Rat(s) reek havoc...

Phil Dwyer

Phil Dwyer

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Who would have guessed that inside of the one month I was on the mainland this could have happened?

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Farmer Phil said:
Who would have guessed that inside of the one month I was on the mainland this could have happened?

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Old Mother Nature doesn't rest for a minute, does she?!
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MAN WHAT RATS NEST YOU GOT THERE :rolleyes:;):D:eek:
o ya i know the Hawaii rats quite well, we would catch them in the dog food barrels. if we left the top off over night thy would hop in and then could not get back out. and when i say Hawaii rats are big I'm not making it up, thy look as big as cats. I use to hunt the small house mice with a pellet gun at night when most of the lights where out. o great fun i had :D.
 
hahahahaha !!! :D

listen to the pitter patter of the tiny feet
as the rats go walking down the city street
they may be hard to love but they're really neat
the way they slip inside to steal your food to eat

rats! tougher than your dogs and bigger than your cats
rats! they hide beneath your overcoats and stroll out in your hats
rats! you can't even beat them with baseball bats

rats! rats! RATS!
 
Man we got cock roaches bigger than that thing. In fact, my boys been trying to rope one and put a saddle on it to ride to school!
 
Farmer Phil said:
Man we got cock roaches bigger than that thing. In fact, my boys been trying to rope one and put a saddle on it to ride to school!
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and there fast to so it would be a quick ride to school. this reminds me of a funny story. in our old kitchen in Hawaii be for my dad remodeled everything there is a cupboard right by the sink and there is a little crack between it and the wall. well my sister would do the dishes lat at night and thats when the cock roaches emerge. well thy would peak there heads out of this crack and startle my sister. so she started to keep keep a squirt gun by the sink and when thy would try and sneak out of the crack she would grab the gun and blast them back into the crack . The first time i saw this i could not stop laughing.
 
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and thats when the cock roaches emerge. well thy would peak there heads out of this crack and startle my sister. so she started to keep keep a squirt gun by the sink and when thy would try and sneak out of the crack she would grab the gun and blast them back into the crack . The first time i saw this i could not stop laughing.
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Oh dude... :barf:

One word for you - Cypermethrin
 
I use one of the spray cleanser bottles from under the kitchen sink. Often I just leave it on the kitchen table at night. If I spy one of the "B57" buggas, I blast it a time or two with the cleanser and by-n-by she'll give up the ghost. My wife and kids hate seeing the carcasses scattered around in the morning. Lately I discovered cracks around the overhead fluorescent lights so I've taken them all apart and foamed all the openings, then I bombed the attic. Might slow them down for a while.
 
Ya well, they can get the floss out of here. That's what they can do!

I set some of those snap-the-neck rat traps, but they just ate the bait off them. Have had a little luck with a small live catch trap. The last one I caught was a whopper. It hiss and spit and charged at me when I came up to the cage. Straight into the water went trap and all. I had no idea rats could be such robust swimmers...well, for a few moments anyway. :D
 
Straight into the water went trap and all. I had no idea rats could be such robust swimmers...well, for a few moments anyway.



Phil,
I love the way you explained the death of that rat. I have a very morbid sense of humor. I can tell ya, it is good to be laughing on this forum again. :thumbup:
Bryan
 
Phill try on the snap the neck traps get some sowing thred and bacon greese wrap the thred arond the triger and tie then put bacon greese on the thred the rats will get a tooth hooked and the rest is history.
 
Now this is going to sound terrible but I have seen it work first hand . We did this outside of a restaurant I once worked at .
Catch one alive in a cage , put the cage where you think the suckers are hanging out , then you burn it alive .
 
Saw my uncle do this in his barn back in the 60's.......

Get yourself a #10 Washtub.

Put a couple of 1X4 planks so that the rats can run up to the top of the washtub.

Put about 6 inches of water in the washtub.

Hang a piece of cheese on a string from a rafter over the center of said washtub at about tub-top height.

The stupid rats will run up the 1X4 runways, dive toward the cheese, miss the cheese, and drown in 6 inches of water.

Next morning, just clean up and do it again. Craziest thing I have ever seen, but I saw him pull 5 or 6 rats out of that tub.

Robert
 
Growing up we had a smoke house beside our barn. Anyone thats ever had one knows how many rats get attracted to them, even with all the smoke. My grandfather would put a small mason jar lid around the smoke house filled with coke a cola, maybe 5 in all. We never seen another rat again, rats cant expell gas from their body so it kills them really fast. Anytime we would keep meat in it we would fill up the lids and let them drink thereselves to death!
 
My old farming Uncle would tell about tying a sheet of newspaper over the mouth of a water filled milk can. Slit the paper cross ways with a razor blade and lay a board so the rats could get up there. Lay one or two single grains of hard corn on the paper, it would hold it up, and the rats would run over to get it and fall in the water. :D That must have late 40's when he was milking cows.
 
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