Rat in the garden. Advice wanted

The best way to get rid of rats is not to vote for them at elections.
Parliament is overrun with them and it's all our fault.

 

Does anyone think that snap traps are more humane/effective than traps that catch them live?

 

I caught a mouse in one once. He had a very surprised look on his face

 

my schnauzer perfectly designed for rat catching, sorted!!!


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Once you've had a serious infestation, all thoughts of humanity go out of the window, believe me.

The big spring traps - like big mouse traps - work fine. They kill them instantly.

 

I've used this recently

http://www.pestcontrolsupermarket.c...-professional-strength-bromadiolone-224-p.asp

it got rid of them within a week

 

My pal has just had a bit of a problem with a few of them. Apparently they sneered at his traps and managed to get the ham or the cheese and even the peanut butter off without breaking into a sweat. So after he`d fed and watered them for a week or so he got chatting to some pest control people doing a bit of work for the council on a ```must sort right now``` type of mission. They said these particular sticky pads work really well as in they will not get away. Put close to or on a walkway, little bit of peanut butter in the middle, they sniff at it and then they put a foot on it and it sticks fast, then they try and use another foot to give them leveredge and that`s it. They might be illegal in some counties though. I`d have to be checking them every hour as I`d want to sort them out as quickly as is humanly possible because it ain`t a nice thought. As said above, once you are on the losing streak with rats, your conscience may change a tad.

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We had some using our water butt for refreshment. Emptied the water out and then used poison blocks for about a week. After that the blocks didn't get eaten and no sign of rats.

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We have the native white tailed rats hanging around again.They don't bother us too much....but they tend to live in engine bays of our cars.We find their food scraps and seed pods.They were kept in check by the resident python which took up residence in our garden rubbish trailer unbeknown to us.We last saw it slithering off to its new home at the local dump.Biggest battle lately is with the geckoes .....they crap everywhere.
I asked a mate recently about advice on the white tailed rats and he told me that a small school he was at had them in the sports shed.He and the ground man put two cats in the shed on a Friday arvo and opened up on Monday morning.He said that there were only barely recognisable carsasses left!!

 

But did the rats go away?

 

What the rats ate the 2 cats?

 

We had a couple of rats settled into a raised flower bed beside our pond, about six feet from the back door.
Its a pity they were rats not squirrels, they were quite fun to watch as they worked out how to nick food from the bird feeder.

We got rid of them by mostly accident - we dug up their entire nest while digging the flower bed and we stopped the bird feeding.

Now we have a stripey death merchant and there are no more rats.

 

Thanks - I have bought this and some traps so fingers crossed that does the trick. (And it's true - after several more sightings my humane instincts have been dulled)

 

I have a free, redneck mouse trap,

A bucket of water..
A ramp up to it
bait on a roller ..
in they go...trap resets ,
Had 20 in the spring...non all summer..

 

Good. Get shot of them, or you'll regret it

 

It worked well, put it down in the small trays once its all gone, top it up until no more is taken and that should be done then.

 

much like mine ..

 

Make sure the bait is secure from owt else. Heavy slate leant up against a wall for instance and poke a few sticks in the openings to so Fido and Tiddles cant get to it. Best do it with the traps too.. Good luck.

 

I tried a rat trap , but unfortunately I caught a blackbird in it , so threw it away ,I use an air rifle now to get rid of them


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there's always some trigger-happy, wannabe 'gamekeeper/pest controller' with all the gear... who would gladly get rid of the for you
or... it's christmas so you could just,