This does involve the trap having a bright orange and black livery, which may not suit situations with easy public access, but is an advantage if you forget exactly where each trap is. Indeed, the Goodnature company has sought to build a knowledgeable, professional brand image. The A18 is a very well designed and engineered item. This guides the operator as to when to replace the gas cylinder, even when he hasn’t seen any bodies. For this reason, a ‘strike counter’ attachment comes with the trap to keep count of how many times the trap has been triggered. It is expected that, in most circumstances, dead animals will quickly be removed by scavengers. With Goodnature traps, you need to check the trap only to replace the gas cylinder and lure, and with experience you can probably judge quite well how frequent that needs to be. In that sense, it’s comparable with the Kania squirrel trap, but the self-clearing and self-resetting properties imply much less effort to check and maintain traps, compared with any conventional spring trap or live trap. The A18 is intended to be fastened prominently to a tree at head height. As the name suggests, the A18 will kill up to 18 times before a new gas cartridge is needed, and the lure is formulated to be long-life too. The result is a near-instantaneous death.Īnd here all similarities with other traps end: the piston retracts, the dead animal drops out of the trap, and gas pressure from the reservoir resets the mechanism ready for the next squirrel. This causes a captive piston about as thick as your little finger to strike the back of the animal’s head, powered by the compressed gas. The animal has only to insert its head from the open bottom end of the trap, and in trying to reach the bait from inside the trap, pushes aside a fine wire trigger. Like the Kania, the closed top end houses bait or lure. It isn’t a metal contraption with springs – rather the visible exterior is tough plastic, and its hidden mechanism is powered not by springs but by the force of compressed gas (carbon dioxide) from a small screw-in cartridge. What is it?Ī Goodnature trap does not match any familiar notion of a trap. But here is a rehearsal of what we do and don’t know at this stage. The Goodnature trap promises to reduce that workload drastically.Īlready we are being asked almost daily for an opinion of the A18, and the simple answer is that we haven’t tried it yet. Trapping is the more efficient of the two (simply because traps work without an attendant human), but the effort involved in checking traps is costly, tedious and discouraging. Trapping and shooting are currently the only lawful means of grey squirrel control. Under newly made Spring Traps Approval Orders, the long-awaited Goodnature A18 Grey Squirrel Trap ( available on Amazon here - the links to Amazon on this page are affiliate links) became an approved trap in England and Scotland from 1 January 2019 and was available for sale in the UK from that date.
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