Rats-But where are they coming from?

[terri1nd]

You might try Rat/mouse Zapper Cold Climate Version (Works in Temps Down to -40F) & put it in Rat Zapper Rat's Nest box. I have a Rat Zapper Ultra & it does work. I saw on Amazon.com that they have a cold climate one now, which is what I need, because my version of the Rat Zapper stopped working in the garage because it got too cold. I brought it in the house to thaw out & tried it & it is working once again

, so it was just too cold out in the garage. The Rat's Nest Box is to set the Rat Zapper in for more protection, but possibly a shoe box might work as well. I've gotten rid of rats & mice with it & I do like the no mess or fuss & no poisoned animal crawling off to die or be eaten by something else. I don't often suggest products, but I do like my Ultra Rat Zapper & I've tried lots of other products with great disappointment because they did not do the job, but the Rat Zapper does the job.
It might take a day or two because rats are extremely smart. You can also get the Rat Zapper Rat Tale that has a 2-ft. cord and 2 blinking lights to let you know when to empty your Rat Zapper.
I had a rat get in the house in the bathroom cabinet & so I put the rat tail attachment on the Ultra rat zapper & the rat CHEWED the cord.

I reattached the cords & the next day it chewed it above the splice.

' So I gave up on the rat tale & put the rat zapper back in with some dog food with a touch of peanut butter on it & the next morning I had the rat.

I still have to re-splice the rat tale wiring. Rats are very smart.

 

[nanawendy]

OK journey 11~ you have made me Queen Mother... And my son says "THANK YOU BYCer's" He has had a terrible time with rats. They live out side of Seattle and claim to be 2nd only to NYC in rat population. He's going to put it together tomorrow Thanks.

 

[Doormantnt]

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Are you saying that your hardware cloth is under entire run? Either under on on ground like a cage bottom?

My hardware cloth is only vertical, and buried straight down, I don't have a "hardware cloth floor" in my run.

I have no doubt that mine climbed in, I have 2" x 3" welded field wire over my hardware cloth. My run is 7 foot tall, the top 4 covered in field wire, and the bottom 3 foot covered in hardware cloth. so the rats would just climb up 3 foot, and have no problem going trough a 2 x 3 hole. But once they hit the inside thats when the traps kick in.

I've built the bucket trap for field mice, but never thought about it for rats. My problem is it would freeze now. And I aint heating no rat trap.....LOL....

TNT

 

[Hillsvale]

we have rats... the dug around the concrete slab which my detached garage is built on, burrowed to the siding, ate through the chip board under the siding... they left almost a wheel barrow full of gravel in the garage from the diging. We put the gravel back where it belonged and patched the chip board... last weekend same thing!

We have had serious amounts of rains which is unusual for us... the field rats (they are about 8" long not including the tail) came in likely because their den was flooded and of course this is where we store the livestock feed!... so last weekend I am in there finishing a ducky hut and my border collie starts going nuts trying to get under the lawn mower.... the field rat has started to build a nest there... it runs under a shelf to hid and when we opened the garage door it makes a run for it... so did the border collie.... no more rat! The two shepherd and the american cocker sat and watched!

We now have bait which our exterminator friend gave us hidden where nothing else can get it... dry those suckers out!

 

[gmendoza]

We have a ferel cat who comes around nighttime and exterminates our mice and field rat problem.

I call him "ATTILA"

 

[Hillsvale]

the rats would eat my cat before the cat ate the mice... rats... flies... you get the idea. He's just a happy, lazy big orange monster.

 

[chikkaboomboom]

!2 year old mini schnauzer,going blind a little bit deaf, and the best rodent killing machine ever, he will sit and wait all night hes still fast enough to get em in one snap.