Bucket trap - then what?

[fatcatx]

Wondering for those who use a homemade bucket trap for catching rats... How do you dispatch the rats? I got my supplies to make one this weekend but then figured I better have an end game planned if I'm greeted Sunday morning to a bucket of rats.

 

[The Phantom]

Toss them in the woods.....

 

[fatcatx]

I wish I had woods to toss them into! (Preferably the kind with witches and trolls :-D)
We are in a metro area in CA. It would be a long drive before I'd be anywhere someone wouldn't care if I was dumping rats.

 

[The Phantom]

Um.... put them in a bag and dump them in the garbage at a gas station.

 

[Eggscaping]

Some people who use a bucket type of trap put enough water in the bucket to drown the mouse or rat. Other than that, I would not recommend dumping live animals anywhere. A rat isn't evil, it's just being a rat. While drowning is not quick either, it's either that or something more direct and stomach-churning, like dumping them into a sack and whacking the sack with a shovel until it stops moving. I, myself like tame rats very much and have raised them, but the wild ones have to go. I suppose the 'water in the bucket' method is the best way for the person who has to deal with the captured rat.

 

[The Dapper Duck]

Same as @Eggscaping . Just add water to the bucket and throw the bodies in the garbage can. Clean the water out after each dead rat.

 

[fatcatx]

Some people who use a bucket type of trap put enough water in the bucket to drown the mouse or rat. Other than that, I would not recommend dumping live animals anywhere. A rat isn't evil, it's just being a rat. While drowning is not quick either, it's either that or something more direct and stomach-churning, like dumping them into a sack and whacking the sack with a shovel until it stops moving. I, myself like tame rats very much and have raised them, but the wild ones have to go. I suppose the 'water in the bucket' method is the best way for the person who has to deal with the captured rat.

Ugh - this is looking less and less appealing. I've kept rats as pets too. Other than being short-lived, they are awesome. (WAY better than a hamster - just saying ) I'm trying to be as humane as possible and drowning sounded awful. If quick-= more humane then that leaves me emptying them into a pillow case and thumping the bejesus out of them on the pavement.

 

[fatcatx]

By the way @Eggscaping - love the cat in your pic

 

[CCUK]

If you use a bucket trap you will need to fill it with water. If you don't like the idea of drowning them you can get large snap traps for rats so long as they put there head directly in it, it will be instant.

 

[Anime2lover]

Ugh - this is looking less and less appealing. I've kept rats as pets too. Other than being short-lived, they are awesome. (WAY better than a hamster - just saying ) I'm trying to be as humane as possible and drowning sounded awful. If quick-= more humane then that leaves me emptying them into a pillow case and thumping the bejesus out of them on the pavement.

Gruesome. But it does seem the most merciful.