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| | | Live Animal Traps | Home » » Havahart 1085 Easy Set One-Door Cage Trap for Raccoons, Stray Cats, Groundhogs, Opossums, and Armadillos | | | | | | | Description: | | Ideal for trapping raccoons, stray cats, groundhogs (woodchucks), opossums, armadillos, and similar-size nuisance animals. Havahart Easy Set traps are the new standard in live animal traps. The patent pending design is easy to set, easy to release. Perfect for first time trappers, one simple move and the traps are set! Constructed of sturdy wire mesh with steel reinforcements for long life, and galvanized for maximum resistance to rust and corrosion. Mesh openings are smaller than competing traps of comparable size to prevent escapes and stolen bait. Spring loaded door and sensitive trigger ensure quick, secure captures. Solid door and handle guard protect user during transportation, while smoothed internal edges protect and prevent injuries to animals. Made in the USA. | | | Features: | |
• Durable, rust resistant Easy Set Trap lets you set and release with just one hand, keeping you far away from the captured animal
• Trap features a solid plate covering the top and door that serves as a hand guard to limit contact with the animal
• A sturdy door lock ensures that the animal won't escape while the smoothed interior edges protect it from harm.
• Rigid, plastic carry handle makes it easy to transport, holding it away from your body. When it's time to release, just stand to the rear of the trap and open the door using the patented, safe-release lever on top
• Spring-loaded doors and sensitive triggers ensure quick, secure captures that target the specific animal's size, preventing undesired catches. Havahart traps are made in the U.S.A
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 32.5 inches | | Product Width:
| 11.75 inches | | Product Height:
| 14.5 inches | | Product Weight:
| 10.0 pounds | | Package Length:
| 32.7 inches | | Package Width:
| 13.7 inches | | Package Height:
| 12.2 inches | | Package Weight:
| 11.8 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 126 reviews |
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15 of 18 found the following review helpful:
 Got my pest!!Jan 10, 2007
By Jorge Gadea
I have been plagued with pesky armadillos for the last several years in my Florida yard. After getting advice from several people, I have tried everything under the sun to get rid of these guys as my lawn has large dead spots where the root systems have been destroyed, not to mention the uneven ground that my kids play on due to the multiple holes that are dug. I tried mothballs, filling their holes with dirt and water, covering their holes, even tainted food. Nothing worked. I finally broke down and bought this Havahart trap 1 month ago. At first, I caught several animals except for an armadillo (opossums, racoons mainly) I tried using several different types of bait until I finally got my armadillo this past Monday. The bait---a rotten Mango. Did the trick!! I relocated this critter to an uninhabited preservation area several miles away where he can go about his business as he pleases. The handle on this trap made it easy to transport the animal without difficulty. I am a satisfied customer.
18 of 23 found the following review helpful:
 Raccoons can get outJun 20, 2009
By Lyman C. Duryea
The first issue is how to outsmart the raccoon. I made a hook of coathanger wire and suspended it from the top back part of the trap. Using marshmallows for bait with one on the "hook," the raccoon is obliged to trigger the trap. With bait just on the floor of the trap the raccoon will recover the bait and avoid the pressure plate/trigger. Further, when the raccoon senses the trap door closing, it backs out of the trap before the door closes and latches. To solve this problem, I incline the trap back end down so the raccoon must back out uphill. Now the raccon is caught. Leave him alone, unsupervised overnight however,and he will escape. The door hinge is a pin the the raccoon disengages when he overturns the trap in his struggles. When one end of the hinge pin disengages, it allows the raccoon to force open the door. An earlier version of this trap had a door hinge not subject to coming loose when the raccoon struggled. Thus, either immediately move the raccoon to some other desired location for release, inconvenient in the middle of the night, or secure the trap in some manner so that the raccoon cannot move the trap around or turn it on its side as the raccoon struggles. Unless one takes these precautions, the trap is not suitable for taking raccoons.
5 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 Super Easy to use, could be more robust...Jul 21, 2011
By C. Weaver
This trap is so much easier to set than any other and makes a great standby for quick setup with no training. No fiddling around with balancing posts against each other to get the trap to balance the step plate just right, no worries about it being so tight that it doesn't trip.
However, the manufacturing of the trap seems to cut a few corners.
Small soft plastic nubs on the end of pivot points came off in shipping and these are part of what holds the trap together. These should be threaded nuts to stay on securely or permanently attached with press on nuts.
Also some of the metal pieces are a bit flimsy and I am concerned about long term functionality, especially after a few animals get trapped and try to get out. I use it to catch feral cats and have had no problems at all. But I can imaging a strong racoon casuing problems.
I do recommend this trap for anyone that has had trouble setting traps in the past, or has never used one before. This is really easy to set and open to release.
15 of 21 found the following review helpful:
 Havahart /Easy set release one door cage trapAug 13, 2008
By GiGi C.
The first time I used this trap the cable that opens/shuts the trap door snapped, making the trap unuseable. The cable was held in place by a tiny clamp which popped off. The mechanism for attaching and holding the cable in place needs to be made more durable. I would not recommend this trap.
6 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Very effective trap for groundhogs/woodchucksJul 15, 2009
By Pinkhat
Luckily, my local Ace Hardware store carries the Havahart 1085; it only cost me $53. The trap is rather large, well built and very easy to operate.
I have caught 3 groundhogs (a.k.a. woodchucks), an adult and two youngsters. In my case, trapping these animals was rather simple because the entrances to the burrows they've dug all over my slopped yards are quite visible so all I have to do is place the trap right in front of one of the holes and wait a few hours (if I set the trap in the morning I'll have a groundhog in there in the afternoon).
Tip: Once you've set the trap, place a mound of dirt (a few trowels worth) to cover the metal almost all the way to the trigger, that way the animal will walk on dirt, rather than metal, as they enter the trap. Also, if you happen to have some at hand, use a piece of garden fabric to cover most of the trap so that the animal will see "the light at the end of the tunnel" ;) as it leaves its hole to enter the trap. That's what I've been doing and so far it's working very nicely.
For bait I've been using apple quarters.
*** UPDATE (September 2011):
The trap continues to work flawlessly for me. This summer I was able to trap a young groundhog even without bait. I'm very happy with this product.
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