Kill a rat contest.

Blood_Grooves said:
Oh and man, Don't skin the branch or stick you use for a figure four. Its easier for the animal to see it. Even dip your cut ends in mud.
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Thanks for the tip, but I have used it successfully with skinned branches:thumbup:
 
fivefold said:
Peanut butter on a BIG rat trap. Works everytime.
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All I get is a trap with teeth marks on the PB. This guy is tricky.

Mainly it is in the sub floor of the house and has gotten into the heating ducts! I need to get rid of this sucker before I go insane. So there is a very limited space in which it travels. This limits my options for traps. One thing it does do is chew on some of the expanding foam I have put in certain areas. Perhaps there is something I can put on the foam that will take him out.

I'll take it dead or alive...but if alive there will be a special beheading ceremony with a khukuri.
 
Okay this is a variant on the rat poison but here is what I'd do. The 'ol PEANUTBUTTER CUT MY FOOT trick....

The typical rat poison you get works by blood thinning, so you can enhance its effect by bleeding it out.

1) Get an old wine glass that you don't like. Add it to a cloth sack and smash it with a hammer into little pieces. Crush it enough to get nice tiny fine little jagged pieces not big pieces. I suggest a wine glass, because they tend to be thin. I'm sure if you look in your collection you will fine one with a chip somewhere that can be sacrificed.

2) Now take a good sized piece of cardboard. Coat a section of the cardboard about 1 sq ft or larger with elmer's glue (or any white wood glue). Sprinkle the glass shards onto the glued surface and let that baby set overnight.

3) Take a nice dolop (tablespoon) of peanut butter (hey its just a rat - use the no-name stuff) and make a pile of the stuff in the middle of the glass shards. Smooth a hole in the centre of the peanut butter. Tumble in a bunch of your rate poison pellets onto the peanut butter hill. Mix it up good, getting that yummy peanut butter all over the pellets.

So here is the deal - stealth rat thinks he is all clever like but cuts his foot while sauntering over to rat poison. Gobbles down his peanut butter goodness. Might even cut his tongue while gobbling up. The he bleeds out all the while thinking - man that peanut butter was good - I really screwed Ilbruche again...
 
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I've had lucj catching rats with figure 4's and paiute trigger dead falls..but this method works as well but is ridiculously labor intensive...Get yourself a 2 ft section of pvc pipe wide enough to accomdate the pest..

seal off 1 end
on the oppostie end drill a series of holes at even intervals making a ring around the circumfrance of the pipe holes should be at approx a 45 degree angle

insert nails or sharpend sticks into the holes, so that the head os the nails are flush with the pipe

wrap a few layers of ductape around the outside to secure the nails.

place the bait in the back (pb works the best)
fellow shimmiys in to get the bait goes to leave and is faced with a ring on inner facing spikes.. dispose of at your leisure...

THis is a similar idea but not homemade http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0WTb_jqg...esetting-multi-live-catch-humane-rat-trap.htm

I've also had luck with a blowgun, and a powerline slingshot.
 
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ok, mine is somewhat long and difficult to explain. get a good sized jar (some other vessel may work, but i think a jar would be ideal due to its slippery sides) put some easily smelled food in the jar(peanut butter would probably work) and then, out of scrap wood or somthing, construct stairs or a ramp of some sort next to the jar. the idea is that the rat will smell the bait, climb the ramp and go in the jar for the bait but wont be able to get out because of the steep walls of the jar/box/lemonade pitcher.
 
kgd said:
Okay this is a variant on the rat poison but here is what I'd do. The 'ol PEANUTBUTTER CUT MY FOOT trick....

The typical rat poison you get works by blood thinning, so you can enhance its effect by bleeding it out.

1) Get an old wine glass that you don't like. Add it to a cloth sack and smash it with a hammer into little pieces. Crush it enough to get nice tiny fine little jagged pieces not big pieces. I suggest a wine glass, because they tend to be thin. I'm sure if you look in your collection you will fine one with a chip somewhere that can be sacrificed.

2) Now take a good sized piece of cardboard. Coat a section of the cardboard about 1 sq ft or larger with elmer's glue (or any white wood glue). Sprinkle the glass shards onto the glued surface and let that baby set overnight.

3) Take a nice dolop (tablespoon) of peanut butter (hey its just a rat - use the no-name stuff) and make a pile of the stuff in the middle of the glass shards. Smooth a hole in the centre of the peanut butter. Tumble in a bunch of your rate poison pellets onto the peanut butter hill. Mix it up good, getting that yummy peanut butter all over the pellets.

So here is the deal - stealth rat thinks he is all clever like but cuts his foot while sauntering over to rat poison. Gobbles down his peanut butter goodness. Might even cut his tongue while gobbling up. The he bleeds out all the while thinking - man that peanut butter was good - I really screwed Ilbruche again...
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I like this idea.

What if I just blenderize PB, rat poison and glass shards all together? That way he gets the worst case of the $hits ever.
 
DOC-CANADA said:
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LMAO!

Hey, I am amazed at how many people overlook my suggestion only to finally break down and buy a Ratzapper. I got no respect for this when I first suggested it for a problem in one of our older buildings in our school district. We called the exterminator, set glue traps, poison, snap traps with everything you could suggest. They still sit there empty of rat and bait. I've emptied the 2 Ratzappers I finally bought 4 times and have had no further rat reportings.:thumbup:
 
Pierre the rat rocks!!

How about borrowing someone's Terrier or Dachsund? We had a Dachsund that was a better mouser than the resident cat. He'd go into crawlspaces to get em.
 
fivefold said:
Peanut butter on a BIG rat trap. Works everytime.
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+1 usually works everytime for me... i have also shot 2 of the buggers with my BB gun, while in my garage...:mad:

the blowgun sounds cool too.... those things rock...:D i used to have a nice one, till my brother stole it from me and brought it back all bent...:grumpy:
 
Old family trick...

Need a grocery bag, some uncooked pasta, and a hammer. Pasta goes in the bag, bag goes near the rat's path of travel. When you hear the crunching, swing the hammer. It's all bagged up neatly and ready for the trash after that :D
 
A normal rat trap with the baited end against your wall but instead of bait place a small flat of wood or beer mat etc on the the trigger so that it is activated when the rat steps on it. They will usually stick to the edges of rooms whenever possible !!!
 
you dont want that sucker running off and dying some place like... under a kitchen cubbard. I know you dont want it doing that. In an old house i used to live in a sticky trap worked but barely. I thought it was going to get out before i could take it outside and shoot it. Another time a squirrel got in and the sticky and standard rat traps didnt work so i used a 110conibear trap. it worked the first time.
josh
 
I thought I had a pack rat once in a mobile home (in college). It scared the hell out of me. I would wake up in the mornings and find my stuff moved all over the place......and I hadn't even been drinking! Finally found where it had been taking all of my stuff it was stealing. I went to a local coop and was told it was a norway rat. They gave me some kind of heavy duty poison and said that the regular rat poison wouldn't do anything. They were right about that, he had eaten so much of the regular poison that I was getting tired of buying it.

I don't remember what the poison was but if you ask at a coop or feedstore they can probably get you set up.

The ratzapper sounds like a good idea too but cost would be the limiting factor for me. For a school/warehouse/storage facility where it would likely be used fairly often, or at least regularly, it makes plenty of sense. For a residence where you would rarely need it I'm not sure the expense is justified.......although I admit I don't know what they cost.

I'm not sure a bb gun would have killed that sob I had. One downside to the poison is that after it did finally kill him I smelled that $%&# for what seemed like forever.

SDS
 
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