Rats

Poison the sucker. An enviromental health fella told me (we had a problem a couple of years ago with the local Chinese take away) to put some poison in a small sandwich bag, near to the rat hole. They take it to the nest and munch away happily, then die 😀

seen variously sized rats on display stuck on various boards with glue. a certain type of glue that doesnt dry but remains sticky. the glue latches onto their fur and they can't get away. the glue probably catches cats as well. maybe there is a special glue solvent for mishaps.

Originally posted by Paulie
Poison the sucker. An enviromental health fella told me (we had a problem a couple of years ago with the local Chinese take away) to put some poison in a small sandwich bag, near to the rat hole. They take it to the nest and munch away happily, then die 😀

We had a problem with mice.... went out & bought one of those electronic repellers, cleared the gargage of all the crap I should've thrown away in the first place... seems to have done the trick.

Originally posted by Aiko
I cannot imagine decaying carcasses in a nearby wall being a good alternative for environmental health.

One more thing about sticky traps.....last summer I thought we had a mouse in the garage, so I put down a sticky trap. Couple of days later I checked it and a leaf had blown into the garage and was stuck to the trap. I went to pull the leaf off and guess what? It wasn't a mouse; it was a mole, and it was stuck to the trap under the leaf. Wasn't dead yet, and it bit my finger and wouldn't let go. Had to grab the thing and pry it off then go get a tetanus shot and take antibiotics for a week. Nasty incident!

I fought them off with traps. The oversized mouse trap style. We have cats too and for that reason I would not use poison. I don't need a cat eating a poisonous rat.
We kept the cats in at night and I had to set the traps each night and check them in the morning. I got rid of the rats that had been caught and tripped the traps that were still loaded. I used peanut butter on gauze cloth and tied it to the trigger of the trap. You have to set out several traps (I did 15 as we had them in the barn and other out-buildings), be very dilligent for the next few weeks setting and checking the traps. Also, get rid of any weeds around any of the buildings, and make sure there is nothing they may be eating (grain or seeds etc). So in short, kill, kill, kill, and get rid of any habitat that may be favorable to them. Good luck. Rats are horrible.

Thanks everyone... I'll mull over the best plan of action.

I'm thinking of a sticky backbreaker trap with an electric shock, in a shed proof trench, that's on fire and marshalled by the cat with a bb gun. Overkill?

I'm telling you, just build my contraption and drown the bugger. It's the only one that can catch multiple mice and rats at the same time and not get the cat or leave them dead in the wall. Plus meat tastes best when it died of drowning. I'm told...