This is our huntress. She walked up to this yearling and it paid little attention to her until she got within 10 feet and I think the cat realized, "Yea, that's way too big" and the deer was like "What?"
Try the bucket/barrel trap. Slide pipe over a dowel and they will fall in and drown. Hang...
When I was a boy someone tore down a shed and rats infested the neighborhood. Dad, got frustrated and told ne $1 per rat. I sat on the back porch with a cup of sweet tea and used a chinchilla cage a string through the hardware cloth to the door and dog food in the trap. I caught 20 the first...
They aren't smarter than that bucket trap though. We have a cattle finishing farm up the hill from us. Naturally they have rats and our cat brings home a young one here and there dumb enough to stray this way.
Jack Russells and Rat Terriers love to hunt rats. My neighbor used to have a jack...
Why does this come up all the time and no one is considering a cat to solve these problems? Out here you would be hard pressed to find a person with any kind of animal feed that didn't have barn cats or consider having them. They have been used for at least 5000 years for these same problems...