Rat In Our House - Very Smart - Can't Get Rid Of Him --HELP!--

[CarriBrown]

We had a problem, too, and it took months to fix. First thing you have to do is make sure that he is stuck in the attic and can't get out! That way, he will eat the food on your trap. Don't use poison because you don't want a rat crawling down the wall and dying.
Use a rat trap with a piece of walnut. The walnut doesn't crust over like peanut butter, etc. and he will be able to smell it for however long you have it up there. Tie a four or five foot string on the trap because rats like to "flip" around when they get caught and you don't want to try and find a dead rat and a trap in your attic.
Trust me, we've had to catch a lot of rats and this is fool proof!

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

Thanks everyone! I'd really prefer to trap it for avoiding the poison around the house and having a rat die in the walls. That said, after 2 months of gnawing in the middle of the night... you get desparate!

Carri, I think I'll try some walnut. Unfortunately there's no way to lock him in... otherwise I would have locked him out a long time ago.

I think I may also try some scrambled egg, but I think that would dry out too quick.

I had a rat about a year ago that wouldn't touch any of the standard stuff but went after a trap with some meat in it. Maybe I should try this again.

 

[mom'sfolly]

we've had rat problems here and so have my neighbors. I used a professional exterminator, and so did one other neighbor. We were almost immediately rat free. My other neighbor did it himself, and it took him months to get rid of the rats (I was afraid that the problem would spread back to my house). We went with a company called chem free. They closed up all the openings they could find and set two large boxes of snap traps in my attic. They checked the traps every other day for a week or so, and then less frequently. This service wasn't cheap, but in my opinion it was worth every penny. I 'm slightly phobic about rats so I wanted them gone fast.

 

[Henrietta23]

We had three outside last summer. They built a tunnel system under a boulder in our yard near the coop. One we trapped in a hav-a-heart almost right away. The second we got a few weeks later. They're SMART critters! The third one took another month to get. I sat on the deck for hours watching it come up from one hole, follow a particular path to the coop, climb the ramp, grab pellets, go down the ramp, under the coop and out the back of the fence. Same path over and over. It just went around the trap. Finally we found a safe place under the coop to put a snap trap where the chickens wouldn't get hurt if they got curious and got him. The only thing that worked for us in the end was watching the thing and seeing how it stuck with this particular routine. Good luck!

 

[rooster-red]

Have you tried a HAV-A-SNACK trap?






The last thing a rodent sees at my house

 

[Buckguy20]

I am disappointed. No one got my joke. Or else is was too bad for a reply.

 

[chrisf]

Moth balls. Sounds more like squirrels, however, moth balls will get rid of them both.

 

[lacyloo]

aww dont kill the rat !!! trap him a set him free in a field

 

[Gracie_Chickie]

Do they even make glue traps for rats? Wouldn't it have to be HUGE!! We caught a mouse with a glu trap once I felt so bad! I was scared he would bite me if I tried to get him off. So I just drowned him Poor little thing...

 

[Wildsky]

(OT HERE) When I saw the title of the thread i thought MD moved in.....



On the subject of REAL rats..... we had to MOVE out of our previous house, couldn't get rid of them! (no help there I know)