OT: Help!....trapping experts?

I knew someone would provide a rat-recipe...:D

And I might consider it if it was a forest rat--Just a smart, ugly squirrel with a naked tail. I'll try most any food if it's been properly raised/prepared.

But, you are what you eat, and similarly, your food is what it ate.

I'd think twice about eating a pig that was raised on urban garbage too.

BTW, the bugger set the trap off, but escaped...:mad:

Guess I'll find out if he's smart enough to avoid it tonight...
 
Saw a documentary about deep fried rat on a stick was the current rage in China quite a while back.
They at least have to be as good as Bill's squirrel brains, after all they're both rodents.
Down here in Oklahoma we call squirrels tree rats anyway, can't see much difference except one has a smooth tail while the other one is bushy.;)
 
My Dad ate squirrels during the Depression. Squirrels fatten up for the Winter, I'm not sure about rats. A rat is mostly guts.


munk
 
I had some fun with phylum Rodentia last spring myself. These buggers were outside and in my shed. I asked a friend and promptly went to a feed store and bought Peanut butter bar rat bait. I put it out and haven't seen any since. No bodies-- Nuttin' (pardon the pun;) :p )

-Craig
 
Baseball bats and gold clubs work well, if one decides to do a little rat hunting. Though a couple of friends to guard points of escape help. Ive actually had luck with just plain old cheese tied to the trap. Doesnt seem like it should work, after watching all them Tom and Jerry Cartoons, but I was sure surprised to find dead rat. Careful around them traps, my mom stepped on one once, darn thing nearly broke her foot.
 
The common rat can get up to 10 inches w/o tail and weigh a pound--I think that's about the same as a gray squirrel. I guess back east there's something that can get a lot bigger called a fox squirrel. Is that the kind people hunt?

At any rate, a one pound rat is plenty big, and there's no doubt they are a heck of a lot smarter. So far it's 2/0 in this contest in favor of the rat.

"A rat is mostly guts."

Guess it takes lots of fancy guts to be able to eat dang near anything, fresh or spoilt. I've heard that they've become resistant to some poisons.
 
I can tell that some of y'all never hunted Oklahoma Squirrels. They be plenty dayumed smart.:p :D
That is the wild ones are.
The semi tame ones out at Mohawk Park leave a little to be desired in the smarts dept, but they weren't any dumber than the guy catching them on a rod and reel using whole kernel corn for bait.:rolleyes:
He got one helluva fine, served him right too!!!!:D

But I still bet it was a lotta fun and I still wonder sometimes what test of line he was using. Sure couldn't have been 4# test.
I imagine them little suckers could put up one helluva fight, they're not like fish that can't get any traction.:)
 
I'd say you have one large, strong, smart rat on your hands! He's probably tossin' something on the trigger to set it off, grabbin' the bait & then resettin' the trap just to confuse you! Set the baited trap in the center of 4 more traps with no bait! You should catch him coming to the bait or running away from the sprung trap!
 
Get the large size glue boards & put them all around the area. I've used them to catch rats, mice, & snakes. When you hear them flopping around on the board, it's either khukuri time or load your .22 rifle/pistol with some CCI 'Snake Shot' from Wally-World & send him on to the happy hunting ground. If you see one, you probably have several, so leave the glue boards out for a few more weeks. Rats may not be all that bad, depending on your viewpoint, but due to the fleas on them, as well as their bits, can carry several pretty bad diseases, so I don't let them linger & take up residence. Third alternative is wait til it warms up & we'll catch you a 4 or 5 foot King snake & send him to you. They don't have a problem with killing them or eating them, don't take up much space, & will also work on the mouse population, moles, & etc.
 
The semi tame ones out at Mohawk Park leave a little to be desired in the smarts dept, but they weren't any dumber than the guy catching them on a rod and reel using whole kernel corn for bait
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:DROTFLMAO!!!! I can just see to old guys sitting on a bench--"whatcha got on there for bait Henry?" "oh, this here's ma secret weapon--chunk of Mars bar with sesame seeds--you know that big gray I got mounted over the fireplace? Well, I took him with a lure just like this'n!" :D
 
"or you can try the Rat Zapper!!!! "

A bit spendier than the Victor, but hey, it cooks 'em too. Kinda reminds me of the goofy hot-dog cooker they used to sell years ago that worked by passing electricity through.

:grumpy: So far he's passed on the peanut-butter in plastic wrap bait...
 
Anybody got any rat stories? Its always interesting when man and rodent meet in CQB... :D

Dont have any myself, except for a cobra n the act of swallowing a rat that I came across in my back yard a couple of years ago.

Andrew
 
You should get the rat zapper, I want to hear how that does in action after reading about it. Sure, low tech solutions work, like peanut butter slathered over juicy fruit loops attached to an old trap. People have been doing that for 100 years. But its 2003, a high tech solution is required. A safe, effective, LARGE dose of electricity should get rid of that giant rat problem. Maybe you could rewire it so it feeds off of house current instead of the batteries. Rat Zapping Fun. Hmmm, theres that funny burning hair smell again. Must be the Rat Zapper worked again. Toasty.
 
I have one rat story that I heard from a good friend of mine, several times. Personally, I have never had any experience with rats that didn't end with a terminated rat, but nothing interesting. Anyway, Bob worked with me for several years and was deathly afraid of rats. It stemmed from when he was a boy and lived in Ft. Edward, NY. It is right on the Hudson River. Early fifties and before they had sewer system. Just septic. He was going to the bathroom, sitting on the pot, when he felt something tickle his hind end. He jumped up screaming, little kid at the time, looked in and saw a river rat. Freaked him out, his dad came running, looked at the rat, reached down into the toilet and held the rat under the water until it drowned. He says to this day he won't go to the toilet without looking inside.

Second story from him. Middle of the night in Vietnam. The firebase he was at was being mortared. He dived into some sort of a big hole, water at the bottom of it. Laying in the water with his head down, realized it was full of rats. Really freaked him out. Couldn't leave the hole, had to stay until they quit shelling. Rats crawling on him really freaked him out. Everytime he told that he was like shivering.
 
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