Customer Reviews
Does A Great Job!! 
2008-06-10
Works as advertised. Even now, just about a month later, it's still working...when turned on, the green light stays solid, then goes out, denoting it's ready for use.
Using only regular Energizer batteries, it took care of five mice so far. Great product!!
really smart rats! 
2008-06-07
Ok, well this didn't work for me. Not, I think, because it's a bad product, but we apparently have ROUI's (rodents of unusual intelligence) and nothing worked for me - not peanut-butter in snap traps, not a plank to a trash can with dog food in it, not this trap, nothing. I think our only hope is a cat.
It might work better if you never touch it - IE use latex gloves while opening the box, loading it and moving it into position.
But the bottom line is I tried this trap several times in several locations with several different types of baits and never once did it trigger.
Waste of money 
2008-06-02
Rats won't go near this thing. We've had it in continual use for five months (occasionally replacing the batteries) and haven't caught a rat. We've tried a variety of baits and followed the manufacturer's sections for where and how to place the Zapper. We've caught rats now and then in snap traps and in a Hav-a-heart trap but never in the zapper. Rats won't even touch the bait we leave scattered outside the zapper in an attempt to lure them in. Don't waste your money.
The magnificent ratzapper 2008-06-01
This thing works great, five rats in five days, all I had to do was change the baiting material which came with it to corn which I purchased from a local feed store... bingo, five rats in five days...Would highly recommend it...
A success story! 2008-05-17
I have owned the blue Rat Zapper for years and it did the job well however required frequent cleaning of the zapper parts other wise it would not kill the rat. I decided to give this one a try and it is a much better trap. Kills quickly and without a mess. Much more humane than a traditional trap that breaks the neck and often times decapitates. I am getting great battery life with this one too. The review says up to 3 dozen traps and I bet I have doubled that before I have had to change the batteries. I have an on going problem as I have an aviary full of exotic finches and not only does the seed attract rats but the rats get in and kill my baby birds. Since using this Zapper I get a rat every night and when I can keep up with the emptying and resetting I can get several a night. So I'm going to purchase 3 more. Who knows maybe I can put a dent in the rat population and I won't have a problem anymore. Wishful thinking I'm afraid!
1 Dead Rat 2008-07-24
At first I was wondering why I wasn't getting dead rats. Then I realized I hadn't turned it on. Once I turned it on, the red light was flashing the next morning,I had a dead rat. It was very easy to dump the critter in the trash, no touching. I still have rats, they seem to be ignoring the trap, I think I need to find a better bait to lure them in.
thank you rat zapper 2008-07-22
I am very mouse-phobic. I used to live in an apartment that had dozens of them and I vowed that I would never live in that city again. We found some mouse-droppings in our house once and I immediately went out and got the Rat Zapper...it was out for maybe 7 hours and bzzzz! Mouse was gone and I've never seen another.
fantastic 2008-06-27
This product saved me from deep despair. I had a rat living in the engine compartment of my car. the beast chewed through the fuel injector wires, costing me $500 to repair,.also started on the firewall insulation, and used the engine for a toilet. I tried poison, all kinds of spring loaded traps, nothing worked. My next move was to pray someone would steal the car. I went into a different hardware store (OSH), and saw the rap zapper. I went home and googled the device, and found letters praising the device. The next day I returned to OSH, and they were sold out. I then ordered it from Amazon requesting next day delivery. It came on time. After installing the 4 D cells, I put a piece of Tillamook sharp cheddar into the bait area, next morning I checked under the hood, and claimed victory. The rat was history, I love this device, and have mentioned it to several people. the secret is do not use peanut butter, or dog food, just good cheddar cheese....
There is a better mousetrap and this is it. 2008-06-17
I first tried the Pro Ketch Trap with Clear Lid - Mouse trap but my mice ignored it. After a few weeks, I decided to throw away being humane and just kill them. Normal kill traps didn't appeal to me but the RatZapper just seemed perfect for my needs.
It took awhile to figure out what my mice would go after and where they were, but once properly baited and situated, it caught 4 mice in 36 hours. I thought I finally rid of them until a mouse decided to step on my foot. A bit wary she would just wouldn't go into the RatZapper. Now I hate peanut butter as a food, but as mouse bait, there isn't anything they seem to want more. I just fill a 2liter bottle cap with PB and put it inside.
Once primed with peanut butter, the 5th (big mama) mouse was zapped. Then a few days later, the kids from her last litter started to miss her and came out and got zapped as well. Now I just keep it baited and wait for a victim.
When the RZ fires, it lasts about a minute and sounds like a fan blade rubbing against its housing. You hear a buzzing and will be going "WTH just broke?".
Now I'm thinking of getting one for the gargage...
This thing works! 2008-06-15
We had been hearing critter noises inside our walls for couple of months, and conventional mouse traps didn't seem to accomplish anything (I wasn't willing to try the gruesome glue traps). Thanks to the large number of good reviews Rat Zapper Ultra had received I decided to give it a try -- if it worked it would be a lot less expensive than calling an exterminator service AND it works poison-free (which is important when there're children and pets). And work it did! After unpacking the device and inserting four D-batteries I sprinkled few pieces of the included bait (dry dog-food pellets) into the device, flipped the switch to ON, and placed it where we knew the critters visited. The first victim (within few hours of taking Rat Zapper into use) was a large rat! It was followed by a mouse just few hours later, and yet by another mouse the following day. Then nothing for about a week, until another mouse was caught. We still heard an occasional scuffle inside the walls until about two weeks later the second large rat walked into the trap to be zapped. Now it seems the infestation has been clearead, but since the zapper takes little energy to be in ready-state, I keep it running in case any new unwanted guests find their way into the house. I'm also considering purchasing the plug-in indicator that can be threaded from the closet (where the trap is) so that I can easily see when it needs to be emptied and reloaded with dog-food pellets. I highly recommend this device! Amazon delivered it quickly enough, but why don't any national hardware store chains (Lowe's or Home Depot, for example) carry it?
