Kill a rat contest.

Seriously, I'd go with a trap or poison.

For sheer entertainment value I'd go with a paintball gun on rock n roll. I pounded a mouse like that. It was hard to tell where the balls stopped and the mouse started.
 
When I was a lab assistant, we trapped almost 100 pack rats for a behavior study. We used box traps. Critter MUST cross the trigger to even get near the bait. We had less than 5% failures, and we figured larger critters were upsetting the traps and triggering the doors.

ED: Link for illustrative purposes only:http://www.safeguardproducts.com/standard_box_traps.php

If the rat frequents spaces too small for a box trap, place it near an opening to its turf.
 
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1) Buy a keg.
2) Rent a smoke generator.
3) Invite all your friends who own firearms over for some 'target practice'.
4) Drink.
5) Start up the smoke generator and run the hose into the subfloor.
6) Position well armed friends in a 360 around the house and tell them to watch for targets of opportunity.
 
leave CS articles all over the floor (like most people do)
they leave every time!:D
 
Buy him a bus ticket to out of town.

No really, have you tried the dry oats and bowl of water yet :)

Mark
 
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there are a lot of good ideas:thumbup:

I remember my father made a "better mouse trap"
he made an enclosed rectangle box (wood) with a
trap door in the middle (bottom), set over a 5 gal bucket of water
(chemicals optional), and he'd set some kind of bait inside.

when the critter walked in= Ker Plonk! :D
 
on_the_edge said:
Slightly more labor intensive than a cat, get yourself a good pellet rifle.
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DON'T DO THIS.
I tried it with a rat problem I had. When I actually scored hits, the pellets BOUNCD OFF and hit me in the glasses! (This is from a rifle that would shoot through a storm door at 10 feet).
The time I missed, the pellet bounced around and killed my glass oven door.

I went to using a .45 (wear ear protection), and that did in the problem.

Backstory: this was a rented house, and even though extermination was part of the rental agreement, the landlord told me to go F myself when I told him of the problem. The rats learned to avoid the sticky paper, avoid the cats (I don't know how), get the bait off the traps without springing them, and I don't know what happened to the poison, it was gone, but no dead rat smell. . .

ETA: My beagle actually got more kills (3) than all the cats combined.
 
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