Didn't catch the critter but I like the cage will try a different bait. Need to be able to lock the rear cage door. The raccoon was able to open and escape.

Large enough for a cat to go into comfortably. Easy set up. I would have given a 5 â­ï¸, however there was some rust on a few parts of the new product when it arrived. I also think that it would be better if the back door opened and locked from the top instead of the bottom. That would make it easier to put the bait in and remove, as well as trying to remove an animal with more ease. I think this will work well to catch my semi-feral kitty for alteration. After that, I can utilize it to catch the opossum that lives under my porch, and relocate him.

This product is great, it is THE ONLY drop trap i could find that FOLDS UP to fit in car. All the rest of drop traps do NOT fold up so what good is that? unless you are only trapping in your own yard and have a large garage to store a big bulky trap.
so i am glad i finally found one that DOES fold up for those of us out there working out in the field on TNVR cat. Protect your car seat with blanket prior to placing this drop trap in your car, it can scratch leather if you don't use a blanket over car seat.
I show picture of the side door where one can slide the transport trap up to that slide up door , after the cat has been caught underneath the drop trap. I used an ordinary transport trap, (Tru-trap, the brown kind that does NOT slam)
and there was a tiny gap as the 2 items do not actually connect or snap onto each other as intended, yet, it works fine just having a transport trap pushed very close. Cats go right into the transport trap right away, they do not ever seem to notice the tiny bit of air between the drop trap and the transport trap.
Have a blanket over the transport trap so it appears to be a dark safe escape route and have cardboard on floor of transport trap so metal wires wont bother cats feet.
I recommend practicing quite a bit with this prior to using it. It is more ideal if you can unfold the thing and set it up prior to your animals watching you do that. If you have a wild cat or animal that is not accustomed to your presence? then you will need a very very long string to be able to distance yourself enough that the cat WILL go into/under this trap.
Put food wayyyyyyyyyy back under trap and do NOT pull string until entire cat is FULLY 100% way under the trap. take your time, i lost 2 cats by pulling string Too Early,----- cats are so fast to zoom back out. SO wait, wait wait, get that cat wayyyy under the trap, way in the back.
Use on level ground. It is easier if you have 2 people, -------BUT YOU CAN DO THIS ALONE, far more important than pressing down on trap, is THROW A SHEET OVER IT instantly. Cats can not really get under edges at all, no, but you can lose the cat who turns around too fast if you pull string too early.
Have your full size sheet ready to toss over the trap right away., as soon as cat is under the trap, RUN over and cover that trap up.
ONce you throw a sheet over the cage? the cat calms down. YOu do not necessarily need any brick to hold cage still for cats,---------- the cat calms down instantly as soon as you cover the cage.
Then, after you line up the transport cage by the trap's door, and have both doors open so cat can run iinto smaller transport trap? THEN pull sheet off of larger drop-trap and put it over smaller transport trap, and the cat will run into the smaller trap to "Hide" under that sheet.
DONe.
Once i got hang of it, then This worked great, i FINALLY caught a very trap savvy cat that i had tried everything for a year to catch. got her! she is now fixed and living a better life.

Not for larger animals but for the strays around here, it'll do to get them to get altered! Decent instructions and overall as described

There is nothing to dislike about this trap, I pulled the video on the trap on YouTube and went by the direction, I caught 2 rodents, but different times, I say this is one awesome trap, if a woman can put something like this together and it worked,that's what's up