Havahart® Easy Set® Small 1-Door Animal Trap

I have used the 1083 for less than a week, and have caught 5 squirrels that were raiding my bird feeders. I have 2 other Havahart traps, but this is the best design by far. Excellent product. I highly recommend it.

Love this trap. I do TNR with cats in my neighborhood. It works great! I've been using Havahart products for years. I don't trap rodents, but great for cat trapping.

Purchased a trap over twelve years ago and have caught over 70 squirrels during this timeframe for trap and release. Have also caught a couple small racoons and a couple possums. About a week ago my trusty trap disappeared. I have looked around my yard, my neighbors yards, etc. We have virgin woods across the road, and have been visited at night by a few large racoons this summer. I am thinking that one of the larger racoons tried to get to the peanut butter bait in the back of the trap and could not back out. I guess he was able to make it back into the woods. I have used peanut butter on a small plastic plate and with a sprinkle of oiled sunflower seeds with great success. I have multiple bird feeders and tarp the squirrels who eat the seed in the bird feeders. Great traps that will last for years.

Easy to set, but 'small' animals escape easily. The wire cage has holes which allow chipmunks/squinnies to escape. I've caught two critters in my garden in a row where the chipmunk would eat the bait and set off the trap. It would be in the cage when I approached. I'd pick the trap up to relocate the animal, and it would squeeze through the holes in the cage and escape. For 'small' animals, the trap should probably have a finer gauge mesh to prevent easy escape...likely I will zip-tie some fine mesh steel wire to the cage to make it a bit better for my pests.

This product is outstanding. Usually I don't mind squirrels in my yard, however, I found the need to acquire the trap after experiencing several squirrels on my roof attempting to gain entry into the attic through the vents. I relocated over 20 squirrels (I stopped counting there were so many) over the course of the last 6 weeks. It is a bit of a trial and "see what works" exercise, but I found peanuts placed in the rear of the trap (but not so far back that they can use their skillful claws to obtain them) and peanut butter on the far end of the trip plate works like a charm. Once they are caught I recommend place a towel or other type of cloth over the entire trap for transport to the relocation site them as the darkness the cloth provides calms them (and throw in a bunch of peanuts or nutty granola balls so they are well fed on release. I also had the same release site for all the squirrels I caught, so I kept the squirrel families together. Hopefully they will make a successful transition because they are beautiful animals (I just don't want them tenants in my attic!). Your local Fish and Wildlife Centre can also advise you on a release site and local catch and release rules specific to your area.

I bought two of these traps some years ago and they were so dysfunctional that I tossed them in the trash. The problem is that the handy dandy "easy set" either will not stay set or is set so hard that small critters don't trip it. I am a fan of HavaHart traps, have used them for many years, and am using them now. But not this easy set model. Don't wast your money on it.

Well built trap and seems durable. Very effective as well.

Terrible design. I have bought many chipmunk traps. This one was way over-engineered and does not work! Will not stay open even when I set it inside where there is no interference. Buy 2 model 0745 for the same money. This was a very bad investment.

Simple to use, safe for user

we have two different of these Havahart traps and like them a lot.