mice are initially wary. However, once one has gone in the others all seem to be reassured - presumably by the smell of mouse - and follow. We forgot to switch it on when we went on holiday and returned to find the bait all eaten. Perversely this had the effect of making the trap far more effective once we turned it back on. The following week was a massacre. We have wiped out two families so far, several months apart. Sometimes two mice have been in the trap in the morning. Around 15-20 in total. They seem to have died instantly. Depositing them in the bin is pretty painless and there's no mess to clear up or smell of decomposition under the floorboards. Just turn the trap off and on again. Deadly.

Reviewer: Anonymous
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Poco da dire, era da una settimana che avevo capito di avere un nuovo inquilino nel mio seminterrato.Ho provato con i soliti mezzi: trappole meccaniche, esche specifiche, colla per topi, eccc... ma senza risultato alcuno.Il Rat Zapper mi è stato consegnato nel pomeriggio e l'ho messo in funzione verso le ore 23:00 usando come esca del burro di arachidi di cui è goloso anche il mio nipote.Per motivi fisiologici ho dovuto alzarmi vero le quattro di mattina e la mia curiosità era tale che non ho potuto trattenermi di andare a vedere la trappola:Il topolino era già stato FULMINATO !

Reviewer: David Kidd
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This is our 2nd Zapper.The first lasted many years and had a 100% humane kill rate.This new one is matching this so far