Got a rat problem

[headshot5]

I hate posting this pic cause I am really fat in it, but here goes....

Breakfast count from one night at elk camp...

Fixed for you.  But seriously though good work.

[ICEMAN]

 

[seth30]

 

[Heredoggydoggy]

OK, here's another rat story--true, but still a good story!  Years ago, when I still lived in my old house,  I was sitting at my kitchen counter drinking coffee one winter morning, and looking out the widow at my neighbor's back yard.  They had a pile of used lumber and beams he had salvaged and was going to build something, (he never did) and they were raising chickens that year.  Suddenly I saw a head poke out of the end of the lumber pile, and looking closer, I saw that it was a rat!  No way I was going to let those things gain a foothold, and cracked the window open and loaded the .22 rifle with birdshot.  I then went out to the fence and broke up a slice of bread and threw it over the fence near the lumber pile.  Went back in the house and waited.  Soon the head poked out again, nose twitching at the smell of the bread, and I fired.  Out fell the biggest, ugliest rat I'd ever seen.  In those days, you could have a trash burning barrel, and they had one nearby with a metal screen on top, so I put the rat on the screen like he was sitting there ready to pounce.  Went back in the house and watched for a while.  Soon one of the boys came out with a bag of garbage to put in the barrel.  Like most boys, he was looking at everything else but the barrel, and when he reached up to lift the screen, he was looking at the rat just inches from his nose.  "YIPE!" and the bag of trash went flying about ten feet in the air, and he turned and ran back in the house.  Pretty soon out came Dad, and got a long stick and poked the dead rat, and looked over at my window and saw me laughing.  "Darn you, Adam is in there changing his underwear!" And then he started laughing too.  I must have shot 3 more rats out of that pile, and haven't seen another one since.

[Sumpnneedskillin]

I live in the burbs and everyone around us has chickens now, since the chickens came we now have rats living in the backyard.  I have a humane trap since we have two small dogs that like to eat what gets put in the snap traps.  I'm looking for bait ideas peanut butter no longer seems to work, and they fill up on dog food during the day.  The biggest problem is there is a huge one the size of a chihuahua, yes I'm sure I thought it was our dog when it was pigging out at the food bowl.  Any ideas short of torching the yard or bombing would be helpful.

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Try onion sliced up. Seriously it works and your dog won't like it.

Maybe it's the breed but Boston Terriers like onions. Know they are bad for dogs.  But all of the Boston's my parents have owned if you drop an onion you gotta grab it fast

[biggfish]

My Manchester terrier will eat anything onions are no exception

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[runamuk]

all my dogs( there have been probably 40 in my home over the years of many breeds) have eaten onions even my picky dog who wouldnt eat much she liked onions and mayonnaise and steak.  most my dogs also would eat rats....or kill them anyway a small 3lb sledge dropped on their heads also ends it quickly

[biggfish]

My little terrier found himself a rats nest dug that burrow out for an hour he killed 8 new born baby rats that's a whole generation we don't have to deal with.

[seth30]

My little terrier found himself a rats nest dug that burrow out for an hour he killed 8 new born baby rats that's a whole generation we don't have to deal with.

[shorthair15]

i use to be a exterminator i was a expert at killing rats,mice roaches flies. nuttela works good as well as anchovie paste. chocolate works great as well. if you can get some bait boxes the plastic ones. buy some plastic snap traps put them in the back of the box were the holes run thru the bait station box. you can also secure the bait with wire or screws so they wont carry it off some where. you need to make sure what type of rat your dealing with there are two different species. you have the roof rat and the norway. the norways build burrows in the ground. if you have burrows get some bait and push it down the burrows they will carrry it down the hole and consume it. if you use bait stations put them along the fence right next to it. same thing with the bait stations if you use snap traps in them this will keep the pets out of the traps. rats use there whiskers to feel where there going so they travel along fences and walls right next to them. if there is alot of activity in areas they will leave marks that look like grease marks from there fur from comeing in and out. pellet guns work well as well. i had some rats living in my compost pile in my back yard a few months ago. it was enclosed so i used bait and it took care of all them. you will know if they consume the bait the feces willl turn green as most rodent bait is a anticoagulant they bleed to death. so be careful if you have pets. i have two dogs and i still got rid of them i keep a 25 lb bucket of rat poison in my garage. this little buggers seem to follow me around as i have had to deal with them at the last two places i lived.

[CAMPMEAT]

I hate posting this pic cause I am really fat in it, but here goes....

Mouse count from one night at elk camp...

..................for a minute, I thought it was something off the BBQ you made, well is it ?

[ICEMAN]

I hate posting this pic cause I am really fat in it, but here goes....

Mouse count from one night at elk camp...

..................for a minute, I thought it was something off the BBQ you made, well is it ?

Not exactly... The pic is my one night kill in a mouse bucket style trap.... 

[seth30]

My bucket trap keeps getting knocked over by raccoons   I havent caught a rat yet

[wildweeds]

You just think you are lucky,actually you are not, the rats will tunnell under your slab and then you got a huge mess on your hands,I had a dog kennell slab and the rats got under it,and built an elaborate tunnell system,when this happens you'll need to implement an old norweigan trick, 30 minute road flare down the hole and a leaf blower,stand on the upwind side and lay the smoke to them,position family members around with pitchforks/shovels/clubs for IF the smoke don't get them.I've used this method several times to get them killed quick.We tried the gardenhose in the tailpipe trick and got a few that way,but when my dingbat wife just about killed the dog that liked to help I put a stop to it.The dog would root her nose in the holes searching for a whiff of rat.She about got gassed herself and staggered around in the yard in a stupor.The sulfur dioxide in the road flares burn their lungs.

The farmer I used to milk cows for has a barn that leans bad because the rats undermined the foundation.

The present rat getting dog is a Jack Russell X Pomerainian cross of all things,she's death on them.

Luckily we have a slab foundation sou they can't get in the house. I shoot probably 4 a month they just get used a bait and stay away from. I got a terrier that runs them around and I shoot when I can get a safe shot. My dog isn't bright though he thinks he's a pointer. I really want to kill the big sucker  he's brazen enough to strut his stuff in broad daylight and pellets won't take it down.  If I could get away with it is kill a bunch of chickens and have a barbecue I think that would solve the problem.

[Wacenturion]

Cold Lasagna is deadly in a snap trap.