Kill a rat contest.

If this has not been posted yet then this is my answer-
Take a 5gallon plastic bucket & fill half full with water remove the carry handle. take a coat hanger & straighten it out, take an empty soda can & poke the coat hanger thru the solid end (bottom) & continue to run it all the way out the mouth of the can ( the can shoud free roll on the hanger ) install each end of the coat hanger into the inside of the bucket using the holes where the carry handle was, the free rolling can should be above the water & in the center ! Smear P-nut Butter all over the out side of the can.
Place the bucket in an area where the Rat is most active & place a small board from the floor up to the lip of the bucket. Turn the lights out & check it out in the morning ;) When the Rat etends his body out to eat the PB off the can the can will roll on the hanger & the Rat will fall into the water & cant get out, just make sure the water is not so deep that he can get back out ! We have used this method around the shop & it works GREAT :thumbup:
 
hollowdweller said:
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That technique only works on 'possum's ;)
 
Get a large tank of helium. Place a gauge on tank. Place a long hose on gauge. Place into vent as far as you can push the hose. Tape as many vents and holes closed with plastic, as you can find. You want to trap the helium inside the sub flooring. Leave the house for the day, with the doors and windows shut. The gas will displace the good air in the sub floor, and kill everything in the house that breaths air. Helium is not explosive, and will not start a fire either. Nothing will survive this, as the rat will not know anything until it is dead. When you come home, vent the house by opening the doors and windows and shut off the gas, which should be empty by then. The rat won't know what hit him.
 
rick43t3 said:
Get a large tank of helium. Place a gauge on tank. Place a long hose on gauge. Place into vent as far as you can push the hose. Tape as many vents and holes closed with plastic, as you can find. You want to trap the helium inside the sub flooring. Leave the house for the day, with the doors and windows shut. The gas will displace the good air in the sub floor, and kill everything in the house that breaths air. Helium is not explosive, and will not start a fire either. Nothing will survive this, as the rat will not know anything until it is dead. When you come home, vent the house by opening the doors and windows and shut off the gas, which should be empty by then. The rat won't know what hit him.
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The only problem with this is he dies in some concealed spot and starts to stink.

Doc
 
you can borrow mittens if you want. He is good with children and likes skynard.
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DOC-CANADA said:
The only problem with this is he dies in some concealed spot and starts to stink.

Doc
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Quite right. But displacing the air would surely kill the rat. He would stink until he dried out. The trap may be better as the carcass can be diposed of.
 
I've caught numerous packrats using a small havahart trap with lettuce and peanut butter and carrots as bait. Then I shoot them with a pellet gun.
 
I saw one post on the drowning idea, but this version is a little different.


Get your five gallon bucket, fill it half way, put a 2x4 plank up to the side for the rat to walk up and then cover the surface of the water with sunflower seeds.


I had a mouse infestation and killed 6 in an evening with this set up. The key is to cover the surface of the water. They won't jump in if they can see the water (generally).
 
I have to say that blowguns are the most entertaining option. I tacked a mouse to the drywall in my garage with mine last fall. It was getting into the dog food.
 
ball peen hammer...

If you use a chunk of walnut instead of peanut butter and you make sure it is securely wedged in the trigger the little buggers have a harder time stealing the bait.
 
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mikeal said:
Get a coffee can or five gallon bucket (depending on size of rat.) Cut a flap in the lid, but leave the hinge part intact. Balance the bucket on it's side on a platform high enough so that the bucket will stand upright when it tips over. Build a ramp up to the bucket. Bait the bottom of the bucket. The idea is that the critter goes up the ramp and in the bucket, which then tips over, trapping the rat inside. I'm not sure of the best way to get a pissed off rat out of a bucket, though. This did work once with a mouse and a coffee can.
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This is a pretty good idea.

There is no need to get the rat out. All you need to do is fill the bucket with water.
 
aarya said:
Snipped from Gutenberg.org:
Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making

"THE BARREL TRAP.

This most ingenious device possesses great advantages in its capabilities of securing an almost unlimited number of the vermin in quick succession. It also takes care of itself, requires no re-baiting or setting after once put in working order, and is sure death to its prisoners.

A water-tight barrel is the first thing required. Into this pour water to the depth of a foot. Next dampen a piece of very thick paper, and stretch it over the top of the barrel, tying it securely below the upper hoops. When the paper dries it will become thoroughly flat and tightened. Its surface should then be strewn with bits of cheese, etc., and the barrel so placed that the rats may
jump upon it from some neighboring surface. As soon as the bait is gone, a fresh supply should be spread on the paper and the same operation repeated for several days, until the rats get accustomed to visit the place for their regular rations, fearlessly and without suspicion. This is "half the battle," and the capture of the greedy victims of misplaced confidence is now an easy matter. The bait should again be spread as before and a few pieces of the cheese should be attached to the paper with gum. It is a good plan to
smear parts of the paper with gum arabic, sprinkling the bait upon it. When dry, cut a cross in the middle of the paper, as seen in the
illustration, and leave the barrel to take care of itself and the rats. The first one comes along, spies the tempting morsels, and with his accustomed confidence, jumps upon the paper. He suddenly finds himself in the water at the bottom of the barrel, and the paper above has closed and is ready to practice its deception on the next comer. There is not long to wait. A second victim soon tumbles in to keep company with the first. A third and a fourth soon follow, and a dozen or more are sometimes thus entrapped in a very
short space of time. It is a most excellent and simple trap, and if properly managed, will most effectually curtail the number of rats in any pestered neighborhood."

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That kinda funny 'cause I made a trap like that when I worked at my buddies machine shop 20 years ago. In the morning I emptied the garbage cans. At lunch, I went out to get some gut grenades at the local hamburger joint. After lunch I threw the remaining food into the now empty cans. The next day I was walking by the can and I heard some rustling. I looked inside and found a mouse. BINGO!!! I went to the scrap pile and got a school ruler sized piece of aluminum that we used for making tubs in race cars and balanced it over the edge of the table that the can was placed next to. The mice would basically " WALK THE PLANK".:D After a few days we had about 8 mice in the can. We proceeded to paint them diffent colors of engine paint and then we lit them on fire and watched which one made the most laps in the bottom of the can.
 
Safe and effective Kills 'em dead , an electric mouse trap..runs on C batteries...tad bit of peanut butter switch it to the on position and watch out....It shocks the hell out of them , like an enclosed stun gun about $30-40 at a home improvement store..rats/mice go in and are dead as hell ... I love it !
 
The new fast plastic rat traps with the large trigger plate work quite well. Remember that even if you only wound him, he has to drag that trap into his hidey hole and chances are very good that it won't fit through the front door. I know about the glue boards. I had a bad rat problem (an entire extended family of those little long tailed Florida roof rats living in my attic and raiding my kitchen and my dg's dry food bowl at night) a while back and while the glue would always get the younger, smaller ones, the big, smart old ones could figure out a way to get free sometimes. I had one get away twice. He left a big patch of hair amd ots of scratches on the glue board both times. The surface of the glue will dry a bit after a fairly short time and it is less sticky. One of the little bastards got up into the back of my stove and stepped on all three poles of the power cord at the same time. That is where I found him all deep fried to a crackly crunch when he started stinking a few days later.
 
GIBBY said:
That kinda funny 'cause I made a trap like that when I worked at my buddies machine shop 20 years ago. In the morning I emptied the garbage cans. At lunch, I went out to get some gut grenades at the local hamburger joint. After lunch I threw the remaining food into the now empty cans. The next day I was walking by the can and I heard some rustling. I looked inside and found a mouse. BINGO!!! I went to the scrap pile and got a school ruler sized piece of aluminum that we used for making tubs in race cars and balanced it over the edge of the table that the can was placed next to. The mice would basically " WALK THE PLANK".:D After a few days we had about 8 mice in the can. We proceeded to paint them diffent colors of engine paint and then we lit them on fire and watched which one made the most laps in the bottom of the can.
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That sounds a bit like torturing small animals to me.:confused:
I am no spca memeber and I used to pull the odd wing off a fly as a kid, but never lit an animal on fire.
 
ilbruche said:
I have a pack rat loose in the house. They don't follow the standard mouse/rat control protocol. They can eat bait from traps without springing them, they drag away glue traps and poison to their fetid vermin lair.

The bugger can be heard gnawing loudly at all hours of the day. :mad:

So I'm looking for a proven method that is guaranteed to eliminate the sucker. Everyone gets to post a method. The winning solution that delivers the rats head will receive a prize to be determined. :thumbup:
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get a metal pail.

rig a dowel over the pail.

put an empty toilet paper or paper towel roll around the dowel.

rub peanut butter on the roll.

fill pail 1/2 full of water.

the rat climbs up, begins munching the peanut butter, moves onto the roll, which then rotates, dumping the rat into the water, where he then drowns.

don't laugh. it really works.
 
The best rat killing method I have ever heard of is what they would do on the farm up in Kentucky when my dad was young. If you couldn't carbon monoxide them in their burrow, they would leave the door open to the corn crib whihc was empty but for a goodly bit of loose corn. It had galvanized sheet on the walls and floor and chicken wire on the top. They would wait until the rats were all in there eating and then slam the door. Can you say arc welder?:eek:
 
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