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December 1st, 2013, 9:02 PM
#1
Oh, rats!
Going to bite the bullet here and admit that I have a rat (at least one) that I cannot catch. I have found a couple of places where he (hopefully he) likes to hang out and discovered that he loves Butterfinger candy bars and unpopped popcorn. But I cannot get him to go anywhere near a trap of any kind from the old fashioned wooden traps to the new fangled ones that look like a lion's mouth to glue-sticky things which I question anyway...although I had trouble getting one off my slipper when it caught me.
While I have a certain grudging respect for such a wiley critter, he simply has to go. I'm at the point where I'm considering putting out some poison traps and just hoping he doesn't die inside a wall somewhere. Anyone have any suggestions?
Please don't suggest a cat.
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December 1st, 2013, 9:04 PM
#2
Originally Posted by
Imagine
Going to bite the bullet here and admit that I have a rat (at least one) that I cannot catch. I have found a couple of places where he (hopefully he) likes to hang out and discovered that he loves Butterfinger candy bars and unpopped popcorn. But I cannot get him to go anywhere near a trap of any kind from the old fashioned wooden traps to the new fangled ones that look like a lion's mouth to glue-sticky things which I question anyway...although I had trouble getting one off my slipper when it caught me.
While I have a certain grudging respect for such a wiley critter, he simply has to go. I'm at the point where I'm considering putting out some poison traps and just hoping he doesn't die inside a wall somewhere. Anyone have any suggestions?
Please don't suggest a cat.
Can you find where he is getting in?
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December 1st, 2013, 9:10 PM
#3
Haha. Well your last sentence blew my advice. That's the only sure fire remedy I know.
Good luck!
"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." Thomas Paine
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December 1st, 2013, 9:15 PM
#4
Originally Posted by
Scarlett
Haha. Well your last sentence blew my advice. That's the only sure fire remedy I know.
Good luck!
Ditto!
VOTE Rainwater and Snyder!!
BOYCOTT - Wells Laundry *Extraco Bank *Towne Services Moving and Storage *Purser Construction *Toyota of Killeen Patriot Buick *Bigham Kliewer Chapman & Watts Insurance Agency
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December 1st, 2013, 9:17 PM
#5
We only have them in our garage. We had to resort to poison bait. Yes, occasionally the critters get trapped and cause a stink for a few days but in most cases they high-tail it to find some water as the bleed out internally.
"A boy cannot become a girl and a man cannot become a woman, not even if he shuts his eyes and wishes really hard."
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December 1st, 2013, 9:35 PM
#6
Get a snake.
Is there any construction going on around you? We had mice/rats when any kind of construction was going on. They went away after that. Of course we had a cat to catch them.
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December 1st, 2013, 10:30 PM
#7
Old wooden trap with peanut butter.
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December 1st, 2013, 11:37 PM
#8
Gee, thanks, guys...but cats and snakes are out. No construction anywhere on the northside of town near our neighborhood. I lost my dog in September, and a house that has been sitting empty for months alongside us now has a couple of dogs; the rats may have been living over there.
My dad swore by the old wooden traps and peanut butter, but this guy hasn't fallen for that yet. Maybe I need to switch from Peter Pan to Jiffy.
I have no idea where he is coming in. My house is a pier and beam built in the sixties; he could be coming in just about anywhere.
Maybe I should start a blog called "Sir Ratley and Me." I might get movie rights to it.
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December 1st, 2013, 11:43 PM
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December 1st, 2013, 11:46 PM
#10
Thank you. My house is doggie-less for the first time in 20-something years, and the house feels very, very empty when I come home from work. Husband and I are planning on getting another puppy, but waiting until this summer when we're both home, or at least one of us is home. Until then I just grab puppy snuggles from any dog I come near.
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