Rat traps

[Da stump]

I am going to do up a doz or so for next year,  That and a bunch of colony traps.  Maybe a few doz cage traps for beav and cat.  Will be fun. 

[pnwmtnmn]

A common rat trap, approved by theHumane society of Australia, is 6" wide and must kill the animal in 1/4 of a second. This would work for us.

[onetrapper]

Thinking you could braze a thin barbed point in the center to hold them til they drown

[pnwmtnmn]

Thinking you could braze a thin barbed point in the center to hold them til they drown

Nope, yes it will hold them, but it would also make the trap illegal to use.

[TeacherMan]

I looked up heavy duty rat traps and found metal ones instead of wood. They are actually on eBay. Nothing in the law states they have to be victor wood ones.

[pnwmtnmn]

True, I found 6 at a local hardware store, went back 30 minutes later they were gone. haven't seen any since.

[onetrapper]

not sure that would be illegal...barbed point

[pnwmtnmn]

The barbed point would make it illegal. That is why gopher traps are illegal.and the fact that they weren't exempted from the initiative in the first place.

[Humptulips]

We went round and round with the department on rat traps. There are traps sold in europe as rat traps that would work very well for muskrat.
 We asked the department to define what a rat traps was. They refused and threatened to define the wording in the law as only allowing a trap set for a common rat if we pushed it.
What the exact wording of the law is has never been settled. It is up to the officer who sees it how it is interpreted at this point.
I'm just saying to make sure it looks like a rat trap you buy at the hardware store. Then there should be no difficulties.

[onetrapper]

As far as i know the spear type mole/gopher traps are legal under the statute.

[pnwmtnmn]

Nope, the spear type mole and gopher traps are all illegal to use.

[Special T]

How about one of these? T rex rat trap or Motomco rat traps

[onetrapper]

Where does it say that in the statute

[pnwmtnmn]

They weren't exempted like mouse and rats traps were. There fore the Dept. of fish and Wildlife defined them as illegal to use the same as footholds.  The statute makes illegal any trap that spears or impales and animal to hold it, Mole and gopher traps spear and impale and a made illegal to use under the statute.

[Machias]

Where does it say that in the statute

They are a body gripping trap, mouse and rat traps were specifically exempted, all other body gripping traps including mole traps are illegal to use in WA.  Not illegal to sell, that's why you still see them on the shelves, but are in fact currently illegal to use.