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

[Crazy4Chicks]

well I dont know if this will work for you - but awhile back we had a rather large rat in the house and this thing was so brave it would walk across the kitchen in the day time to steal food from the dog bowl ! at the time we had a little weenie dog she saw the rat chased it a few times than one night she managed to corner it and before I could get there I heard alot of screaming/growling/and thumping as she grabbed the rat and was hitting it on the floor at the same time - in no time one dead rat, one very happy dog LOL


Julie

 

[KingsCalls]

We had a smart mouse and liked to have never caught him. We placed the sticky traps at each corner....mice will run around a corner and not notice until it is too late that something is there.

 

[arlee453]

Rats are very smart. And my barn cats would share their food bowl with them - they didn't want to tackle those things at all!

They can chew through metal pipes. And can swim extremely well - the bucket with water won't work for a rat like it does for a mouse.

I vote for the hav-a-heart trap. The previous owners of my house used to trap them that way in the kennel building. They tied a string to the trap and had a huge garbage can full of water. They would drop the trap into the water and leave it there for a couple hours until they were sure the rat had drowned.

I caught hundreds of rats with snap traps, but they only work well for young and inexperienced ones. The older adults i almost NEVER caught that way.

Finally had to resort to poison. That worked for me.

 

[dakinsmimi]

If you try the Hav-a-hart trap, try scrambled eggs as the bait. Has worked well for me in the past. Good luck, they are nasty critters to get rid of.

 

[Buff Hooligans]

Maybe I'm thinkin' that Nifty's sweet wife posted this - "having a rat in the house she can't get rid of"... hmmmmmm. Maybe SOMEbody didn't fix the leaky faucet when he should have... I see flowers in her future.

 

[halo]

Are you 100% positive its a rat?

 

[Buckguy20]

I have heard that putting broken glass in a rats hole is a great deterrent.

You just have to get someone to help hold the rats!!!!

 

[jjthink]

Glue traps (sticky traps) are so medieval cruel - slow terrifying way to die.. I've gotten them evicted from offices I've worked in. JJ

 

[chicknmania]

We set a hav-a-hart trap in our barn last spring in our barn to try and catch the multiple predators we had at the time. We caught several rats. Please don't use the glue traps...tney are so cruel. And we won't try poison..just too many risks and it is very inhumane, also. Our cats will catch mice, but I think they are afraid of the rats! That's a scary thought....

 

[agalipe1]

this may sound funny but when i set rat traps without gloves they would not touch them when i used gloves caught alot of them caught 44 by the time i was done and i thought there where only 4 or 5 i noticed the chicken feed disapearing very fast