Havahart® Small 1-Door Live Animal Trap

The plastic part that holds the trip arm to the drop door arm broke, rendering the trap useless. Havahart does not supply replacement parts, this was apparently was one-off project "let China design and make this POS". F-ing embarrassing for a US company that's been around since 1942, what would the founders think of this quality and post purchase lack of support? Do Better

How many bad reviews are needed to convince you that this trap (model 1026) is a bad design? At least, you are honest not to hide them, so I believe improvement is possible. I love my model 1078 (different design) and caught squirrels with it. I can also recommend the larger Squirrelinator (made by Rugged Ranch) if one wants to catch multiple squirrels at a time. While I was able to figure out how to attach 1026 trigger rod so it does not come off (push the rod into the plastic coupling all the way in, until two barely visible plastic teeth in the coupling end up "hugging" the rod from above), the trigger mechanism is still flawed. It is either not sensitive enough to cause the door to close or, if you bend the rod a little, can become hyper-sensitive, so when squirrels bump the trap before entering it, the trap will close from vibration. I bought this model at Home Depot and returned it couple of days later.

Trigger arm = same issue; the trigger arm will not completely engage into the plastic connector. It appears that the receiver is undersized or not molded to the correct profile v. the trigger arm diameter. SO, it constantly comes loose and falls off in the grass. It falls off in the grass because the door is misaligned and has to be shaken to open. S0, I don't notice and lose the trigger rod. Your engineering, production and QA folks need to execute a good 5 why and A3 analysis. Also - kudo's for replacing the defective trap but ....... you dont want it returned for analysis ?????????? And there are no replacement parts ????

I wanted to like this. And everything is straight forward. I caught and released one chipmunk - and then I realized, the trigger arm fell off - EVEN THOUGH I made sure when I assembled it that it was secure. Look, I could give a 5 star on this, but like other have pointed out, there are no replacement parts. So, now I have a 35$ waste of money! Have a Hart, make this part available for a reasonable price.

Very good product. I use it for Chipmunks. If there's a problem losing the trigger rod, just put a zip tie on it. No problem. This trap is probably too small for Grey Squirrels.

Very poor design. Too hard to set trigger.

Squirrels are scared of this trap. Way to easy to trip, hard to set.

Do not buy model 1026. The trigger arm falls off every time and gets lost easy. When you call customer serving of course you can’t understand represent. I wanted to buy replacement triggers for all traps that I have that don’t work . He informed me that replacement piece isn’t offered as a part to buy . So I’m out of luck . He then told me I could order another trap and he would give me a whopping 15% off lol Why would I buy a trap that won’t work after trigger bar will Eventually not work .

Same issue as everyone here. The terrible removable trigger rod (which can't be purchased on its own if it's lost or broken) with the plastic piece is an unforgivably bad design, which makes me wonder if this product is a shameless money grab. I buy and keep track of tools for a maintenance department. Multiple people use everything in my warehouse. Of course, the first time this trap was checked out and used, the arm was lost. I can't blame my techs for it. No one who has ever used one of these types of traps expects them to have flimsy parts that fall off. This would be like making an electric drill with a crappy, detachable trigger that constantly falls off, and not even having the decency to sell a replacement crappy trigger, and expecting your customers to buy a new drill every time. HAVAHART, FIX THIS FOR YOUR CUSTOMERS.

I agree with most of the reviews below although I wish I would’ve read them prior to approaching seeing this from Home hardware. I have a weasel that’s coming into my chicken coop so it’s critical that this works. Not only is the set up take about 10 times in order to just get the two metal pieces just slightly touch so that the plate can be activated. I go in to the Coop every morning and the bait’s been consumed or the door has been half closed and the Animal is still able to get out of the trap. Doesn’t matter where you place it on what surface all the points that the person replying back or AI is replying back to our comments it doesn’t work. I highly recommend purchasing a high-quality product as soon as you see plastic run as soon as you see moveable parts that come completely detached from the trap itself. Do not purchase it that metal bar I’ve lost in the dirt so many times had to bring out magnets in order to find it