Need to Catch a RAT

[Foster Reds]

Anyone with Ideas on How to catch a Rat??

 

[Darin115]

How big is this rat? When I tended horses in high school the rats would come eat the spilled horse feed. They were huge. I bought the huge rat traps and they could carry them off after the trap snapped them. I had to put a eye screw in them and crimped weedeater line from the trap to a stake. When it snapped them they could not carry the trap off. I caught some the size of squirrels.

Good luck!!

Darin

 

[Sunny Side Up]

Those snap traps are handy, they're economical and you can see what you've caught. You must be sure to set them where no other animals can get caught in them -- especially your chickens! That's a good idea, to fasten them with a screw eye & wire so the larger rats can't carry them away. You can also drive nails up through the underside by the bait pedal, to hold them & prevent them from squeezing out.

These kind of live traps also work http://www.havahart.com/store/live-animal-traps/xsmall

And there's a way to devise a trap using a barrel of water and something that goes over it, I forget what, that causes the rat to fall into the barrel when it tries to scamper across. Does anyone else know how to make something like this?

 

[BrewedInNh]

I've had good success with snap traps overnight, and a pellet rifle with a scope during the day.