What kind of poisen?

[Katy]

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I'm worried tho if they die where my cats or dogs can get to them and eat them, they'll die from the poisen too. I thought I seen something once that only killed the rats and mice....not what might eat them when they died from the poisen. There was a term for how the poisen worked, but I don't remember what it was.

 

[Judy]

Solutions I have read on BYC:

Cover all the rat holes you can find but one, insert garden hose, run water for an hour.

Light road flare, insert in rat hole.

 

[deerman]

Tie the bait, to the trap they love peanut butter you can put that on the plate that set off the trap.

I also uue bait boxes,but dogs and cats maystill find the dead rats.

 

[Katy]

I've got one less rat this morning. All three traps were set off, but only one had a rat in it. I didn't put the glue traps out yet. I'll reset them tonight....keep whittling away at them.

 

[grainsmommy]

We had a rat problem in our house, (in town, no less, who do they think they are?!), and tried several poisons, but the only thing that worked was calling out Orkin. They brought some bait "houses" that the rats crawl inside and eat the stuff. They don't know they're sick, so they die in their homes, (in our case in the walls--joy of joys), so animals can't get to them. No other animals can get the bait out of the traps, so it's pretty safe. After a year of trying to fight them ourselves and testing out so many different traps and poisons it's pathetic, we had to call in the troops because I was scared they'd make the kids sick. It costs us about $75 every 2 months, but I consider it money well spent to not have to deal with rats anymore!

Oh...and we NEVER caught a rat in a trap, (mouse or rat sized), until someone told us to put the cheese UNDER the thing it goes on instead of on top. It takes them longer to get it out, therefore their heads are actually on the trap long enough for it to snap on them. The night we did that we caught FOUR in a few hours.

Good luck!

 

[AngelzFyre]

Just to add if you do catch something else in your sticky traps that vegetable oil will get it off them.
We put them out and naturally the fluffiest cat we own decided to stick her paw on it behind the feed cans, and then proceeded to attach it to the side of herself when it wouldn't sling off.
I used the oil <saw the idea on that old Tanya Tucker show, when they had their pet snake get stuck on one>, and pulled....only a bit of the hair came off with it.

They also have Victor Tin Cat Mouse traps at Ace hardware stores. Each holds 30 mice and I think they are under 20.00 each. No poison bait, no escapes.

Amazon sells them too.

Good luck!

 

[crazy huhn]

How about a dish with plaster and sugar mix placed in a pipe? Place a water dish outside the pipe, because they will get very thirsty after eating it. The plaster will get rock hard in their stomachs and will let the rats die, but no harm will be done to your pets.....

 

[Katy]

I got some of the traps that look like giant mouse traps and have caught a few so far.

 

[Intheswamp]

Don't forget to "tune" the trap. The part of the bait trigger that is bent with a notch in it and that the trip-wire rests against can be bent at a wider angle to make the trap more "sensitive". In other words by opening up the angle a bit it makes it easier for the trip-wire to slip off the latch with a lighter touch.

Another note is that a rat's skull is rather fragile. I've had regular mouse traps set and the next morning find a dead wharf laying beside the tripped trap...popped him across the forehead and he was dead.

 

[Mahonri]

"Just One Bite"

Three bait tubes. Peanut butter.

Cut the "Just One Bite" blocks into smaller blocks, slather in PB place in bottom of bait tube. Place the tube under the coop, around it, anywhere a dog can't get to it.

Had a rat problem. Haven't seen one in a while.