Humane Way Folding 42 Inch Live Humane Animal Trap - Safe Traps for All Animals - Dogs, Raccoons, Cats, Groundhogs, Opossums, Coyote, Bobcat - 42"x16"x18"

This cage has been a blessing. My family moved to a new place that has roosters crowing at 3am. After the first night or constant crowing (right outside our bedroom window), I was in the hunt to catch these roosters in a humane way. My local feral chicken program was going to cost $200+ per week to rent a cage. So that was a no-go. And the. The landscaping guy that services our area said he would pick up the chickens for free. Free food. So I pulled the trigger on getting this cage and was quite disappointed for the first 2 weeks. No chickens! I almost wanted to return it and my wife said to be patient. And after a “yes darling”, on Christmas Eve last year, bam. That solid. Of the cage closing was the greatest Christmas present ever. Since then, we’ve caught over 30 feral chickens.The peddle can be triggered pretty easily. So I tend to catch some chicks, but we let those go since we’re really after the big guys which are for eating and mitigating the noise. It also triggers large common birds, so that’s a bit of a hassle to have to let go, but that’s all because the cage works well.Also having doors on both sides is helpful to get the chicken acquainted with the cage, walking in and out to get food.

Critters go in but don't get out, solid, stays closed, works great.

Worked perfectly...with modifications,metal in the back where the bait is put must have much smaller gaps. Animal I was trying to catch stole the food through those gaps three nights in a row before I reinforced the back to make the holes impossible to steal from

This had the possibility of being a good trap: BUT they should test their products. I found 2 severe issues with mine. The first was the L arm that held the door open, it was too short so I had to give the door an extreme lift to get it on the L. This created a problem with triggering. The lower part of the L was angled up and the vertical part of the L was probably 3/16" to 1/4" too short, thus the reason to have to lift the door to latch it open. It would not trigger because the amount of weight needed was extreme. I then tried placing the door bar on the very tip of the lower L bar. Not 100% functional. When it did trigger the raccoon would enjoy the can of cat food then leave because the door latch would just bounce on the bottom bar and remain unlatch. So the raccoon would just leave. Opinion: the flat latch was too long and the angled face just did not function as in the mental image. I tried for a week and gave up.

This trap is way worth its price. I had a stubborn and very smart feral cat trapped in my garage for a few months that would not go into the standard trap for the life of him!Animal control suggested I get him use to my dogs kennel to eat from and trap him that way.I had been searching for a larger trap that would resemble my dogs kennel at a good price and I found this one.When I received the trap the locking mechanism was not working so I reached out directly to the manufacturer (not Amazon) and the owner sent me out a new working one the same day!I finally trapped the cat and got him TNR through humane society and now he’s free and back in the community ❤️Best money I’ve spent in a while!

I also have a smaller squirrel-sized cage. The back door on that one is a piece of cage that slides in and is held in place with a clip. Simple, straightforward, effective.With this 42" cage, the back door folds down onto the floor of the cage. There are a few problems with this.- The worst issue is, you cannot bait the trap from the back. The door folds onto the floor of the cage where you would place the bait. My arm does not bend in a way that allows me to reach around the door when it's partway up, in order to place the bait.- Folding the door inward scares the animal to the far side of the cage. With the squirrel cage, as soon as the animal control guy lifted the door, the squirrel dashed into his cage. With this one, the back tends to slam down and scare them into the front of the cage. It took some coaxing to get a racoon to go into the other cage.- The door folds onto the trigger plate. I guess that's not a huge deal, because it's so easy to set the trigger. It's just an additional, minor annoyance.I am astounded that they didn't figure this out the first time they tried to use their own cage. I'm six feet tall, and I cannot reach from the front past the trigger plate to set the bait. Fortunately, I have one of those grabber devices that I use to reach that far back. They almost need to include one with the cage.I've about reached the point where I'm going to rip the back door off of this trap and come up with a way to secure it, that allows me to easily remove and re-secure the door. I'm not sure exactly how I'm going to do that. It needs to be something that the animal can't chew through. One of the raccoons I captured was very tenacious about trying to get out. If I had used twist tie, or anything like that, chances are he would have chewed through it.Or, I might cut a small hole in the side or back that lets me extend a bait tray to where it needs to be. That might be simpler.