Mention the main topic of rat trapping and people get that look on their face like they just smelled something bad. Visions of crawling in insulation filled attics, removing smelly dead rats has a way of instilling procrastination in anyone. But if you've recently been invaded, then getting rid of mice can be a necessary evil.   Usually when people think about catching rats, they presume of the precious metal standard, the wooden Victor snap trap. If you have a pest control company come out to your house to snare your rats, odds are they will set lots and lots of such. They are the least expensive snare normally, and they do kill rats. The more recent Victor traps have a huge yellow trigger pad which is better to set than the old all steel traps and can be adjusted for sensitivity. A single of the key strategies in trapping rats is to set out a huge number of traps at once. This is to achieve a significant kill ideally eliminating the bulk of the rodents before they become trap shy and can breed again. The particular wooden snap trap is exquisite for this due to it's low cost.   There are newer versions of the snap trap like the Tomcat which are made of plastic. They are simpler to arranged than the wooden traps and more convenient when removing dead rats. But their cost is noticeably higher than the wooden capture. If price is not an issue, they can be the best way to go particularly if setting out only a few traps for simply a few rats.   Then there are the rat zappers. This is luxury rat trapping. These are super easy to arranged. Drop some bait inside and flip a change. When it comes to removing dead rodents, the zapper has no expert. You just upend the trap over a pot and voila, the verweis slides out. No muss, no fuss and a lot less gross. Yet, the big drawback is the price. They can run from the middle thirty dollar range to the sixty dollar range. Which could buy an dreadful lot of wooden blocks. There is no denying their effectiveness and simplicity of use though.   Furthermore there are the live traps including the Havahart. A few people just can't kill anything and insist upon live capturing. It works and you could definitely catch them in a live trap. The problem is, be prepared to drive the captured rat a good distance from the home or they are going to head right back to where they came from. It is best to not release them near other people's homes as you are giving somebody else your problem. This is not a practical method if there are a lot of rats since the cost for many live traps would be prohibitive.   Lastly, there are glue boards. These people work well if you have the stomach to confront a screaming about to die rat stuck to a thick layer of stuff. That doesn't always happen, but be prepared. Out of all the trapping methods this is the least humane and has a greater chance of the rat dragging the board off and declining somewhere that you cannot access. Some may differ, but I say pass on this method.