Nooski

[IanB 0]

Did anyone purchase one of these nooski style traps and have much look, can remember from awhile back them getting a slating....?

[Rolfe 2]

im a compleat novice in this feild i have never heard of one before

have you got a link to any info cheers

 

Look on here. http://www.killgerm.com/

[Cupid Stunt 18]

http://www.nooski.com/

[comanche 3,204]

Yes .Strangely I was thinking about a post myself asking for other folks' experience with The Nooski. Just as I really wanted Eradirat to prove to be breakthrough(Ok, I suspect it's possibly based on a 1920's idea) I really wanted the Nooski to at least prove itself a usefull bit of kit if only in limited circumstances..How in Heaven the thing was passed as a Spring Trap I don't know .Surely " Spring Activated Self-Locking Snare", would be a more accurate description?. I tested them on a smallholding owned by regular customers who don't seem to mind me trying new or different techniques and also along the boundary between my own garden and a timber yard. Obviously the fact that the victim flaps about in it's death-throes means that there are issues of corpse retrieval which I guess would lead onto problems with confining the trap inside bulky cardboard boxes for indoor or loft use to prevent bodies bouncing into dark corner and wall cavities. Another problem I found was that the castrating bands need to be replaced every few days because they lose their tension.Having watched the promotional video for Nooski I suspect that the rats shown rushing to their doom had been subject to a bit of "Pavlovian "conditioning before making their big bid for screen fame.... The main reason I stopped using them was the most important . Having initially failed to find all the bodies after traps had sprung I was horrified to come across two rat corpses a couple of weeks later . Both poor creatures had been foul-caught round the nose ,behind the teeth-effectivly binding their mouths shut.. Thus had died of starvation or dehydration.

[comanche 3,204]

look smart but wood you have too keep getting the rings off the rats? or just by more i use teh rings at work on lambs

The rings degrade quite quickly -would'nt want to use em twice or mess about with a dead rat anyway. . I suspect that the rodent stars of the Promotional video on the web were probably accustomed to going into the unset trap for food .Might explain why they seem so keen to dash to their deaths .Did't expect some b*st*rd with a video camera to set the trigger to kill....I gave it a fair trial but as far as I'm concerned the Nooski is a novelty for the collection rather than a serious or humane tool. Only my experience though .Others might have done better.

[comanche 3,204]

yes the rings might loose tension i supose the idear looks good though

i might get one wood it take grey squirrels?

all the best

Apart from the fact that the Nooski trap is not approved -hence illegal -for use against squirrels it is totally unsuitable . The thing is of dubious value against rats let alone anything bigger,tougher and stronger. Cheers

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Frankly, I find the entire concept rather disgusting. They are no more than an automated and - as Comanche has shown - unreliable form of locking snare. It's illegal to lock snare or drown an animal in uk. How come it's fine and dandy to attempt to asphyxiate it by means of such a garrott?

 

I can't for the life of me figure out why Killgerm was so obviously and publicly keen to see the things passed and start pushing them out in the first place. Perhaps somebody closer could define this devices great advantages for us?

 

How is a 'novel', expensive, noted as being fiddly device which, at best, brings about a vile and protracted death and then an absent from scene corpse meant to be so much more worth while than a spine seperator, such as we've used for centuries?

[comanche 3,204]

Frankly, I find the entire concept rather disgusting. They are no more than an automated and - as Comanche has shown - unreliable form of locking snare. It's illegal to lock snare or drown an animal in uk. How come it's fine and dandy to attempt to asphyxiate it by means of such a garrott?

 

I can't for the life of me figure out why Killgerm was so obviously and publicly keen to see the things passed and start pushing them out in the first place. Perhaps somebody closer could define this devices great advantages for us?

 

How is a 'novel', expensive, noted as being fiddly device which, at best, brings about a vile and protracted death and then an absent from scene corpse meant to be so much more worth while than a spine seperator, such as we've used for centuries?

You 're right ,but ,er. Well you know my sad predeliction for the macabre . The advertising made me buy them. Unbiased curiosity made me try them.Honesty makes me condemn them. Sinclair C5 of traps really.

[woodga 170]

[we have tried the traps and found them useless bits of plastic with a high price tag . The opening is to small they have been left in areas holding a lot of rats and had no takers unless there was no other food source . MK4 FENN OR 110 BODY GRIP WILL BE MORE ADAPTABLE AND AT LEAST YOU KNOW WHERE THE BODIES ARE

[ChrisJones 7,975]

Agree with comanche, Ditch and woodga.

 

I see the Nooski as a step backward. I'm all for quick and humane kills but this device appears to be neither. I'd need far more convincing before I ever shelled any cash out for one.

 

Interestingly their website http://www.nooski.com no longer appears to show the demonstration video. It was that video that put me off.

[verminator 0]

Just checked out the site. Video unavailable...

[ratcatcher 0]

I agree with what the other lads are saying.How these got legaly passed I do not know.In my opinion they are cruel and unreliable rubbish.Stick to the good old spring traps.