Hooray! Did not need to kill rat, it got better and I set it free!

[khatar]

Who is happy, the rat or me? If it is me, I'm not a she, just so you know.

 

[MamaRoo]

I totally understand your decision. We all live in the world together, and if a problem can be solved without killing, it would be my choice too.

 

[seminolewind]

To me, saving a rat is like saving a cockroach.

2 rats can make 6 rats, x 6rats x 6rats x 6rats ......................................................

 

[aprophet]

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At least a yote will get a easy meal a 1 eyed rat has to be easier to catch

I was thinking hawk or eagle. I watched a bald eagle eat a baby raccoon on the road in front of our house the other day.

I am kina fond of the kestrel the red tail and the owls that live with me here for the rodent control they perform for me plus the owls will " talk" to me in the evening but rats and possums here leave in the same "bag" here

they are part of a possum buffet down the street

 

[jhm47]

Rats don't live in bushes and trees. They live in places that humans and their animals live in, where there is an easy food supply and a nice place to make a nest. The rat probably is now pregnant and making a nest in your coop. In my opinion, relocating a rat is much like relocating a mosquito or fly. Don't do it again.

 

[CariLynn]

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I can understand the rat traps but the live traps EVERY NIGHT?! If you live out in the rural setting, your going to have possums, raccoons, skunks, etc. all the time, your in THEIR woods, yet you feel you have to kill them all the time? Am I correct? I have a live trap out to catch the feral cats that my neighbor has named that stalk my chickens who are contained, pee on my horse blankets in the fall, pee on my horse hay, and are a general nuisance in general. I have caught a possum and a very irritated raccoon. Both were released as I don't kill unnecessarily.

Do so with thought and a reason behind it. Not because your can or because you think your superior to the species and it is your right. No one has a right to kill just because they can.

 

[Doormantnt]

I am not in a rural setting. I'm located on bout quarter acre in a suburaban neighborhood. bout a dozen houses on my street, and I am bout 150 foot from a secondary interstate. So NO I am not in the sticks (yet). I have a 9 business strip stores within bout 200 yards from my front fence, one of which is pet shop and another a grocery store. So the dumpsters are a problem to deal with.

So YES the snap traps go out nightly, and the live traps go out for bout week at a time every month or so depending on activity. I have and will continue to protect MY chickens, ON MY property by what ever means necessary. And yes I know that the critters were there first, and I am in their way. But there will be no free chicken dinners.

I have killed a neighbors dog, trapped neighbors cats, and "relocated" wildlife as necessary to protect my property, family, and animals.

That is the beauty of a live trap. If it is unnecessary to dispatch I can open the door and it will leave. But that is only an option with becoming trap wise is not a problem. I have taken neighbor cats back to them still in the trap. Most of the time they get the hint. On the occasion I catch same critter second time. No second chance.

Thank you for your concern but I'm ok here.

TNT

 

[organicchef]

I'm speechless....

 

[bobbi-j]

Doormantnt - You've gotta do what you've gotta do to protect your birds.

 

[speckledhen]

Several of you need to re-read the rules stickied at the top of this section. Here they are so you don't have to look:

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