After our family member black lab of 7 years was killed by a snake, I bought 4 of these, had 1 already, and just put one sticky mat out by itself, so 6 traps in all. They sat for a week or so with nothing, had to rescue a bird in one case (hint make sure the trap is placed in the middle of the box, not near the outside and check traps daily). The weather was cooling down, and I think the snakes went in their dens. Then we had a significant warmup yesterday. Today, 4 traps had snakes in them. One trap had 7 snakes alone (I haven’t pulled the others yet). Money well spent. I would pay anything to get my best friend back, but I would have been terrified if my kids had come across these snakes.

Regarding the material. Yes, they look like cardboard on the pictures, but they are not. They are plastic, and they seem to have been holding up just fine in the weather. They aren’t soaked or soggy as one person stated. They get wet, they dry out. I would have preferred the original style which was a solid open ended plastic box (that’s one of my traps that caught a copperhead this time), because they are much easier to empty. Now I have a bit more dread thinking about having to unlatch the end of the box to get it open enough to slide the paper out. With the open-ended ones (which were freaking tough, I’ve had it for 5 years out in the dirt, and it’s perfectly good still), it’s simple to pick up and slide out. That would be my only complaint about these. However, I’m sure they did this for a couple of reasons: 1) since the box is made from lighter plastic, bendable plastic, the box wouldn’t hold its shape without closing up the ends and latching them closed. They should go back to solid plastic. 2) Maybe they got rid of the open ends to prevent other animals from getting inside. I can understand and appreciate that.